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rnmou. Men Grox Oranges.

Many famous Americans and others
own orange groves in southern Cali
fornia and some OF them have orange
grove investments running up to So
coo or even S35.OOO
EN-Nice President Stevenson has n
beautiful grove In Pomona valley.
Richard Mansfield the actor, has a ten.
acre and very fruitful grove in Red
lands. Padercwsk. the pianist.
bought superb grove nt San Diego
when he was in California last year.
United States Senator John l.. Jones
of Nevada has. over $4,000 invested in
orange growing in Los Angeles county.
The late Philip ID. Armour owned n
large young grove In the San Gabriel
valley. and United States Senator El-
kins of West Virginia has profitable
orange growing property outside of
Pasadena.
The late Charles Dudley Warner had
n ten-acrn grove near Ontario. u $.
Grant. Jr., has the largest orange
grove In San Diego county. ex-senator
Edmunds of Vermont has small
grove at Rcdlands. and the late Col
lis i. Huntington was largely interest
ed In orange growing.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1901-07-05

Professor Wendell Paddock K the
state Agricultural College at Fort Col
Inns has recently been making n sue
cessfnl investigation of the so-callcd
tree blight. He finds that 1t is n root
disease and is fatal to the life of the
tree affected. A fungus first attacks
the root hairs and small hbcrs and
then spreads to the larger roots, and
hnally Kills the trees. He has found
one orchardist that Is losing an aver
age of twenty-five trees annually out
of 1000. Professor Paddock Is also
investigating the potato diseases OF
Colorado with very promising success.
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CHAPTER XII.

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TURNED BACKS ON SPEAKER.
Exciting Episode In Virginia constltu
tional Convention at Richmond.

Exciting EPISoOc III SH9&iid Sohs'fso'
tional Convention at Richmond.
A Richmond, Va, special says: The
remarkable spectacle of a number OF
ladies turning their backs on pub
lie speaker addressing his remarks di-
rectly to them was witnessed in the
constitutional convention Thursday.
The incident caused quite sensation.
The speaker was Colonel John C.
Summers, the republican member
from Washington county and the most
unique character in the body. Colonel
Summers was speaking in favor Of the
submission of the new constitution to
the entire present electorate of the
state and was very harsh and bittar
in his denunciation of the democratic
methods in Virginia and of the efforts
being made in the framing Of the new
constitution to disfranchise the negro.
Colonel Summers expressed his love
for the negro and aroused the negroes
in the west gallery, to whom he ad-
dressed himself directly, to a high
pitch Of enthusiasm.
Turning to the east, or white gal
lery, in which there we're many ladies,
who sat with hands uplifted, he de-
clared that the convention, holding it.
self to be sovereign, proposed to dis.
franchise the husbands of some Of c--e
fairest women in Virginia.
A number of the ladies turned their
backs to the speaker. and ere Colonel
Summers concluded the sentence, MI.
Willis, a democrat. with face white
with anger, called him down for ad-
dressing the galleries instead OF the
convention.
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ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.

strikers to seek other positions. Many
of them have accepted the advice. but
the men still out are taking great
hopes from the words OF Mr.. Conlon..
The question, however, seems to rest
with the railroad, so far as the Charles
ton troubles enter, and the ultimatum
from headquarters is final.
After manner the strike in Charies'
ton has been more unique than at any
other point along the Southern sys-
tenn. Because Of the outrages by the
bad element, the company was forced
to fit up living quarters over the shops
where non-union men have been living
ever since reaching the city. Attempts
have been made to get these workers:
out, but they have failed, and the re8s
ular routine goes on without interrupt
ton. The non-union men do not seem
to bother with the confinement which
is not only satisfactory to them, but
was arranged at their request.
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DEATH LIST SMELLS GREATLY.
Further Investigation Shows Horror
of Steamboat Explosion More
Appalling than First Reported.

