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The Holly chieftain., 1901-07-19
DENVER TRAMWAY TO
ENTER COAL FIELDS

Denver, July 15.-The Denver News
says: The Denver Tramway Company
now throws down the gauntlet to the
Colorado & Southern road and the
Northern Ccal Company. The tranway
management has decided tc 90 into the
coal traffic and to transport the coal
which it will mine. Plans 'iiave been
made to develop properties which it is
estimated will produce 100000 tons of
coal year. This product is 10 be
placed on the Denver market.
A tract of land comprising o.G4o
acres ten miles northwest of Denver.
was recently secured under lease and
bond with privilege Of purchase any
time within two years. The options
We're made out in the name of ]. III.
Simpson. Assignment Of the bond and
lease has been made to $. n. Perry,
president of the Denver & Northwest
ern Railway Company "a tramway en-
terprise). .Nt
The tract Of land supposed to be un-
derlaid with high class Ignite coal, is
embraced in the Faragher. Bunney
Stepp, NJ. A. Tucker and Thomas T.
Tucker farms. The theory is that sew
eral blanket veins of coal will be found
NItllH Il TtuSOuuOlc usptA III u Nlst-
ance of two or three miles from the
mountains. Along the hogbacks four
veins of coal are exposed, all standing
perpendicular. The uplift of the noun
tains raised the horizontal layers Of
coal. but 1t is believed that within n
short distance Of the range the coal
will be found in its original position.
This is to be determined by the drill,
and complete drilling outfit was yes
terday set up on the Faragher farm
and work Will be commenced this
morning. 1t is proposed to explore
the ground thoroughly and start sew
eral shafts as soon as the value OF the
coal deposit Is determined. II the
tramway company does not purchase
the land it will have the privilege Of
working the mines upon royalty for
period of twenty-five years.
The line is to be built into the coal
fields, and the coal delivered by elec-
tric power to coal stations in Denver
whose locations have as yet not been
announced. The tramway company
will supply itself with coal, and ~ the
company uses $4,000 tons a year 1t ~
estimated that the saving will be many
Thousands Of dollars. The new power
The Holly chieftain., 1901-07-19
CONTINUED HEAT AND DROUTH
COMBINE TO DESTROY CROPS

Kansas City. July 14.-So relief
came to-day to break the almost nnpre-
cedented drourh in the Southwest.
The day was repetition Of The past
two weeks. with reports for many
places in western Missouri. Kansas
and the territories of temperatures
over the 100 mark.
At NEST places the sun slone merci-
lessly. with noT even a iitful cloud to
break Its rays. nor II slight breeze. In
Kansas City last night proved more
bearable, breeze from the north al
leviating the conditions, but day Of
intense heat followed.
Tonight there is a prospec; of rain
In Oklahoma. bur there are no mdica-
tons OF change from any other part
of the Southwest.
With no relief in sight. the fears for
the crops that have been experienced
daily are fast becoming realities, and
the scarcity of water and generally
dry conditions make the element of
nre almost a serious one.
What the real damage to corn. the
crop most affected. will be is problem
atical. but 1t is probably safe TO say
that half the crop will be lost.
The supply of water is short in al
most every direction and the shipment
OF cattle and hogs to this market to
save them must continue.
In Kansas City to-day the govern
ment Thermometer registered 102 and
at Maryville. Kansas. 10 was re-
corded, against 100 yesterday. There
were three proslrations at Maryyille.
st Paul. Minn. July 1.-THE hot
wave continues throughout Minnesota
and the Dakotas. At Huron child
The Holly chieftain., 1901-07-19
SEVENTY.FlVE THOUSAND ~
STEEL WORKERS ON A STRIKE

Fittsburg. July 14-Aftor three
days session the convention between
the representatives of the American
Sheet Steel Company. American
Steel Hoop Company and American
lin Plate Company. subsidiary com
panies of the United States Steel Cor
poration. and the general executive
board of the Amalgamated Associh-
ton of iron, steel and tin workers. ad-
journed finally AT o'clock last even
ing without reaching final agree
ment.
In less than an hour later President
Shaifer of the Amalgamated associa-
ton, had wired the following order to
all the Amalgalnated lodges in the tin
plate, steel hoop and sheet steel mills
of the country:
Notify your men that the mill is on
strike and will not work ON Monday.
July 18th"
President Shaffer says that for the
present the three companies named
will be affected. but that later all the
union men in the employ of the Fed
eral Steel Company, the National
Steel Company and National Tube
Company may be called out If 1t is
found necessary to resort to extreme
measures to win the fight.
At the start it is claimed $4,000
skilled workmen. 10000 unskilled men
and indirectly many thousands more
will be affected.
The Holly chieftain., 1901-07-19
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.

