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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1906-06-20
The Negro on the Farms.
He Cultivates Nearly Half a
Billion Dollars Worth of
Land in this Country.
Mostly in the South.
From the Baltimore Sun \

A supplementary report of the
census of 1900, just issued, shows
that the value of the farms of the
United States cultivated by ne.
groes was $499,941,234, all but
small fraction of the amount
representing farms in the South
Buildings were worth $71.9O2,-
600; LAND, 1924, ,242, 900: live
stock, $S4,936.OOO; implements,
etc, $1S,S59,OOO The averaoe
value per farm was $3.50; of the
buildings, 500; of live stock.
STA: of implements, ETC., 1926: ::
Of lond, $434.
~ Over half of all negro farms
are in Mississippi, South Caro-.
lima, Alabama and Georgia The
numo OF farms held by negroes
was TAG, ,715; the aggregate acre
age, 3S,233,92O; the average acre.
age per farm being 51.2. From
one.halt to two.thirds of these
farms was improved land. Only
five States north of Mason and
Dixon's line reported over 1000
farms held by negroes. Of the
entire number of negro farms in
the United States $1,000 were
of SO acres or under, the number
under from 20 to SO acres being
843,173. An idea of the area
held by negro farmers may be
gathered from the fact that their
acreage of 3S,233,933 acres is
s,7A square miles, or about the
area Of New England.
The value of all products of
negro farms in 1899 was s255,.
1ol'l4o' OF which sum $25, ,S43,-
443 Represented products fed to
livestock. For labor there was
paid $S,7s9,792; for fertilizers,
$5,614,s44. The farm homes of
negroes were 758, ,463, or 414
per cent of all homes of negroes
in the United States. About one.
fourth of all negro farmers own.
ed their farms. "The massine of
negroes, tenant farming and cot
ton culture" says the report,
"appear to be correlated facts, the
first resulting from the last"
AS respects the distribution of
negroes owning farms, Maryland
Is credited with 2,262; Delaware,
1872; District OF Colum bia, 5;
North Carolina, 1880; West
Virginia, 534, and Virginia, 26,-
566, the last mentioned State
leading all the Southern States in
5hIS regard
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1906-06-20
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FOR YOU.

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Write MS today for Catalogues and our
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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1906-06-20

Dotted Swsses 15c yard in all coors and figures Flow
cred Organdes in conceivable color yard Just in
one case figured Lawns, 1Oc quality 45-nch Persian
Lawns at II R Is and 20cothers asking SC ward more
than we are Vaencne aces and Insertions full line Just
ceVed l-2 and dc yardthese bargains. Also new
line of Swiss FOuncings just opened up
The San Francisco call., 1906-04-05
HATPIN PROVES POOR
WEAPON FOR SUICIDE
Woman Makes Unsuccessful
Attempt to Kill Herself
i'm Los Angeles.
Special Dispatch to The can.

LOS ANGELES. April 4.-Mrs. j. Her
mann. the young woman arrested IN this
city yesterday as she alighted from a
southbound Southern Paeihc train on
charges of passing worthless checks in
Fresno. attempted to commit suicide
shortly after being fncarcerated yester-
day. The police kept the matter quiet un-
til late last night.
Shortly after being locked in her cell the
woman stabbed herself several times in
the wrist with a hatpin. and but for the
early arrival of the police matrOn, who
discovered the womans wounds, she
might have bled to death. Surgeons
dressed her injuries and she was taken
back to her cell.
1t is now charged that the woman
passed at least two worthless checks in
this city recently. One. for $50. was cashed
by the Boston store in exchange. for a $50
suit Which the woman purchased. The
other, for $50. was. cashed by j. McGinniS.
a ladies' tailor. Both were drawn on
Kansas City bank. In all probability the
woman will be turned over to the Fresno
authorities TO be prosecuted. II the pros
ecution there should fail the charges
against her in this city will be pushed.
The womans male companion disappeared
at the time of her arrest.
The San Francisco call., 1906-04-05
MANY DROWNED
IN SOUTH SEAS
Steamship Moana Arrives at
Honolulu With Details of
Storm That Swept Tahiti

