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The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1905-02-01
Five Hundred Russieus Captured
by japanese.

Toxic, Jan 30, s u m.-~Telc-
graphic advioes received here to.
day from the japanese Manchu.
risn headquarters says:
"Our detachment occupied
Liutiako yesterday Saturday and
was twice counter attacked by a
superior force of the enemy last
night. We entirely repulsed the
enem-.
"Our other detachment at dawn
today Sunday attacked the en-
emy IN the nelghborhood of Felt
saahotszu, about two miles north
of Heikoutai, and occupied the
position. The enemy nercely
counter attacked our force which
assaulted Heitoutal last night, but
was repulsed entirely. Today
our force occupied the neighbor-
hood of Heikoutai.
"The enemy in the direction of
Liutako and Heikoutai has en-
tireIy retreatcd to the right bonk
of the Hun river. Our force is
now pursuing them.
1--WE captured 500 officers and
men.
"The casualties on both sides
are under investigation"
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1905-02-01

Representative Foster spoke 8 last
Friday against Josh Ashley's bill
to abolish the state bureauof i'm
migration and agriculture. Of his
speech the News andCourier's Coz
lumbia Correspondent says:
Mr.. Foster, of Lancaster, came
here instructed tn favor any law
favorable to immigration. He
thought immigration was ne.
cessity in this State. The negro
is not going to stay in this coun-
try and remain in the field. The
educated negro leaves here. -
This bureau protects the State
against "soum" Immigration
The cotton mills have depleted
the farm help and more farm
help has to be brought here.
This country had many recent
substantial immigrants. He
wanted to say that his people
wanted this bureau maintained i,
and those who opposed the de
partment were left at home.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1905-02-01

This is the question: Will
those who protest against compul-
sorry education, on the plea that it
i. undemocratic and paternalistic,
advocate the suspension of taxes
for free schoolsi Inveighlng
against compulsion for education
they cannot defend compulsory
taxation for free school education.
The State.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1905-02-01
A CHILD BURNED TO DEATH.

Bennettsville, Jan. 29.-Ths
two-year-old child Of George Cros
land, a wealthy farmer and large
real estate owner, was burned to
death last night.
Mrs. Crosland was in the kit:h-
en- and Mr. Crosland left the room
for few moments to investigate
q noise in the barn. The child
pulled a lamp from the table sat-
urating it's head and clothing with
oil. When the parents reached
the child it was enveIoped in
flames and sti'l holding the lamp.
After three hours of intense suffer
ing it died at 9.o'clock.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1905-02-01
Convention Of Colored FERN

The farmers of lancaster coun
ty are earnestly requested to
meet in annual session Feb. 9th,
1905, ct school building.
Much business Of importance
to come before US. Let The farm
ers, colored and white, get close
together
To what extent can the colored
farmer assist in betterlng his
condition
What can we DO to more fully
convince the negro that it is bet
ter to stay in the South, and
stop floating about ? Farmers
need good labor and will pay for
it.
Does hot the colored man have
a better opportunity to make
monev and get honors here than
in the North ?
Do the negroes discourage
crime aud vagrancy among the
people ?
To what extent is the negro
trying TO educate himself ?
To what extent can the colored
farmer help reduce the cotton
acreage for the good of the coun-
try t?
Is tie storage of cotton bales
advisable Will the poor man
be benefited by it /?
Will the colored man be furn-
ished money to advantage
This meeting Of colored farm
ers will convene at 10 o'clock.
There will be a morning and
night session.
A barbecue DIM er will be serv.
ed farmers on that day.
Come ono, come all
Every farmer in the county
ought to be present.
NJ. D. LEE, President.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1905-02-01

81 have given MUCK thought to
this question and l am very sure
that the only justification for free
schools is compulsory education,
andl am also doubly sure that.that
is the only hope of our country"
B + Wilson, educator and then
president of Converse college.
The thing is for each indivi lual
farmer who gives his allegiance to
this tremendous effort in behalf of
his temporal salvation, to do his
full duty, and not trouble himself
about the unfair people who
would seek selfish advantage. 1t
is the people who go into the or
ganization and who live most hon
estly up to their obligations who
are going to get the most profit.
" orkville Enquirer
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1905-02-01
Russian Defeat.

