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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-28

will join the old main line at Cadiz
in San Bernardino county, and will
give q wide berth to the flood districts
and heavy grades which the old line
traverses.
Roy Fugate, 0 of the passenger
conductor, resigned his position with
the Remsberg Mercantile company up
at Ration, and left for La Junta in
view of accepting employment offered.
Leading railway presidents have re-
ceived warning from tn. inner circles
at Washington that it Is the purpose
of the administration henceforth to
apply the interstate commerce and
antitrust laws as vigorously to passen-
ger as to freight traffic.
A car on the Santa Fe passed
through Las Vegas yesterday loaded
with poultry. The attendants with
the car stated that some five thousand
fowls were in the car to which there
were eight floors. They bound
from St. Joe. Missouri, to San Fran
cisco, California.
During the coming summer, 1t Is
prophesied in railroad circles, western
tourist travel will exceed the highest
record yet established by the western
roads All local passenger agents are
unanimous in the statement that tour
lists will flock to the west next sum
mer.
Thursday evening at 1880 o'clock at
the residence Of Mr.. and Mrs. w Il.
Clark in albuquerque. Miss Margaret
Redmond Of Chicago, became the
bride of Scott McCammon, the well
known Santa Fe fireman. Only the
intimate friends Of the family were
present at the ceremony.
Phil p. Hitchcock, general agent of
the passenger department of the Wa
bash, was returning to his Denver
post of duty on No. 2 last evening
from a trip to Albuquerque. He visit
ed r. T. Larrimore at the ticket office
long enough to spin to him the latest
naughty yarn going the rounds of the
travelling passenger men.
By an official order issued by Gen
eral Manager Wells of the Santa Fe
! Pacific at Los Angeles. |. l.. Hubbard
superintendent of the Southern Cal
ifornia division of the Santa Fe, is
! appointed to succeed 4. J. Shepard
recently resigned, as general superin
tendent. j. II. Hitchcock, assistant to
General Manager Wells, succeeds
| Mr.. Hubbard,
William Garland, some years age
d Las Vegas railroad contractor and
now a capitalist and railroad pro
moter and proprietor at Los Angeles
| Cal, has just closed a deal for lot 12l
of the Westmoreland tract. being GO
by 1877 feet on the west side of Elden
avenue, north Of Tenth street In that
city. Mr.. Garland has for many years
lived at the corner Of Eighth street
and Westlake avenue, In n OF the
handsomest residences west of Figue
roa street. but like so many OF the
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-28
D. s K. g.. System
Santa Fe Branch
Time TAble No. ~.
lEfrective Wednesday April 1. 1908.

Trans run daily except sunday,
Connections With the main line and
branches as follows
Al Antonito for Durango, Silyerton and all
points Ia the San Juan country.
IL AlamOsa with standard gaugej for La
veta. Pueblo, Colorado Springs and Denver
also with narrow gauge for Monte Vista, Del
Norte Oreede and all point tnthe San Luis
valley.
At salida with main line STANDARD gauge
TOR all points east and vest including Lead
Vile and marrow gauge points between sal
Ida and Grand Junction.
At Florence and Canon City for the gold
camps III Cripple Greek and Victor.
At Pueblo, colorado Servings and Den yer
with all Missouri river lines for all points
east.
For further Information address the under.
signed.
Through passengers from santa re In
standard gauge sleepers from Aiamosa can
have berths reser we'd on application
Y. II, DAVIS. Agent,
santa Fe, IN
x b. HOOPER "a. r. A,
Denver, Colo
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-28

Mrs. G. u. Ross. wife OF G. L. Ross.
official stenographer at republican
headquarters, arrived In Santa Fee
from FL Paso and will remain there
for the present.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-28
Your Investment Guaranteed

Did you know the Aetna Building
association pays 8 per cent On
special deposits? Before placing
your money elsewhere see us and
get best interest
Geo. II. Hunker. Sec. veeder Dlk.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-28

FOR RENT-Six room house with
bath and range. SIS. per month; In
quire Optic office. l2-20i.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-28
THE HARRIS
Real Estate
Houses For Rent.