A Philadelphia special says: 1t
developed Thursday that the result
of the explosion Of the boiler on the
steamer City of Trenton, while on the
way up the Delaware river Wednesday
afternoon, was more appalling than
was at first supposed.
In addition to the nine 1dentneo
dead there are two charred bodies, De-
lieyed to be those Of femals, In the
morgue. They are beyond recognition
and will be buried in potter's field.
The list Of missing has reached
twenty, and will doubtless add many
to the death roll.
OF the thirty-three persons taken to
the hospital, Mrs. Edna Van Scholck'
Nightstown, N. j., and Miss Fannle
Keen, Philadelphia, will die.
That there are more victims in the
river is the firm belief Of the authorl-
ties. and their failure to find any ao-
ditional dead is supposed to be due to
the strong current in the river at the
point where the explosion occurred.
Never in the history Of the Delaware
river has there been such keen rivalry
between the lines Of river steamers
as during this season. Between Phli'
adelphia and Wilmington the steamer
lines for a time virtually advertised
races between their vessels. For near
" a week the City of Chester and
Brandywine, on one line, and the Dla'
mond State on the other, met and
raced to a finish every day. Public
sentiment, however, caused the pa
tronage to fall off, and s rulo was then
made prohibiting the speed contests.
AS to the exact cause Of the explo-
sion nothing is yet known. but an In
vestigation is to be conducted at once
Fire Marshal Lattimer, Coroner Dusan,
the police department and the United
States boiler inspectors will each carry
on an independent investigation, but
little can be known until the survivors
have been examined and a care1ul In
spection of the wrecked steamer shall
have been made
Many of the passengers who escaped
injury maintain that the City of Tren-
ton, which was late when she LETT her
wharf, was racing at her topmost
speed and that If this had not been the
case the accident would not have hap
pened. This is partly borne out by
a statement said to have been made
by Assistant Engineer John Chew.
Chew told his wife that he expected to
be killed by an explosion on the steam
er as the company made the engineers
keep up too high a pressure Of steam.
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LABOR PAPER SCORES SHAFFEP.
In Lenathy Editorial Demand Is Made
For His impeachment-Crisis
Near In Strike Situation.

A Pittsburg, Pa, special says: While
there is no actual change in the strike
situation, much transpired Friday cal
culated to soon produce results. The
conference between the Bay View COM
mittee and the Amalgamated officials,
the continued efforts of President
Burns, of the Window Glass Workers
Association, to bring about arbitration
or conciliation, the scathing editorial
in The Labor World calling for I'M
peachment of President Shaffer; the
march of the strikers from McKees-
port to Duquesne, and the decided ef-
feet of the injunction proceedings at
Canal Dover, Ohio, all indicate that
the crisis is approaching.
The editorial in the current issue OF
The Labor World, the organ Of the In
terrational Tin Workers Protective
Association and the mouth of the
Pittsburg district of the Mine Work
ers' Union and the Pattern Makers
Association, is long and bitter attack
On President Shaffer, and demands his
Impeachment for calling the present
strike. The demand for the impeach-
ment is made because it is charged
President Shaffer compelled the steel
workers to violate contracts; because
he expelled the Chicago men and re-
Yoked their charter without constitu.
:ional hearing, and because the whole
strike is unconstitutional and has
brought ruin and wreck to men who
aave made the Amalgamated associa-
sion. The editorial, which gives TWEEN
sy-four reasons why President Shat
fer should be impeached, is entitled
Sacrifice Shaffer; Save the Amalga'
mated"
The most scsthing paragraph Of the
editorial is as follows:
"Is the Amalgamated Association of
iron, Steel and Tin Workers to be sent
to slaughter in lost fight sacrificed
on the alter Of the mad and selfish
ambition of this creature, Sbaffer?
This is no tine tor sentiment. It is a
time for facts and plain speaking. The
fight against the steel trust is lost, but
no order comes from Amalgamated
headquarters where Shaffer covers to
spare the brave men at the front!
Leaders Of organized labor, forbid it
in the name of the cause you hold
dear, but which is menaced as long as
Shafferism is allowed to live! Forbid
it in the name of labor's honor and
honesty which Shaffer's act has i'm
pugned."
Then follows an intimation Of an
accusation Of stock dealing that Mr..
Ehaffer has repeatedly denied.
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THIRTY=SIX VICTIMS
Wreck on Railroad in Montana
Most Horrible on Record.
CAUSED BY A RUNAWAY TRAIN
At Lightning Speed Wild Cars Crash
Into Passenger Coaches-Fire
Complete the Work Of Death
and Destruction.

