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The progressive farmer., 1901-08-20
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GOMEZ DECLINED.

Wouldn't Be President Of the Cuban Repub-
Ic-Named by Committee-He Says Two
Best Fitted for the Office Are Palmer and
Masso-Other Cuban Affairs.
HAVANA, August 12.-The local
committee of one Of the Havana
wards recently named General Max
imo Gomez as it's candidate for Pres
ident and Estrada Palmer as Vice
President. General Gomez has
written to the committee saying that
he has irrevocably decided not to ac-
cept any nomination for the office.
He adds: ST believe the two best
fitted for President and Vice Presi-
dent ale Senores Palma and Masso.
So all Cubans unite on this impor-
tant matter and they will have
strong government worthy of Cuba
and most fitted to deal with exter-
nal relations, which, in a republic
like Cuba will have to be consti-
tuted "
An effort is being made by num-
ber Of most representative leaders of
the revolution to make Senior Palma
the unanimous candidate for the
Presidency So far it is claimed
that Senor Masso refuses to resign
in favor of Palma A delegate says
that the practical effect of the cleo
tion law will be the Senate will con-
sist entirely Of radicals, for although
the law recognizes the minority this
will be of no effect because the sen
atorial electors elected by majorities
will Outnumber those elected by
minorities by two TO one and as each
elector can vote for the full number
of Senators these will be elected by
electors representing majOrities.
TIE trouble over the resignation
of the mayor of Cienfuegos has been
satisfactorily settled. A new mayor
has been elected by the municipality
to take the place of Senior Vieta,
who ceased to be mayor owing to
his refusal to obey the order of Act
ing Governor-(7eneral Scott to rein
state the police whom he had ille-
gally dismissed Senor Esquerra.
the acting mayor has been elected
mayor. A new police force to take
the place of the men dismissed by
Vieta is being selected from the
members Of the old force.
The progressive farmer., 1901-08-20
General News.
AFTER THE TRUST.

AFTER THE TRUST.
movement In Ohio Against q. s. Steel Cor
poration-Determines Its status-Are the
Constituent Companies Doing Illegal Busi-
nessl
COLUMBUS, Ohio, August 14.-At-
torney- General Sheets and Mr.. Lay
lin, Secretary of State, are convinced
that the United States Steel Corpora
tion is liable, as a foreign corpora.
tion to taxation in Ohio and that the
companies doing business in this
State are violating the Valentine
Stewart anti trust law. Blanks
similar to those sent to other foreign
corporations will be forwarded by
the Secretary of State to the Presi-
dent of the Steel Trust to-day by
way of notification that Ohio is ready
to receive her own. If the company
refuses to pay the bill, setting up
the claim that it is doing no business
in this State, the Attorney General
will bring suit to collect and the
status of the trust in Ohio will then.
be determined.
If the great corporation consents
to pay the tax of one e-tenth.of one
per cent. upon the proportion of it's
capital stock represented by Ohio
property, it will have qualified merely
to do legal business in Ohio. The
Secretary of State and the Attorney
General believe that they are con-
nected with a trust Therefore
whether or not the trust pays the
bill proceedings against the Ohio
companies will probably be brought
in the Supreme Court.
F. S. Monnett, ex-Attorney-G Gen
eral, who has been retained by the
American Anti Trust League and the
Knights of Labor, as attorney for
the striking steel workers in Ohio,
submitted to the Secretary of State
list of questions relative to the
standing of the trust constituent
companies in Ohio. These companies
are the plants controlled by the
American Sheet Steel Company,
American Tin Plate Company, Fed
eral Steel Company, National Steel
Company, National Tube Company,
and American Steel and Wire Com
pany. He asked reply in writing,
but has received none. The Secre-
tary of State has not yet examined
the queries referred to him. 1t is
probably Mr.. Monnett's purpose to
show that these companies have
been Illegally operating in Ohio
without interference upon the part
of the Secretary of State depart
ment
The State of Ohio has no jurisdio-
tion over the United States Steel
Corporation as a whole and if the
corporations return to the Secretary
of State satisfied him it is possible
that the Attorney General of the
United States and the Attorney Gen
erals of all States in which the steel
trust operates may be asked to bring
proceedings against it. Attorney
General Sheets admits that such a
course is within the range Of posi-
bilities, but declines to make state
ment as to his own probable action.
The progressive farmer., 1901-08-20
MORE STEPS IN NEGRO DIsFRANCHIsE-
MENT.