Corner 18th and Tilden Ave. a room
house and bath.
1909 4th st. 6 roo house.
1908 7th st, s room house
14t4 Columbia Ave. 6 room house
S1t Douglas Ave. 4 room house
1922 Grand Ave. 4 room house
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-06-21
CI.ssed as 3. FrSud.

The postal officials have issued an
order debarring from the use Of the
mails DR.. Winfield & Co., Of Rich
mond, Va, who advertised a com
pound which would turn the skin O!
the blacKest Of negroes to lily white.
The story is related that several years
ago DR.. Winfield met q celebrated
French scientist, who gave him his
discovery, "marwip," with which he
guaranteed to change red, blue, black
green or yellow to beautiful pinkist
white. Department chemists say
marvin is composed OF biclorid Of
mercury, benzoln, glycerine and dis
titled water. while the compound
has a temporary bleaching effect, it i:
not permanently beneficial, but it j!
ultimately Injurious" says the dc
partment fraud order.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-06-21
A Small Crop,

A dispatch from Dallas, Texas,
says John T. Garner, business agent
and manager Of the cotton depart
ment OF the Farmers Union, has is.
sued cotton report, showing reduc-
ton Of cotton as per sworn statements
from union and non. union farmers
through tile southern cotton belts.
He says that about January !, $50, 900
cotton coupons we're sent out to mem
bers Of the union, on which coupons
the farmers we're each to state what
their cotton acreage was last year,
and to write pledge that it would
not exceed a given number Of blank
acres this year. he adds: I have
had everv coupon tabulated and the
full report shows reduction in cottol
acreage Of 30 1-3 per cent. The late
cold, wet weather has caused still
greater reduction in acreage; then the
web, or as some call it, the careless
worm," Is stripping the foliage ofl
OF thousands CT scores all over Texas.
most OF which will have to be planted
over even at this late date. At the
present outlook this years crop will
not exceed 8,G00,0 900 bales. -
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-06-21
Work of an Assassin.

What is believed to be the sequel to q
feud of long standing resulted at Val
dosta, Ca, Wednesday night in the
assassination Of the l7.year-old son
and the l6 year-old daughter OF W.
Z. Carter, formerly Baptist minis
ter. The young people were attracted
by the barking Of a dog in the yard
surrounding their home and went out
to investigate, followed bY younger
child. They we're fred upon by some-
one from behind the smokehouse. The
young lady fell dead, the young man
crawled back to the house, where he
lied, and the younger child was
wounded. Carter fred upon some one
prowliDg in his yard early Wednes-
day. He says the intruder was ne
gre. He believes the assasssins are
negroes, but says others may have
been instigators OF the crime.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-06-21
a Premier Stabbed.

At Athens Theodore P. Delyannis,
the popular premier Of Greece was
stabbed and mortally wounded by a
professional gambler named Ghera-
kariS, at the main entrance Of the
chamber OF deputies at p. N. Tues
day. The premier died within three
hours. The assassin who was imme-
diately arrested, said he committed
the deed In revenge for the stringent
measures taken by Premier Delyannis
against the gambling houses, all OF
which recently closed. The premier
arrived at the entrance OF the cham
ber in a carriage. Gherakaris approach
ed, saluted the premier and opened
the carriage door. The premier was
In the act OF thanking Gherakaris for
his courtesy when the gambler plung-
ed a long dagger into N. Delyannis
abdomen, inhicting frightful wound.
The murdered was Immediately over
powered by the attendants.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-06-21
DISAPPEARS FROM HOME.
a York County Farmer Deserts Els
Wife and Children.

