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rC SI M i l k WATCHMAN, Establl onH?2i<lated Aa?% 2,188 Cb* Bhtcbttrm ml) ^uitbron. -Published Weiloe^l.n anil Suiiinluj * -BT OSTEEN PUBLISHING COMPANY 81"mter, s. C. Terms: 11.10 per annum?In advance. Advertisements: On? Square ttret Insertion.$1.00 ?5very subsequent Insertion.60 ?L Contracts for three months, or Meager will be made at reduced rate<?. All communicators which sub? serve private L.terest* will bo charged for as advertisement Obituaries and tributes of respects wMl be charged for. mii STATUE PRESENTED. sooth < \koi.i\\ noNoits her (.RE AT STATESMAN. ^Teremonle?? of Presentation and Ac eeptniu ? lake flu? . nt Capitol N sterdav Morning ? Kenutors Lodge ami Smith. Representative* Alken. McCall. Elnley, U?ver, John? son and Ellrrbe Speak. 0 Washington. Man h 12 ?The Capi? tal was the scene of a notable event today when In the presence of a dis? tinguished sssemblage a statute of John C. Calhoun. the great South Carolina separatist, was unveiled in Statuary Hall. mm The unveiling ceremony took place TU 11 o'clock and was conducted whol? ly by South Carolinians. The cords holding tog.-th- r the dr apery around th?? marble figure were loosened by Mrs. Bratton and Miss Olst. both da ugh te in of th? Palmetto State, and ^mmedlsaely afterwards the verbal ceremonies were begun. Governor Ansel presided and former Governor Mauldln delivered the principal ora? tion. The statute Is a bold piece of work, depicitlng Its subject in strident at? titude. It Is placed on the south rTnda of Statuary Hall, between the figures of Ethan Allen and Lewis Cass, S4*4t?gtrtly If ao? defiantly, faces the efftgv of Webster. Calhoun's ( greatest antagonist, which stands 1 calmly on Its pedstal on the north LsMde of the hall. The cer- m e .-a of acceptance took f place In the Senate and House after the completion of the exendses In the hall. It was In the two houses that the Representatives of the two ante? bellum htdllgerent States met to Msce more bury the hat. tut. Senator Hmdge and Represent 11 i\MeCall r speaking f.?r the New Lngi md Com? monwealth, and Senator Smith and a number of South Caro? lina's Representatives for that State, i \n address was made In the Senate LAdso by Senator Chamberlain, of Ore 1~ w r l.mlge and McCall spoke euloglsth ally of the personality of the subject of the exercises. The Calhoun fatally was represent? ed at all the pr.e 'ings by Patrick and John c. CalfcOttB, grandsons of ,Jhe statesman, ami by several grand ??hlhlren. The} oeeupied esj.lally assigned seats In all places, in the Senate the President's ami Vice Pres? ident's rows were reserved for them. Ml WINs r.oo VERDICT. -?Imi ? find?. \ erdlct for Stale In ih>rkcie\ Msartagjs Caan, Momk's Corm r. Manh 12.?After being out less than an hour, the jury In the case <.| the State against for ? mer Treasurer John i >. Edwardi ;??> l gathers thl aft< rn >on ri turned a v? r wslh t against | be defend 11 the full amount sued for, a little more than $5,500. This has l?e< u one of the hardest fought ram s . \ er tried In Lerkeby County t)m aani itewi eel ? aa alleged ^Wih r t ige In the at the for mer treasurer and the suit was air i e-t lorn md bis i.oml am n. Mr. Edwards \\ is r. ?ppoine .1 to oftl for the third term In January. I'jOT He took agfea, and hl? sureties were gv ^1" Lr.ni L I. S. I. <'rawford H^n-i w i i. Mir im i )., smber, 1907, upon the examination of bin office g| the Comptroller General's office as required ??> law. It was found that there was an apparent dsdclency of eotisl b Table si/. No settlement as made, and In a short time there ter <io\. rnor Ansel suspend* d Mr i i irds and appointed Major llrown Ing as tn usurer In his stead. The suit w as subsequently brought against Mr IM wards and his sureties We do not want to be put down n:< pessimists. ? < .n't thoroughly free with tlM UlSOCy that there Is nothing entirely bad In the world. aiei gagaagkdasj pjeedi la sTtTTthlng? What good can be found In a bad egg, for Instance??L\ im d April, 187*0. 