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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-03-25
HEs1ER's COTTON STATEMENT.
The Weekly Summary of the
Movement of Cotton.

New Orleans, March 20.-Secretary
Hester's weekly cotton statement is
sued today, shows for the 20 days of
March an increase over last year of
21,OO0 and an increase over the same
period year before last OF "a, GOO. For
the 20l days of the season that have
elapsed the aggregate is ahead OF the
same DAYS last year Is, 0OO and ahead
OF the same time year before last 63o, :
600. The amount brought into sight
during the past week has been lao, 264
against 14e, OH for the same seven days
last year and loo, GIG year before last.
The movement since Sept. l shows
receipts at all United States ports to be
6, $685. ,493 against $500, 743 last year
overland across the MISSISSIPPI ONO
and Potomac rivers to northern mills
and Canada 900, $50 against 966, 243
last year; interior stocks in excess OF
those held at the close of the com
mercial year 1877, 737 against 2o4, 264
last year; southern mill takings l, 3l2, :
800 against 1, ,l72, 9sS last year.
The total movement since Sept. is
9. 3O5. $50 against 9,230, 23S last year
ana ., OIU, OSI ySol OOioiO 1s1So'
Foreign exports for the week have
been 40, 573 against s9, 342 last year,
making the total thus far for the sea-
son 5, eos, ,3os against 5,447,T25 last
The total takiHgs of American mills,
north and south, and Canada, thus
far for the season have been 3,0ol, 77o
against 2, go, 303 last year. -
Stocks at the seaboard and the 70
leading southern interior centres have
decreased during the week 70, 008 bales
against a decrease during the cor
responding period last season OF l6, o99.
Including stocks left over at ports
and interior towns from the last crop
and the number of bales brought into
sight thus far for the new crop, the
supply to date is $3.50, 66S against
9, $50, 925 for the same period last
year.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-03-25

There are two very very remarkable
divorce suits on the docket Of the New
Jersey courts One of the suits has
been brought by wealthy Jersey
farmer, who seeks divorce from his
wife on the ground that she is new
woman, and spends her time attend
ING club meetings and reading trashy
literature on the enfranchisement OF
the sex,'' instead of performing the
duties naturally expected of her All
of this is bad enough, and the sym
pathy of hundreds of people Will go
out to this wretched man, but his case
is not near so bad as that of the other
Jersey man who is seeking divorce.
He wants release on the ground that
his wife. who had been a professional
snake charmer, refused to give up her
pets, and persisted in taking them to
bed with her.-Richmond Times.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-03-25
Senator TiIlman Discusses Negro
Question in Wisconsin.

Madison, Wis, March 2.-United
States Senator Tillman of South Caro-
lima delivered an address on "The
Negro Question from Southern
Standpoint before an audience of l..
800 university students, citizens and
lawmakers tonight. He was greeted
with the stirring university yell.
A rather sensational incident occur
red while Senator Tillman was dis
cussing the Indianola postofice case.
After stating the southern view Of
the affair, he asked whether the audi
ence approved of President Roosevelt's S
action and there was applause. Being
uncertain whether the applause was
intended as an Endorsement of the
presidents action, the senator asked
how it was meant. He was told that it
was meant as an endorsement of the
president. This aroused the senator.
He went into the details of the In
dianola affair and when be concluded
asked his hearers whether it would not
have been better for the president to
have kept the Office open and punished
the few hotheads that caused the
trouble than to have punished the en-
tire community by closing the office,
requesting those to raise their hands
who supported the presidents action.
Only a few raised their hands.
In the main his. address was much
like his other recent utterances on the
same subject. He condemned the ne
gro to eternal inferiority to the white
man,
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-03-25
KING CONVICTED BY
FLORENCE JURY.
Slayer Of Father and Son Given a
Life Sentence.
His Attorney Gives Notice Of an
Appeal TO the Supreme Court
Silent When Sentenced.
Snecial to The State.