Erwin Carnes, a farmer living on
the Jim Moss plantation near Ti1zah,
lett his home early last Tuesday
morning and nothing has been heard
from him since. Carnes has been
married three times, his last wife be-
ing a widow living in Concord, N. c ,
when she married Carnes. Her mai
den name was Harris. She come Of a
coed family and has relatives in the
county. Mrs. Carnes awoke just be-
fore day Tuesday morning and miss
ing her husband, called him several
times and claims be answered her
from the piazza the last time she
called, and thinking he would return
in a few minutes, she gave the mat
ts5 no further concern at the time.
But if Carnes was on the porch when
his wife called for him, be made good
use Of the few minutes while she was
waiting for him to come In, for he
was no where in sight when search
was made for him a few minutes later.
He left a letter for his seventeen year
old son and one to his wife in which
be stated that be was forced to leave
on account OF his son and his Wife's
daughter giving him so much trouble,
said neither one Of them would work
and he could not control them. He
carried nothing with him except a
gun and a few clothes packed in a
yallse. His wife is much wrought up
over the matter and has tried hard to
find some trace OF Carnes, bat all IN
vain. Cares, it is said, left his first
wife twice but returned on both oc-
casions and lived with her until her
death. He was married to bis last
wife less than a year ago.-Rcck Hill
Herald
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-06-21
Saved Guards Lite.

Frank Davis, a negro convict on the
Fairfield chaingang, has been reward,
ed for saving guards life, by being
released. Davis was sent up in 1902
fol housebreaking and larceny and his
sentence was five years. The other
day one Of the negro conVicts on the
same gang with Davis planned to es-
cape. While the guards back was
turned the negro rushed at him with
a pickax and only the quickness OF
Davis prevented tragedy. The other
negro fought desperately, but Davis
finally overpowered him and the sup.
ervisor OF Fairfield at once took steps
to have Davis set free. Governor
Hayward signed a communication OF
sentence to the present time and the
order for freedom was sent on at
onco
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-06-21
MANNING, S. c., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2I. 1906.

sun came out, the first time in quite
while, the trooper said be was very
tired ard sleepy and suggested that he
would lie down and take nap, ii the
negro would keep watch for him, and
arouse him if anyone approached. He
was soon asleep, and Eraphain, not
relishing that manner Of appropriat-
ing his masters property, proceeded tc
reposseSs it by killing the troopar with
a lightwCod knot. he carried his mas.
ter's horses and mules, as we'll as the
soldiers horse, back into the swamp,
and they were all rescued.
MI. Sowell, Ephraim's owner, was
the father Of Mr.. James NJ Sowell, the
well known supervisor of Kershaw
County.
PATH OF THE AMERICAN ATTILA.
Shernan's march from Savannah to
Raleigh, and especially through South
Carolina, was belt Of absolute DESC
lation, forty miles wide, where black
ened ruins and lone chimneys stood as
silent witnesses to show where pace
and plenty and happy homes had been.
The inherent grit and self-reliance OF
the Southern character have reclaim
ed the desolate fields and largely made
them blossom as the rose. The chin.
neys and blackened ruins may be for
gotten by those who are to come after
US, but the heroic death Of James Mil
Ter and Of others who periShed In the
spring of 1865, will be remembered. i.
WM. .. TRANTHAM.
Camden, S. c., June, l, 1905.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-06-21
Killed By q Fall.

John W. Arnold, a white we'll dig
ger, fell from his seat in a large bucket
which was being hauled up from the
bottom Of a well, and was Instantly
killed Tuesday. Arnold and several
workmea were employed to deepen a
we'll Of the D. e Converse company,
near the Glendale mills, Spartanburg
county, and he was lowered to the bot.
tom to inspect the undertaking. AS
be was being towed back to the top,
and about the time be had nearly ccm-
pleted the trip, be suddenly lost bis
perch and fell headforemost to the
bottom. His neck was broken by the
fall. Arnold had complained OF being
unwell prior to beginning the work.
The accident was in no monner due
to the workmen VINO assisted him.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-06-21
Returns His Pension.

Commissio Ter of Pensions Warner
Thursday received contribution Of
1921 to the conscience fund Of the
treasury. It ca1oe from q pensloner
and is tie tota. Of pension money
drawn by him since the civil war, be-
ginning at the rate Of 81 and rising to
S6 per month. The identify OF the
pensoner is withheld at the is.tter's
request. The name will be dropped
from the roll. The reason for refund
ing the money and declining to accept
more is that the pecsioner has not
earned anG does not deserve pension.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-06-21
Heart Disease Epidemic.