'Be Just ai 1. ^8UM OIL COMPAQ'S APPEAL I _ ! PimaLI'HOW ORDERED BY I'. s. CIRCUIT COURT. Federal Supreme Court Will Hear Arguments. <.ra\c PtagtagS Against Money Kings Announced b| Circuit Court?gmoteSSS World \n\iou>d> Await outcome <?r suit. Washington, March 14.?The most serious legal battle that "Standard Oil" has tVCf laced will confront It 11 >day. This Is the day set by the Supreme Court ? t the United States to hear arguments on the appeal of the Stan? dard nil Company, of New Jersey from the adverse judgment of the United States Circuit Court for the Eastern district of Missouri, which order the dissolution of the \Yw Jersey corpor? ation as an illegal combination and monopoly in restraint of Tnter-State commerce. To point out the allege 1 errors of the Circuit Court in its find? ings and In its decree, the keenest Intellects within command have been procured. To argue for the affirm? ance of the decision of the lower court Mr. Wickersham. the Attorney Gen? eral of the United States, himself will head a brilliant array of counsel for the Government. The Circuit Court announced grave findings against the seven individual defenda its. John D. Rockefeller, Wil? liam Rockefeller. Henry M. Flagler. Henry H. Rogers, John D. Archbold. Oliver H. Payne, and Charles M. Pratt, the Standard OH Company, of New Jersey, and other defendant com? panies. The court found that In 1899, by an exchange of stock by the seven in? dividuals, the Standard Oil Company, of New Jersey, acquired the legal title to a majority of the stock of nineteen companies, which In turn controlled a large number of others, all but one, engaged In the oil business. What Is found as to this combina? tion was this: That since 1899 the affairs of all these companies have been managed by the prlucln.il company ?is the W'sl ? of a single person, so as to fix for them the price of crude oil, the rates for transportation and the selling prices of its products. That the par value of the combined capital stock In 1899 was about $100, 000.000, and that In 1903 It was $150, \ ooo.ooo. That twelve of these compales own? ed 54,565 miles of pipe lines. That six of thes companies had 3, "74 selling stations throughout the United States. That these companies from 1899 t > 1907 produced more than one-tenth Of the . rude oil obtained in this coun? try. That they owned and operated more than one-half of all the tank cars used to distribute its products. That they ;nanufactured more than three-fourths ? f all the crude oil re? fined in the United States. That they transported more Inan four-fifths of the petroleum der>? 1 from the Pennsylvania and ludlans oil fields. That they marketed more than four-fifths of all the illuminating oil vent forth from the United State.*. That they exported more than four fifths of all the illuminating oil sent forth ff on the United States. Thai tb. y sold more than four fifths of all the naphtha sold in the United States. That they sold more than nine tenths of all the lubricating oil sol i to railroad companies in the United States. On this finding the court decreed: j That the organisation ol ItM wm ? omblnatlofl or conspiracy In restrain* of Inter-State commerce in petroleum and Its products, such as the first sec? tion of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act declares is Illegal; that the eeven in? dividual defendants, the Standard Ol? Company, of New Jersey, and "0 oth? er companies had entered into a com? bination or conspiracy to monopo? lize and had In fact monopolized a substantial part of Inter-State com? merce In violation of the second sec? tion Of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act; that 33 OtheT comnpnles accused were proven not to be In this combination. The court enjoined the principal company ami its directors from exe/ i bring any control over the subsidiary i ompanlesj it enjoined the subsldary companies from declaring or paying any dividend! to the principal com? pany, but not from distributing rat ably to the shareholders of the prin? cipal company the stock of the sub? sidiary company; It enjoined those found to be in the "illegal combina? tion" from continuing In it or form? ing a new combination by means of aggregation of the physical proper? ties In the hands of one member of the combination, and forbade those In the combination from engaging In 9 id Four not?Let all the ends Thou Aln TER. 8. 