NEW YORK, August 17.-Under the
above heading the Literary Digest
of to-day prints the following:
The adoption of suffrage plan by
the Alabama Constitutional Conven-
tion thatgis likely to bar almost all
the blacks in the State from the polls,
without barring any of the whites,
adds Alabama to the list of Southern
States in which the great mass of
the negroes will have no vote. The
Virginia Constitutional Convention
seems likely to adopt similar plan
soon, and the Maryland Democrats
declare in their State platform, just
adopted, that if they carry the COM
ing election they will take similar
measures in that State. The Ala
bama suffrage plan contains
grandfather clause that will ad-
NIT to the ballot men whose fore
fathers could vote before the Civil
War, so that few, if any, white men
will be kept from the polls. The
few negroes who possess the re-
quired educational qualifications
will be able to vote. Booker T.
Washington, who lives in Alabama,
takes occasion to send to the New
York Sun the following information,
which he considers "quite reassur-
ing: "The last census report shows
that in Alabama the total voting
population has gained 81 per cent.
in iteracy The white voting pop
ulation has gained 81 per cent,
and the negro voting population has
gained 7.3 per cent, showing much
more rapid advance by the negro
than by the white voter. The Ala
bama suffrage measure is quite long
and, involved, but it's main features
are given in the following Associated
Press dispatch from Montgomery
''The completed suffrage section of
the new constitution is in two parts,
one to be temporary and the other
permanent. In the temporary part
is included the hereditary suffrage
feature, and a plan to limit suffrage
to persons of ood,charactera and who
understand the duties and obliga-
tiOns of citizenship, board of regis
tration in each county, appointed by
the State officials, to be judges of
character and under standing This
plan, if the constitution is approved,
is to be in operation until January,
1903.
''With the beginning of 1903 the
permanent plan will go into opera
tion. That provides for educational
and property qualification applying
impartially to all. Hereafter tie
negro may vote if he has paid his
poll tax some months in advance, if
he Can read and write, and if, unless
physically disabled, he has been en-
gagged in some lawful business or oc-
cupation for the greater part of the
twelve months proceeding the date
of registration. This last is aimed
at class OF young neg oes, said to
be numerous in the Southern cities,
who have been to school burt who
are too lazy to work. As first draf-
ted, this provision required that en-
ployment be continuous for the
twelve, months, but it was modified
for fear that it would deprive white
strikers of the franchise. Failing
in the educational requirement, any
citizen may vote who, by himself or
his wife, owns forty acres of land or
pays taxes on $500 worth of prop
erty."
The progressive farmer., 1901-08-20
SWANSON TOR GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA.

H.
]. =. Willard Nominated for Second Place
Swanson, the Defeated Candidate, Was
Called for by the Convention and Warmly
Received-Bryan Endorsed
NORFOLK, Va, Aug. 14.-The Dem
ocratic State Convention met here
today shortly after noon. State
Senator Barksdale, of Halifax, acted
as temporary chairman; Col. Jos.
Button, of Appomattox, secretary,
and Hon. R. D.. Nichols, of Norfolk,
sergeant-at-arms
The convention reoonvened TO.
night and speeches were made. Hon.
A. ]. Montague was placed in nomi-
nation for Governor by Col. George
G. Cabell, Jr., of Danville, and the
nomination was seconded by Hon.
w. B. Richards No other nomina-
tioh was made, as Mr.. Swanson
withdrew to-day, and Mr.. Montague
was nominated by acclamation, amid
the widest enthusiasm. After the
nominee 8 speech of acceptance the
crowd cried for Swanson and the
defeated gubernatorial candidate
was warmly received.
The most notable incident of the
day was the lack of applause which
greeted Hon. II. R. Pollard, of
Richmond, when he said Gree sill
yer is a dead issue, It met it's Gettys-
burg in 1896 and it's Waterloo in
1900.
After an hour of uproar and dis
order which required the services
of the sergeant-at-arms and some
police officers to quell, the conven-
tion naminated Hon. j. e. Willard
for Lieutenant Governor, over DR..
Geo. w. Lecato, the candidate of
the tidewater section.
THE CONVENTION ADsoURNs.
NORFOLK, August 15.-The Dem
ocratic State Convention has ad-
journed. The ticket was completed
this afternoon by the nomination of
Major W. A. Anderson, Rockbridge,
for Attorney General, over Hon. j.
L. Jefries, the recognized favorite
of Senator Thomas Martin, in one
of the most bitterly fought battles
ever seen in a Virginia convention.
The platform of the Virginia Democ-
racy upholds William Jennings Bryan
in it's first plank in which admira.
tion is expressed for all the leaders
of the party from Jefferson down.
This plank was not discussed by the
convention, Notwithstanding the
fair applause which had greeted ut
teranoes against Bryan and Free
Silver prior to the submission of the
committees report The leading
plank is that which endorses q gen
eral primary plan for the election of
United States Senators, Congress-
men, and State, county and munici-
pal officers by the direct vote of the
people.
The progressive farmer., 1901-08-20
RURAL FREE DELIVERY.

