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C vi r, idated Auk . 1881 'UMTEU, S. O , WEDNB DAT. FEBRUARY 7, 1912. Vol. XXXIII. No. 47.
DIU METHODS AGAIN.
KKJlUs WIM. UK SHOT (i|( |>t
?-OKTI I?
Nnrlft PunUI.ni? ni k to he Portion of
\ll Agitator-. Who Ci?n be Captured
by tfadero.
Mexico Cltjr, Feb. 4.?Without Mart,
of trumpet and without official proc?
lamation, the federal government
prepoasa to employ the drastic meth?
od* of Pias m restoring peace. Im?
mediate application of this new policy
will he the nation's only apprtsal
of It This is the substance of a
statement by a cabinet minister today.
Swift punishment Is to b? the portion
of all agitator* who can be reached,
whether of fun or pencil. A few
newspaper wrt.era will he deported.
H la said, under that provision of Um
constitution which provides for Ih
expulsion of undesirables. Public pa.
radea and street oratory are to
prohibited In caaes where the pine
pane Is In any manner connected with
?political affairs.
Thla prescription Is in accordance
with the government's diagnosis of
the revolutionary disease which ha*
broken out In so many parts of the
country.
Official figures placed the losses In
death, both north and Mouth slnco
January St as follows. Federals 34:
rebels from 222 to 172. and non
combatanta l?>.
I nofficial report*. Apparently well
founded, add to these fgores 16 fed?
erals dead and 46 rebels dead.
Just how many men now are In
anna against the central government
te probably known to no one. certainly
not by the president and his cabinet.
One rebellion la recognised, that of
Kmlllano Zapata. covering all of the
State of Morelos and portions of the
fttates of llldulgo. Puebla, Tlaxcala.
Ouerrero and Mextco. and the federal
district itself.
In Ouerrero. conditions are not
try better than It Is In Morelos.
the direct leader of the revolt
ins H. Halgado who. Mke Zapata,
a* officer In Madero's revolu
foree. Me had been more
Mi deolaraUnn* tha' he
Ig for the er>use of Kmlllo Vas
Gomea, but there Is little doubt
it he and Zapata are working fa?
ther.
The first cause of the Zapata re*
?hellion was an attempt on the part
I of the de la Barra government to
make him conform to the general or?
der of disarmament following the
close of the Madaro revolution. He
had fought for Madero and fought
well. Madero attempted to shield him
and waa greatly surprised when Za?
pata fa.I. 1 to Murrender. The presi?
dent temporised for week.* and then
ordered the army to light him. but
Zapata * forcer steadily grew. As a
basis for his rebellion h? declared .
Madero had not carred out the prom- |
laes made In the 'plan of Han Luis
Potosl. " He declared he was fight?
ing for Vasques Gomes, but he also
announced a socialistic propaganda,
the Immediate division of the Morelos
lands, a thing never publicly advo?
cated by Vssouex Oomes.
Zapata's efforts were laughed a t
a few months ago. but not only has he
gained a following large enough to
stand off a considerable part of the
Mexican army. hut. far from being re?
garded as a puny brigand, he has
ootns to be characterised as a patriot
the antl-.Madero element.
A COM? WAVK WTTIIOI T COAL.
No Hard < <?al to lie Had. but Plent>
at Soft Coal on Hand for Cold
Weather.
ahamter has experienced a ?<dd
wave, while at the same time she has
exrurlenred a scarcity of < oal. The
cold hit the city at an unfortunate
time for those who us. oal iitogeth
er In keeping their homes warm. f o
at the present HfjM ?Mfl el ' "f bit
..f hard ? "ul to ?..? hud fr?>m ?ns -.f
tha dealers In the city.