0., WEDNE BOYS' COHN CLUB. K1XTY-SIX MEMBERS ENROLLED UP TO DATE. The Bttmter County Roys' Corn Cluh Mel in the Court House With 0? Member*, All Contesting for Prise*, Prom The Daily Hem March 12. The Bumter County Boys' Corn Club met in Its regular monthly meet? ing the court house today with 6G members present. The club has grown beyond the expectations of those in charge of the work. It is encourag ing to tee more than three score em? bryonic farmers getting their seed and making preparations to plant corn, the king of cereals. There were talks by several gentle? men present. Mr. H. L. Scarborough, who has taken a great deal of Interest in the work from the start was the Aral speaker. He dwelt upon the op? portunities that are now before the farmers, and of the importance cf heaping records. Talks were male by Mr. T. J. Kervin, Prof. J. F. Wil? liams and Prof. B. D. Cain. Seed corn, Gherio's prolilic, was distributed to the boys, each being given enough to plant an acre. The fol.owing ru.es were adopted: 1. Boys joining clubs and entering contests must be under 18 years of age, Sept., 1909. 2. No boy shall contest for a prize unless ho becomes a member of a club April 1, 1910. 3. The memebrs of the clubs must ngree to re^d the Instruction.?? of the ; ?emonstr it on Work. 4. Each boy must plan his own < rop and do his own work 5. Exhibits must be delivered to the county superintendent of educa? tion by October lGth. 6. The amount of the ytetd and the method of measurement must. I e certified by each boy and attested by at least two disinterested witnesses, who shall be satisfactory to the coun? ty superintendent. 7. Each boy is required to donate one bushel of ear corn to be sold for the purpose of perpetuating the prize fund. A CONFEDRATE COIN. Half Dollar Struck at Mint in New Orleans Bold In New York for $:*, 760. New Tork, March 1.1.?One of the original Confederate half-dollars struck off at the United States mint In New Orleans in 1ST, 1, after it fell Into the hands of the Confederate government, was sold today by a local coin dealer for $3,750. The buyer was a wealthy New York collector, whose name is withheld. Inter-State commerce until the com? bination was discontinued. The counsel arrayed in defence of the Standard Oil includes John G. Mil burn, of Buffalo, N. Y., in whose homo McKinley died, D. T. Watson and Jno. <?. Johnson, leaders of the Pennsyl? vania Bar, and Moiits Rosenthal, the legal pillar of the Standard Oil inter? ests. Of these, Johnson made the principal argument t?> the Supreme Court. In the defence In the tobacco The defence has urged that the corporation-, which entered into the organlsath i Of 1899, had not been competitors since Is"!'; that the stockholders of the principal company were the Joint owners of the stock of the subsidiary companies, and had th rlgl t to convey their stock in the ?attcr to the fornn r In trust for them? selves, and congress was without pow? er t<? restrict their acquisition, their nu thod of holding, or their deposi? tion of their title to tiuir property or their us.- of it; that the corpora? tions whose stock were Invested In the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey are private corporations and not charged with a public duty, as were the railroads in the Northern Se? curities case; and that If any re? straint of trade resulted from the or? ganisation it 1899 it was neither di? re immediate, nor substantial. Attorney General Wlckersham prob? ably will make the principal argument to the eourt In favor of the dissolu? tion. Frank B. Kellogg, of Minne? sota, and Charles B, Morrison, of Chi? cago, have been most active in the preparation of the case against the defendants. Their arguments were upheld In the main by the lower court. The business world Is awaiting the o\d. ome of the suit, to know what ef? fect it will have upon the future, n<>t only of the standard Oil, but of oth? r combinations with points In common. The department of justice is waiting for the decision of the court, In order to shap I the government's attitude to? ward other organisations, <>f which complaint have been made. ia*t at be thy Country's, Thy God's am SDAY. MARCH 16. 