St. Petersburg, Jan. 20, 1890
a. m. Instead of confirmation
of Saturday nights report that
Gen. Kuropatkin broke through
the japanese left, there came
Lieut.. Gen. Sakharoff's official
admission that the Russians had
been compelled to retire from
Snndespas on account of their
inability to carry redoubt.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1905-02-01
Hepburn-DOlliver Bill

Raleigh, N. G. Jan. 2S--The
general assembly ofNorth Carolina
today adopted joint resolution
asking the representatives of the
State in congress to vote for the
passage of the Hepbnrn-Dolliver
bill prohibiting interstate shipping
of whiskey into prohibition terri
tory.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1905-02-01

-Spartanburg special in the
News and Courier: The cotton
condition is most anomalous. 1t
has surprised experts as we'll as
farmers. Hundreds of bales are
unsold in the country, but no one
seems to be pressed for money.
Even the farmers who have sold
no cotton are getting on all right.
A cotton mill president reports
that he bought cotton for Feb
ruarv or March delivery at 81
cents. That trade was made when
the drop III price began. He
thought it was cheap enough.
The factor who was to furnish the
cotton has written to bin, beg
ging off, for he cannot buy q bale,
even at that price. The cotton
factors here are not booking orders
for Immediate or future deliy ery.
just because they have no
cotton in sight 1t is one of the
most interesting business problems
that has come up for solution in
the south. Bankers, cotton fac
tors, mill presidents and farmers
are all working for the same OBJ
ject. They wish to eliminate the
gambling element from the prob
lem, so that the price will be unl-
form, or as nearly so as possible.
1t is remarkable business con-
dition when mill president in
slsts on the delivery of cotton at
81 cents when the local price is on
ly 6.75, and the seller is unable to
deliver the cotton, when the mar
gin is about IS to $40 a bale in
his favor. 1t begins to look as if
the stand which the farmers
have taken will revolutionize
the methods of the cotton ex-
change. The farmers of this
county seem In earnest about
holding what is on hand. Oc-
casionally one carries his cotton
to mill and has the option Of
naming the day for payment, the
price being the market price of
that day. This correspondent saw
six or eight bales on the way to a
mill this morning on that condi.
ton. That is safe for the farmer.
but it tends to keep the price
down.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1905-02-01
Col. Springs 9n the Ten Hour
Labor Bill.

Lancaster cor. The News and
Courier Just before Col. Leroy
Springs, president Of the Ian.
caster Cotton Mills, left here Sat
urday evening for New Orleans,
to attend the big cotton Conven-
ton, to which he is n delegate,
your correspondent asked him
for his views on the ten-hour
labor bill pending before the
Legislature.
The Colonel promptly replied
"Why, the passage Of that bill
would certainly result in disaster
to the mills Of the State. l am
sure the measure is being agi-
tated by Northern people through
some of the labor agitators
around Augusta and Aiken,
where all this labor agitation
arises.
"Those people are working in
the interest Of the New England
mills, as the hope of the New
England mills competing with
South Carolina mills depends
upon their getting all the labor
agitation in our midst that they
can promote
eyes, the enactment Of such
bill into law would, beyond
doubt, gre atly-cripple the textile
industry of South Carolina,
which is now in its infancy -
While it is true that we have
made rapid strides toward the
building of textile industries in
the State, if we can but keep
down labor agitation, this work
has only commenced. Nothing
should be thrown in the way of
getting all the capital we can in
the State.
"You know what the mills
have done for the town of Lam
caster and vicinity-weli, mills
will do the same thing for every
little town in South Carolina
that may build them in the fu.
ture, if the mills are not crippled
by adverse legislation.
"Before we commence labor
agitation Of this nature we
should wait until we get some.
what on parity with Massa-
chusetts and other New England
States, which have prospered so
materially since the war on &C.
count of having monopoly of
the textile industry.
"The cotton mills have al! h ad
hard time for the past eighteen
months, owing to the unsettled
condition of the cotton market
and cotton goods trade generally,
and they can i'll afford to have
further agitation at :present.
"What the mills need more
than anything else-especially
since the passage of the child
labor lsw-is a system of com.
pulsory education, to force the
children into the schools that the
taxpayers are being made to sup.
port, in order to give to the State
an Intelligent citizenship.'
Nl have given much thouoht to
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1905-02-01
SAY "MURRAY'1u