It Is not the fault of the dealers for
they have been striving hard for sag**
time to get the coal, but without
being successful. Tb- r. is at present
bo coal In Florence. Wilmington or
any other nearby city that It can be
obtained from. It was stated by one
of the dealers this morning that MM
dealers In the n .rth dtt-d that .ill <f
the ships on which the coal was sor t
.Mouth were Icm bound and could no'
get hero now. and It was Impossible
to say wh*n ?he de.ii. i- eonM g**t Ina
coal here. However, there Is plenty
of the soft at ii on n md ind the
Mumter people will probabls m t suf
far from the cold.
DEMAND FOR COTTON.
M SIRI 1X>K sl?(>TS RUXD8
PKHls I I'WAHD.
short llgg Inclined to Combat Argu?
ment* Tlint Weight on Market Is
ItClllOYfd.
Nrw York, Feb. 3.?Cotton was
marking time much of the week un?
der ihe Influence of conflicting fac?
tors in the situation, but within 48
hours has advanced sharply. The
str 'ft at Lawrence. Mass., it is true,
was for a time something of a damp?
er. Then many in the speculative
world refuse to bull the market in
the presence uf a record-breaking
crop and of prices which they think
insure anohter big acreage and un?
der ordinary conditions another Dig
< rnp, especially as the soil at the
South, owing to abundant winter
ra'ns, I? said to be In tho best condi?
tion known for years past. Further?
more, the cost of living is still high,
so high that the district attorney here
has instituted an investigation. This
it 1? tin.ught, means decreased con?
sumption of cotton goods, ns food
BRUSf come first.
Then this is the year of a presi?
dential election, the tariff is being
overhauled, economy is noticeable
?ywhere and reports cf an lm
pr \ . tm>nt in the dry goods trade, it
is . lt d. at" exaggerated, else why
? I.t New Kngland spinners buy raw
cott->n more freely? And so on.
It was noticeable, however, that the
pr? (??? refused to decline. Neither, for
at time, did It advance much, it Is
true, but large s|ot houses and ex?
porters h'tVe been voracious buyers at
the South of tho actual cotton and
lately of "future*" here. Liverpool,
the continent, Memphis, New Orleans,
and Waldof-Astoria operators have
bought heavily In the last two days.
Spinners have been buying here. A
good many hedges for home and for?
eign account. It Is said, have been
liqulated la New York. Indeed,
some think It was this kind of buying
which halted the decline six woeks
ago. In two days price* rpave risen
at a rate that surprised everybody.
The rush to All January shipments
**e>n tresH s has lM?en>-g m?M eable fea?
ture.
Close students of the situation in?
sist that the weight o'.' the crop, largo
as it was, is now off the market and
llUII the price Is now low. even after
this advance, though a good many
people do not suspect It. They think
that the American spinners will take
5,000,000 bales this season and the
Kuropean spinners 10,000,000 in ono
way or another. As to another crop,
they think that in all probability the
foar of another big yield will cause
a decrease in the acreage and that be?
sides a big acreage in Itself does not
Insure a big crop. The spot sale
at Liverpool of late havo been 10,
000 to 15,000 bales a da v.
At Manchester yarns are Arm and
cloths In good demand. In this coun?
try there is a sharp demand for white
cotton and It is considered not un?
likely tha 1,000.000 bales of the low
grades will go Into channels of con?
sumption similar to those opened to
tho poorer sorts of cotton in the sea?
son of 1904-05.
The ravenous demand for the ac?
tual cotton at home and abroad Is
the sheet anchor of the market.
IWPAYKKS SltOt'LD MARK MB*
TVKN8.
Penalty of 50 Per Cent. Added if Re?
turn** Arc Xot Mode by February
20th.
Tax return* are coming In very
slowly, especially In the city, and It
- ems at tho present time that there
wll be a number of persons who will
have to pay fifty per cent, penalty
ne\t f;ill for not making their returns
SS they should.
The auditor's hooka OlOSS on Feb?
ruary L'Oth and If the returns uro not
mad" at that time an nddltlonnl pon
? lt\ of fifty per rent W'il be attacle.l
|g tie gslSjgi Auditor Wilder has paid
hit annual visit to all Of the town?
ships In tho countny and g great many
Of tb?> persons III the seetloUS visited
bf bun made their returns while he
? I in thelf neighborhood i.iit the
people of the town have seemingly
forgotten about making thelf returns,
being much slower this year than
usual about making them.