Congressman Kluttz Returns From Washing
ton With Valuable Information on the Sub
ject-Estabishment of It to be fastened
in This State.
Salisbury Cor. Charlotte Observer
Congressman Klcttz returned this
morning from Washington, where
he has been on department. business
for his constituents, particularly
with reference to rural free delivery.
He was assured by the superintend-
ent of that service that an inspector
would be sent to his district within
this month to investigate and report
upon all applications on file, of
which there are seven-one each
from Hickory, Newton, Lincolnton,
Mooresville and Linwood and two
from Rowan. Mr. Kluttz also en-
tered complaint against the seeming.
discrimination against North Caro-
lima in the delay in esta ablishing rural
free delivery routes in this State, as
compared with some others, and was
on the part of the Department to so
discriminate, and that during the
remainder of this year the matter
should be evened up and the State
given its fair proportion of such
routes, if properly petitioned for.
He was informed of the ruling of
the Department in this matter, that
each Congressman would be recog-
nized as representing the counties
composing the district from which
he was elected, and not from those
constituting the new districts as
laid off by the State Legislature, and
petitions should be sent accordingly
Mr.. Kluttz hopes to secure the
establishment of at least twenty five
routes in his district within year
and will be glad to have the petitions
forwarded to him as early as posi-
BILE. He will be glad to furnish any
desired information. The delay in
inspecting the routes already peti-
| toned for was accounted for largely
by the small number of inspectors
heretofore available and the pressure
for their services from all over the
country.
Mr.. Kluttz says that all the North
Carolina congressman, as we'll as the
Senators, are anxious to do all they
can in this regard, but they must
have petitions substantially in the
form prescribed by the Department,
with map or sketch of the proposed
route, before they can act. It must
be remembered that under the regu-
lations no route can be esta blished,
under ordinary circumstances, which
is less than twenty to twenty-five
miles in length, or which serves less
than one hundred families, and must
be so arranged that the carrier will
not have to travel twice over the
same ground on the same day; also,
that those desiring the delivery
must hereafter be prepared to put
up at their own expense appropriate
and secure boxes, as prescribed by
the Department, costing from one to
three dollars each, with locks. When
put up, these boxes will be entitled
to the protection of the United States
statutes, which provide severe penal
ties for interfering with them or
their contents. Mr.. Kluttz thinks
the next Congress will increase the
appropriation for this service and
that it is only a question of time
when it will supercede the present
star routes and fourth-class post
Offices in all except very sparsely
settled territory.
The progressive farmer., 1901-08-20
EPIDEMIC AMONG HYDE COUNTY HORSE
Remedy Found, But Not Till 200 Horses Ha
Died.

Died.
Raleigh Post, 18th: DIR. J. W.
Petty, prominent young veterinary
surgeon of Winston, was in the city
yesterday returning from Hyde
county, where he went at the request
of the Agricultural Department to
investigate the situation regarding
an epidemic which is proving very
fatal among the horses in several
sections of the county.
To a member of the Post staff he
said that he found a very serious
condition indeed, there having al
ready fully 200 horses died from the
disease and others sickening at an
alarming rate. The disease almost
invariably proves fatal.
DR.. Petty found that the malady
is really a combination of two dis.
eases. The first is general debility
brought about by feeding moldy,
musty food containing vegetable
ptomains or poison, and the other a
sort of malarial fever which is con
veyed by incubation from one ami
NAL to another through the instru-
mentality of the mosquito.
The prescription made by DR.. Petty
for the treatment of the disease was
large doses of quinine and the appli-
cation of ice and cold water to the
head and spine.
AS a preventative he recommended
quinine in small doses and the appli-
cation externally of a solution of
kerosene oil and creolin, which he
recommended to be mOpped over the
animals body to keep off the mos
quitoes He also recommended that
the horses be fed on green 1ood, bran
and last years grain, and that every
precaution be taken not so feed to
stock any foods containing vegetab bic
ptomalns.
DR.. Petty applied the treatment he
prescribed to several horses and
they improved without single ex
ception.
The progressive farmer., 1901-08-20