Predictions based on the caHsus of
1890 that the negro population of the
United States would gradually de-
crease in proportion TO the population
are not borne ont by the statistics of
the present cencus. The negro popu-
lation in the United States in 1890 was
l 93 per cent. Of the total, 4 decrease
from IL. Il per cent. in 1850. This year
the percentage will ls somewhat less
than IL. though it is impossible to give
exact figures now. In some OF tie
southern states the negro population Is
increasing faster in proportion than the
white. In the border states there seems
10 be little falling III and in the north
crn states, 10 which the tide of Euro
Iean immigration flows strongest,
the white poulation is increasing more
rapidly, though This does not hold good
in some special localities, such as cities
in which the negro servants, especially
in hotels. are rapidly displacing White
men and women.
The CensUs office has issued 4 bulle-
tin concerning the urban population
of the country. 1t shows that IS, ILL.,
GtS people in the United States live in
cities and towns of over I.oD popula-
tion. This is 37.3 per cent. of the en-
tire population, a gain of almost five
per cent. sin,r The census of 1870.
when the percentage was 322.3. Com
pared with the census of 1880, the re-
port shows 4 gain in the urban popu-
la,ion of the country of more than a
Third in percentage and Of consider
ably more than double in actual num-
bers. There We're in 1850 80 places
of more ihap 1000 population each.
with an aggregate population of H.
H36. 10. or 2J.S per crnt. of the popula-
riun. About onehalf of the urban pop
nlation of 1900 was contained in cities
Of over 100000 people. There were
thirty-eisht of those cities. with "A
combined population of ll.2iS.3Io
There are now lbs places of over
1000 people i'll the country. as against
9as in 1880. The population of the
District Of Columbia is regarded as
urban. In the other states and terri
tories the percentage of people living
In cities and towns, as comlAred with
tn" entire population of the states,
ranges from 91.G in Rhode Island TO
- i'll Indian territory. The percentage
Of the population of Colorado living i'll
towns of over 1000 inhabitants is Al:
Wyoming, 2S,S; in New Mexico, 81.
The Holly chieftain., 1901-07-19

went to sleep in the sun and died from
the heat. New Tim. Minnesota. re-
ports temperature of 1U4, with a
number of prostrations
The state agricultural experimental
farm reports that the hot weather Is
doing great damage TO wheat in south
ern Minnesota. and that chlnch bugs
are numerous and are contributing to
the destruction.
Omaha, Neb.. July l4.-This state
has had a very torrid day. The ther-
mometer here registered 1OI. The at
mosphere was fresh. however. with
an absence of anything tia: tended to
hot winds. Reports almost universal
~ from the state are 10 the effect that
rain is needed. but with the ahsence
of hot winds the crop will stand con-
siderable hot weather. Spring wheat
and oats in Nebraska are well nigh Il
failure.
Burlington. Iowa, July 1l.-To-day
was the sixth day in succession that
the mercury went to 100 and over.
There are no signs OF relief.
Wichita. Kan. July 14.-To-day was
the hottest of the season in southern
Kansas, the temperature registering
as high as 11S in the sun. This after
noon special prayer services for ram
were held at all of the churches here.
Two thousand people crowded into
the Roman Catholic Church 10 pray.
Hundreds of cattle are reported to
have died of the heat and thirst in
western Kansas.
Jefferson City. Mo-, July 14-At all
the churches to-day prayers were
made for rain. 1t is cloudy tonight.
with favorable indications for rain.
The Holly chieftain., 1901-07-19
C. f. & |. CO. READY
TO SPEND $4,000, 900

