Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I MEAT ENGINEER. MAN WHO WILL BUILD RAIL? ROADS IN ALASKA. Iftwoim Meant Trained Inder ?Mlm" Hill?Kuli stell In Army aa n Private Then Won Commission. (Ashman Brown, In the Washington Mm) Lisut. Frederick Maara, U. S. A.. haa been intrusted with an engineer? ing task of remarkable possibilities, the locating and building of the gov? ernments new $36,000,000> railroad In Alaaka. Thlrty-aix years old, lean, wiry, hronaed, a glint of red in hla hair and what would be frecklea on his face If they could show through, Lieut. Mears physically is just the man to pom for a picture of the American pioneer engineer. Out of the tropic Jungle of Panama, where he haa been doing world-fa? mous work, he waa suddenly yanked the other day, told of his new job and already he is on the way to Alas? ka to begin. It la to be a hlatorlc undertaking. Next to the construc? tion of the Panama Canal itself. It la the biggest thing in transportation the government ever haa attempted. How other young engineera must envy html Fellow-members with him?the three composing the entire organisa? tion-?on the Alaskan engineer com? mission are: William C. Edes Of San Francisco, also lean and weather beaten, who for 40 years haa been lo? cating and building railroads In the mountains of California and contigu? ous States for the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe railroads, and who took* as If he was good for 40 years more of auch strenuous activity, and Thomas R Rlgga, Jr., who won fame at the head of the Alaaka-Canadian boundary survey work. Lieut Meers was born In ths army ?In ths Fourth Infantry, Grant's old regiment, to be saact. Ths place of this nativity, though that la a matter St minor Importance to the ever wandering army folk, waa Fort Oma? ha. The data was May IK, 1871. It wad two years after Custer's dis? aster. The Nes Peres Var waa Just eeacludsd, but the frontUr was still turbulsnt With Indiana on the warpath and'ths Fourth was never at rest very long. Fort Omaha waa pretty far Into ths wilderness in those days. Young Mears spent his childhood in following ths frontier. In 1892 the family waa at Fort Spokane when Ins fathsr, Lieut -Col. Frederick Maara, a distinguished aoldier, died. Latter the aon waa sent to Shattuck Military School, Falrbault. Minn., from which institution he was grad? uated In 1897 and became a civil en? gineer. Mean started as a rodman In a Party laying sot the Park Raplda and Losch Lake Railroad, a feeder for the Great Northern Railway in Minnesota. John F. Stevens, chief engineer of the Great Northern, af? terward chief engineer of the Pana? ma Canal, advanced Mears to be a full snglnesr and gave him charge of n party of hla own. "Jim" Hill about that time was building two branch roada from his main Una in Idaho up across the In? ternational border to reach coal Melds aad gold mining districts In British Columbia and Alberta. To the Koo tsnla valley line, one of these, Steven* sent the stripling engineer ans) there he began hla career of planning and directing engineering work. When the Spanish War broke nut, Mears wss in charge of constructing a section of the Bedllngton and Nelson railroad. He felt the call of the army, but waited until he Mulshed the railroad work. Then he enlisted, in 1199, aa a private at $13 a month and went to the Philippines, where he fought in Compsny K. Third In? fantry. By February. 1901, he had won a commission aa second lieuten? ant and entered the Fifth Cavalry. He graduated in 1904 at the I^eaven worth (Kan.) Army School and took an advanced course in tho Staff Col legs. Having four months' leave, he spsnt ths time as engineer of a crew constructing a branch of the Rock Island In Arkansas. John it. Stevens, In 1909, called him to Panama us track forsman of the Pansmi Rail? road, soon promoting him to assist? ant engineer. The railroad ha. to be shoved back for 32 miles, from Out un to Plsdro Miguel, to mako room for ths canal. Mears went out In the Junglo and surveyed the new route. Thereupon he was told to go out snd build the road. Ho did. Ho sptnt $1,600,000 snd moved the 17, 000,000 cubic yards of materials and he turned out * railroad. The Job was dons in Peeember. 