Thirty-six lives were lost and thir-
teen persons injured in the wreck on
the Great Northern railway passenger
train No. 3, at Nyack, 80 miles west
of Kalispell, Mont, Friday night.
The dead are: P. T. Downs, assist
ant general superintendent OF the
Great Northern lines west of Ninot,
North Dakota; K. T. Downs, his son;
Henry Blair, cook aboard the private
car of Mr.. Downs; Thirty-three Scan
dinavian laborers, names unknown.
The injured: Thirteen Scandina-
Wan laborers, names unknown.
Latest reports indicate that the
wreck was the worst in the roads his
tory and one of the most sanguinary
in the annals of American railroading
Three of the injured will die and
the others are in serious condition.
By heroic efforts fifteen Of the bodies
were taken from the wrecked cars.
All the other victims were cremated,
including Superintendent P. L. Downs
and his son, T. K. Downs.
Cause of Disaster.
There is a severe grade near the
scene of the wreck. Two engines had
taken a train Of twenty-eight freight
cars up this grade and drawn of to
take water. While doing this all the
twenty-eight cars started down the
grade. The runaway train dashed
down the grade at frightful speed and
crashed into the rear Of westbound
passenger train, No. 8, near the siding
at Nyack.
Superintendent Downs private car
was attached to the passenger train
and next to it was a day coach filled
with railroad laborers from Duluth. AS
the runaway train sped by the switch
it struck a caboose and day coach on
the siding wreckIng them.
Fire Immediately started from the
oil lamps in the caboose. The point
where the wild train crashed into the
passenger was several hundred feet
away, and it was two and half hours
before the flames reached the main
wreck. eMantime frantic efforts were
made to take out the dead and injured.
The wreck was piled high and wedged
into almost hopeless confusion, and in
spite of superhuman efforts the flames
burst through the wrecked cars before
the work was completed.
J. H. Blair, colored cook in Mr..
Downs car, was taken out alive, but
died in a few minutes. 1t was impos-
sible to get at the bodies of Superin-
tendent Downs and his son.
The runaway tore down the hill at
lightning speed, rounding the most Sc
we're curves at a speed upward Of 70
miles an hour, where regular trains
barely crawled along. With a roar 1t
burst around the curve, jumped a split
switch which would have turned 1t to
the side track and crashed into the
passenger. There was neither time
nor opportunity for escape. Mr.. Downs
car and that of the laborers were
smashed into kindling wood, the occu-
pants Of the private car meeting in
stant death. The wreckage and the
shingles and lumber of the freight
turned like tinder.
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FOUR FIRE VICTIMS.

Woman and Three Children Lost Life
In Flaming Tenement House.
Four persons were killed and seven
seriously injured in tenement fire in
Brooklyn, N. Y, Friday night.
The victims were: Mrs. Rosie Roth
giser, 81 years of age, jumped from
fourth story window; Annie Beck. 10
years; Tillie Beck, 5 years; Frank
Budd, infant.
The explosion of kerosene oil stove
started the fire. Nets were spread to
catch those who jumped from the win
dows. Mrs. Rothgiser missed the net,
struck on the sidewalk and was in
stantly killed.
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HURLED TO OBLIVION
Steamer Shattered by ling
Boiler and Many Lose Lie.
BODIES HORRIBLY, MUTlLLATED
Over Score of Others Injured, Two
of Them FataIly-Fire Follows
and Adds to Horror Of
the Calamity.

While the steamboat City Of Tren-
ton, of the Wilmington Steamboat
Company, was on her way from Phila-
delphia to Trenton, N. J., Wednesday
afternoon her port boiler exploded,
killing eleven. persons and injuring
over score of others. Four passen-
gers are missing, but as many sus-
tanned slight injuries, it is thought
the missing may be among those who
did not find it necessary to go to the
. hospital. The dead are: .....
]. D. Chew. assistant engineer; Miss
Elizabeth Green, Philadelphia; two
) firemen, names unknown; one deck
hand, name unknown; two passengers,
names unknown.
Missing: Mrs. John Matthews, Phil
adelphia; Mrs. Matilda Cross, Phila-
dAphia; two children. who were seen
to jump overheard.
Twenty-three passengers were in,
jured, two Of them-Theresa Rhein
and Louisa Panschoick--fatally.
Fire Followed Explosion.
After. the explosion the boat took
fire and ran aground. She lies wreck
ed and blackened hulk in the marshes
opposite Torresdale, sixteen miles
above Philadelphia. Her hold is filed
with water, and it is feared more Of
her passengers and crew may be found
in the bottom of the boat when the
water Is pumped out.
A boat belonging to the police de-
partment is anchored short distance
from the stranded excursion steamer,
pumping the water from the ill-fated
vessel.
The City of Trenton made daily trips
between Philadelphia and Trenton.
She left the company's wharf at las
o'clock Wednesday afternoon, fifteen
minutes behind her schedule time.
Her passenger list was lighter than
usual and she carried very little
freight.
Nothing of moment occurred until
the boat reached Torresdale. Here the
steam pipe connecting with the port
boiler burst with loud report. 1t
was followed by another explosion
and this time the port boiler was rent
in twain. Scalding steam and water
s poured into the cabin and sections Of
the woodwork of the boat were torn
away by the force Of the explosion
Those OF the passengers who were not
steamed and SCARED by the scalding
steam and boiler water were struck
by the flying portions of the splintered
cabin. Legs and arms were broken
and faces and bodies were parboiled
The screams Of the injured could De
heard on shore and the cries Of those
who leaped and were blown into the
river were heartrending.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-09-05
IMMENSE CORN SHORTAGE.
Bradstreets Report Deficit Aggregat
ing $4,000, 900 Bushels.

