Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SITUATION IN MEMO. ORO/,(i? \\l> HAl.AZAK KKKM Tt) HI AT OOlt Kn*??rts to Ilrtng Quiet Into Troubled Republic N??\> Endangered by Pcr *omtl DlnVromi*. ?:i rotO T. \av M m-h 3 -?Develop? ments of today Indicate that Gen Pasual Orosco, Jr., and Gen. Jose Ines Sulasar are tn serious disagree? ment. The projected peace confer? ence of rebel chieftains at Ahumada Is repotted improbable owing to the disinclination of Salazar to meet Oroz co. Despite his declaration of accord? ance with Salazar Saturday, Gen. Orsoco at his camp near Ahumada, Chihuahua, has since Intimated that he had not been in accord with Salasar since the rebel defeats about ojinaga last September. It developed today that the dis? agreement between the generals of the northern rebel arises out the fu? ture distribution of the public lands and the estates of the Madero family. Representatives of the party in power in Mexico City and chiefs of various revolutionary factions In northern Mexico * ill meet here in conference within the next few days. WILL ltse the IRON hand. Huerta Probably Will Inaugurate Hi* Stark Policy of Repression During This Week. Mexico City, March 3.?The firm and energetic military rule promised by the Mexican government under Provisional President Huerta prob? ably wir be Inaugurated this week. Huerta has had eight days of con? ference with the various chiefs or with commissioners sent by them. The government is now disposed to consider as irreconcilable all those rebels who continue to delay deflnlto recognition of the new order of things. The programme of pacification will, it Is expected, be put to aome severe tests. A band of adherents of Zapata fired en a federal troop train run? ning from the capital to Cuernavaca yesterday and several soldiers were killed or wounded, similar bands of Zapatistas continue committing raids In the federal district Itself and In the State of Morelos. indicating that some of the n ountalneer rebels are determined to keep up their guerilla Warfare Hr.?r?oe the negotiations be nment and the brothers Zapata. P ederal government ex ? sanguine of success in to* roriiiern States, a lack of har? mony between the various bands of rebeln in that region waa developed on tb arrival here of representatives of OfgQg and other chiefs. Today and tomorrow are to be devoted to SjSjgalgF noes between these rebel rep r?-??? n itlVOi and the ministers of war and Interior The railroads between the capital and the north are still In? terrupted. There has been prae'.eally no rr"l tr- rn the I'nited States for 15 days except that brought by steamer to Vera Crus. There is no truth in accounts pub? lished in the I'nited States of the killing Saturday by federal soldiers with machine guns of 100 mutinous troopl who had fought un? der Ms lere Th* story wiis based on the ? \pl< sinn of a number of fire crack, rg In the Santa Julia suburb by a crowd of demonstrators. There were no casunltls. rOREIONl it^ MENACED. i d. < ? ? an/a. Mexican Kehrt, De? nial- IIjttrge Sum* From Them. Washington, March 3.?American and ? Hk | foreigners In Cludad Por flrlo 1? DJ Vcxl' o. ure threatened w :th extort: n by Col. Carranza, a rebel Who has demanded $ JO,000 to $Sft,tt0 to pav and feed his State volunteers i'oi Cnri nan, necrrdlng to reports from Bagls Pass. Te>.is says if the monev Is not forthcoming, he will leu be r? poi .M. fi . I h. i|e; i. d ition : his m n iiu.y commit Ti.e t newl at Chihuahua reports Qov. Gon/alcH still detailed for cx imln >".<^ by a BpQSlal Court, although esjeae rated b] g court martial of com? pUstty In a plot to r-sist I he govern rm-nt. The whereabout! of Oroge still are unknown in ChltlUutlUS AI though th^ stats of Coahulla Is in re \o|t. the e,|\ SaMlllo is MUO t Yovji g M rv W':vr.tcd. W? le Sd I? v Nil b.e . I I ..