HONOLULU, April 4.-The steamer
Moana, which arrived here today, reports
that l21 persons were drowned during the
hurricane which recently swept over the
island of Tahiti and the neighboring
islands.
Of these victims one perished on Tahiti,
ninety-one natives and four whites on the
Pamotus and twenty-four natives and
one white or the other islands.
Before the windstorm broke over Pa
peete the water rose steadily after
high tide to twenty feet above the nor
NAL mark, and by IL o'clock on the. night
of February was wrecking wooden
buildings and splashing between the
American and British Consulates.
At first no alarm was felt, but the con-
tinuation Of the rise caused panic. The
wind blew in brief hurricane blasts every
few minutes, tearing up trees and send
ing roofs flying through the air.
While signals for assistance were seen
in Papeete from Lebiloe, a white resident
of Motuta Island, it was impossible to
render any help until morning, when the
floating body of his wife was rescued
from the top of a cocoanut palm.
Fears are entertained for the safety or
the schooner Eimeo, with seven natives
on board.
The Emily Reed, which arrived from
Auckland on February II during the
storm, jettisoned 10000 feet of lumber
The Dunreggan reports hurricane
south of the Loyalty Islands on February
a. Thursday Island experienced hurri-
cane on February %.
The San Francisco call., 1906-04-05
Pretty California Cir.
Makes a Hit at
Columbia.

Miss Flora Juliet Bowley, who is famed
in army circles as a beauty of sprightli-
ness and charm, is a member of THE
Lion and the Mouse" company now play
ing at the Columbia Theater.
Miss Bowley is the daughter of the late
Captain F. S. Bowley, U. S. A., and has
a brother, Captain Albert j. Bowley. in
the service, who is aid de camp to Gem
eral Grant at Long. Island, n. Y. She
spent her childhood at various army posts
throughout the country, but is a native
of San Francisco. a graduate Of Smith
College, and made her first professional
appearance in THE Crisis, afterward
SUPPORTING James X. Hackett in "The
Fortunes Of the King and THE House of
Silence"
The San Francisco call., 1906-04-05
BROTHER AVENGES
WOUNDED SISTER
Oyertakes and Literally Cuts
to Pieces Man Who
Shot Her.
Special Dispatch to The Can.

ATLANTA, Ca. April 4.-Enraged be-
cause she went for walk with her hus-
band and refused TO procure divorce
from him, l.. B. WilThouth fatally shot
Mrs. Carrie Bryant, tried to kill her moth
er and brother and then fed. He was pur-
sued. however, by brother, Walter High
tower, who overlook the jealousy-crazed
lover and literally cut him to pieces.
Back Of the tragedy was Wilmouth's s
infatuation for Mrs. Bryant, a pretty
woman of good family.
Last night Mrs. Bryant entered her
mothers home after a walk with her hus-
band, where she found her mother, her
brother and Wilmouth.
''Your husband shall not have you
cried Wilmouth as Bryant entered Will
mouth began shooting at her. She fell
with a bullet in her breast. Wilmouth
then aimed at the mother and brother,
but missed them and fed.
Walter Hightower. the brother. pursued.
He fired at the fleeing man until his pis-
tol was empty and then followed knife in
hand Wilmouth stumbled. and before he
could recover Hightower was upon him
and had cut and slashed him in frightful
manner.
The San Francisco call., 1906-04-05
ANOTHER MINER
IS FOUND ALIVE
Survivor of Courrieres Dis
aster of March 10 Is
Brought Out of Pit
BURIED FOR 25 DAYS
Engineers. Engaged in Work
of Salvage Nay Be Prose
cuted by the Government