_
Tho crowd in attendance upon
court Monday morning was rather
siim. Ve ?>? little interest seemed t'?
be shown in the proceedings and most
of lb-- rrowd dispersed ss soon as it
was known that the ease against 3,
w Harper would be continue i
COTTON CANVASS COMPLETED.
Farmers still Picking Cotton at
MajreovlUei Important Ordinances
Poaeed.
Mayeavllle, Feb. 2.?Mr. B. W, Raf
field has Completed his canvass in
ltf*ti tectlon for Ihe "Roch Hill plan"
of cotton acreage and the planters
generally have agreed to support the
plan. As seen from the report pub?
lished in The Item, the farmers, both
white and colored, large and small,
will cut their acreago considerably.
Some of the heaviest planters in :he
State live In this township and th'i
reduction here will amount to some?
thing. If all agree to stand by their
pledges, Cotton picking is still go?
ing and quite a lot of cotton is
being ginned on Fridays and Satur
days. The cutting of the stalks and
/dcklng are being carried on at t;ie
same time in some fields. Little oth?
er farm work is being done now.
The town council passed several im?
portant ordinances at its meeting on
Wednesday night. One ordinance
prohll its the shooting of sling-shots,
parlor ritles or air rifles within the
town limits. This action of council
will meet With general approval for
there has been much of this shoot?
ing of late, especialy by the small boys
and the use of such arms is un?
doubtedly dangerous. Another ordi?
nance relates to the placing of mer- i
chandise on the sidewalks or pave- J
menu for display by the merchants. .
This act should be generally approved
tot In .jeme instances this display of
good! has been carried to an extent
that became a nuisance.
Mr. C. E. Mayes, cashier of the
Hank of Mayesvllle. returned this af?
ternoon via. automobile from Colum?
bia, where he has been on business.
Mr. Chalmers McKlnney, of this
place, but who has been In Timmons
ville for several months In the drug
business, has gono to Maeon to take
a course in pharmacy.
Mr. K. A. Chandler and family
have returned from a few days' visit
to Society Hill. Mrs. Chandler's for?
mer home.
ARCHHTJECTS CLAIM OF $13,500.
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A Big Hill for State Hou?o Plan* Now
Before House Committee..
Columbia, Feb. 3.?The ways ami
means committee is considering a
bll for 50u for plans for re?
modeling the State House. The plans
we re made by Mr. A. W. Todd, of
Charleston. The claim for the fee Is
based on tbs agreement:
State of South Carolna.
This agreement entered Into this
27th day of September, 1911, by and
between F. M. yryan, chairman and
W. W. Dixon, secretary, acting as a
sub-committee, under authority of
the committee on State House and
grounds, commissioned by his Excel?
lency, the Governor, for this purpose,
party of the first part, hereinafter for
brevity styled the committee, and A.
W. Todd and J. D. Henson, co-part?
ners, doing business under the name
of Todd and Henson, parties of the
second part, hereinafter for brevity
styled the architects:
Witnesseth:
(1) That whereas, the committee,
acting under authority vested in them
by the general committee on State
House and grsunds, have by this
agreement commissioned the said or
chiteets to make up plans, estimates,
etc., for the Improvements to the
State Capitol building, and to per?
form such other duties as are usually
required of architects in such work.
Now this agreement.
Wllnosxeth:
That In consideration of the services
heretofore rendered and so to bo ren?
dered that the architects tiro to be
I paid for such services in accordance
with the feei established by the
American Institute of Architects. As
per schedule hereto attached.
In witness whereof ,tho putties to
tht.se presents have hereunto set their
hands and Seals the day and year
above Ural written.
f. m . Bryan, t U B. I Chairman.
w. w. i dxon, Secretary.