Bradstreet's report of Saturday
says: Late advices as to the proba-
BILE corn crop yield and as to the re-
sulting effect upon the general busi-
ness of the country have made for a
rather saner view of the subject than
could have been taken some six weeks
or two months ago.
A consolidation of the replies from
the seven surplus states of Iowa, Kan
sas, Nebraska, Illinois, Missouri, In
diana and Ohio, percentages Of in
crease or decrease by states being
based upon the reported yields as in
dicated by the department of agricul-
ture, point to a reduction in the yield
of those states of not far from $780,
100000 bushels from year ago. Small
er decreases are likewise indicated in
the smaller corn producing states like
Texas, Tennessee and Kentucky suffi-
cient to swell the shortage by perhaps
25,000,000 bushels more.
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HES1ER'S COTTON CROP TOTlLS
An Increase Ct Nearly One Hundred
Thousand Bales Of the Fiescy
Staple Is Predicted.

A New Orleans special says: Iht
totals of Secretary Hester's annual ree
port of the cotton crop Of the United
States was promulgated Monday. They
show receipts of cotton at all United
States ports for the year Of 1865. .4s1
against 6,374,364 last year, oyerland
to northern mills, 1,140,2S7, against -
161,1s9; southern consumption taken
direct from interior of the cotton belt
1,57e,7ss, against 1,54o,sss, making
the crop of the United States for 19o0e
1901 amount to 10,2s3,422 balel
against 9,436,416 Last year and i, ,114ss
$40 the year before.
MIR. Hester has made his usuat M
yestigation into the consumption 81
every cotton mill in the south, incluo e
Ing wooden mills that have used cosfs
ton, and the results show totas Qk
1,620,931 bales, but Of this A, 4,19S baless
were taken from ports included n pcrE
receipts. This total shows that the
mills Of the south have used up 2ssd13
bales more than during 1S99-1S09sS
against a consumption by the moth o9
2.050 900. He makes the actual cotto&
crop of Texas, including Indian Terri
tory, 3,s0S, ,56S, or say, 1,218,0b6 sbeteg
more than last year, and states thee|
the actual production OF Indian TeFris::
tory was 2ss,Sso, against 156,064 lasss
year.
Mr.. Hester also gives the actual;
production Of Oklahoma 119,06S. and
Missouri 25,794. His report on the cots
ton crop for the different states ts Eiy-j
~&o ot HAfx,0
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Strikers Still Have Hone.

P. ]. Conlon, of Atlanta, vice presi.
dent of the International Association
of Machinists, has arrived in Charles
ton for the purpose Of trying to adjust
the differences between the Southern
railway and the striking machinists.
He has addressed the local lodge, and
has assured the men that they will be
supported in the fight, which he says
will be won by the strikers. So far
as the railroad is concerned, however,
the strike has already ended. Presi-
dent Spencer and General Manager
Cannon have made repeated state
ments to the effect that the men will
not be allowed to return to their for
mer positions under any circum-
stances. and in view OF this business
men of Charleston have advised the
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-09-05
TILLMAN GIVES WARNING.

He Advises Cotton Mill Presidents
Against coereing Employees Vote.
A Charleston, S. c., special says:
The statement issued Thursday &by
Senator Tiliman at Spartangurg, in
which be again warned the cotton mill
presidents of the trouble which would
follow any attempt to coerce the mill
operative vote for Senator McLaurin,
has caused great deal Of feeling
It has been pointed out all along
that the mill vote may be the decid-
ing ballot in the election of United
States senator next year. The mill
presidents, as a rule, are in sympathy
with the doctrines Of McI.aurin.
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DECLARES FIGHT is LOST.