When you've got a bad oouah hust
say MURRAY Y'S" II a drugeist
gives you anything but Murnay's Hors
hound, Mullen aud Tar you're not
getting the best and suSest cough roro
edy. Maine him give you Mnrray's
Acls quicker and you get 90 $40
bottle for G5c.
Every druggist has it
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1905-02-01

The KEATA:y0NES C0AAPANY.
s >S>s>S>S>S>S>S>S
TlhE CO., which has been liquidated i'm order @ TO
settle with the estate of JAS. M. HEATH, de-
ceased.
>S>S>S>S><>S>S>S
We are here for business and intend getting
share Of the trade if low prices and fair deal
ings will induce the public to stick to Hav-
ing renovated the stores of the Heath Banking
q Mercantile Co., gives us more room and makes
our place more convenient for business. We
have devided OUR stock into department, grocer
les first, on the corner gents furnishidg depart
ment second; dry goods third, and millinery in
We would call your attention to the fact that
I'VE have many great inducements to offer
For The Next Thirty Days
as we want to make clean sweep before pur-
chasing Our Spring Goods.
In moving Shoes man were broken and we have
decided place them bargain counter and h them go cost Now
these shoes old goods right and some Of the best We aye u
las DREW-SELBY, GOODMAN and other makes.
CLOTHING WE HAVE In ABUNDANCE
And fprioes will move tho goods, it is up to
you to take advantage OF this great reduction sale
on can have any suit of clotEes IN our establish
ment tor actual cost for the spot cash, so eto't
delay but come and let us dress ycs up.
we would like to tell you more a1,out what we
nave In the way OF bargains but being SO rushed
prevents our doing I'LL we ask is am tnsnec
ton and you will readily see we are
IN SHAPE FOR BUSINESS,
and can make you prices that will give you per.
rect Ma satlsfact'an, wishing everyone prosper
rOnage, we are. p
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-05-17
OF REGENT HAPPENINGS AT DEWEY First Brick Structure Is Completed and
 Celebrated
Serious Indisposition Of Old Respected
 Pioneer
(From Saturdays Daily.)

DEWEY, May 11-There was ball in Dewey last night, given to cele- brate the completion of our first brick building. This building was put up by Jack Carroll, and he intends to use it for a general store. The MeCabe or chestra furnished music for the ball. and there were about twenty couples present, several being from McCabe.
 Supper was served at Joe MeSper- rin's restaurant, and everybody seems to have had a good time.
 Wm. Tinsley, who is employed by the Angora Goat Company, on the Verde, is reported to be recovering from the effects of his recent accident. Mir. Tinsley was herding goats, and tree was knocked unconscious, and lay in that condition for several hours. On his. not returning home at the usual time, friends went to look for him, and found him still unconscious and seriously injured.
 A party of stockholders of the Eos sil Creek Electric Power Company passed through Dewey the other day, en route to the company's plant at Fossil creek.
 Mrs. Young, one of Lower Verde s oldest and best loved residents, is re- ported to be so seriously i'll that her recovery is doubtful.
 J. T. Fuller, station agent and jus tice of the peace, visited the Pfau mine this week.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-05-17
SMITHS NERVE |S ALMOST
 GONE

ST. LOUIS, May 12-The terrible strain is telling on E. J. Smith, the embedding tax collector of San Fran cisco, and he is fast breaking down. His appearance is dejected. he does not sleep well, black circles surround his eyes, and his appetite has praetic- ally disappeared. He eats scarcely anything, simply trifling with his food, and is always breeding over his situa- tion. A complete physical collapse is apprehended by th- police. Smith has been removed to a cell in the jail. and is constantly under surveillance. The police do not believe now that he will make any attempt upon his own life; his nerve is completely gone.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-05-17
HIT THE PIPE, DIES ON A
 TRAIN

