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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10
MlssleRED BY COWBOYS.
Five Men. of One Family Killed.
Three Cowboys Also Killed.

Superior, Neb, June 4.-EigEt men
were killed in battle between cow
boys and a family of farmers named
Berry, at St. Francis, Kan. The
cowboys were employed by the Dewar
Cattle Company, and there had been
bad feeling between them and the
Berrys for some time.
Land had been taken up by old man
Berry as homestead. The fences of
the cattle company interferred with
his passage to and from the roads.
Wire-cutting on the part Of the Berry
family, in order to get the shortest
possible road to town, is said to have
been the original cause of the quarrel.
The cowboys on the Dewar ranch had
theatened to kill the family.
The fight, resulting in the five
deaths, came after recent trip of the
Berry family to town. The father and
four sons were returning to their
homes. Eight miles from their desti-
nation they stopped to cut their way
through the wire fence. The cowboys
came upon them just as they complet-
ed the work. The Berrys mounted
quickly and the cowboys fired. The
Oldest Berry, John, was wounded, but
stayed in his saddle. The farmers had
the freshest mounts and soon we're
beyond accurate fire range. The COW
boys kept up scattering fusillade Of
shots. Arriving home, the Berrys did
not think they had been pursued all
the way, and they we're in front of the
house when the party of cowboys rode
up the hill, few yards to the north.
The shooting began immediately. Two
of the Berry boys were killed before
they could reach their rifles. The old
man and the other two boys got in
side the house. There were about
twenty cowboys and they started on
the gallop for the house intending to
fire it and burn the defenders out
The old man and the boys attempted
to escape from the other side of the
house and were shot down in success
sion. Three of the cowboys were kill
ed by the farmers while they were de-
Tending the house.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10
WOMEN AND CHILDREN BUTcRERED.
Turks Slaughter People Of Whole
Village.

Monastir, European Turkey, Sun
day, May 3l.-Horrrible details are
arriving here Of the slaughter of the
inhabitants of the village of Smer-
dash, south of Lake Presba on May
q, by Bashi-Bazouks. It appears
that on the arrival of the Bashi-
Bazouks, Chakalarof's band of insur-
gents withdrew to the mountains
without sustaining any loss. AS no
rebels were left in the village the in
habitants experienced no anxiety.
until suddenly, at sunset, the Turks,
who had completely surrounded the
place, commenced a regular lombard
ment, whereupon all the villagers as
sembled in the streets. Though the
artilleryaceased firing during part of
the night, the Turkish infantry fred
all night long. The artillery bonn
bardment was recommended at day
break, but as it. was ineffective the
Turks set fire to the village on all
sides and commenced a general massa-
ere, slaughtering women, children
and the aged. About three hundred
houses were burned and uwpards of
two hundred persons, mostly women
and children, were killed. The wom-
en- and girls. were murdered while re-
sisting outrage. Whole households
were slain. One family of seven were
slain and their bodies heaped on the
hearth. Not a living soul was left in
the village. The survivors, many of
them half-burned or otherwise in
jured, fed. Some of the fleeing vii
layers were captured and had their
cars and noses cut off before they
were butchered.
The report adds that 1900 villagers
we're in the mountains without cloth
ing or food. One band of these, con-
sisting of forty women and children,
we're caught by soldiers in ravine
and were killed after horrible treat
ment.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10
Negro Lynched in mississippi.

Greenville, Miss, Juness John
Dennis, a negro, was lynched here
this afternoon by a mob of two hum
dred men. The negro had attempted
criminal assault upon a we'll known
young lady who was returning home
from the telephone exchange, where
she worked, on Tuesday night last.
he was Immediately arrested and
placed in the local Jail.
This afternoon, while the streets
were crowded with women shoppers, a
body Of two hundred determined
men went to Jail and demanded ad-
mittance. This was refused, and mem
bers of the mob secured a railway rail
and battered down the door of the
prison. Dennis was taken to the
telephone exchange and hanged on the
cross-arm of a telephone pole. The ne
gro only asked time to pray.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10
Do You Enjoy What You Eat?