LENS. France, April 4.-Another living
survivor of the mine disaster at Cour-
rleres March 10 was discovered this morn
Ing and brought out of the pit.
! The finding Of another miner alive after
twenty-five days entombment caused in
tense excitement. The man was found in
pit four of. the Sallau mines He was in
good condition. According to his first
statements this man, Auguste Berton. suf-
1 fered less than the preceding rescued
men.
: An affecting meeting occurred between
Berton. and his wife. Berton, who was
covered with layer of coal dust. de-
scribed his experience as follows:
/ 1 was working with my cousin when an ex-
plosion occurred and we became separated
Afterward. alone. cropped about in the dark
a dead horse but was unable to eat any OF
Its flesh. Later 1 found some lunch bags,
which had belonged to men who had been
killed by the explosion and I lived on the
food l found in them. 1 suffered from the
cold and took clothing and shoes from the
dead also found three watches and % sous
At one time gave up hope and tried to COM
nit suicide by opening a vein. 1 slept ten
times and tried to count the days, estimating
that eight days had passed since the ex-
2losion.
The crowd several times during the day
broke through the Gordon Of troops sur
rounding pit number four. excitedly ques-
tioning the salvagers, who stated that no
further traces of survivors had been
found.
+; In pursuance of Premier Sarriens in
structions, a judicial inquiry was begun
this evening against the state engineers,
who. it Is alleged, took over the superin-
tendence of the salvage work from the
company's engineers. Should this exam
ination show lack of celerity or neglect
of duty or incapacity on the part of the
state engineers prosecution will ensue on
the charge of involuntary homicide. the
penalty of which may be two years i'm
lprisonment. The strikers tonight are
quiet.
PARIS, April 4-Premier Sarrien has
received the acceptance of the mining
companies of the departments of the Nord
and Pas de Calais OF the Governments
proposal to increase the wages of the min
ers for the purpose of adjusting the strike
The San Francisco call., 1906-04-05
PABST MALT Is
EIGHT-DkY MALT
1t Makes Pabst Beer Richest in Nour-
iShment and Physicians Recon-
mend 1t Because 1t Is So
Strengthening.

Pabst eight-day malt is the secret o!
the superiority Of Pabst Beer. The hops
are the choicest, the water pure, the
process spotlessly clean. These things
are never neglected. but it is the exciu-
sive Pabst eight-day malt that gives
Pabst Beer its rich nutrition. 1t is the
1Sabst eight-day malt and the exclusive
Pabst method of brewing that gives
tie Pabst Beer the rich. mellow flavor
found in no other and that marks IL
perfect beer.
Perfect malt is only made by the ex-
elusive Pabst eight-day method This
process doubles the expense of the old
four-day process of making malt, used
by many brewers. Four-day malt can
not make perfect beer such as Pabsi
Beer because 1t is the product of a
forced end unnatural process of deveI-
opInent. Beer made from four-day malt
lacks the nutritious food elements
which distinguish Pabst Beer.
Physicians say there IS nothing bet
ter than Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer as a
vitalizing tonic, because they know how
1t is made They know the Pabst pro-
cess and understand the Importance oi
its perfect purity and cleanliness. They
know the healthfulness Of the beer pro-
dUced by the Pabst process.
People. and especially doctors, de-
mand that everything they eat and
drink be absolutely clean. Pabst Beer
is always clean and wholesome. The
brewery is cleaner than the cleanest
kitchen. In the long process of brew.
ing. Pabst Beer never comes in contact
with anything unclean. The tubes
through which IL IS run, from the time
the grain IS mashed until the beer il
bottled or keRged. are sterilized. 10 pre-.
vent any impurity or Vncleanliness II
is not fermented in open watts, AS is
usual in breweries. but in special Pabst
hermeticaIly sealed tanks. into which
nd air except pure. filtered air ever en-.
ters. II is stored in Theoretically seal.
cd. gIass-lined storage tanks until sci
ence and the test OF time pronounce Il
perfect beer in age. purity and strength
The San Francisco call., 1906-04-05
WILL MANAGE
!. THE CAMP PAICN
Republicans. Of Senate and
House Meet. in,nCaueus
to Select a Committee