KANSAS CITY, May 12-Herbert w. Croker, the son of Richard Crok- CT, the well known New York politi- elan, was found dead on the south bound Santa Fe train between Kan sas City and Newton, Kansas, this afternoon. He had died during the night, evidently from the effects of a drug administered in Kansas City, where he took the train last night for Bliss. Okla.
 The news was received here this afternoon of Croker's death, and the police requested that search be made for the negro who put CrOker on the train. Croker carried a letter from Zach Mulhal to Jos Miller, manager of the famous "IOI" ranch at Bliss, Okla, and was on his way there for an outing.
 The police found the negro who put Croker on the train tonight. He is Chas. Woodson, a porter at the Coates House. Woodson says that Croker came to the hotel intoxicated last night, and asked him where there was Chop joint The negro took him to one, thence to the train, and help ed him aboard. The police believe the negro guilty of no misdeed.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-05-17
Phoenix Wants Mineral Exhibit For
 Portland
Mayor Go1dwater Will Take Steps To
 Comply
(From Saturdays Daily.l


 Mayor Goldwater yesterday receiv- ed letter from the Phoenix Board of Trade urging that Prescott join in arranging for a mineral display at the Portland Exposition. The eommuni- cation reads thus:
 "As the last legislature neglected to make an appropriation for Arizona s exhibition at the Portland Exposition, our Board of Trade has taken up the matter, and we are arranging to send an exhibit.
 "Spaee has been secured in the For estry building, which is the pride of Oregon, and one of the finest build ings at the Exposition, where the Ari- zOna collection will be in charge of MT. J. W. Benham. Selec- tions have been made from the St. Louis Exposition, which was returned to the territory, and such exhibition will be made as we can arrange for.
 "There will be no expense attached to the work, except the gathering of the exhibit and transportation charges to Portland and return. Special rates of about $1.S5 a cwt. have been secur- ed. It is hoped that you may be able to assist us in this matter, and it is hoped that you might in any event, arrange display cabinet of fine min eral specimens which would attract notice, and supplement it with a good supply of printed matter about your section, which Mir. Benham will un- dertake to distribute to visitors. This is territorial exhibit, and not for any one locality, and as all are to be bene- fited we should like that all sections have their share in it.
 Mayor Goldwater stated to the Journal-Miner representative that Prescott has fine exhibit which was at the St. Louis Exposition, and that it is in the Elk's building. He will take up the matter today with Hon. A. J. DOran, who represented this section of the territory at the fair, and is confident that arrangements can be made so that the exhibit can be used at Portland in connection with other exhibits being secured by the Phoenix board of trade.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-05-17
BIG SHAKE UP IN POLICE
 FORCE

NEW YORK, May 12-Three in spectOrs, 9 captains, from 90 to 60 sergeants, and a number of roundsmen were retired or dismissed outright from the police force in Greater New York tonight.
 This is the initial move by Commis- sioner McAdoo in one of the greatest police "shake ups' in the history of the city. It will reach to the hum blest member of the force of $500 men. It is to be a complete cleaning out and reorganization Of the depart ment.
 Physical unfitness'' is declared to be the reason assigned for dropping the officers.
 It is an open secret that the police surgeons have been busy for the last month making physical examinations.
 It is declared that neariy all of the officials who are to go are already aware unoffcially of their fate. It was said tonight the "Shoofy" sys- tenn will hereafter be abandoned below Fourteenth street.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-05-17
TORNADO AFTERMATH IS A GRUESOME
 SIGHT
Carloads of Collins Arrive At Snyder For Burial
 Of Victims

One is delirious and one unconscious.
 Storm Not Over.
 GUTHRIE, Okla, May PA terri fc wind and hail storm struck Mar low, Indian Territory, today, damaging many business houses. The loss will amount to about $3O,OOO. No lives were lost.
 SNYDER, May 12-Responses of a generous nature have been made by many of the cities and towns of the territory. Several thousand dollars worth of food and clothing were placed in the hands of the local committee for distribution.
 Relief work also was furnished suffi- cient to meet every requirement. On account of complaints that bodies are being robbed, badges are issued by the marshal, which must be worn by everybody in town.
 A detachment of the Oklahoma mi litia arrived today and went into camp for the purpose of preserving or der and protecting property. Citizens will turn their attention to the cree tion of suitable habitations for the liv- ing, many of whom are now compelled to live practically with no shelter, while the buildings habitable are fill ed to overflowing.
 A second appeal has been sent cut by the local committee for building material
 It is thought that fifteen or twen- ty of the injured will die.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-05-17