Special to The State.
Florence, March 20.-William G..
King, the white man who murdered
James and Samuel Rogers in this
county on Saturday, January 81, was
found guilty with recommendation
to mercy today by the jury in the
criminal court now in session here.
His attorney, Walter Wells, Esq,
made a motion for new trial, but
when coart reconvened this afternoon
he announced his abandonment of the
motion, but gave notice of an appeal
to the supreme court.
Judge Gage then sentenced King TO
the penitentiary at hard labor for
his natural life.
The verdict has given unusual salts
faction, and groups Of men can be seen
on the streets discussing the case.
The general concensus of opinion is
that it marks the beginning OF new
era in South Carolina, especially in
this part of the State. 1t is asserted
that this is the first conviction of a
white man for the killing OF another
in this judicial circuit since Lockhart
was convicted of manslaughter in Will
liamsburg county years ago under the
late Judge I. D. Witherspoon.
All the evidence in the King case
goes to prove that it was an unpro-
yoked, uncalled for murder of two
obscure men, and all abouta dog which
King admitted that he had never seen.
It is learned that the jury in the
first ballot stood eight for murder with
recommendation to mercy, three for
murder outright and one for man
slaughter. On the second ballot eleven
were for conviction with recommends
tion to mercy and one for manslaught-
er. The next ballot was in conformity
with the verdict rendered.
When King was asked if he had aDy-
thing to say why sentence should not
be passed upon him, he shook his head
and said, 'sI have nothing to say. %
Judge Gage did not undertake to
give him a lecture, neither did he refer
to the heinous crime OF which he stood
convicted, but simply passed the form
al legal sentence of life Imprisonment
in the penitentiary.
William King as man who perhaps
has seen 53 summers; about six feet
tall, weighing about l6O pounds. He
has a brutal face, large protruding
jaw bone, cold steel grey eyes which
move restlessly from side to side with
out turning his head. His head is.
very small and exceedingly narrow
across the oase of the skull.
It is stated that the two Rogers men
are not the only victims of his nimble
pistol. :,
Upon what grounds his attorney will
base his appeal to the supreme court
is not known, for it is an admitted
fact that the Judge charged the jury
on. every point on which he vas re-
uuested and neither directly or in
directly referred to single fact con-
neeted with the case, nor did he touch
upon the evidence in the case. 4
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-03-25
8. 8 |. TO Be TAXED.
Attorney General Says Local
Associations Must Return Cred
its at Face Value for Tax
alton.

Columbia, March 19.-The Attorney
General has given an opinion of great
Importance to building and loan as
sociations, holding that loans on
mortgages of real estate must be re-
turned for taxation at their full value.
The opinion was given in response to
an inquiry from Comptroller General
Jones and is as follows:
81 received your inquiry to the At
torney General, whether building and
1oan associations, and like corpora
tions, should be taxed, and if taxed,
whether on credits belonging to them
secured by mortgages upon property
of stockholders.
81 beg to say they are liable to tax
alton as other corporations. Such
credits should be returned for taxation
at their actual value. In answer 20 the
objection that if the association is
taxed on the obligations it holds
against borrowers, the borrowing
stockholders will be twice taxed on
the same property, once on the real
estate mcrtgaeed. and again ON the
credit arising from the loan, resulting
in double taxation; we beg to quote
from the opinion of the Illinois Court
in the Loan and Homestead Association
VS.. Keith. So Illinois, 624:
60 Where a person owning a farm
psocures a loan and mortgages the
land, the land is subject to taxation
as the pro- srty of the owner, and the
note and mortgage are subject to
taxation as a credit in the hand OF
the person loaning the money, and
where a loan is procured from
homestead loan association the borrow
er and the association occupy similar
position and if the note and mortgage,
and the land upon which the mortgage
is given, are both taxable in the one
case, we see no good reason why they
should not be in the other. The note
or contract and mortgage held by q
loan association are in, no sense a credit
of the borrower, but a>credlt belong
ing to the corporation. If the credit
is taxed, the tax falls on the corpora
ton and not the borrower. 1t is true
shat portion of the tax may ultimate,
ly fall on the borrower as stockholdel
Of the corporation; but that amount,
whatever it may be, falls upon him as
| a stockhol0er having an investment
for profit in corporations
For these reasons the petition or
behalf of the Home Building ane
Loan Association, of Georgetown, fol
an abatement of their assessment fol
taxation should be refused; and the
Carolina Loan and Trust Company, Of
Greenville, and all other building
and loan associations, should be re,
ouired to return all loansEsecured b5
mortgages on real estste for taxation
at their full value. This opinion alse
answers the inquiry of the Chairman
of the board of assessors for Spartan
burg city school district, in their let
ter to you of March II, which ha
been referred to this Office.
Yours truly,
W. H. Townsend,
| Assistant Attorney General. !"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-03-25
Conflicting Clauses That May Not
Be ReeonGiIsd.
SENATORS GUILTY OF NEGLIGENCE.
One Clause Says Treaty Must Be
Ratified Before March 3Ist, and
Become Effective Ten Days
Afterwards,
Another Says if Shall Not Take Effect
Until Approved by Congress.