1909. "Very good," mid Colonel Ooeth als. who. by this time, was boss In the Canal Zorte. 'now take chargo chief engineer of the road." But this is not all. the govern msnt needed ? new relnforcod con ersts pier for the railroad terminals at Cristobal Lieut. Mears pornpily WANTS BLEASE DEFEATED. TILLMAN HAS NOT INDORSED GOVERNOR'S AMBITION. Kay? SUte'a Good Name Will Re Preserved and Standard of Repre? sentation Maintained by the Defeat Washington. June 4.?Senator Tin? man today gave out the following on the South Carolina political situation, especially with reference to John L. McLaurln's letter on the stand of John O. Richards, Jr., and the gov? ernor: "I have Just seen a telegram from The News and Courier to its corre? spondent here saying McLaurin has made a public statement to this ef? fect: " I am glad that Senator Tillman hss reached the conclusion that peace can only come through the election, not the defeat of, Qov. Blease, and that his candidate, Richards, has de? clared for Qov. Blease.' "To say that 1 am surprised, very much surprised, does not express my feelings. I have not given out any such utterance, and have not had any such thought. I am sure that what? ever may be Mr. Richards' attitude, he w'U regret ever having declared for Qov. Blease. Whether peace will come by Oov. Blease's defeat or not I know the State's good name will be preserved and we will have a better senator here than if Blease is sent to Washington. "Of course McLaurin is swinging onto Blease's coattail in a desperate hope that he will thus be pulled through and elected governor, but as I predicted some months ago there is no hope for him ever recovering the confidence of the people of South Carolina until he has expiated his past misdeeds and sins, t am satis fled now that if Senator Smith bears himself like a man that this open alliance between Blease and McLaurin will only help to bury both of them. Had McLaurin followed my advice and exposed Bleaseism, its utter self? ishness, its lack of catholicity of spir? it and statesmanship, he would have stood some chance of coming back In the future, for he would have made atonement for his betrayal of the people of the State. But now there is no earthly chance for him, what? ever Blease does. I believe this alli? ance between the two will cause Uov. Blease to go down to defeat more surely." ENCAMPMENT PLANS CONFUSED. Now In Indefinite Stage Because of Tangled Mexican Situation. Washington, June 4.?Plans for the projected army encampment at Augusta, Oa., have been thrown into an indefinite stage because of the Mexican situation and the lack of as? surance that regular troops will be available. It Is probable that the only manoeuvre camp this summer will be at Tuhyhana, Pa. W1RLESS TELEPHONING SUC? CEEDS. French Army Officers Talk at a Dis? tance of 125 Miles. Paris, Juno 5.?Wireless telephone messages were transmitted one hun? dred and twenty-five miles today by a French army officer, experimenting for the government. The words are declared to be as distinct as if trans? mitted by wire. designed and then built this pier at a cost of $2,500,000. He also surveyed for the Panama Republic a railroad line for 350 miles from the Zone to a point near Costa Rica boundary. Last December Colonel Goethals made Mears general superintendent of the Panama Railroad and of the company's steamship line. This gave him charge of a fleet of six vessels plying between the Canal Zone and New York. During the past winter congress au? thorised the president to expend |3s> 000,000 In building a trunk line of railroad In Alaska. It was the first time this government ever embarked on a big railroad building enterprise. The president and Secretary Lane turned to Colonel Goethals. "Got Mears," said Colonel Goeth? als, when they sought an army engi? neer. April 30 found Lieut. Mears In consultation, along with Mr. lOdes, with tho president and Secretary Lane. Now Mears, Kdes and Itlggs are off In Alaska to begin work. First they must determine a routo by Which the broad interior of Alaska may be reached from tho coast, and then da? termlnc the point on the coast from which to start. Two towns are rival claimants for the honor Soward, the terminus of a 