||| 1 ?', U ?.. .1^ ? M. t-? leal tt the trade of i ggaghtsjlnj Ws * :n pay ? no ugh a ag< ; f.? b\ log espsnses while you art undc Iwstrni lions, ?salting for it.i'himM who has ItnnTonghl] mash n i Ihetf tmde, b IndwHry. Intelligence nnd good coi duet Tie re .i .? m ?rs nnd kath peases I In Ihbj line 'ban any othei We prefer steady boys who hav p., ti reared In the country. Write i on ? le gtJMTKH MACHINERY Ct Sumt. r. S t A FORMER MTEIKMEI1. si:< hit\uy OF Ai.Rici Li t Hi: in Wilson s CABINET ONCE LIVED HERE. II. II. Houston, Im h?r of David I i.ml.Im Houston, Remembered ?OKI by Man> < Ill/ens, Whore He Was I ngaged in Stock Business. David Franklin Houston, said to haw boon selected i>y President Wilson as secretary of agriculture in his cabinet, was at one time a resident of Sumter. This was a number of N-ars ago, however, when the present Secretary of agriculture was only a boy. H. H. Houston, the father of the prOSOnt secretary of agriculture, lived hoff for several years, residing out on the Manning Avenae road on the Tuo mey place. While living here the eld? er was engaged in stock business. He was said to have been a great horse trader, purchasing up 3tock and, sell? ing them again at a good profit. After living here for a number of years Mr. Houston moved to Darling ' ton, where his sons were raised, and from which place the present secre? tary attended the University of South Carolina. There are many citizens of Sumter who remember the elder Houston very well and a great many of them knew David and his two brothers. LUMBER THI'st BARRED. Forbidden to Carry on Alleged Illegal Combine. I New York, March 4.?The United I _ Mates circuit court of appeal today I lu ld the Eastern States Lumber Deal J ers* association and allied companies to be an illegal combination in re draint of interstate trade. 1 The decision was rendered by Judges Lacombe, Coxe, Ward and Noyes and in addition to the Eastern States Lumber Dealers' association is directed against the New York Lum? ber Trade association, the Building 1 Men's association of West Chester county, the Lumber Dealers associa J tlon of Connecticut, the Massachusetts I Retail Dealers' association, the Lum? ber Dealers' Association of Rhode Is 1 la all Lumber Men's Asso tft Baltimore; George A. I Sc -sident; A. K. Bennett, vi? ? f. J. F. Glassby, trcas ur mes M. Uiley. secretar> of ersey Lumber Men's as ' so' i the officers, directors I an the other associations. after adjudging the de I fei i members of an Illegal I ind conspiracy in re str rstate trade, enjoins and ( pn i from conspiring, con? fer agreeing together or ! Wi' o distribute Ul any of their members or other penions any Information showing Quotations or Salts and shipments of lumber and lumber products from manufacturers and whoo salo dealers to consumers or dealers in lumber. It also restrains the defendants from preparing and distributing the list known as the "official report" w heh was complain? ed by the governm nt ns being a sort of Mack list." Mr, R B. Belscr, who has made a pontotoai and tuccoosful tight in the House of Representatives against the effort of county pfBolsJl throughout the State to take from the school fund and give to the aforesaid officials the portion of the marriage license fee now going to the schools, has fall? en under the condemnation of the grasping officials and aroused their active enmity. There are about 24,000 marriage licenses issued in the State annually and 7f> per cent Of fees?a to? tal of about fix,000?goes to the ?chool fund and the balance to the onlolali issuing tho licenses The of flolall want to grab oil the fees, and bill after bill has been introduced in the legislature to change the law In that particular, but Mr. Belter has led the tiu'ht against thetn and all have been defeated, to tin great dls? gruntlement of the officials Ai an echo of this feeling against Mr. Bei? m r. Judge of Probate Richardson Ii in receipt of ? letter from the Judge of Probate of one of the up-country counties, Mating that there Is "a man Heiser or Reiser," In the House from I Sumter county, who should be de? I feated and left at home, The writer Iof thi letter <l ?o offers any assist I once needed In d< ''? 't Mr. |1< Iser, If he should o. K elect ion for an other lerm. Mr. Reiser need not worry, howi r, for ti>.