1 GAMBLING IN COTTON, i - i AN ADVANCE OF A DOLLAR NET PER DALE WEEK'S RECORD. _i I Ratten, Brown and Scales Currently Reported to be Particularly Bullish 1 On .May Cotton and Fear is Felt of a Corner. New York, March 11.?The striking feature of the week has been the i manipulation of the May option and an advance of about $1 net per bale. The so-called "big four"?Mesrs. Pat t n, I layne, Scales and Brown, who are openly bullish?are credited with being bulls on that delivery in par? ticular, and with having received re? cently on March contracts, something like 50,000 bales. According to cur? rent rumor they are likely to take 4 0,000 more, and ship the cotton to Fairope in order to facilitate the man? ipulation of the May option here. The other well known spot dealer here privately bought 8,000 bales of that m-'tith. Liverpool right or wrongly has been painly affected by the May corner Spot stocks have increased. The con? tinent has been buying more freely there. Manchester is reported to be doing a better business. Wall street has bought on recessions. So has the South, including New Orleans. Finally, the weather in Texas has continued for the most part dry. In the Gainesville section of that State it is said that the conditions are the dryest for 20 years past. On the oth? er hand heavy rains have latterly fal? len in the southern part of Texas, and a preciptation seems to have occur? red in some localities in the western section of that State. The question which the cotton trade is asking is whether Europe with its improved trade will fix the price of cotton for the rest of the season or whether it will he determined by the conservative spirit which is the dom? inant note in the American branch of the cotton business at this time. The May option in the meantime is the centre off interest. COTTON SPECULATOR MOBBED. English Cotton Brokers Mistreat Pat? ten. London, March 11.?A hostile dem? onstration on the tloor of the cotton exchange at Manchester and one di? rectly contrasting it for friendliness on the corn exchange at Liverpool were met with today by Jas. A. Pat? ten, the Chicago Wheat and cotton operator, in the first. Mr. Patten was mobbed and probably escaped in? jury only by being rescued by the po? lice; in the later he was greeted with cheers .and other manifestations of friendliness. Mr. Patten will sail from Liverpool tomorrow for New York on board the Cunard line steamer, Mauritania. The brief visit in England of the Chic ago operator has been spent most ly about the Liverpool markets and today he made up his mind to run over to Manchester to see the city and visit the cotton exchange. It was known to Mr. Patten that there had been threats of an unpleasant recep? tion should he visit "Cottonopolis," but he refused to believe they would be carried into effect. These threats it is said, emanated from persons on the exchange who had lost large sums as a result of Mr. Patten's operations in Chicago, and from others, who held him responsible for yesterday's rise in the price of cotton and who believ? ed that his visit to England had f-^r its purpose the manipulation of the market. Hardly had Mr. Patten touched the floor of the Manchester exchange be? fore the outburst came. TTe was hoot? ed and jeered by the throng and then surrounded and hustled into the street. Phe crowd followed even here and did not desist its manifestation of dislike until the American had been placed in a cab by the police and starten! for the railway station, where he took the firs! train back to Liverpool. While unhurt. Mr. Patten was greatly sur? prised and irritated at the dislike the people of Manchester had shown for him. Arriving in Liverpool, Mr Fate, n just had time to visit the corn ex? change 1 Cfore it closed for the day. Tlie tloor was crowded with'-members, who evinced their sympathy with him for the treatment that had been shown him in Manchester by taking off their hats and cheering him when he referred to the incident. if the people of Loulslans us an? nounced in the press dispatches can raise hogs lor shipment, surely the people of South Carolina should be able to raise onough hogs for their own use.?Winnsboro News and Her? ald. [1 Truth's." THE TRUi 910._NewSeri BAD FOB B?LLINGER. " DAMAGING EVIDENCE AGAINST SECRETARY OF INTERIOR. Chief