The claim li now before the ways
and means committee, and there is a
question being raised as to whether
the committee had authority to make
a contract Involving $18,600,
As a p;irt Of the general proposition
a resolution has been offered looking
to submitting to the voters of the
statt- a bond Issue of a million dollars
for tb proposed extension and im?
provement "f the state House,
Miss Maria Boyle spent the week?
end at home from the < College for Wo
men at Columbia.
SKYSCRAPER CONTRACT LET.
W. U HARBIN GETS CONTRACT
FOR SEVEN STORY EDIFICE.
Seven Bidden for Work?Work Wilt
Be Commenced nn March ist end
la to Be Completed by Nov. t?
Cost of -Building to Be Approxi?
mately $?0.000.
Tho contract for the City National
Bank building was awarded Friday
night to W. Lee Harbin of Lexing?
ton, N. C.i a contractor now engaged
In this city In the erection of the
First Methodist church and the reno?
vations and changes In tho Sumter
Lighting Company plant.
The work on the building will be
commenced on March firs* and will
be completed by November first. The
material will be of the best, substan?
tial varieties and the building will
be completely equipped with .'ill mod?
ern appliances and conveniences
The cost Of the completed building
will ba approximately $G0,000.
The bids for the contract were
opened Friday afternoon and were
gone over thoroughly before the con?
tract was awarded. There were sev?
eral bidders: for the work, the bidders
being as follows: J. J. Cain, Columbia;
Whitney Steen Company. New York;
W. Lee Harbin, Lexington, N. C;
Wlee Granite Company, Wise, N. C;
King Lumber Company, Charlotten
Vl|l6 V? : J. A. Gardner, Charlotte, 1
N. C; J. J. Keller and Company,
Kock Hill. S (\; John Lowry, New
York.
Thu work on the building and the j
elevator, and steam heating appara?
tus are let under different contracts,
I Harbin getting the building proper
and the Otis Elevator Company get?
ting the contract for installing the
elevator service. The contract for
the atoam heating apparatus has not
yet been let. The elevator will be
equipped with double screw and will
provide for 4.000 pounds at 200 feet
per minute.
The building now occupying the
corner will bo sold and moved away
I and the new building erected in Its
place. The building will be sever,
stories high and will be of sandstone
' : f.* ? <M hrtek.
ABDICATION QUESTION SETTLED.
Indicated by Latest Edict of Chinese
Dowager Empress.
Peking, February 4.?The Empress
Dowager issued an edict this evening
instructing Premier Yuan .Shi Kai to
establish a republic in co-operaii >n
with the southern republicans. The
edict has not yet been published and
it is expected that it will be kept more
or les secret so far, as the public is
concerned, until arrangements in '.he
south have been completed.
Yuan Shi Kai is now endeavoring
to persuade the Nanking government
to hand over the control of affairs 10
enable him to carry on tho adminis?
tration of the whole Empire, until the
National Convention appoints a per?
manent government and adopts a
constitution.
It is doubted here that the re?
publicans in Nanking will consent to
this. It Is believed that the only thing
possible is the creation of two pro?
visional governments and the con?
tinuance of temporary control. Yuan
Shi Kai is opposed to the transfer of
the capital to Nanking, but there ap?
pears to be a close understanding
between the Imperial premier and the
icpublicans who have again offered
him the Presidency.
The fact that the abdication of the
throno has been decided upon is not
known to tho general public in ?e
king. Many of the Imperial princes
are leaving Peking. Prince Kuag.
leader of the Mongolian anti-abdlvi
tionlsts, and Prince Su, of the board
of dependencies, have gone to Man?
churia.
Gen. Chao Brh Shun, viceroy of
Manchuria, has espoused the r? public,
nut Chang Chow Lin, commandant of
troops. >* Irreconcilable.
Ohl Negro Drops Dead.