- people of sum . .. mi\ are not apt to iurn d-w n a man who Rghts to save $lM,ooo n \ ? ii for the sehooli of t he Stab 11 takes tho position that 88 cents i ample comp? nsal Ion foi the olll< it i nilng .i mal i lag?4 license, n< ? th< counties pay for all the blanks and books of record r< ? i u ii ? d, and (bit the i? malnini 75 ? ? t? i^ of Ihe f< ?? could n,.t be better disposed of than by tu. hing it into the school fund . Mrs, Drake or Columbia is the guest of Mr* R A, Dlckson. BUSY TO THE LAST, PRESIDENT TAFT IN THE TREAD? MILL T<> THE END. His Last Day in the White House Was One <>r His Busiest ami One of His Happiest H?' Said?Bryan One of His Callers, Washington. March 3.?President Taft's last day In the White House was on.- of his busiest. As a working day it didn't last more than ten hours, but it was crowded with unsual events, full of incidents that fall to the man who sits In the White House anil crowned with pleasantries. The president shook hands with hundreds of citizens and otlicials of the government, received scores of telegrams from friends all over the world, signed h'.s name to pile after pile of pictures and letters and held three receptions. He quitted the room he has occupied for four years In the executive odices with a smile and without a backward glance. He met his old-time friends of the Wash? ington diplomatic corps and the jus? tices of the supreme court in the White House and last of all he gave the first formal welcome in that man? sion to the president-elect and Mrs. Wilson. Tonight the president and Mrs. Taft were guests at a private dinner given by Miss Mabel Boardman. Altogether as Mr. Taft told visitors today, it was one of the happiest days of his life and the regret he may have had over things he was unable to accomplish was mitigated by the remembrance of the pleasant paths he has tra? versed. The president received the presi? dent-elect and Mrs. Wilson at G o'clock tonight. Col. Spencer Cosby, chief aid to the president, was the escort and the president had sent his touring car to bring them through the crowded thoroughfares. A few hundred persons gathered in front of the mansion cheered when they recognized the next president and his wife. On the bronse seal of the I'nited States imbedded deep in the marble floor of the main hallway President Taft was waiting to receive his guests. He offered his arm to Mrs. Wrilson and escorted the next "first lady of the land'' to the quiet of the green room. Mrs. Taft and Miss Helen, the only members of the retiring president's family in town, came down the stair? way a few moments later and the president-to-be, his wife and the pres? ident, who quits tomorrow, and his wife and daughter talked alone. William Jennings Bryan was one of the last distinguished visitors who saw the president in his office. Col. Br /an came unannounced late in the afternoon. 'Here's something I want to show you." said the president, as he grasp? ed his visitor by the arm and led him to the cabinet room. "This," continued the president, "is the cabinet room." Mr. Bryan sat down in the chair of the secretary of state but made no comment. "I just dropped in to say farewell," he told the newspaper men as he de? parted. "I have many Republican friends as weli as those in the Demo? cratic party." Before he left his office for the last time the president shook hands with the members of the executive office's staff. TURKEY WILL YIELD FORTRESS. Dally Telegraph Claims to Have Au? thentic Information of Sublime Porte*s Plans. London, March 5. The Daily Tele? graph claims to have learned from well Informed Bources that Turkey is willing to cede Adrianople, Scutari and Janina and that peace Is likely to be concluded at an early date on the basis of a frontier line embracing linos Marltsa, Ergene and Istrand ia. Turkey, however, will decline to ced ? the Qalllpoll peninsula or pay an in? demnity. Prnctlcull) no Chnnge, l.on.ion. March t There is practi? cally no change In the Balkan sltua t ion. The grand visit r, Mahmoud Schefkel Pasha, in an Interview at Constantinople, is quoted as saying the pourparlers still \\<v In progress, i.ut that Turkey had not actually do elded to cede Adrianople and would not nece sarily be bound by the de? cisions of tin- powers. A i ?. |gr ide dispatch -ays ihn Montenegro hai been given ?? suranc? 