Engineer Ravis of ReclatmnUon Service Contradicts Statements of Ballinger and Aecuases Him ol Double-Dealing?Seems to Have Favored Land Grabbers. Washington, March 11.?With Ar? thur 1?. Davis, chief engineer of the reclaimation service on the stand, the attaVk upon Secretary Ballinger con tinued today before the congressional committee of investigation. Mr. Davis was called as a witness by Gifford Pinchot's attorney. Although expressing reluctance to testify Mr. Davis proved to be well fortified with maps, dates, data, etc. He contradicted flatly many state? ments made by Secretary Ballinger to President Taft, and ended the day by declaring that the reclamation ser? vice is still in danger of distintergra tlon as a result of Mr. Balinger's at? titude toward it. Mr. Davis declared that "in lang? uage as strong as politeness and prop? er respect would permit" he had told Secretary Ballinger himself that his entire course had tended to a demor? alization of the service. With regard to a statement by Mr. Ballinger to the president that he had restored many lands withdrawn by Secretary Garfield on the strength of recommendations from the reclama? tion service that these lands were no longer needed for reclamation pur? poses, Mr. Davis declared that all of the recommendations made by the reclamation service were in response to direct orders issued by Mr. Balling er. These orders were repeated, he said, many times, but were never put in writin . Director Newell of the reclamation service, he said, protested vigorously against the secretary's ac? tion. Mr. Davis said Secretary Ballingcr had written a letter to Dr. Thomas E. Will of this city repeating the state? ments that lorvds had been restored upon recommendation of the acting director of the reclamation service that they were no longer needed. The witness said he was the acting direc? tor referred to; that he had never made any such recommendation. Mr. Davis asserted that Mr. Ballin? gcr was wrong in stating to the presi? dent that Mr. Garfield's withdrawals divl not truthfully show what they were made for. There had been no subterfuge, he said, and if there had been any appearance of subterfuge it was his fault and not Mr. Garfield's. The witness revealed in his testi? ng my that there Is Quite a feud be? tween the reclamation service and the geological survey. Tt was on report? of the reclamation service that Secre? tary Garfield acted in his withdrawal of power sites. Secretary Ballinger had depended entirely upon the geo? logical survey. Mr. Davis did not hestiate to criticise the survey and declared that the narrow strips which had been withdrawn along streams by the geological survey did not prop? erly protest the power sites. The direct examination of Mr. Davis had not been concluded when ad? journment was taken until tomorrow morning. PROMISES WARMER WEATHER. Weather Bureau Predicts Week of Comparatively Iliuli Temperature. Followed h\ Cool Wave. Washington, March 13.?Compara? tively warm weather will prevail over most of the United States during most of the present week, according to the prediction of the weather bureau to? day. About the middle of the week a period of cooler weather will set in over the extreme West and advance thence to tin* Atlantic coast, reaching there by the early part of next week. BLOODHOUNDS SEEK BURGLAR. Dogs From Penitentiary Sen! to Lex? ington County. Lexington, March 13.?Blood? hounds were brought from the State penitentiary last night to run down a burglar who had entered the home of a negro, and stole a suit of clothes and some other articles. The negro house is occupied by Frank McCain, a negro section hand, ami he put up the money. The house was entered between seven and eight o'clock but it was not until after 11' o'clock that the dogs arrived in an "Automobile. Although every effort as made to get a trail, the do^s could led get a scent, and the party returned to the penitentiary at an ? arly hour this morning. There Is no clue as to the guilty party, but sheriff Corley will continue to work on the case. SOUTHRON, Establb' _oVX M _ * [ [es?Vol. w vv ? Ao. 6. ?Lb liitCAL HISTOrF LETTER LEFT BY EX-SENATOR EXPOSES ALLEGED POLITI? CAL DEAL. New Yorker's Posthumous < ommuni cation Charges