The fact that hundred and twen-
ty-fVe persons died last week in New
York city from organic heart disease,
when the death rate the correspand.
ing week in 1904, was only 6lty-six,
has givsn rise to the belief among
physicians that the New Workers are
living too rapid lives. The strain OF
business and the cares attendant on
fierce competition in the financial cen
ter OF the city and the worry attend
ant on the anxiety to gain wealth is
given as the explanation by the physi-
clans of the condition which exists in
the worlds metropolis today.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-06-21
Shot Himself.

W. 81. Werner, OF Columbia, S. c.,
committed suicide at Morganton, n.
c., at hall past six O'Clock Thursday
evening. a bullet hole in the head
caused instant death He was found
in a lumber yard. From the neager
details that can be obtained be is
thought to have came to Morganton
on Southern railway train No. II
THURSDAY to enter the hospital there
tor treatment for a nervous disease.
A letter was found in one OF bis pock.
cts addressed to his father in Colum-
bia. Young Werner was the winner
OF Cecil Rhodes American scholar,
ship at Oxford university, England.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-06-21
An Eleyen-Year.Oid Wife.

New Yorks sensa tional martial case
was brought into the courts again
Tuesday when the trial Of Jacob Fine
lite was continued before Magistrate
Finn. Finelite is being prosecuted
by Lena Finelite, a child OF eleven
years, who claims that she was mar
ried to the man in January and that
he has abandoned her, refusing longer
to contribute to her support. Fine
lite is about thirty five and wealthy
he has denied that be married the
child, but certificate and witnesses
have been produced which seem tt
bear out the truth OF the child's
claims
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-06-21
Mis1shipman Drowned.

A dispatch from Annapolis says q.
wireless message was received at the
naval academy Tuesday night from
Commander C. J. Badger, command
ing the y. S. S. Newark, conveying
news of the death by drowning OF
Msdshipman L. I. Vertrees OF the Sec
ond class. The Newark Is one OF the
vessels now engaged in the army and
navy Joint exercises and was at anchor
Of Hackett Point when young Yer
trees was in swimming with some
com panions. Young Vertrees was l9
years OF age and a son Of ". J. Yer
trees, OF Bushnell, Illinois.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-06-21
Engineer Scaided.

Southern railway passenger train
No. 40, northbound, was wrecked one
mile north OF Kings Mountain Thurs
day uight. Engineer Charles Cauble,
OF Greenville, S. c., was badly scalded,
but will recover. The negro fireman,
Bob Witherspoon, Of Greeuville, can
not be found. No others are thought
to be seriously injured. The engine,
mail and baggage cars left the track.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-06-21
Georgia At The Head.
Mambers OF the class Of 1905 Of th

Members Oh GQe Glass VI 1oVo w clio
Uaiued States Military academy re-
ceived their diplomas from the hands
Of Col. Albert L. Mills, superintendent
Of the academy Tuesday morning. The
head OF the graduating class this yea1
is Dewitt G. Jones, OF Georgia. The
four next highest In the order OF their
class standing are Ernest Graves, o1
North carolina; Francis P. Wieby, OF
Massachusetts,; Clarence B. Riley, OF
Indiana, and Alvin B. Barber, OF
Oregon. Prominent among the other
members Of TIE class is Calvin NJ.
Titus. who as a volunteer soldier was
the first to the wall at Pekin, China,
during the Boxer troubles.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-06-21
THERE Is FRAUD
In the Crop Reports OF the Agri.
cultural Departments.
THE RUMDRS AFLOAT
Ia Washington Are Of Most Sensations
al Character. Chief Wilkie, of the
Secret Service Bureau, Said to
Have Made Some Start
ling Discoveries.
THE RUMDRS AFLOAT
ling Discoveries.