SNYDER, Okla, May 12-Nearly one hundred eorpses were buried here last night and today, removing the most gruesome evidence of the tor nado which nearly destroyed the town on Wednesday night.
 None of the injured died during the night, but some of them are being kept alive only by the efforts of the physicians and nurses in the emer- gency hospital.
 Soon after daylight came, people were at work getting ready to per form the last rites for the dead. Three carloads of coffns arrived during the night, together with dozen undertak- CTS from a convention of undertakers in sesslon at Oklahoma City.
 Workmen also came in on special trains, and the work of burial is be- ing carried on with the utmost dis patch. A heavy rain this morning rendered operations difficult, the floor of the morgue being covered with water.
 Most of the buildings that remain standing admitted streams of water through the roofs, and the temporary hospitals are leaking like sieves. The rain, which was accompanied with wind and hail, served to frighten the residents. Many newly made graves are filled with water.
 Two more of the injured were found today pinioned under house beam.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-05-17
Gus Albert Claims He Was Beaten By
 Enemies
He Says They Wanted Him to Leave the
 Country
(From Saturdays Daily.)

NAApAiA DdliN
 Dan Gallagher, William Subers, and F. E. Sanderson were arrested and ar raigned before Justice Talbot yester- day morning on the charge of assault and battery with deadly weapon up- on one Gus Albert. Their trial was set for the afternoon of May 20.
 These men were brought in by In der-Sherif, Neagle from MeCabe, the party being accompanied by Albert. who swore to the complaint.
 According to statements made by Albert. the assault was committed in the middle of the night of May s. the men coming to his house, there beat ing him and striking him, inficting se- we're cuts and bruises. The cause for this assault, according to Albert, is the attempt to force Albert to leave the country in order to come into possession of contract that Albert had with the Jesse Mines Company.
 Before the assault was committed, Albert states he had been threatened many times that he would get hurt if he did not leave, but he determined not to be frightened, refused to leave, and finally the assault came about. This is one side of the story.
 The story of the decendants is en- tirely different, they claiming that they can. and will, furnish evidence to the contrary. They were released on bail, and have returned home.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-05-17
SE EVEN KILLED IN BUT TE
 MINE

BUTTE, Mont, May 12-Seven men were killed and one injured in an ex- plosion in the Cora mine, one of the Heinze properties, this afternoon.
 The cause of the explosion is un- known. One man was killed while carrying an armful of about forty sticks of dynamite. He was climbing the ladder to join his companions at the 1,4O0 foot level, when the dyna- mite exploded with terrific force.
 The drift in which the unfortunate men were working was completely lit- tered with human fragments. Several rescue parties were overcome by the sight.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-05-17
SURVEYORS RETURN.

A. J. Moseley and Arthur Creekmur have returned to Prescott from Will Hams, where they have been working for the past two weeks with the Unit ed States geological survey party, in charge of NJ. l.. Bright, running a line from above Del Rio to Ash Fork.
 Burt Martin, who was also mem- Der, has gone on to the Grand Canyon, where the party will take topography, for the purpose of completing work started last summer. Moseley and Creekmur will remain in Prescott for a few days, their plans being unccr- tain at the present time.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-05-17

CAIRO, H., May 12-Tom Wither- spoon, negro, was taken from the of fieers at Belmont, Mo, below Cairo. this evening by mob O! several hun dred, and hanged in the public square.
 WitherspOOn was recently liberated from the penitentiary, and went to the home of Fred Hess. near Bel mont, and at the point of a rifle de- manded $500. Hess not having the money, was forced by him to hitch up his wagon, and take his wife and
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-05-17
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
Estate of Amy Block, deceased.

Estate of Amy Block, deceased. . Notice is hereby given by the under signed, Administrator of the estate of Amy Block, deceased. to the creditors of and all persons having laims against the said deceased, to exhibit them, with the necessary vouchers. within ten months after the first pub lication of this notice to the said Ad- mfnistrator at Prescott, Arizona, the same being the place for the transae- tion of the business of said estatc, ins said County of Yavapai.
 ED. BLOCK,
 Administrator of She est lte of
 Amy Block, deceased Dated tlis 9th day of May 1905.
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