1 that if Scutari capitulates by the date of t he Romanoff h " ent< nary, March I u, i p.. pnyt ers will < < de Scutari lo M< nten? 111 King Nicholas today re !. i it.ii t,, war correspondents * l Pet tin je i hat Monb negro \\ id novel ihnndoti In r claim to Scutari. I n response to an a pp. al fi out i. ad V . ha. i omtnand? r of the ton it, the qii .a < -I' Montenegro has s? nl a con ii too. ni of medical and surnleal ? ippiies into Scutari for the wound? ed MAYESVILLE NEWS ITEMS. Repairs Being Made on Presbytertau Church?Farmers Undertake CiU- | fixation of Tobacco?Talk oi* Elec- I lion on Dispensary?Personal, Mayesvllle, March i?The repairs on the Presbyterian church are going on satisfactorily and when com? pleted, this handsome house of wor? ship will Im- ally improved in many ways. While this work is going on, the congregation is using the Meth? odist church which has been kindly ottered, it is hoped to have the Pres? byterian church ready for services within the next two weeks. Those planters who are going to raise tobacco are preparing to build their barns now that the weed is get? ting up in the beds. Quite a good acreage will be planted in this section and it is hoped that the financial re? sults will be such as to cause a still greater number of the farmers to un? dertake the cultivation of the weed. The market will be opened about July and the old buildings of the Pudding Swamp tobacco warehouse company will be put in good shape for the bus? iness. There is much talk now concerning the election on the dispensary ques? tion in August, and from all indica? tions, there will be a large majority in favor of reopening the institution in this county. The failure of pro? hibition to prohibit, together with the lax enforcement of the law, and the bad effect on business conditions, gen? erally, since the abolition of the dis? pensary, are all strong arguments in favor of the reopening of the legal liquor shops. Many who would op? pose the sale of whiskey from a mor? al standpoint, being themselves te totalers, are now in favor of voting for the sale of whiskey in a legalized form. There was some disappoint? ment that the legislature did not allow a vote <>n the question in May as pro? posed by Senator Clifton of this county. Quite a lot of fertilizer is being hauled now and from all indications, the farmers are going to use about as much as usual this year. There has been no talk yet of reducing the I cotton acreage again this season and probably about the usual amount will be planted. The oat crop is especial? ly good this season in this section. The general rim e4* farm wank is go? ing on and most of the planters are well up with their work. I Miss Nettie Mayes has returned from a visit to friends at Pinewood. Mr. J. Denmark has gone to Wash? ington to see the inauguration ami will visit New York and other points beforo returning. Miss Johnson of Charleston is visit? ing Mrs. Robert A. Chandler. Miss Leila Rurgess of Manning is spending sometime with her sisters, Mesdames C. N. Sprott and R. P. Des | Champs. The Misses Melntosh of Charles ton are the guests of Miss Carrie An? derson and other friends How to Get Rid of the House Fly. The fly is a nuisance beside b< ins a carirer of Infectious diseases, and the attempt to exterminate it needs no justification. How one can make one s home, town or City tlyleSS IS de? scribed by c. F. Hodge of Clark Uni? versity, Worchester, Mass. He says that the American public spends $10, 000,000 a year for window and door screens In a futile attempt to exclude a lively Insect which insists on get? ting Into the house every time the doors are opened. He believes also that the method of swatting the Hies, using fly-paper or Indoor traps or poisons is ineffective, but may help. His method is to make use in various ways of tin- conical wire-mesh fly? trap, which Is familiar to almost ev? ery one, in such a way as to turn the tables on the Hies and "put them in jail and lot ourselves OUt." The plan involves, of course, the abolition as far as possible of all breeding and feeding-places for riles and the ap? plication of the lly-trap mentioned above to the garbage can, to the screens on windows, to the eov< rs on manure bins, etc., all ol which can he done by a little mechanical inge? nuity. Garbage cans are on the market which have a cover larger than the can and not Atting down closely on It so that the flies gain ac? cess to the can under the cover and ? scape through a hole In the cover M\n- which is ti\? d a lly-trap. in light? ing the fly, Hodge has found that tin essentials of a successful campaign are io transfer the light against th. fly trau the house to outdoors, an< then to exterminate it. Another es sential fenturi In ;> town or city it that households must cooperate. On< ignorant or ?an less home can bree* llles < no ugh to vitiate ihe best ? ndea\ oiH of a whole town. II.