Monday afternoon as he was re
turning from the gin, ?borge Single
ton, an old colored man living In
the Concord section, suddenly drop?
ped dead, his body falling back
against the rack "l* the wagon in
Which he was riding. Mr. John
Chllders of tho Concord section was
driving the wagon at the tune, He
called to the negro as he fell and re*
i celving n<? response Investigated and
I found him ?<? b? dead. It was sup
J posed thai he dl d from hear! fail?
ure. He was reported to be one of
tin- best negroes In the Concord see
tlon of the countj.
measure urged m t. i?. a.
goes To third reading.
Overwhelming Vote of 7:i to 10 Re?
corded After Debate Over Propose*!
Law Requiring Strips on Trait,|
Instead of Requiring Exchange for
Tickets.
Columbia, Feb. 2.?The House to?
il Ight, rather unexpectedly, took up
and passed the Carlisle hill. whicn
seeks to rt uire railroads to pull on
trains mileage strips, instead of hav
Ing the same exchanged for tickets
before hoarding trains. The vote was
73 to 10. The bill that was last year
buffeted about was passed tonight in
double quick order, with practically
no fight.
The K. P. Smith substitute propo?
sition was withdrawn on the ground
that he hoped it would suit all in?
terests and, being objected to by the
T. P. A., he was done with the whole
matter, having tailed in an effort to
compromise.
The mileage bill has been ;l bone
of contention for some time and the
contest tonight was briefer than
many expected. As many as forty
live members were not voting. The
opponent! of the Carlisle bill in no
teal received over 17 votes.
state warehouse b?x p\ss
ed.
Other Proceedings of Senate ai Last
Night's Session.
Columbia, Feb. 2.?The Senate to?
night passed the bill to create a
State warehouse system for storing
cotton and to provide an appropri?
ation of $250,000 for the establish?
ment of the system. There was much
opposition to the hill. the chief
ground far this being the heavy ap?
propriation.
A message was received from the
Governor, in which he gave his rea
' sons for vetoing a bill to order the
supervisor of Greenwood County to
draw his warrant in favor of Magis?
trate Kerr, concerning whose office
there was so much comment through?
out the State last year. The mes?
sage wa> r ipalyed as mfornjaCon
1 The Senate sent to the House a bill
to n'low solid freight trains to
pass through the State on Sundays.
The Senate also passed a bill abolish?
ing the office of supervisor for Kich
land County.
A lull to provide for B dispensary
election in Orangeburg County was
set as a special order for Wednesday,
after third reading bills,
j The Senate tonight concurred in a
House resolution approving the erec?
tion in Washington, by the National
Government, of a monument to the
signers of the Declaration of Inde?
pendence.
The Senate received a message
from the House in which it was stat?
ed that concurrence had been reach
; ed to a Senate resolution to request
I the State Treasurer to state in writ?
ing, to be spread upon the Journals
of l oth houses, his side of his "con?
troversy" with the Gove:n*ir.
J The House also informed the Sen?
ate of concurrence in Senator Whar
ton's resolution as to a peace memor?
ial.
j Senator Green's bill to provide for
1 a State warehouse system, was call?
ed in order on the Calendar. Senator
Young spoke for many minutes in
' opposition, charging that it is not
wholly constitutional. He wanted the
bill postponed for a few days to al?
low for the preparation of amend
' ments. Senator Green urged im
' mediate consideration of the bill.
I He urged that if the bill be uncon?
stitutional the Supreme Court will
test it before It becomes operative.
Senator Karle opposed the bill as
it stands, but offered an amendment
to make it suit hint. The amendment
was tabled. Senator W. i* Mauldin
said he deemed it his duty to enter a
I "solemn prot st" against the bill.
He advanced the belief that the
I warehouse system would not at all
j better cotton price conditions and
would be an expense on the people.
j Senator Young accused the sup?
porters of the bill of trying to 'rail?
road it through the Senate. He
held that the bill will give taxation to
the farmers. 11.? said the bill orig?
inated in New Orb-ins. being copied
from tlie Louisiana warehouse bill,
hut thai it lacked many of the im
portanl ?letalis of the Louisiana bill.