WASHINGTON, April 4.-The Repub-
licans Of the Senate and House of
Representatives met in joint caucus at
the close of the session of the House
today and selected members of the Re-
publican congressional campaign com
mittee
Senator Allison called the caucus to
order In doing so he directed atten-
ton to the fact that this wss the first
step in the campaign which would
doubtless prove very interesting and
the Importance of which already was
apparent He nominated Speaker Can
non as presiding officer of the meeting
and the Speaker was received with ap-
plause.
Cannon, too, spoke briefly of 1.-The
Situation, Indicating that the cam
paign already was being made and that
the result in November depended on
legislation now being enacted. He
-couaseled carefulness, strict attention
to business, economy and business in
appropriations.
eThe committee was then named A
meeting. for organization will be called
e4therethe last of+this week or the first
Of next, =.
The members selected on the com
nittee are as follows:t
.sCaIifornia, J., c. Needham; Colorado. F. NJ.
Hegg; Connecticut, George l.. Lilley; Della
ware Hiram r. Burton; Idaho Burton L.
French; illinois, J. r. Mann; Indiana, Charles
B. Landis: Iowa. A. F. Dawson; Kansas, j. A.
Miller; Kentucky. ]. B. Bennett Maine, E.
c. Burleigh: Maryland, S. E. MuddS Massa-
1husetts, DE, Weeks; Mlchigaf, j. W Ford
neg; BIEEnesota.AJ. "A Tawney; Missouri Rich
ara Bartholdt s-Montana-s ]. M Dixon; Nf-
fexasksr ]. ]. Mccarthy & New iIIampshire K.
AK Suecway; New Jersey, n c. Loudens
lager: New York. ]. s. Shernsn; North Caro-
Ma. e. 5. Blackburn; Ohio. Nicholas LonE
worth Oregon. c. ". Fulton; Pennsylvania,
B. b. Cassell Rhode Island, A. B. Capron;
South Dakota, c. H. Burke; Tennessee, N. w.
Hale; Utah, Joseph Howell; Vermont. Kit
tredge Kaskins; Virginia, Campbell Slemp;
Washington. G.. w Cushnlan: West Virginia.
b. b. Doyen5r; Wisconsin,, J. II. Davidson;
wyoming r d. Mondell: Hawaii j. b.
Keianianaole; New Mexico. W. II. Andrews;
Oklahoma. b. s. Mcclure; Porto Rico. Julio
LerrfnaSs.
No members have been selected for
the States and Territories not named.
The San Francisco call., 1906-04-05
UNREQUTFED, LOVE Z
CAUSE OF SUICIDE
Pretty Telephone Girl in
Nevada Puts End to
Her Life.

RENO. April 4.-Unrequited love is said
TO be the cause of the suicide yesterday
of Miss Esther Trottot, beautiful 16-
year-old girl, who was employed in the
central office of the telephone company at
Gardnerville. The girl was discovered on
the floor of the central office cold in
death An empty vial marked carbolic
acid bore mute evidence to the method
taken by the unhappy girl to end her life
The girl is said to have been in love
with Ralph Harcourt, manager for the
telephone company at Gardnerville. Her
affection. il is claimed, was not returned.
The girl was of highly respectable parent
age. The body will be shipped to Ell Do
rado County, California, where the girl
was born.
The San Francisco call., 1906-04-05
RUSSIA WANTS
IMMENSE LOAN
Negotiating for s20O,OOO,OO
in Paris and Is Ready
to Accept a Greater Sum
TERMS TO BE LIBERAL
Slav Government Hopes to
Restore Its Finances to
Their Former High Level