74 mile line construct? ed but not operated, ami Cordova, the terminu.1 of the Conner Itlver and Northwestern Railway, owned by the Guggenheim-Morgan syndicate, which runs 19C miles to the syndicates cop? per mines. COMMITTEE FAVORABLY RE? PORTS LEVER ANTI-Et'TURE MEASURE. South Carolina Congressman Points Out by What Means Abolition off Gambling Is Sought. i Washington, June 4.?The Lover cotton future bill was favorably re? ported to the house today as a sub? stitute for the bill already passed by the senate. Representative Lever of South Car? olina, author of the bill and chairman of the agricultural committee, includ? ed in his favorable report a compre? hensive analysis of cotton exchange transactions. The bill, says the re? port, "recognizes the economic value of those cotton exchanges that use a contract representative of the true value of spinnable cotton and levels Its prohibition against those ex? changes only the value of whose con? tracts Is susceptible to violent fluc? tuations and manipulation. "Upon such contracts the value of which, under the rules of exchanges, does not reflect truly the value of spot cotton as It exists from day to day in the hands of the larmers upon local markets," adds the report, "a tax of $5 a bale Is levied. Such a tax, In the judgment of the trade, is absolutely prohibitive. Upon such contracts as do represent the value of spot cot ion, no tax whatever Is laid, and this s true likewise of all spot cotton ransactlona Including the *t, o. b.' cot? ton, cotton 'to arrive' and 'for prompt delivery.' "The whole purpose of the bill is to compel by law the use of such a contract by the future markets, the quotations of the value of which will reflect accurately and truly the value of spot cotton of spinnable and usable quality. In the light of the best in? formation available, the ultimate ef? fect of providing a contract of the character described in the bill wilj be to enhance, in the opinion of experts, tho value of the cotton crop in the hands of tho farmers of the South not less than $10*0,000,000 annual? ly." Mr. Lever said he hoped for pas? sage of the bill by the house at this session. The senate measure, which was introduced by Senator Smith of South Carolina, differs from the Lever bill only in minor details. Summarizing at length the provi? sions and effect of the house bill Chairman Lever's report says: "The bill compels the adoption of the government official standards by all future markets. It establishes a uniform standard of grades through? out tho country and relieves the trade of the confusion and abuses growing out of the present multiplilcty of standards In different markets. It prohibits the use, In the settlement of contracts, of tho Illogical unsound 'fixed differences system' and sub? stitutes therefor the system of com? mercial differences in determining tha relative value of grades delivered upon contracts. It denies to any cot? ton exchange the use of any contract for the future delivery of cotton, un? der tho terms of which the very low grades of cotton, 'rejections,' 'left overs," 'misfits' and 'dog tails'?qual? ities of cotton entire./ unsuitcd for spinning purposes?are deliverable upon it. It provides that cotton of a staple less than seven-eighths of an inch in length shall not be delivered in the settlement of such a contract. "Each bale of cotton to be delivered upon a contract shall be Identilled by grade with the date when the cotton is to be delivered to the purchaser, thus abolishing the vicious practice of long delays and pro forma deliveries. "It provides that the secretary of agriculture shall determine in cases of disputes arising between the person making the tender and the person re? ceiving the same, the quality, or the grade or the length of staple In dis? pute, furnishing as It were an unbiased tribunal to which may be referred dis? putes which involve tho quality or the grade or the length of staple of any Cotton tendered under the contract. "Provision is made for the method of determining the relative commer? cial value of tho different grades of cotton which may be delivered upon contract, and tho secretary of agri? culture is given such plenary power as will make it impossible