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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-10-24
THEY ARE ALLIES.
TIE REF UBII JAMS z ELP ALONG
WALL STREET.
and IN Return Wall Street Help the
Republicans With Cam.
paiga Funds.

The extraordinary measures 0: tEt
United States Treasury to aid the
frenz!sd fnsnciers OF Wall Street
will only give tsn ora.ily ss!ief. Tee
gold foIced from abroad oy paying a
premium for 1T thsre, will return tc
Eucope if the bslance Of trade 20
E1anG it in settlement. The s159, 600
600 loaned to the selected and there
fore favored baGks, VIII tiavo to De re-.
turned to the Treasury, OF more
bonds will have to be sold to replenish
the tssl2-cs e the Treasury and 50
help cut Wall Street. 4 sound fran.
cial policy would not have required
the late Sale Of Panama bouGs and
thus saddle the people with an inter
est h.s-ing d. BIT, whan millions were
on desrosit In the banks not drawing
any interest.
a business man who would issue
his notes while he hsd Large balance
at his bar kef's which was earning no
return, would be thought non conpos
mentis and his friends would ask that
a guardian be appointed TO prevent
him fron sq7sndsri1g bis pr, ps;ty.
Why dees Secretary Shaw, President
Roos7eit coasenting, take this loose
and uEbuslncss ike coCIse? The On
ly arsver can Be ttat the Wa!l
Street Influence in Republican Coun.
ellis Is more influential lhan the inter.
ests Sf sae people. the Rockefeller
influence has beens allpowerful, while
the people have had no friend at
court.
The accredited agent Of the Rocke.
feller banking interests can be seen
daily at the Uc!ted States Treasury
consulting and advising sijh the of1
cials and even ordering Them what 10
Go and al that Is done fsvors tie
Rockefeller interests. The division OF
the $50 c00,500 jcss E2.nea to tao
banks ali over the county,, Is really,
loaned to Wall Street institutions,
for high rates for money there will
force the money there to that ce.teccE:
OF the banks receiving it will
not draw the money that they have
on deposit in the Wall StresS banks,
Or loaned on call. which will virtually
allow the Wall Street speoulators 80
uss the money just deposited with
the b.; ais.
Th> Un;GSd S .tes Ire ssury va:
never ate:i ,ss5 to Dec; ne an 3 7junc
OF Wall Street to bolster up Its most
disreputanle Spectators, but under
managsm sns 5h.G is Whist
1t has come to and yet tt, p.e5sn!
Administration processes to be refor
mers Of ADJUSTS.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-10-24
EUNU IN nO:sRsYY =
JOHNSON EXECUGED AT CONWAY
ON FRIDAY
For Murderirg g the Rev. Harmon
Granger, a Baptist Preacher,
Last Fall,

L
was hung at Conway on last Friday
for the murder Of the Rev. Harmon
Granger, Baptist preacher, last
Fsll. The execution took place st one
o'clock In tne pressrcs OF the witness.
es alcwed by law. johnson died with
the comforts CT TIE faith OF the Bap.
tist church, the Rev. Mr. Finch, OF
the Rsv. Giainssr's Baptist associa.
ton, administering to him.
The local military company guard.
ed the jill, as nstter OF precsution,
on account OF threats on the part Of
Johnscn's relatives, and bic ,use OF
the intense feeling over the case, but
ihere appeared to be no need OF ther 7
services. There was not the slightest
evidence OF any disturbance. Joh1-
sons friends said they we're going to
prevent the execution but they did net
try it. Johnson'S father was In Coz.
way to take charge Of tbs body.
Efforts were made on Thursday to
get Gov He7War6 to respite Johnson,
bus the Governor declined TO interfere
and the Law was allowed to take it's
course. The case has been one Of tie
mcst notorious in the State in soma
years. Johnson Was tried and oonVic.-
ed upon circunstsntIal evidence Of
the murder Of Rev. Harmon L. Grain.
zsr. Granger was shot down in hts
field from ambush while he Was ploW-
ing.
To the majority of the people there
is no doubt as to Jchnson's guilt
There have been, however, det.rnin
el sforts to have the man pardontd
OF bis sentence conmuted. The courts
were appealed to but the Suprem5
court upheld the circuit court. The
pardoning board was appealed to with.
ous avail and finally the governor.
There Wssra petition presented to
the executive officer some time ago
ans many OF its signatures proved to
be forgeries. Several stated after
wards that they hsd osen frightened
into signing the petition. The general
opinion in Horny Is that the man de-
Ss,vsj death and that the Governor
did the right thing in refusing to in
teriere.
Governor Eeyward ordered Oapt.
E2ps, OF the Conway Hussars, to hold
his company In readiness and to await
orders from Sheriff Sessions In case
thsre is any disorder. This was a
precautionary measure on the part Of
the Governor, it proved to be urnec-
essary as there was no dem onstration
for CT against the condemned man.
The fact that the aged minister was
shot and killed from ambush made
ths murder q very atrccious one.
Johnson is one Of the few white
men that have been executed in this
State for murder since the war. Bus
the juries OF recsnt years have been
doing better in regard to conVicting
criminals regardless Of their color
which is 8 hopeful sign. As was said
above Johnson vas convicted purely
on clrcumstsntial ebidence, out it was
very strong and there Is no doubt by
those who heard the case but that he
was guilty, and that The awful penal.
ty meted out to him sas just what
be deserved.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-10-24
True Bill roun0,