If you don't your food does not do you
much good. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure is the
remedy that every one should take when
there is anything wrong with the stomach.
There is no way to maintain the health
and strength of mind and body except by
nourishment. There is no way to nour-
lsh except through the stomach. The
stomach must be kept healthy, pure and
sweet or the strength will let down and
disease Will set up. No appetite, loss of
strength, nervousness, heauache, constipa-
ton. bad breath, sour risings, rlfting, in
digestion, dyspepsia and all stomach trou-
bles are quickly cured by tie use of Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure. Sold by j. S. Hughson
& Co
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10
CONDITION OF COTTON CROP.
Reported by the Department Of
Agriculture Thursday.

Washington, June 4.-The cotton
bulletin of the department OF agricul-
ture, issued today, is as follows:
'sThe statistician of the department
of agriculture estimates the total area
planted in cotton in the United States
this season at 2s, 907, coo acres, an in
crease of ], ,O29, 600 acres, or 8. Z per cent
upon the acreage planted last year.
The average condition of the grow
ing crop on May was "a. | per cent.
as compared with 95.1 on May 6, 1902:
8l.5 on May 20, 1901, and ten-year
average of 66.9.
The percentage of increase in acreage
in the different states is as follows
Virginia, per cent; North Caro-
lima, q; South Carolina, 5.3; Georgia,
IA; Florida, 2; Alabama, 2.3; Missis-
sippi, 45; Louisiana, 2.8; Texas, 1.5;
Arkansas, 5.s; Tennessee, 6; Mis-
souri,, Il; Oklahoma, SO; Indian
Territory, l0.3.
The condition of the crops by tates
on May 26 was as follows: Virginia,
Y per cent; North Carolina, "a;
South Carolina, 76; Georgia, 10;
Florida, 81; Alabama, 73: Mississippi,
IS; Louisiana, 76; Texas, 20;
Arkansas, rs; Tennessee, 80; Mis-
SOUR, s3; Oklahoma, 70; Indian
Territory, 76.
The condition now reported is for
the cotton belt as whole and for
the States of Georgia, Alabama and
Texas in particular the lowset condi-
tion ever reported at this season Of
the year. The crop is almost every
where from ten to twenty-one days
late. John Hyde, Statistician.
THE EFFECTS ON 'CHNGE.
New York, June upon the ap-
pearance of the Government crop re-
port showing the present average con-
dition of cotton to be al, compared
with So last year, the cotton market
here was thrown into a state Of great
excitement. The Immediate effect
was an advance of 6 to 10 points, aft
er which the market became easier
under realizing. After the excite
ment the market quieted down, with
prices2 points higher than yesterdays
closing.
EFFECT IN NEW ORLEANS.
New Orleans, June At the open
ing of the cotton market the ring went
wild over the reading of the bureaus
report on acreage and condition. 1t
became Immediately known that it
was the worst on record. Prices, how
ever, did not make any sensational ad-
yances, principally because the effects
Of the report had been discounted dur
ing the past week. Heavy liquidation
followed the reading Of the report. but
everything was quickly absorbed and
the proft-taking had no lasting effect
on priees,
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10
Can't be Separated.
Some People Have Learned
How to Get Rid of Both.

Backache and kidney ache are twin
brothers.
You can't separate them.
And you can't get rid of the backache
until you cure the sidney ache.
If the kidneys are well and strong, the
rest of the system is pretty sure to be in
vigorous health.
Doan's Kidney Pills make strong,
healthy kidneys.
Mr.. Henry Murphy, of es4 Broadway,
Memphis Tenn, professional nurse says !:
'.For year or two pain and weakness
across the loins and difficulty with the
kidney secretions indicated that my kid
neys we're overtaxed or weakened. All my
knowledge of medicine failed to bring re-
lief, and ever anxious to get rid of the
trouble before it became chronic, got
box of Doan's Kidney Pills at Hammer &
Billiards. drug store. They performed their
work very satisfactorily. know of 6
great many others in Memphis who have
been benefited by Doan's Kidney Pills.
For sale by all dealers. Price so cents.
Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo. N. u, sole
anents for the United States.
Remember the name-Doan's-and take
no substitute. 5
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10
Startling Evidence.