-due has su< reeded in his neighborhood in prac lit illy eliminating llles; he uses n< screens "i windows and doors, un< ? mi sii out doors or have windows .? doors op. n at an) i ime w ithoul mo lestal Ion As III? h begin to bi?<. early in the spring atul as the) bre< with marveloiiH rapidity, the time l arrange for u lly-eumpalgn Is in lb u Inter. BLUES WIN FROM GREENS. Howling Troph) Cinched by Bluea in Game Monday Night, The Y. M. C. A. howling trophy was practically cinched by the Bluet Mon? day night when they defeated the Greeni in the next to the last match of the series The match went to the leaders by a total majority of IS pins, and two games were won by them in the contest. In the drat game the Dlues won by 11 pins; the second game also went I to the Blues by 39 pins; while the third and last game went to the Greens by a majority of 32 pins. The feature of the match was the bowling of Lord. ''aptain of the Greens, who bowled an average of 177, Sheriff. Gamble was in the city Monday afternoon looking for a ne? gro named Alex Vinson, alias Alex Wilson, who "had escaped from the Clarendon county chain gang. Wil? son nerved a term on the Sumter county ganp in 1910 and is known by the officeri here. 15 S. Main ?? UP STAIRS ? Hie Slimier Dontiil Parlors have moved into their new quar? ters over Shaw and McCoUum, 15 S. Main Street. Owing to the Increase of business they have found It necessary to move into larger and more oomindious quarters. After the in? stallation, within the next few days of our new equipment, will be better able u> serve our friends andt be public. The Sumter Dental Parlors, DR. C. H. COURTNEY. Prop. 15 South Main St. Over Shaw & McCollum STRENGTH In a Banking Institution is an element of the utmost importance to a Business Man. STRENGTH insures Safety to Depositors, STRENGTH makes pos? sible Accommodation to the Borrower. Your Deposits are Salw .. Us, and We can Satisfy all the Legitimate Needs of our Depositors. The Bank of Sumter. a Mutual benefit You can't tell by the looks of a toad which way he will juiup. hut It's a pretty sure bet that he will JUMP if you get close en? ough. You can't tell by the looks of a man's head what there is inside of it, hut you'll find out If you get close enough?If you know him intimately. We would like to be on terms of intimacy with all our patrons. We hare no desire to be stiff necked. We want you to make your bunk your headquarters when in town. We want to talk with you about your affairs, your deals, your farm, your stock, your prospects, your experiments and experiences. It brt widens our view, and we may In turn be able to In lp you by giving you some? thing interesting in return. Come In a: ) time. This l>ank values your friendship and confidence nnd Is anxious to make our ac? quaintance one of mutual benefit. THE FARMERS' if M. & TRUST CO. ?H?n?i?minmniiiHH?imuimi?uiR a ::;:u:s:i 9 l?lH??mi:m?????l???H????P zimzxitxttmmmmtmtmmmmmmm n ?? Thev 1 lave Arrived 1 Seed Irish Potatoes We liave ju-t received our ftrsl rfilpmenl of the fnmnns old IRISH CORULI Iis, KARLV K* >sl and RKD RLIS8. We bare H them In any quant ly; buy them by the quart or at extra cto*<q $j price by the Kick. Let w* li-ive your nrd rs early, as now bj the ~ y time to beg 1.1 planting for rarlj laWe use. g * :: A B SPECIMii Wi are expecting dall.v a slilpmenl of FROST || It PROOP CARH.'.tiK PIjAXTS. 14m us haxe >our orders for them. B jj ?* Slbert's Drug Store, \\. Y\ SIRF.RT, PROP. I S South Main Street. Phone 28J ::t::in:::::::::::::?:::u::u:?n:u?::t?::::::::??j:::::n:n::?:nm?m?mmmm?5