Denver, :: July 1J.-Ten millioBs OF
dollars will be spent by the Colombo
Fuelta Iron Company at orce on its
various establishments tlrOugheut the
state. A large portion OF this AliH0unt
will be expended III enlargtng ~ steel
plant at Pueblo. The rest will spent
In the purchase OF improved snachin-
cry and other facilities for the forty
or more mines the company owns in
the state.
The additional money for the i'm
proyements is to be procured by the
sale of S1O.OO0,OOO worth of five per
cent. gold debenture4. the l5spnnce Of
which was yesterday authori1ed at a
meeting Of the stocklloldeIY of the
company. The stock holders yOted to
increase the capitalization from 2JO,
600 shares TO 100000 shares. These are
worth at pnr 500 each, which n,akes
the present capitalization $4,000, 900.
But two-thirds of the increas. of
capital stock will be sold at present.
The debentures mature in ten years
and are convertible into stock at my
time within five years after 1902. Al
the meeting yesterday 236.OOO shares
of the former total issue of 2JO,OOO
were Represented. SSg&fs3/
The certificate of increased. capitali-
"a ion was filed yesterday, morning
with the secretary Of state the COM
pany paying a fee Of $3,O33. No pro-
test was made to paying the tax,
though 1t is considerably increased on
account Of the new revenue law. The
increase OF capitalization makes the
largest of the Independent steel and
iron companies In the United States.
Contracts haze already been let for
some OF the improvements to be made
Through the new appropriation. They
include additional furnaces, railroad
facilities and the erection of. several
complete minor plants at Pueblo.
The Holly chieftain., 1901-07-19
Western Army Posts.

According TO Washington dispatch
to the Tribune, the tour of inspection
which Secretary Root is making for
examination of the military posts at
Forts Leavenworth, Riley and Jeffer-
son Barracks is in furtherance of one
Of his most notable plans for the bet
terment of the American army system.
Forts Leavenworth and Riley are
within Il few miles of the junction of
twenty railways, including all the
great lines of communication of the
continent. and it is intended that they
shall hereafter be improved and con.
stituted the chief rendezvous of troops,
| while at Jefferson Barracks there will
be established the principal military
supply depot of the United States.
At Forts Riley and Lcavenworth
respectively. are the United States cav
| airy and infantry schools for the army
[, and ii is now proposed to materially
extend their scope by assigning to
them greater number of officers for
| instruction and a much larger force of
men for practical campaigning.
They are to be made practical post
| graduate colleges for West Pointers,
and their prize graduates will be pro.
| lege to be established at Governors
Island. Nearly million dollars will
ue spent for new quarters and i'm
/ provements at these posts In the
current fiscal year, and in another
year from now 1t is the intention to
make start in carrying out co-opera.
| tive maneuvcrs of large bodies Of
troops, composed Of regulars and Ma.
| tional Guardsmen. BY next winter II
will be feasible, it Is hoped, to quarter
| at least a regiment ut each of these
posts, and few months later a brig
| ade, or perhaps I. division can be mob
! iiZed for several months drill and ev-
olutiOns under campaigning conditions.
BY another year militia may be called
from various states. and extended field
evolutions by an army corps may con-
tribute to the higher education of gen.
, eral officers, subordinates and enlisted
men.
Secretary Root heartily supports the
plans, and by personal inspection of
the schools and posts he expects to he
in position to invoke the support Of
Congress toward securing the neces
sary funds.
The Holly chieftain., 1901-07-19

In giving general details of the cf-
feet of the strike now being ordered
President Shaffer said that the first
order only went to the mills of the
three companies that have been carry
ing on negotiations. 1t was thought
best that this should be the case. The
order for the others to Ire called ont
is to follow in circular letter sent to
every lodge OF the Amalgamated asso-
citation in the country where there are
mills of the United Steel Corporation
in operation. 1t would include the
mills Of the Federal, Steel Company
National Steel Company, National
Tube Company, and wherever there
We're organized men employed in non
union plants of the first mentioned
companies. ,
He could not give the total number of
men that would be thus rendered idle,
but estimated them Mt 10000 directly.
1t was his intention TO have the strike
as general as possible ut the earliest
possible moment. SO as to force set
Element of the dispute the quickest.
AS soon as the mills shut down. the
shipment of raw material and coal and
coke for the various plants will cease
1t is said the depression in this respect
is looked upon as threatening more
serious results than the simple clos
ing of the mills Of the United States
Steel Corporation.
<@<%<S<3< s<A<@<,9
plant of the company at the north end
of the Fourteenth street viaduct is be-
ing rapidly pushed.
The Holly chieftain., 1901-07-19