E5Washington March 20.-Acting
Secretary of State LOOMS and Mr..
Quesada, the Cuban minister, after
discussing the prospects of an exchange
of ratifcations of the Cuban treaty
within the time, today decided to
cable President Palma requesting him
to call the Cuban congress in extraordi-
nary session Immediately for this pur-
pose, as that body would otherwise not
meet until April 7th, seven days afte
the expiration of the legal time limit
for the exchange of ratifcations.
From such imperfect readings of the
treaty as can be bad at this stage the
state department officials have some
doubt as to their ability to do any
thing whatever with the convention.
The amendments made by the senate,
particularly that added to the ratifying
article, though probably not SO intend
ed, may result in the complete loss of
the treaty. There are conflicting claus
es which it may not be possible to
reconcile. Article II provides FER the
exchange of ratifcations before March
81 and that the convention shall go
into effect 10 days afterward. But to
this article the senate added this SEN
tence:
.sThis treaty shall not take effect
until the same shall have been ap-
proved by congress.
Here are two different dates fixed
in the same article for the taking
effect of the treaty. The weight Of
opinion inclines to the belief that fol-
lowing the common law principle the
last stipulation should govern, which
would defer the operation of the treaty
until after the congress acted.
But a more serious difficulty has
been pointed out as follows: 1t is
hardly reagrded as feasoble, and is
certainly in violation of precedent, to
exchange % ratifcations of document
which is not treaty, as this Cuban
convention will not be, in the opinon
of some of the state department. people,
until 'ethe congress" has set it's ap-
proval upon it. If this view is cor
rect, then the exchange Of ratifca
tions will have to be deferred until
next winter at the earliest, and this
delay, it is thought, wonld cause the
failure of the treaty in its present
form, because of the inability of the
negotiators to meet the requirements
of article II, which demands that the
exchange take place before March 8.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-03-25

London, March 24.-The correspon-
dent OF The Daily Chronicle at Geneva
learns on reliable authority that the
former crown princess of Saxony IS
lying seriously i'll in her mothers
chateau at Lyndau, on an island IN
Lake Constance, from the effects OF an
attempt to commit suicide by taking
poison.
Anderson, March 9.-Coi. R. B. A.
Robinson, who has represented this
county for several terms in the legls-
lature since 1890, died at his home in
Martin township today OF Brlght's
disease. He was so years old and
leaves a wife and two children.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-03-25
TO THOROUGHLY TEST
SOIL FOR TOBACCO.
The Department Of Agriculture 10
Make Experiments.
STATION IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
II is Believed That the South Can
Produce as Good Grade as Cuba.
Social to The State.