Late Former Presi? dent With Trickery in 1888. Washington, March 11.?The con? troversy as to whether President Ben? jamin Harrison promised to appoint the late Senator Thomas C. Platt sec? retary of the treasury in return for the support of the New York delega? tion in the national Republican con? vention of 1888 continues. The story of Mr. Platt's declaration that such a promise was made and broken is it? self interesting. William E. Curtis, a newspaper writer, says that shortly after the publication of the John Sherman memoirs, in 1895, Mr. Platt gave him a sealed letter not to be opened until both he, Platt, and President Harri? son should be dead. Mr. Curtis says he opened this letter the morning Mr. Platt died, that is Monday morning. The alleged letter he printed in one of the Washington papers. In sub? stance it says that at the Republican convention of 1888, Stephen B. Elkins, now senator from West Virginia, went to Senator Platt, at the head of the New York delegation and producing a letter from Gen. Harrison, said that if the New York delegation would vote for Harrison, Mr. Platt would be appointed secretary of the treasury. It further says that for the same con? sideration, as further payment for his prospective job in the cabinet, Mr. Platt gave his personal check for j $150,000 for the election of Harrison, which $150,000, Mr. Platt says, was what turned the election in New York for Harrison and elected him. It is all interesting, being very much like the case of Roosevelt and Harriman. Roosevelt promised Har riman that if he would raise a large fund to be used in the election in New York he would invite him to Wash? ington td assist in the preparation of bis message to congress. And as in the case of Harriman, Platt declared afterwards that the bargain had been violated. First of all comes Mr. fElkins and d? nies that be, in the name of Gen. Harrison, promised Mr. Platt the place in the cabinet. He says that he did promise that Mr. Platt should be c >nsulted about patronage in New York. Now comes another alleged '"?sthiimous lcter. this time from Gen. Harrison, saying that he never prom ? 1 Mr. Platt a cabinet appointment, and that he never had any idea until after the election that Mr. Platt want? ed such an appointment. But J. Sloat Fassett, now a repre? sentative from New York in congress, who was associated with Mr. Platt and the Ne w York machine at that time, declares that the alleged post? humous letter of Senator Platt is sub? stantially correct that Mr. Platt was promised the appointment, and that be himself, Mr. Fassett, went to President Harrison and urged upon him the keeping of the promise. Tt is generally heiieved here, so far as T can learn, that there was some j kind of a deal with Mr. Platt f ^r the New York delegation and that when he produced that $150.000 to elect Harrison he had some such thing in view, doubtless believed he would surely get the appointment as secre? tary of the treasury: but it Is thought to have been a misunderstanding. No such bargain would have been put In writing. Gen. Harrison did write a letter during that convention of 18S8 t" Tom Platt, and sent it by Steve El kitis. B"t the cautious Elkins instead of delivering the letter outright mere ly read it to Platt and kept it. Exact? ly what was in it Elkins does not say though be says be has it still. Per? haps be will produce it. And per? haps he will not. Tt depends upon What is in it. Put this is evidence to all of the methods of bargaining and sale used in tbece Republican conventions. Tt is not the first time; and it is doubt? ful if it will be the last. Charlotte. N. C March 11.?Hand? ing his wife his poekethook and ring. With the remark: "1 have just drunk carbolic acid and am going to die," Lewis C. Baker, a trusted attache of the Continental Insurance Company, threw himself across the bed at his hlme early this morning, and in less than an hour died in great agony. Baker slipped out and secured the a. id. while waiting for beakfast and drank it before entering the house no one witnessing the act. He was a native of Rock Hill, S. C, where hi was a successful mill man, coming ktor* six yt ars ago to engage In the insurance business. He was forty two years old.