to manipu? late tne machinery by which these differences are determined. "Authority is given tho secretary of agriculture to establish and promulgate standards of cotton by Which its quality and value may be Judged, thus making certain tho le? gality of the official standards of grades. "II is required of all persons com? ing within the provisions of tho bill to keep such records and statements of accounts as will fully and cor? rectly disclose all transactions made upon any exchange, hoard of trade, similar institution or place of busi? ness. "The bill underakoa to prevent, as far aa possible, the transfer of the present vicious practices of certain exchanges from this country to for NINETEEN BOYS AND GIRLS RE? CEIVE DIPOLMAS. Interesting Program Executed in Splendid Manner on Thursday Night ?Honor Medal Won by Miss Mary Perriii?Other Awards ? Present for Superintendent. The commencement exercises of the Hishopville High School were held on Thuresday evening, June 4, 1914. The following programme was car? ried out: invocation?Rov. L. L. Legters. Music?High School. Words of Welcome?Mary Mattic McCoy. A Court Scene in the South?Lis ton Weatherly. j Education and Character?William Muldrow. Music: Violin Solo?Mr. Erimm. .. Class History?Floy Woodham. Class Will?Pauline Moore. Mermaid's Song?High School. Men and Women of the Souths* Wilbur Cousar. Under the Southern Flag?Thos. i Rcmhert. j Swing Song?High School. ; Collegiate Education?Hallie Lee. Class Prophecy?Jeanette Corbett. Duet?Miss McCoy and Miss Wood ham. Words of Farewell?Jaunita Rog? ers. Presentation of Diplomas. Presentation of the Davis and the 1 Dennis medals. ' Piano Solo?'Miss Floy Woodham. Awrding of the ?. D. C. and Wood? ward medals. Song Soldiers Chorus?High School The following received diplomas: Wilbur Cousar, Hannah Montgomery, Pauline Moore, Mary Mattie McCoy, Jennie McCutchen, Mary Perrin, Juanita Rogers, Floy Woodham Jea? nette Corbett, Idylene Flowers, Blon dell Hearon, Hallie F. Lee, Wm. J. Muldrow, Thos. H. Rembert, Ella Rufiln, Marie Skinner, Emmie Stuck ey, Listen Weatherly, Lottie Wood? ham. The Davis medal to the most po I lite girl in the graduating class was awarded to Miss Juanita Rogers. The Dennis medal to the most manly boy in the graduating class was awarded to Liston Weatherly. The U. D. C. medal offered for the best essay was awarded to Mis.s Idylene Flowers. In the declamation contest all did well, but the Woodward medal was awarded to Wilbur Cousar for the best oration. The highest honors for scholar? ship fell to Miss Mary Perrin, who had been neither absent nor tardy during the year and who had receiv? ed excellent on all subjects during the four terms. The class showed their love for their superintendent by presenting him with a gift from their grade. This gift was presented to Mr. Scott by Wilbur Cousar in a few well chosen words. The large number of graduates of our school indicates the growth and tho progressivness of our school and the efficiency of our teachers, bu. our hope is that next year the school will do even greater work. $20,000 FOR PRETTY STENO? GRAPHER. Billy Sunday's Singer Pays Dearly for Flirting. Chicago, June G.?Miss Georgia Jay, a prety stenographer, who sued Homer Rodeheaver, choir master for Evangelist Hilly Sunday, for alleged breach of promise was today award? ed $20,000 damages by the jury. The defense entered a motion for a new trial. DANIELS WONT TALK. Declines to Discuss Delivery of Am? munition at Tampico. Washington, June C.?"I will not discuss any matters concerning the delivery of ammunition at Tampico or whether or not that port is an open port," said Secretary of the Navy Daniels today, when asked con? cerning the landing of munitions of war for the constitutionalists. Sec? retary Daniels had heretofore stated that Tampico was open to tho com? merce of the world. I sign countries. "It Is provided that any persons lia? ble to tho payment of any tax im Iposed by the hill who falls to pay or evades or attempts to evade the pay? ment of such a tax or any person who otherwise violates any of the pro? visions of the act or any rule, or regu? lation made under it, shall he fined not less than $1<H) nor more than $20,000 and in case of natural