ST. PETERSBURG, April 4.-In view
of the agreement on Moroccan reforms
reached at Algeeiras on March 81 Rus
sia has. opened preliminary pegotia
tions in. Parts for "a, foreign loan of at
least 5000, 100000 and desires. more if
possible The syndicate. with which
she. is Negotiating is composed of Ger
man, Dutch and British capitalists.
PARIS, April 4.--Nego otiatiops. for the
new Russian loan are proceeding rap
idly here Although the issue is a
month of Spectators. on tae .Bourse
are. already interesting themselves. in
it,, dealers Offering ii At a premium of
3A, the indications being that the
Russian Government will. make eXcep-
tionaIly advantageous terms for the
purpose Of achieving a notable finan-
ciai success and restoring the Russian
finances to their former high level.
ST. PETERSBURG, April 1.-The sue
cess Of the Constitutional Democrats in
St. Petersburg on Monday was reflected
today in the results Of elections in all
parts of the empire, where the voting is
now in full swing Almost without ex-
ception the balleting has been favor
able TO the Constitutional Democrats,
not only in their city strongholas, but
also in the country, where the peasants
in a number Of instances turned down
their leaders and elected avowed Con-
stitutienal Democrats.
At Kieff the Progressives swept the
board and Prince Eugene Troubetskoy
was successful. insuring his presence
I'm the National Parliament. At Moghi-
left. which is a Jewish locality even
the landowners returned solid Consti-
tutional Democratic delegation.
WARSAW, April ARMED workmen
are visiting the factories. here. calling
on the Socialist leaders and informing
them that they will,-be Killed in the
event of the country being distressed
by fresh general strike.
LODI, April A court-martial has
sentenced, a sergeant. and twelve pri
Yates of the EkaterineDburg Infantry to
hard labor for an indefinite period, six
privates to six years hard labor and
fourteen 20 four years for rebellion and
resistance to officers.
z. KTEFF. Russia, April 4.-The Con-
stitutional Democrats have elected
sixty out of eighty municipal delegates.
The San Francisco call., 1906-04-05
HUNTINGTON. ACQUIRES
VALUABLE FRANCHISE
Line to Hollywood Will En-
able Him to Fight
Hartman.

LOS ANGELES, April 4.-According
to the Express. franchise granted yes
terday by the Board of Supervisors of
this county to f. NJ Chapman Of Co
vina for, an electric railway line from
Normandie street, in the southwestern
part of the city, to within two miles of
the center of the suburb of Hollywood,
is really for an extension of the Hunt
ington street car lines to the latter city.
The line, which would afford a five-cent
fare and transfer connections with. the
city lines for Hollywood patrons, would
be a serious menace to the recently ac-
quired Hartman property, the Los An
geles- Pacific, which runs to that sub
urb, and over which route ten-cent
fare, without transfer, is charged 1t
is a valuable concession in the hands-o
Huntington to assist him in maintain
ing his control of the local electric rail-
way situation. The price paid by Chap
man for the franchise was 500.
The San Francisco call., 1906-04-05
LETTER CARRIERS CAUGHT
WORKING A NEW SWINDLE
New York Postal Inspectors Uncover
- Lucrative Fraud In. POstage-Due
Sfesnlus-Prin ciualR Arrested.

NEW YORK, april 4.-Three letter
carriers of Station B, at Attorney and
Grand streets. were arrested last night
by postal inspectors, charged with
working a new swindle. The men are
George Davidson, William c. Spencer
and John ]. Mahoney.
!. The alleged fraud consisted in affix-
ing Cancelled postage-due stamps for
ID cents to letters from foreign coun-
tries, after removing the foreign
stamps. The carrier then collected the
face of the postage-due stamp from
the receiver of the. letter.
The San Francisco call., 1906-04-05
FAMOUS BRONCO BUSTER
Is ACCIDENTALLY KILLED

CHEYENNE, Wyo.. April 4.-Duncan
Clark, for years holder of the title Of
champion steer roper of the world, was
accidentally killed today while hunting
with two friends. The three were
crawling along the ground toward a
herd of antelope when a gun carried
by the man Immediately behind Clark
was discharged. The charge entered
Clark's body. causing instant death.
Clark was also famous as a bronco
buster and participated in all the from
tier day. contests in Cheyenne.
The San Francisco call., 1906-04-05
RONANTIcALLY
welded COUPLE
ON VISIT HERE
Continued From Page 1, Column /.