I Senator Lawson moved to adjourn
debate till Tuesday night and Sena?
tor Clifton moved to table the mo?
tion. The motion was tabled by a
vote of 13 to 0. The bill was then
sent to the House.
Senator Clifton asked that the bill
GEORGIA III LIKE.
THE KOCK mi l PLAN ADOPTED,
Ooiioti Acreage Redaction Campaign
Will Be Vigorously lYosaeafi d Un?
der Dltectiofi of stat.^ Supcriutcnd
out Lore?Mr. Anderson Accom?
plishes Good Werk in Empire
State.
Rock Hill, Fei?. :.?A telegram
from Mr. J. G. Anderson, who is now
in Atlanta, says that. Georgia has
joined North and South Carolina in
the vigorous campaign that is being
made to reduce the cotton acreage
under the Rock Hill Plan, ?t?te Su?
perintendent Love will h charge
of the work in Georgia , press
it vigorously. A c ijr of the
.-'tat i will be start' ^"^^diately.
MAINE ' vvX . RAISED,
v _
Protract* ^. of Raising Sunken
War V at Leaf Crowned With
rlabana, Feb. ;>.?The protracted
task of raising the sunken battle?
ship Maine was crowned with success
this afternoon when the after sec?
tion, which was not injured by the
explosion and comprises approxi?
mately half the total length of the
ill-fated vessel, was set afloat.
Harely enough water was admitted
within the cofferdam to free the hulk
from the mud in which it was
deeply inbedded, but tonight iloats
almost on an even keel, though some?
what down at the stern and much
above its normal line of flotation in
consequence of the removal of the
heavy weights on deck, especially
the afterturret and its guns. The
hull, into which a bulkhead has been
fitted, proved perfectly watertight.
MaJ. Harley B. Ferguson, chief en?
gineer in charge of the work, in?
tends now to cease admitting water
within the cofferdam until the por?
tions of the shattered forward section
of the battleship are removed which
will be a matter of a few days. Af
, ter this it will be a simple matter to
admit sufficient water to raise the
hulk to the harbor level.
Tbr.^e bodies vwjre found ths? even?
ing during an exploration of tho ex
treme bow section of the Maine,
TEAM AND WAGON PURCTI \SED.
Fire Committee Decides to Get Team
I from Asheville?Undecided a- to
Chemical Wagon.
The Fire Committee met Thursday
to discuss the purchase of a chem
Icel h<>se wagon, but after talking
over the matter for a couple of
hours no decision was reached and
the purchase was postponed for the
I resent. However, the committee
has made a trade for the hose wag?
on and team now being used at Aslie
ville. N. Cm and this apparatus will
be sent on here from Asheville at the
first of March.
The decision to purchase this wag
en and team was made following a
report made > y Mr. J. P. Booth, who
went to Asheville to inspect the ar?
ticles which the committee was con?
sidering purchasing. The wagon .s
reported to be as good as new.
Pe I tee Advocate.
Ira B. Jones has got into action
and it is evident that Blease will
have no weakling to deal with in
the coming campaign. Jones' state?
ment about the special judge coa.?*o
versy Is a strong presentation of the
law, and a convincing Indictment of
Blease's "lawless" acts.
be sent to the House at once, before
it adjourned for the night. The bill
calls for three commissioners to con?
trol the system and for the employ?
ment of a manager, weighers
and cotton graders.
s nator Carlisle's hill to regulate
the employment of children In the
delivery of go, ds and me SlgSS and
in theatres ami other placeeof amuse?
ment, amended SO as to apply to
children under 11 y ars of age, with
a promise of an amendment to strike
out section as to theatres, was pass
ed on second reading and put OU tho
Calendar for a third.
Senator Lide opposed the "rail?
roading" of this bill through and
questioned the source of the MIL
Senator Christ noon's hill to fur?
ther provide for the registration of
trained nurses, an outgrowth of the
late controversy between the trained
nurses Of Columbia and the nurses
of the State Hospital for the Insane,
w... passed to third leading.
The Senate adjourned until Tues?
day ? ight