Fresh testimony in great quantity is
constantly coming in, declaring DR.. Kings
New Discovery Cor Consumption, Coughs
and Colds to be unequaled. A recent ex-
preston from T. j. Mcfarland, Bentor-
VILE, Va, serves as example. He writes
ST had Bronchitis for three years and doc
tored all the time without being benefited
Then began taking DR.. Kings New Dis
covery, and a few bottles wholly cured
me-" Equally effective in curing all Lung
and Throat troubles, Consumption, Pneu-
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.DeLorme, Drsggist. Trlal bottles free.
regular sizes SOC, and $1.o0.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10

Water has been struck in the new
ten-inch artesian we'll at depth of
$40 feet. The contract calls for well $50
feet deep so the boring will continue
and probably other sources of supply
will be struck, such having been the
case in the other two wells.-Aiken
Journal and Review.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10
Ladies and Children Invited.

All ladies and children who cannot stand
the shocking strain of laxative syrups, ca
thartics. etc., are invited to try the famous
Little Early Risers. They are different
from all other pills. They do not rurge
the system. Even double dose will not
grippe, weaken or sicken ; many people call
them the Easy Pill. W. H. Howell, Hous-
ton, Tex, says nothing better can be used
for constipation, sick headache, etc. Bob
Moore, Lafayette, Ind, says all others
gripe and sicken, while DeWitt's Little
Early Risers do their w,rk we'll and easy.
Sold by j. S. Hughson & Go.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10

Raleigh N. c., June 3.-Ernest
Haywood was released today under
$40, 600 bond for his appearance at the
July term of Wake Superior Court for
the killing of Ludlow Skinner
February 2lst. The ruling of Justices
Douglas and Walker, of the Supreme
Court, granting bail was read by
Judge Douglas at noon before an i'm
mense audience, and within thirty
minutes the bond was made up and
approved and Haywood was free
nan.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10

The Watts Cotton Mill of Laurens
has been chartered. The capital is
$500, 600. W. E. Lucas is president
and treasurer. The Donalds Oil Mill
has applied for a charter recently,
the capital stock Of which is to be
$4,000. ". r. and j. j. Dunn and
]. W. Brock are the corporators.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10

A Florida man who planted 5000
Porto Rico pineapple slips on quar-
ter of an acre in 1901, has now crop
of about 5000 apples, which will
average in weight ten pounds, and
for which he has been offered from
40 to so cents apiece. In addition to
this he will have slips enough to sell
to bring him in a lot Of money.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10

Knasas City, Mo, June A special
from Paola, Kan, says two Sante Fe
trains, a north-bound and a special
southbound, collided head on, one
mile north of Stillwell, Kan. Nine
persons are dead and twenty-eight
are said to be injured.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1903-04-15

and your are just as sure to sue
ceeu as loose horse is sure to
run ahead of one that is hobbled;
just as sure as cow that is not
fettered is going to find tall grass
while the one that is "staked"
may have to chew stubble-
unless she breaks the rope.
Learn this lesson we'll, let il
sink deep into your heart, adopt
't-and your life is a success al
ready.
All else you need do is to grasp
opportunities as they pass your
way.-Ex.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1903-04-15
Dairy Notes.

Cows in winter should have
dry beds to sleep upon.
Artificial coloring cannot
cover radical defects in butter.
An old COW is usually harder
to keep in good condition.
1t is impossible to make bad
butter good by any process
whatever.
The age of a COW has much to
do with her value as a mixer.
Winter dairying brings in
money when i, is usually most
needed.
Milk should be churncd several
degrees colder in summer than
in winter.
Frequent stirring of the cream
will obviate the difficulty of white
SpeCkS.
Cream when too warm is liable
to give trouble, and if1oo cold is
sure to.
One way Of making dairying
pay better is in the improvement
of the milk COWS.
Too much linseed meal will
injure the flavor of the butter
and Cause it to be greasy.
All food which the COW can be
induced to eat that she tarns into
milk is clear gain.
A large amount of needless
work often comes from setting
the milk in small vessels.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1903-04-15
Poor Mans Fate.