during the winter season. He is
now working some forty-fve hands
and the number will be recruited
when the August term of court con-
venes on the 26th of this month.
When the new road is completed it
will give Durham a macadamized
highway more than twelve miles
long, running through the city with
Main street. Durham caught the
good road fever from Mecklenburg a
few years ago when a committee
was sent there to look into the work.
Since then nearly all of the public
roads in the county have been graded
and macadamiZed out several miles
from the city. The road movement
is costing some twenty five thousand
dollars a year besides the working of
large numbers of convicts sent to
the roads from this and adjoining
counties. It is said that within ten
years nearly every prominent high
way in the county will have been
graded and macadamized.
Col. Olds John G. Scarborough
was talking to-day about the orphan
ages in this State and said he could
recall readily the time, not so far
away, when there was none. He
was present at the meeting of the
Grand Lodge of Masons at which,
after announcement that the order
had paid off the debt upon ST. John 8
Masonic College at Oxford and after
the question was raised what was to
be done with the property, the late
John h. Mills made motion that it
be converted into an orphanage.
The motion prevailed and Mr.. Mills
was appointed a committee of one to
carry out the plan. He did So. His
works live after him The next
orphanage was that at Thomasville,
established by the Baptists. Then
came the Episcopal Orphanage, at
Charlotte Presbyterian, at Barium
Springs; Quaker, at High Point
Odd Fellows, at Goldsboro Catholic,
at Raleigh, and last of all the Meth
odist at Raleigh. When the orphan
age at Oxford was esta ablished one of
the speakers said it was large enough
to shelter all the orphans in North
Carolina. Now there are eight and
they are all full and need more
room. Mr.. Scarborough says there
are 500 Baptist children now who
really need the care an orphanage
gives.
The progressive farmer., 1901-08-20
State News.
FROM CURRITUCK TO CHEROKEE.

ItamS Of Interest Cleaned From our Cores
pondents and Exchanges in all
Parts Of the State.
The progressive farmer., 1901-08-20

Movement in Ohio Against o. s. Steel Cor
poration-Determines Its status-Are the
Constituent Companies Doing Illegal Busi-
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FAMOUs TEMPLE GONE.
One Thousand Firemen Tried in Vain
to Save 1t.