per? sons moy in addition be punished by imprisonment for not less than tie days nor more than three years, and in addition to this, may be lined $3,000, to be recovered in an action founded on this act in the name M the United states as plaintiff." MEN WALK OUT FROM WESTTNG HOUSE FACTORIES. Ton Thousand Workmen Employed In lOast Pittsburgh Establishments l>o mand Union RocogiUtion. Pittsburgh, June 5.?Ton thousand workmen employed by the Westing house interests in the plants of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufao-i turing company, the Wcstinghouse Machine company and the Pittsburgh Motor company, at East Pittsburgh went on strike today. Not a wheel in the vast electrical works moved dur? ing the afternoon. Delegates from each of the CO de? partments held a meeting tonight to consider tho question of extending the strike to otl r industries. There was no trouble today. The strikers paraded the streets and held seveal meetings, at which speakers urged that there be no acts of vio? lence.. Officials of the companies today issued a statement saying a part of the working forces had failed to re? port for duty; that owing to a de? crease in business since last Novem? ber it became necessary either to make a reduction in the working forces or in the working hours and that the latter were shortened. The men are demanding recogni? tion of tho union, betler working conditions and the elimination of the bonus, premium and piece sys? tems. The general strike committee fail? ed to take action tonight toward en? listing a sympathetic strike of em? ployes of other industries. EMPRESS INQUIRY AT QUEBEC! Date Set for Investigation Into Loan of Rig Ship is June in. Montreal, June 5.?There is some confusion in the public mind as to whether the Empress of Ireland in? vestigation is to be held at Montreal or Quebec, but Ottawa dispatches re? ceived hero late today mentioned Quebec as the scene of tho Inquiry. i The date has been set for June 16. It is believed here that Empress may be raised, though tho Canadian i Pacific railway officials have de? clined to confirm this belief. Hold Memorial Services. London, June G.?Gen. and Mrs. Bramwell Hooth of the Salvation i Army and 10,000 other Salvationists gathered tonight at a memorial ser? vice for members of the Salvation Army drowned in the Empress of Ire i land disaster. A letter from Queen Mary was read expressing sympathy. Many Still Unidentified. Quebec, June 5.?According to Cor ' oner Jolicoeur the number of unlden ; titied bodies from the Empress of Ire I land disaster still here is about 00, which means that about 128 out )f the 188 brought from Itlmouakl have been claimed. "RULL BAT" VALUABLE. Should be Guarded as Enemy of Boll Weevil. Wash gton, June 5.?Strict game laws in outhern States for protec? tion of t* night hawk or "bull bat." whose pn ncc in cotton sections is declared U Q of inestimable value as a check to oil weevil, was recom? mended in a special bulletin issued today by the department of agricul? ture. The night hawk, together with several sorts of swallows, says the bulletin, feed on the weevil while on the wing, while wrens and martins render valuable service to the farmer by picking the insects from refuse in the cotton fields and from the grow ing plants. The department declares the night hawk's value to sportsmen and as food Is infinitesimal compared to the benefit it renders cotton growers. TORNADO IN IOWA. Su nhorii Demolished?Three Killed and Six Injured. Mason City, Iowa, June t>.?A tor? nado demolished the town of Sanborn last night, killing three and injuring six persons. Two huge grain elevators were blown down. THE LEO FRANK CASE. Still Trying to Get a New Trial for Atlanta Man. Atlanta, Juno C.?Arguments be? fore Judge Hill, asking for the set ling aside of tho Verdict against Leo Frank, who was convicted of thej murder of Mary Phagan. on the con? stitutional point that Frank was ab? sent when the verdict was rendered. I were concluded at noon today. Judge Hill is expected to make the an? nouncement of bis ruling the. after? noon, if the ruling is against the defense, which is generally expected, the case will be taken up to the Su? preme Court of Georgia and il ad? verse