Debt is a shackle on energy.
1t slackens the pace of the strong
est and fleetest. 1t holds many
man to the spot when opportu-
nifty is but step away. There
may be flowers along life's tow
path, but he who is in debt finds
his reach too short to get then
Start two men of equal phys.
ical power, Of equal size and
equal fleet in the race. L-et one
be unhampered and the other
bound by the leg to heavy ball
and chain. Which would Win?
It would be no race at all, yo,l
will say and so it isn't
So it is that the man who has
kept himself free from debt al
ways wins in the race for success.
So it is that he who is hobbled
by debt lags BEND. 1t is newt
able.
The man free from debt
knows no master in the true
meaning of the term. He is foot
loose. He can shape his own
course. He can even find time
to sit down and think and plan for
the future. He istruly the mas
ter Of his own destinies so far as
is possible for human beings to be.
The man who is dragging a
load of debt along with him cannot
be his own master. Others die
tate or interfere with block on,
he is kept within certain bounds
and his locomotiou is necessarily
slower. He has to keep moying
in order to make ends meet. He
doesn't have time to sit down
and pan. There may be shaded
spots along the way, but only
the man free of debt may find
time to enjoy them.
Young man, keep out of debt,
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1903-04-15

fineness, quantity OF water and
temperature are so very varia BILE
that it is impossible to figure
exactly.
Again, the earth's laboratory
has ways of doing things which
chemists can not initiate. Things
which are inseluble in the
chemists laboratory are soluble
in the soil.
There are some very powerful
acids in the soil and many sub
stances are easily dissolved by
the aid of certain acids that are
wholly insoluble in water. So
you see the problem is very
complex one.
Again, certain parts or ele-
ments of a compound may be
made soluable while other ele.
merts remain insoluble. Raw
bone flour or phosphate rock
flour are almost entirely insolu-
BILE in water. But if you add
about the same weight of sui
phuric acid and phosphoric acid
is made >oluable in water. But
we can and do know something
in this line which we have learned
by experiment. The ammonia
in nitrate of soda is much more
soluble than in c. s. meal. So is
that in dried blood. Nitrate of
soda will show plainly on many
plants in two or three days
when put on as top dressing.
When dissolved in slightly warm
water and poured under the
plants about the roots its effects
can be seen in a few hours.
So, as far as we can know the
nitrogen producing material
stands in solubility about as our
correspondent has placed them.
Nitrate of soda, dried blood, sui.
ammonia, c. 5. meal.
Nitrates are more readily
taken up by plants than murlates.
sulphates or other compounds.
AS 10 the potash compounds, it
is not so easy to say. They diff
fer more in the quantity of pot
ash than in the solubilitv. An.
other thing to be considered is
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1903-04-15

the mechnical condition. Any of
them dissolve much more readily
if pulverized very fine. Kainit,
sulphate and muriate OF potash
are all made from the same
source, by using different acids.
The ates ought to be more solu.
BILE than the kainlt. The potash
in wood ashes is very soluble.
Tobacco stems arc somewhat
slower.
Acid phosphate and bone meal
are such indefinite terms that
we can not say anything positive
about them. The solubility de-
pends upon the fineness of the
-four and the strength and guam
tity of acid used in combining.
Steamed or burned bone is
more soluble. than raw. Super
phosphates are more soluble
than simple phosphates. They
are indiscriminately called acid
phospates for convenience.
THIS is an all important sub
ject. Our experiment stations
should work along this line and
give all the light they can.
The value of any fertilizer to
the farmer depends very much
upon the solubility Of the ele-
ments of plant food. In fact,
they have no other basis of value
If they are insoluble they are
entirely worthless.
The chemists analysis is some
help, but not a sureguide. There
ars so many things in the soil
which may and do affect this con-
dition that we can not foretell.
The presence or absence OF other
elements in the soil has much
power right here. Grease and
water do not mix, but add potash
and at once they unite and make
soap.
So some soils may have all the
elements for making plants
grow, but they may lock each
other up. Throw on dressing
of lime and the soil at once be-
comes very productive. Land
plaster is not known to have any
fertilizing element in it. But it
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1903-04-15

produces wonderful results upon
almost every crop we grow. 1t
renders soluble plant food al
ready present but insolable. For
this purpose it should be extern
sively used.-So. Cultivator.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1903-04-15
Solubility.
Mr. JB. HuNN1cuTT, Atlanta.