Vancouver. B a., April 4-Oriental
advices today recount the burning Of the
celebrated temple Hommongi, at Ikegrni,
on the night Of March g. The fire start
ed in the students dormitOry, where 40
students were reading late at night for
a pehding examination No supply Of
wafer was available. the buildings be
ing situated on a hill, and although a
thousand fireTnen from ShinaWga and
the neighboring districts FASTENED to
the scene. their exertions were Of little
effect. Few of the renowned places OF
Japan are more familiar to foreigners
than this fine and beautifully situated
temple. standing in a grove Of noble
trees and commanding an exquisite
vista 1T stood on the spot where the
Buddhist saint Nichrren died in l-S2.
Originally erected in the year of 275, it
was regretted after a conhagration in
the days of the third Tokufawa shotgun
Nothing now remains of the inspiring
pile Of edifices except the ShoshidO
founders halD. the ShakadO (hau of
Shaka9. the Hoso Treasure house,, the
T)aidokoro (SiSchen) and the CojunotC
drum tower)- Sparks from the burning
buildings We're carried TO the temple
Myokyo-In which lies at a distance of
about 120 yards TO the southeast. which
too was destroyed.
A few days later the famous temple
Seiken-JI was destroyed by fire at
Oktsu.
Details OF the terrible confagration at
Eaku are given as follows BY the Japan
Daily Aall-
dispatches from Baku say that all
available ships are filed with sufferers
of the fire, while the sheds on the fair
grounds are covered with homeless peO-
pie The fire broke out in the evening
at meal time and spread so rapidly that
many people were unable to escape from
their homes. The fire cut OF the re-
treat of the spectators, thirty Of whom
persisted. 1t IS believed that the con-
fagration was started by a discharged
employe. for the purpose of revenge, and
it is further reported that the naphtha
reservoirs had been previously filed
with water which in Overlooking carried
the flaming liquid over the town. in
of fire was several yards high Numbers
Of people were seen attempting to
escape while their bodies burned like
torches The total number of victims
is not ascertainable at present"
It is announced that ten factories and
five depots were burned. containing al
together IS. 000. 600 pools of naphtha and
naphtha refuse. It is estimated that
the loss will exceed 5000, 900 roubles.
Nine charred coTpses have been recOv-
cred One hundred and sixty-six have
succumbed to their injuries Many vic
Tins are still under the ruins. and the
how many OF the spectators persisted,
but a hundred persons are stin miss
ing.
While demolishing a temple in Pel1in
some foreign soldiers, in order to facili-
tate the work. blew up the large hall
with dynamite. two coolies and some
soldiers being killed and wounded by the
explosion. Four foreigners were found
among the debris afterward-
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be secured to accommodate all the SOL
diers and their families now living near
enough to make this cemetery their nat
ural burying ground, and so to lay it off
that some central monument can at
some time in the near future be erected
and to provide every convenience for
memorial services on Decoration days
in the future. The above comrades are
expected to meet the trustees OF the
Cemetery association tomorrow after
noon on the grounds, and all are hereby
notified to meet at COmrade Hunts
Office on Kansas avenue to arrange for
going out together and in season to meet
the cemetery officers at the time mem
toned.
The funeral of Miss Calphernia Stew
art, which took place Wednesday after
noon, from the family home in Maple
Grove. was one Of the largest ever held
in North Topeka The Citizens bank.
of which Mr.. Stewart is q stockholder,
was closed for this occasion. President
George M. Herrick, of Washburn col
lege, where Miss Stewart had been a
student for the past two years, made
few consoling remarks at the beginning
of the service. He was followed by Rev.
J. S. Glendenning, of the Second Pres
pyterian church The service was
closed with prayer from Rev W. I.
Pence, who spoke with deep feeling of
the bright young girl, who he said
would not only be greatly missed at her
own home, but also at his, where she
had always been a frequent and vel
come visitor. The many floral offerings
testified Of the love and esteem felt for
her by her friends and schoolnates
From her old class in the High school
a particularly beautiful piece was sent,
composed almost entirely of Gala lilies.
uuartette from Washburn college sang
during the service, and the pail bearers.
her High school classmates, were.
Harry Lukens. William Hilton, Fred
True, David Gossett, Paul Sweet and
Harold CARTRIDGE The internnent was
in Rochester cemetery. The remains
We're followed to their last resting place
by over sixty hacks and carriages
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AGAINST THE CLERGY.
Crowds March Through the Streets of
Valparaiso UtLering Threats.

Herald from Valparaiso, Chilli says:
An anti-clerical demonstration was
made in the streets Of this city Tuesday
The Spanish drama Electra" which
caused riots when il was performed IN
Spain. was to have been performed here.
Fearing an outbreak OF feeling, the
mayor ordered the police to close the
theater.
A large crowd gathered and marched
through the streets uttering shouts
against the clergy
The cabinet crisis is still unsolved. The
executive Will meet with great difficulty
in organizing a ministry which will
satisfy the liberal element in control in
congress.
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LAST LAW PRINTED.
Measures Passed by Legislature Are
Now All in Force.

All Of the laws passed by the legis-
lature that became effective by publica-
ton in the official state paper have now
had their advertisement. which isrecord-
breaking time. There were 246 OF the 429
laws passed thus published. The last one
was published in the new official daily
paper on Tuesday of this week. This
was the law permitting inmates of the
Soldiers Home at I.eaVenworth to vote
1t had been overlooked, otherwise the
final installment was published in the
Mail and Breeze last week.
Previously, of late years, there have
been such partisan divisions and changes
in the secretary Of states Office
and the complexion of the execu-
tive council that many laws would be
held over to be given to the official state
paper that landed on April 1. This time
there has been an unbroken succession
with the result that especial promptness
has been secured in the establishing Of
the new laws in force,
1t is expected that the statute book
win be published by May Is, excellent
progress being reported by Thomas
T5iskey. chief engrussing clerk
The legislature of 1901 passed 113 more
laws than the legislature of 1899 1t also
beats the record of any previous legis-
lature by 49,