to San Francisco and from >there by
steamer to China, where ne: had work to
do. He, too, was not seasick and he
sought the promenade deck and the in
yigorating Influences of the salt air.
A vision of lovely American independ-
ence was pacing slowly up and down
when he reached the deck for the first
time. 1t was Mrs. Jones. She did not
see the gallant English captain. He was
charmed atYthe sight of her.
But how to be introduced to her was a
puzzler. He had been in many tight
place, but this promised to be the most
difficult situation he had ever faced.
Fortune, or Dan Cupid, again favored
him. A mutual acquaintance appeared
the second day and introduced them. The
rest was accomplished quickly.
Before another day passed Captain
Kirton was vowing his love. To his de-
light it was accepted. The pair pledged
their tr6th then and there with only old
Neptune as the witness.
The voyage to New York was quickly
over Then the train was taken for Salt
LaRe City. ( Mrs.sJones went to her home
and the captain to the hotel. Her friends
were quickly informed and invited to- a
hastily planned wedding, g,
They were married quietly last Friday
at Salt Lake City. They took the train
for San Francisco and arrived here on
Monday. They will sail next Saturday
on the Siberia for China.
The San Francisco call., 1906-04-05
SPOOK. TERRIFIES
.. a RENO FAMILY
Clanking Chains and Moving
Of Dishes Heard at
Night.
Special plspateh to The Call.

RENO, April 4.-Rero has haunted
house. For one week past the Petricini
family, residing in this city, has been SUBJ
jected to severe shocks to their nervous
systems by strange sounds, as OF clanking
chains and the transfer of different pieces
of furniture and dishes from their proper
positions to other parts of the house The
strange events are apparently unexplain-
able and occur at about the same time
each evening. Dishes will suddenly jump
from their places on the table or in the
cupboard and slide along the hoor IN
very mysterious manner
The San Francisco call., 1906-04-05
CHICAGO BARBER BEATEN
TO DEATH BY ENEMIES
Quarrel Over q Debt Cu1minafes in
Brutal Murder for which Two
s's Are Arrested. ss

CHICAGO, Aprf1 4AGeorge Brown,
a barber, Al years old, was attacked
by four men last night at Twenty
eighth and Butler streets and was
beaten so severely that he died two
hours later.
Bernard Comiskey who is accused of
being the leader of the quartet respon-
sible for the mans death together
with James O'Shea, is under arrest, and
the police are searching for the other
two men.
The crime is declared by the police,
following their investigation, to have
been the outcome of enmity between
Brown and Cofniskey over a debt owed
to Comiskey by Brown.
The San Francisco call., 1906-04-05
SALVATION ARMY PLANS
BIG HOTEL FOR WOMEN

LOS ANGELES. April according
10 the Herald plans are being drawn
for a seven STORY building to be erect
ed by the Salvation Army Of this city
at l25 East Fourth street, to be used
as a boarding house for young. women.
1t viii cost tn the neighborhoo1 of
SI25,000 and viii be modern structure.
The San Francisco call., 1906-04-05
Cargo Being Removed.

VICTORIA, 3. C. April 4.-Salving
operations commenced this afternoon on
the small steam freighter Selkirk, which
stranded on Jones Island. near Sidney,
when en- route 10 Tacoma from Lady
smith with 100 tons of copper matte. The
steamers bow is well UP on the rocks
and the after part of the hull is under
water. The cargo is being lightered to
scoWs
The San Francisco call., 1906-04-05
Money to Fight Goblin Moth.

SALINAS, April 4.-The Board OF
Supervisors, in response to an appeal Of
the fruit growers of Pajaro Valley and
also of Professor VOlck of the State
University, has granted an appropria-
tion of $500 to continue the crusade
against the Goblin moth and supplement
the persistent efforts of Santa Cruz and
Monterey counties to keep the pest un-
der control on both sides OF the Pajaro
River.