The gesna jary u Dorchester mas
retniosE a slue III against former
Sheriff Linsh. u-e, charging him with
malfeasance in flee in permitting a
negro prisoner il hls chaTss t. o5 s1k
On rom him s1d lynehed.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-10-24
Killed q Convict.

Sheriff Hood, Of Fairfield County,
shot and killed an escaped negro con-
vict whom he was endeavoring to ap.
prehend. It Is said the negro was
about to shoot the sheriff,
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-10-24
SENECA BURNED
For Lack Of Means TO Fight the
Fire Fiend.
STORIES SENT OUT
That the Fire Was Set by Negroes In
Revenge for the Partial Destruc.
ton of a Negro School
House Seems to Be
Unf0unded,
Uef0unded.

| a QlSpatCl IlOm GleeDV1Lo 10 Ghe
Charleston Post says following the
blowing up Of negro school house at
Seneca, s. c., on Friday. October II,
that little town was burned to the
ground On Tuesday night CT last week
by an incandiary fire, said to have
besn set by negroes In revenge fcr
the blowing up Of the school. Hsr-
rell College, as the negro school blown
up was cslled, was presided oVar by
Rev. J. F. Williams and is supported
by Northern white people.
It seems that Williams had made
himself very Objectionable to the
white people, by advising the negroes
not to work and preaching other in
cendiary doctrines. Z letter vas sent
to him several weeks ago advising him
to leave, but to this be paid no az.
tention. o. Friday night, O,tober
II. some parties, whether white OF
black, is not known, placed dynamite
cartridges under each corner of the
college building, and touched tbs
whole business of at the stroke of
midnight.
Since the dynaniting of this col.
lege, negroes have been In an ugly
mood and meetings have been held
nightly in negro lodge rooms and
halls. On Tuesday night Of last
week, 1t seems, matters were brought
to head for at l o'clock en- alarm CT
fire was sounded from everal parts OF
the town, which has a population OF
1000 OF more. The fire burned furi-
ous]y and fast, consuming structure
after structure, until it occurred to
some one to use dynamite to break
the path Of the flames. This was no5
done, however. until the greater part
Of the town had been destroyed.
The tOWn Was without fire appara-
tus and citizens could do nothing but
stand idly by aud watch their pro.
perty 20 up in sno1a. Advices from
Seneca say that among the buildings
burned are both hotels, Mrs. William
Colenan's residence tvo stores ad-
joining 8 hotel. A clothing store.
drug store, grocery and one hardware
store were badly damaged. The fire
broke out In the basement Of the
0eonee Inn, which was left unlocked
last night, afording access In incen.
diaries. No casualties s,s reported,
as the occupants Of the hotels had
ample time to get out. The pro.
psrty less is in the neighborhood Of
$3.50, 900, with some insurance.
There seams to have been no ground
for the above sensational dispatch, as
the negroes in the town Of Seneos
assisted the white people In fighting
the FIRE. The POSTS correspondent at
Anderson says he was informsd by
MI. J. NJ. HOLMAN, cashier OF the
bank at Seneca on Wednesday nom
ing that there was no foundation for
this report an that the people Of
Seneca do not believs the negroes
dad anything to do with the fire.
There was a quantity OF paints and
oils stored In the basement Of the
building In which the fire started.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-10-24