Special to The State.
Washington, March 2.-Special
attention is being given to the culture
Of tobacco in South Carolina and Geor-
gia by the agricultural department..
In the last appropriation law for the
department, at the instance OF Senator
Latimer, who was then member OF
the house, provision was nade for eS-
tensive experiments in tobacco culture
to be made in South Carolina. After
considering the matter fully Secretary
Wilson, acting under the advice Of
Prof. Whitney, who has travelled ex-
tensiyely through the State and is
familiar with the agricultural capaci-
ties of the various sections has select
ed a farm in Hartsville, Darlington
county, as the site for the experiments
OF the department Two experts will
sebe Mt by the department to Darling
ton county to try the various kinds Of
tobacco and to Investigate the soil so
as to determine the best methods for
cnltivatiDg the weed.
It is the firm conviction of Prof.
Whitney that it is possible to produce
in South Carolina and Georgia as fine
q grade of Cuban filler as that import
ed from the island. Similar expert
ments with tobacco have been made in
Connecticut in past years and some of
the poorest land in New England has
been reclaimed and is now of great
value as tobacco land.
It is the intention Of the department
that the tobacco grown al Hartsyllie
shall be sent to the government expert
ment station in Texas for preparation
for the market. But in tho event that
the experiments succeed, as it is ex-
4pected they will, an experiment station
with apparatus for curing and prepar-
ing for sale the home grown tobacco
will probably be provided for IN
another year.
Senator Latimer is taking keen in
terese in this project and it is largely
through his efforts that these steps
have bene taken by the department to
Investigate the possibilities of South
Carolina as tobacco growing State.
He has requested that he be assigned
:ta the agricultural committee in the
senate. He has made this request not
only that hem may be able to be Of greater
service to lis constituents, but at the
solicisatIon Of the agricultural depart
mens officials who while he,sWas in the
house found In him faithful friend of
the department. It was the senator's
policy while in the house to stand by
the estimates of the department and
he has fought and won many fight
with theschaiEman of the house. agrl-
cultural committee, Of which he was a Il
member. He viii probably be placed
on the senate commi5tee of agriculture
and at the next session Of congress
will endeayor to secure additional ap-
propriations looking to the establish |
ment of the tobacco industry in the |
south, and especially in South Caro-
lima.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-03-25
Reduced Rates Via Atlantic Coast Line.

Richmond, Va.-Southern Educational
Intermediates on sale from points
in Virginia, April Goth, 21st and 22nd.
Final limit April 2Sth, 1908. From all
other points, April Goth and 21st, final
limit April 2Sth, one and third fares
April 20.
Savannah, ,Ga.-Southern Baptist Con-
vention and Auxiliary Societies.-Iickets
on sale from all points at one fare for
round trip, plus twenty five (25) cents,
May 4th to 7th., inclusive. Final limit
May goth, 1908. An extension of the final
limit until June 1st, may be obtained by
deposit of tickets with Joint Agent at
Savannah, on payment of fee of fifty (5o)
cents. May Z.
New Orleans, La.-United Confederate
Veterans Reunion. Tickets On sale May
10th to 21st. inclusive. Final limit May
oath. 1903. An extention of final limit to
June 18th, may be obtained by deposit of
tickets with Joint Agent at New Orleans
on payment of fee of fifty (50) cents. Rate
one cent per mile. May 81
Call on ticket agents for exact rates and
any other information and see thas your
tickets read via the Atlantic Coast Line.
Approved:
Il. M. Emerson, W. j. Craig,
Traffic Manager. Gen. Pas. Agent.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-03-25

King Edward has been restricted by
his physicians to five cigars a day.
lie las been an inveterate smoker al
n3osf since bis hoyhood. Some thirty
wears ago ne was dining with the late
Lord Derby. who regarded the use of
tobscco as vulgar and unpleasant
habit. After dinner the Prince sug-
gested a cigar. whereupon his lord
Shin dryly expressed regret that his
house did not contain smoking room'
adding that be could not suggest the
stables as a suitable place for burn
inc tobacco. Much to his surprise, the
Prince adjourned to the region indi.
Gated and enjoyed his post -pTandlal
cigar.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-03-25
ROOSEVELT REAoEINA1Es GRBM.
The Failure of the Senate to Con-
firm Has No Effect Upon the
President.