The Washington correspondent Of
The News and Courier says some very
sensational discoveries are being made
as the Investigation OF the Sleaks in
the crop reports from the agricultur
al department. progresses. A Govern
nsnt official. who is taking an active
part in the investigation, in conversa-
tion with The News and Courier cor
respondent to day, said in substance:
Chief Wilkie, Of the secret service
bureau, who has the Investigation in
hand, has made some startliag discoy-
cries, which may involve not only AS
sissant S5a.istician Holmes, but also
Chief Statistician Hyde, who is Row
In Europe. and one OF the female
clerks in the agricultural department.
who handle the data upon which the
cotton crop reports are based.
While some OF the evidence is cir
cumstantial, enough has already been
disclosed to show that advance infor-
nation on the cotton crop report: and
also other reports which affect specul-
alton. has reached few stock brokers
through the medium Of a woman
The woman In the case is said to be
one Of the three persons to handle the
figures for the last time before the Of
fetal report is promulgated. This wo-
man, who, it is said, receives $50 q
month salary, has recently bought a
comfortable residence in this city and
furnished it in fine style On the same
authority it is said that Assistant
Statistician Holmes has invested large
]y in suburban real estate, from his
meagre salary, Mr.. Holmes is now
under suspension, because OF the in
vestigation and the reflections upon
him.
The progress Of the Investigation is
being kept a profund secret, pending
the absence of Cheif Statistician Hyde,
who sailed for Europe few days be-
fore the charges OF leakage in the de-.
partment were fled. Secretary Will
son, who is sincere in his endeaVors to
probe the matter to the bottom, has
requested Mr.. Hyde to abandon bis
European trip and return to Washing
ton at once. Thus far Mr.. Hyde has
made no reply to the summonds, and
some OF those who are interested In
the investigation declare that he has
no intention Of returning to face an
investigation.
Members OF Congress who have been
specially favored by the department.
OF agriculture in the way OF allowances
for their respective districts are en-
deavorlng to Smother the investiga-
tion, claiming that it will be injurious
to agricultural interest generally to
have the experimental appropriations
and disbursements by the department.
too closely scruntinized.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-06-21
st.noard OIL Caught.

a dispatch from Columbia says that
the Standard OH Company has been
trying to dodge the license tax by
making part Of its returns under
the name OF the Standard Oil Co..
OF Kentucky, which has a few plants
in the state. The comptrolle, gener-
aid has raised the amount from S17,-
900 to 1925, 900 for this company. The
rest OF the license tax Of the STANDARD
was previously on a valuation of $780,.
900, making altogether s325,000.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-06-21
Auto Accident,

William Butler woodbridge, OF Bos.
ton, Mass, second vice president o1
the Columbian National Life IIsur
ance Company, was killed in an auto
mobile accident in Saugus THURSDAY
night and S. Herbert Wolf, Of New
York, an actuary, was seriously iDjur'
ed. a. C. Childs and W. E. Taylor,
Boston business men, were Slightly
hurt. The acc: dent was caused DV the
party mistaking the road in the
darkness AID running into barc9d
pira fence.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-06-21
Three Men Drowned,

Through what is believed to have
been the accidental capslZing OF a
boat from which they had been fish,
ing three men, Alexander Chisholm
and Newt and Dennis Bunch, broth
ers were drowned in the Potomac
near Analston Islaad opposite WASH
ington Wednesday. The first intina-
tion OF the drowning was when boy
found a floating fishing rod with q
line attached and on pulling it,dreW
to the surface Chirholn's body.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-06-21
Blacksburg Depot Burned.

A dispatch from Blacksburg says
the enire freight plant OF the South.
ern railroad at that place was wiped
out by FIRE Tuesday morning at 3
O'Clock and it was with difficulty that
the passenger station was saved. The
ori. in OF the fire is a complete mYs'
! tery. The loss is estimated at 81, 500.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-06-21
Killed By A Rather.

The Charleston Post says a negro
man bg the name OF r ebert Courtriet
was received into the city hospital
Thursday, suffering from a rattle.
snake bite. He died Thursday after
noon at 2:45 O'Clock. The rattlesnake,
said to have been four feet long, bit
the man at Midland park, some miles
from tae city and the negro was bleed
ing protusely when he reached the
city.