America still has some things to
learn from older countries, particularly
in the way of economy. New York
City pays about five hundred thousand
dollars year for the disposition of its
garbage, while many English cities, by
burning their waste matter in special
furnaces, not only destroy it in the
most effective way. but make a profit
from it. Being dried out, it becomes
fuel, and the heat which it generates
is used to furnish steam for pumping
water, operating city electric lighting
plants, and grinding up such portions
of the refuse as are capable of conver.
sion into cement, tiles and paving.
blocks. This plan is in use in seventy
or eighty Of the smaller cities of Eng.
and, and a million-dollar plant is in
process of erection in London.
The Holly chieftain., 1901-07-19

Mrs. Elizabeth Burr Hamilton, said
TO be the last member OF the seventh
generation Of the Burr family who
died at Bridgeport, Conn, last week,
at the age OF ninety, was the fifth
cousin of Aaron Burr, third vice -presii-
dent OF the United States, who killed
Alexander Hamilton, the lawyer and
statesman. in a duel in 1901. Her death
recalls the fact that, though the famil-
les OF Burr and Hamilton were the
most bitter enemies at the beginning
Of the last century. love found way
thirty-two years after the famous duel
10 bring the families together again by
the marriage of Elizabeth Burr and
Alexander Hamilton in 1886.
The Holly chieftain., 1901-07-19

Queen Margaret OF Italy has com
nissioned the architect Succoni, TO
construct a memorial on the spot
where King Humbert was assassinat-
ed. Il will take the form of votive
chapel. In front a cross in marble
will be erected, and each side of the
entrance will be fianked by a marble
statue. one representing Sorrow. and
the other Death. The first stone of
the edifce will be laid on July 90. the
anniversary OF the death OF King
Humbert. Succoni is the designer of
the monument TO Victor Emmanuel.
now in course OF construction on the
hill Of the capitol.
The Holly chieftain., 1901-07-19

There is sometimes wide interval
between the conception Of a mechani.
cal contrivance and its practical ac.
complishment. The flying machine,
fresh experiments with which are con.
stantly reported, is an example OF de-
lay in invention. A few years after
the landing of the Pilgrims. DR.. John
wilkins, who afterward married a sis
ter of Oliver Cromwell, published q
work in which he said it was possible
to make flying chariot, in which a
man may sit, and give such motion
unto 1t as shall convey him through
the air. And this, perhaps, might be
made large enough to carry divers men
at the same time, together with food
for their viaticum, and commodities
for traffic" The suggestion Of trade
side to air travel points to the remote
possibility Of fiying-machine combi.
nation which will control the AIR
line" of the future. At present there IL
no reason to be alarmed. The business
opportunities Of the region overhead
are still open to all.
The Holly chieftain., 1901-07-19

4 man in North Carolina was sell
.ng standing timber-walnut trees.
The man who was buying came to one
very handsome tree. He told the own.
{! he would pay as much as $50 for
mat tree. The owner did not sell, but
sent for experts. He got 1880 for the
tree lcurled walnut as II stood The
man who cut it down realized $4,000
for it on the cars. 1t was shipped TO
New York and yeneeFed onesiXth TO
bali an inch The sales were watched.
The tree brought $4,000.
The Holly chieftain., 1901-07-19

The Maoris. the aboriginal inhabi-
tants Of New Zealand have actually
increased in number during the last
decade, and great wonderment is ex-
tte fact that a subject race should
survive and grow. Here is opportunity
for somebody to suggest that the fate
Of such race depends a good deal
upon the nation 10 which it is sub
yeCt.
The Holly chieftain., 1901-07-19

patrol wagon. and the chief OF police
finds that 1t has proved successful in
every way, resulting in saving Of
time and money. An electric wagon
cite was used pending the delivery OF
al electric patrol wagon. and the chief
rays that il did the work OF four horses
at the nominal expense OF Is cents a
day for power.
The Holly chieftain., 1901-07-19

General Miles has long advocated a
standing army which should consist OF
one man for every thousand OF our to-
tai population, and that is substantial
ly the size OF the present establish
ment. The police force OF our largest
uties consists OF one oficer to popu-
!atlon Of about four hundred and sixty.
The Holly chieftain., 1901-07-19
,k..p.ror. WIN xee.

London, July liking Edward,
RmpesOr Nicholas and Emperor. Wi.
liam will not only meet at the great re-
view near Mayence about August
18th, says the Berlin correspondent of
the Standard. but they Will exchange
visits at Darmstadt."
The Holly chieftain., 1901-07-19

Great quantities of trecrackers are
now being received in this country
from China the merchants considering
that there will be d big Fourth of July
demand for them.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-01-30
LIEUT. TOTTEN PROPHEsIEs
England, Germany and America,
he Saws, will Unite for Peace.