Washington, March 2o..-The presi-
dent today reappointed DR.. W. D.
Crum, .colored, collector of customs at
Charleston, S. c., and Wm. Nj. Byrne,
United States district attorney for
Delaware. Both of these nominations
failed Of confirmation at the recent
session Of the senate
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-03-25

them to think is impending in the
future. There will be cotton enough
for all and despite the united efforts of
Europe and the rest Of mankind the
absolute supremacy of this country
in cotton production will be fully
maintained.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-03-25

DR.. Conan is under contract with
publishers to write twelve stories for
which he is to receive nine thousand
dollars each. The length of tie
stories is to be ten thousand words.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-09-15
MAY GET A
NEW LINE
Chilean Company Will
Make This a Port
of Call.

The long talked of steamship line
from Japan to Chile and other coun-
tries on the Pacific coast of South
America, via Honolulu, may soon be-
come reality, as commissioner In
to the trade prospects there has just
returned home and announced that a
company to run the line is to be form
ed.
Fujimura, the commissioner, states
that the people of the Gillian RepLb-
lie now regard Japan as great wofli
power and are anxious to open COM
mercial relations which had hither-
to been pa actically nil-by means of di-
rect steamship communication. During
Mr.. Fujimura's stay in Chile, the Con-
gress there had passed a bill granting
an export subsidy on all saltpetre ship
ped to Japan. Chile's export bounty
on saltpetre was taken off some years
ago and it is now put on the product
intended for Japan, for the purposes
of stimulating trade with that country.
Fujimura stated I at there is now not
a single Japanese emigrant in Chile
and that there were good prospects for
emigration as the Chilean climate did
not differ much from that of Japan
and there was need for Japanese Ia
Dor there.-Japan Times.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-09-15
KAUAICONVENTION
ENDORSES DOLE

The platform of the Kauai Republi-
cans contains a strong endorsement of
the administration of Governor Dole
The platform is as follows:
The Republicans of the County Of
Kauai, assembled by their delegates in
county convention, pause on the
threshold of this the first county 90 l.
vention to honor the memory of their
first great leader, the immortal cham
pion of liberty and the rights OF the
people-Abraham Lincoln and to COW
err also with wreaths of imperishn BILE
remembrance and gratitude the heroic
names of our late leaders who have
more recently been called away
Grant, Garfield, Arthur, Logan, Conk-
ling, Blaine and Mckinley. May their
memories be faithfully cherished.
In the spirit of those great leaders,
and of our own devotion to human ill.,
erty and justice, which is the funda =.
mental idea of the Republican rar,y,
we send fraternal congratulations 10
our sister counties and hail with
shouts of joy the advent of local self
government, that God-given right of
| every intelligent people.
We reaffirm our adherence to the
traditions and policies of the Republi-
can party and proclaim our unswerv-
ing allegiance to the principles OF
that party as contained in its national
platform adopted in Philadelphia in
1900: and the platform of the Republic
can party of the Territory of Hawaii,
adopted in Honolulu in 1902.
We reaffirm eur answering devotion
to the supreme and sovereign right Of
every lawful citizen, without regard
to race, color or previous condition OF
servitude, to cast one free ballot in
public elections and to have that bal
lot duly counted.
Advocating these principles, we
pledge ourselves to work for an amend
ment to our registration laws so that
large part OF our intelligent citizens
shall not be disfranchised.
We endorse the national administra-
ton of President Roosevelt for the
manner in which he has conducted the
business of the country: We also en-
dorse the administration OF Governor
s. r. Dole for the conservative, hon
est and faithful manner in which he
has carried on the executive depart
ment of the Territory.
We pledge ourselves to the electors
and the people OF the County of Kauai
that IL the nominees of this convention
are elected, we shall use all our influ-
ence to the end that the county laws
shall be honestly, economically and
faithfully administered.
PRINCE I. TOPLF,
Chairman.
FRANCIS GAY,
GUSTAV HANAM.