MR. ]. B. HUNNIcUTT, Atlanta.
Dear SIR Please prepare an
article for the general good, set
ting forth the time required to
make available for plant food the
various kinds of nitrogen, potash
and phosphoric acid under natu-
raj summer conditions so that
one can provide Gin mixtures) for
a continuous supply of plant
food as fast as one. class gives
out.
: Take as illustrations, nitrate
of soda, kainit, acid phosphate,
dried blood, sulphate potash,
bone meal, sui. ammonia, mu-
rate potash, bone.meal, tobacco
stems, wood ashes. Your, at
tenticn will oblige, ~....
Yours truly,
V. H. MARSHALL.
swer.-lt is almost i'm posi-
BILE, to answer our correspor dent
with accuracy. The exact time
it requires for any particular
fertilizer to become liquid and
pass into the circulation OF the
plant can not be ascertained.
The temperature has very much
to do with the rapidity of solu-
ton. At or near the freezing
,point-any of them would dissolve
very slowly. Anywhere below
forty.6ve degrees very few
plants would appropriate them il
dissolved. About sixty degrees
they would be appropriated very
rapidly.
Many things which are not
soluble in cold water are easily
dissolved in hot water. Again
many things will not dissolve
until certain quantity of water
present. If the point of solution
should be twenty atoms of water
to one of any given substance,
then eighteen or nineteen atoms
would have no effect at all, but
the moment the twentieth atom
was added all would dissolve.
The condition of the soil as to
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1903-04-15
STARKVILLE, MISSISSIPPI. APRIL IS, 19(
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Red Poll Bulls and HeiferS
All. Registered

Ages ranging from 10 months to ~ years.
Beautiful animals of choicest breeding in America and
from best foundation stock. All stock will be sold with
tifcate uation by DR.. c. Robert of the a. NJ Col
lege State Venaran We have lost single animal
from aclamaton tick fever after ton by
the State Nttnara although covered with ticks after that
time The Poll Beatrice the first prize $1,000.
in cash International Live Stock Show Chicago in
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1903-04-15
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Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-08-13

that. have become universal reference
books and is about the same size, per-
hapS little wider, and has 176 pages.
The maps are up to date and complete
and the book contains beside much
historical information. including pic
lures and biographies of all the presi
dents. 1t is Il convenient reference book
for every mans desk and will be found
a handy thing for every reader to have
by his side in these days when the daily
telegraph news covers the remotest
portions of the earth, often from points
unknown to many readers.
FISHING AT SANTA MONICA-Hi
Eldred and Jake Miller gre at Santa
Monica, as most of the people of Phoe-
nix are aware. Some time ago Robert
Fromm received a letter from Mr.. Ell
dred saying that bait was scarce there
and he asked that some be forwarded
him from Phoenix. Mr.. Fromm knew
what Mr. Eldred really meant by bait"
but he took him at his word and sent
him box of crickets. He received a
letter from hip yesterday saying that
when the consignment arrived there all
the crickets were dead but one; but
dead or alive the cricket is delicacy
to which the fish of the coast have
been unused. They went like wildfire.
The first days catch included forty
seven barracuda, siXty-nine yellowtail.
1903 black bass, seventeen tuna and five
Jewish. 1t was not Il good day for
fishing either. Mr.. Eldred says that
John Norton was at Santa Monica at
the time, and on his return to Phoenix
he said he might tell a quite different
story. But he adds that that would
not really make any difference, for he
says that Mr.. Norton is recognized as
the champion and official liar Of this
community. Mr.. Eldred says that when
he and Mr.. Miller are not fishing they
are bathing. Mr.. Miller would go into
the water oftener. but it is so much
trouble to dry his hair that frequently
he deprives himself of the pleasure of
a frolic in the surf.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-08-13

Forecast for today-Fair.
Data for "a hours ending p. m. yes
Z erdaV.
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