New Haven, Conn, January 25.-
"The twentieth century will see
the reunion of Israel and judah
into one house and the fraternity
of that house with Assyria and
Egypt, which triad God hath
blessed. These three are England,
Germany and America. Their
reunion with Judah settled at the
central land will assure the world
of peace throughout q golden age"
Thus prophesieS Lieut. G. A. L.
Totten, formerly professor of
military science at Yale. Prof
Totten's prophetic writings have
made him we'll known. Continu-
ing he says in part:
"Queen Victoria's reign is the
chronological counterpart of that
of David. The emplacement of the
date of the Queens death and OF
the new Kings accession upon the
scroll of chronicles of Israel's
monarchs is significant"
In elucidation of this Prof
Totten quotes Biblical chronology
and adds:
"He whose right it is to reigr
without end will soon assume thu
everlasting sway. We are low il
a new atmosphere, and we doub
not that events will speed along tt
tremendous cousummation at al
accelerated rate. Victoria's reigl
was mathematically perfect, botf
square and round ga years. Thi
is eight by eight, the square of tn
number, always indicative Of tha
which is new and two to tn
sixth power, which is hexagona
and with the radius measures tn
circle. Victoria rounds tn
measure of the past and .anothe
measure q, d measure are at hanc
The fact is, we live in tremendou
days. at the borderland of vas
laffairs."
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-01-30
SUPPOSED DEAD MAN
CAUSES A SENSATION
The Body About to be Put Away
When Charles Crawford Sat
Up and Began Talking.

New York. Jan. 22--Charles
Crawford, a negro, who tried to
xii his wife, and then shot him.
sell IN the temple, was taken to
the st. Nicholas hospital in Ne
wark, on Saturday night.
At tbs hospital door the ambu-
lance .iriver told the sister in
charge that he believed the mar
was desd. There was no physician
at the hospital at the time, and it
is crowd. d with cases. The sister
stepped irto the ambulance, con-
vinced herself that the patient
waa dead. and told the driver to
take the body to the morgue. The
driver did go, and the body was
placed on roller slat at Mullins
mo:gue to be put away.
Joseph Murphy. an assistant at
the morgue, examined the body be-
fore it could be placed in the NOR
que building, and found the man
was breathing. In few minutes
Crawford sat up aud uttered some
words. He was Immediately driven
back to the hospital and placed on
a cot. Crawford was alive last
night. The surgeons probed for
the bullet, but could not find it.
Crawford lived with his wife,
Sarah, at No. 292 Central avenue.
They disagreed about. money mat
ters, and Crawford was jealous of
the woman, who is an octoroon.
The quarrel occurred in their apart
ments. The other tenants of the
house heard pistol shot, and then
saw Mrs Crawford run down the
stairs with blood on her face. The
bullet struck the woman near the
right temple, and ploughed fur
row along her forehead without
injuring the skull. A second shot
was heard in the room, and a po-
liceman found Crawford lying in
sensible across bed, with a
wound in his head and a cheap
pistol clutched in his right hand.
Mrs Crawford was treated at the
city hospital, and returned to her
rooms yesterday.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-01-30
THIS CoUNTRY's ARID AREA
1t Is Larger Than the Domain OF
Some of the Nations of Earth.

The arid region of this country
is larger than the entire area OF
some of the nations of the earth.
It includes portions of Montana,
Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada,
Arizona and New Mexico, and
smaller portions of North and
South Dakota, Nevada. Kansas
AID Texas, hundreds of Thousands
of acres in California, two-th'rds
of Oregon, one-third of Washing
ton. and almost all of Idaho
altogether total of over million
square miles, enough, in fact, to
accommodate one-half the people
of the United States when the
land is made productive.
To allow all this splendid
country to go to waste would be
contrary to the spirit of a practical
nation.
All this arid land needs is irriga-
ton. Already large part Of it
has been converted to fertility by
the artificial supply of water.
Gradually and strongly the experts
Of the government have urged
upon cong 'ess policy of assistance
which will convert many of these
acres into fertile fields. In this
way the suggestion has come that
TO the river and harbor bill there
shall he added provision for
storage reservoirs in the Far West.
If it should be done land that ID
now of no practical value would
soon be worth ten or twenty dol
lars an acre, and thus it happens
that far Western influences are
openls in favor of the proposition.
Something like five millions OF
dollars is the first suggestion in
the way Of the new departure.