there*, will be taken to the Su? preme Court of the Pntted States. goes tui{im-(.ii LOWER HOUSE with LITTLE opposition manifest. Majority Staads by Administration Only one Dcmocrut Inserts on Clayton ?sanlli? Measure and Only Four on Kay burn l?ian to Prohibit Watering of Kail road Securities. Washington, June 5.?All three bills on the administration trust legislation programme i ssed the house late to? day and wei sent to the senate for action. Oppo-?wm melted away when the final test came and the voting went throi gh luickly and without in? cident. The Covington interstate trade com? mission bill was passed without a rec? ord vote; the Clayton omnibus anti? trust measure received 275 votes to 54 against it and the vote on the Kay burn railroad capitalisation bill was 325 to 12. Action on the trust bills came rather unexpectedly. The three meas? ures had been agreed to in "commit? tee of the whole," the Kayburn bill, as amended I the committee, being completed late today. When tho trade commission bill came before the house for a final vote Progressive Leader Murdock moved that it be sent back to the in? terstate commerce committee with in? structions to report the Murdock bill as a substitute. This was rejected, 151 to 19, and the pending bill was passed without a roll call. Then the votes on the other two measures were, taken in rapid suc? cession. Representative While of Ohio was the only Democrat who voted against the Clayton bill and all the Progressives voted for it, except Rep? resentative Chandler of New York. Forty-three Republicans and 16 Progressives jomed the majority In supporting the measure. Fight Republicans and four Demo? crats voted against the Ray burn bill. AWAIT GARRISON'S REPLY. Conference of Militia Officers With GOT. Blease i?ks Secretary of WTar for More Information. Columbia, June C.?The conference ; of militia colonels with Gov. Blease ; dispatched a telegram to Secretary of War Garrison asking for more defi ; nite information regarding the en Icampment for this State and then re ! cessed until this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock to await word from the war department as to its plans. Colonels Legare, Lewis, Coggeswell, Gen. Wilie Jones and Gov. Klease composed the conference. It is thought that a defi? nite decision will be reached and giv? en out following the conference this afternoon as to the sit*?, and time for the encampment of the state militia. TO GEORGIA SUPREME COURT. i Judge Rill Refuses Motion to Set Aside Verdict in Frank Case and Appeal WiP be Made. Atlanta, Juno 6.?Judge Hill has sustained the demurrer of Solicitor Dorsey against the motion to set aside the verdict in the Frank case, thus denying the motion. It was intimated that the plea came too late and should have been made before the motion for a new trial. The motion will be appealed to tho Georgia Supreme Court. ROACH CONVICTED: APPEALS. I Given Two Years or $500 Fine by Hoi man?Released on Rail. I Columbia, June C.?Thomas B. Roach, member of the Kichland j county dispensar; board, was found guilty yesterday in the court of gen I eral sessions of assault of a high and aggravated nature upon I^ewie A. Griffith, M. D. Efe was sentenced by W. A. Holman, presiding judge, to suffer imprisonment for two years or pay a line of |S00. K. H. Welch nad George Bell Timmcrman, attorneys for the defendant, gave notice of an appeal to the supreme court. Mr. Roach was admitted to bail, pending said appeal, in the sum of ISOO, with Charles L. Kelly nod N. If. Drigge? as sureties. MELLEN GOT HIS SHARE. President of Westrtiestee Testifies that Mellen llorrovtcl Ten Million. Washington, June 8.*?L. s. Mil? ler, president of V estehester Kail road, who was loda> before the inter? state commerce commission In the investigation of the New Haven rail? road, testified that former President Mellen not only knows what became of the eleven million dollars, involved in the Westehester deal, but himself borrowed ten million of the amount. Broke. Suicides Rather than Wed. Mobile, June ?'..?With Kathcrine Mercer, 19-year-old bride elect, and the wedding party ,\ thing, George Thompson, aged 27. drank poison, dying j?s a result. He left a note sav? ing that he was "Hat broke."