Former Vice President Amalgamated
Association Scores Strike Leaders.
Charges that the national officers OF
the Amalgamated association had mis-
represented the attitude of the United
States Steel Corporation toward or
ganized labor, in order to get the mem
bers of the association out on strike,
were made by former Vice President
Hickey at a meeting Of the Bay View
lodge at Milwaukee Sunday.
The situation, as summed up by Mr..
Hickey, is that it may take years to
repair the damage to the association
which has already been done. The
strike is practically lost, he said, as
II per cent Of the mills are working.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-09-05
Battle With an Eaoie,

A day or two ago a large American
eagle which was captured near
Charleston after it had whipped a cat
amount was sent to the city and
placed in a cage, from which it had
to be removed later on. The owner
advertised for brave man, willing to
overpower the bird without weapons.
H. J. Welch, a piano tuner, agreed to
undertake the job, and a crowd sur.
rounded the building to watch the
event.
Welch first endeavored to throw a
sack over the eagles head, but this
failed and the eagle showed signs of
fight. The door was quickly opened
and Welch rushed in. He seized the
eagle by the legs, but it gave swift
lunge toward the door, passing out
and dragging the would-be captor.
Welch was dragged twenty feet,
when the eagle turned and a desper.
ate tight followed. The piano tuner
was getting the rough end of the con-
fict, but bystanders interfered and
the eagle was crippled and showed into
another cage. Welch was bruised and
scratched, but otherwise was not in.
jured.
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Total crop. bales ............10,xtS
North Carolina above includes KenS
lucky and Virginia; Tennessee M
cludes Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansae
and Utah; Texas includes Indian Ter
ritory. y
Mr.. Hester's full report will contain
interesting facts in relation to the con-;
tinued increase In the spindles ~
southern mills and to new mills nov
building, some of which will come intQ
operation during the new commerct1lS
year.
He will also give interesting faef9
showing that with an excess in balee|
over last year OF 94z006 the south obs
tanned for the crop an increase 0e.
$13O,7S2,729, the value of this years;
crop having reached the enormous to-
tai of $494, ,567,549, more In dollarS
than has ever before been obtained for.
any crop. He compares the value OF
this crop with that Of the year before
last-11, ,274,s40 bales, the largest ever
grown-and shows that we have re-:
ceived this year for 49,, ,41s bales less
$211, ,794,562 more. Mr.. Hester says
when it is considered that the two:
past cotton crops have been sold 81:
the south for $s5s,352,369, their fmss
portance will be appreciated as the;
means Of bringing prosperity to the,
cotton states.
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TOTAL DEAD TWENTY-EIGHT.

Number of Boiler Explosion Victims
Made Known to a Certainty.
A Philadelphia special says: 1t IS
now reasonably certain that at least
twenty-eight persons perished as a re-
suit Of the explosion Of one of the boil
ers of the steamer City Of Trenton.
This conclusion is reached by the po-
lice authorities through the fact that
seventeen persons who are reported
by their relatives or friends to have
been on the steamer have not yet been
found. These missing persons, with
eleven bodies already recovered, make
a total of twenty-eight. Ten persons
are still in a serious condition.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-09-05
SWIFT TRAIN LEAVES TRACK.

Engineer Killed and TWenty-Eight Of
the Passengers Receive Injuries.
The accommodation train leaving
sodus Point, n. j.. over the Northern
Central railroad was derailed Wed.
nesday night at the station at Fair.
willie. about ten miles north of New
ark. Engineer William Meegher, Of
Sodus Point, vas killed: tweuty-eight
persons were injured. two of whom.
Howard Tubs, ticket agent at Lake
Shore, and Libbie Ford. OF Newark.
will probably die.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-09-05
WOMAN CHARGED WITH FORGERY

Miss Eastwick, of Philadelphia, Ar
rasned In London Police Court.
A London special says: Marie Jose
phine Eastwick. of Philadelphia. was
arraigned in the Guild Hall police
court Monday charged with having
forged q railway certificate OF the val
ue of s50O.0G9. Sensational evidence
was presented.
The public prosecutor said the de-
fendant had been residing In England
for eighteen months and was believed
to be an American Of wealth.