TWENTY FIVE men killed and
over tHo. hundred epscm5ld is the
result OF an explosion In an English
coal mine.
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-04-25

1t is claimed by those in position TO
know to be really an extra fine crOpper,
of good quality and resistant to rot
under any reasonable method of cul-
tivatiOn. We are glad to learn it has
been grown on this side with good Suc-
cess.
Please tell us something further
about this new Solanum Commersoni,
violet potato. | have not noticed it
being mentioned in The r. N. Y. or
other farm papers. n. J.
Cuba, Mo.
SOlanum COmmersoni was referred
to at some length in The r. n. Y,
September 10, 1904, and on page A
of the present volume. There is much
confusion concerning the botany of the
various wild potatoes or edible tuber-
OuS-rOOted SOlanums, but S. CONNER
SOni. first discovered growing in the
SwampS of Uruguay, is regarded as a
quite distinct species. The tubers in
the wild type are bitter and unfit for
human food. but are readily eaten by
cattle. 1t has been most enthuSStical-
Iy cultivated for several years by
French eXperimenters, and under their
treatment has been greatly modified,
several promising varieties having
been developed through varied culture,
selection and hybridizatiOn with COM
merciaI potatoes The new violet
cOlOred variety raised by NJ. Laberge-
rie, Verrieres. France, is regarded as
most promising, and is being first dis
seminated this season. The tubers
are large and the plant is claimed to
be Extraordinarily vigorous, and pro
ductive beyond any variety of ordinary
potato. 1t grows in heavy and even
swampy ground where other potatoes
fail. is practically immune from dis
ease. and reSistS frost to Il remarkable
degree. The flesh is greenish, but
claimed to be of fine quality when
cooked. 1t will interest readers TO
know that this promising novelty can
be obtained in small quantities for
trial. at cost of about S1.00 the pound.
SO far as we know it has not yet been
tested in this country, having only
been obtained by the originator in
1901. This CommersOni variety is said
greatly to resemble an old disease
proof form of the common potato
known as Blue Giant. but NJ. Laber
gerie says it is an absolutely distinct
variety
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-04-25
VOL. XXXIII No. II.
Potato Inquiries.


The blight and rot have made the
cultivation of potatoes a very uncer-
tain business, and even where success
full an expensive one. What to do
about it is a question. The Rural New
Yorker gives some information that
will be interesting and perhaps valu-
able.
Do you know anything about the
EldoradO potato, the potato that has
created such a furOre in Great Britain
the past three years? Mr.. Chas. Need
ham of Withersden, Lincolnshire, Eng
land, obtained from a One-half ounce
potato of this variety 361 pounds in
one year. largest hill weighing IA 1-2
pounds, largest potato weighing two
pounds and 100 weighing 100 pounds
(these were from the 361 pounds rails
ed from this one-half ounce potato).
The Eldorado was also sold in Fall of
1908 by Geo. Massey, IA pounds for
$1,000, and in the Spring of 1904 AL
fred Dunham paid $3.50 for five-ounce
one. smaller ones selling in February
of 1904 at the rate of 81, ,25O per pound.
EldOradO is claimed to be absolutely
gether with its wonderful vigor. and
its enormous cropping qualities that
caused such a sensation We import
ed some last year direct from the orig
inator at a cost of SIC per pound. We
cut two single eyes, planted with com
plete fertilizer. after sod at rate of two
tons to acre, and got from one pound
14S pounds. They are of the most
handsome appearance, nearly round.
white russeted skin, eyes nearly level
with skin. and in fact, we grow some
80 different kinds for our seed trade
but we have no half so fine appearing
potato. Potatoes on both sides of
these (wet. heavy muck) rotted fully
30 per cent and not an EldOrado had
Speck. and has not at this date AL
though they were planted only single
eyes. they seemed to stool out beneath
the serface, and four and five stalks
came up: you would think we had
planted a good-sized potato there.
Beachville. Ont
References We're made in this de-
partment to the astonishing prices
paid for Eldorado and other new seed |
ling potatoes in England in issues of
The r. Ny for August 81, 1904, and
January IA, 1905. and also to the pro
liability that the hurried methods |
then in use to increase stocks of the
most highly exploited varieties would |
tend to reduce their vitality and rend- |
er them liable to the very diseases TO |
which they were claimed TO be resis |
tant and even immune. Late corre
spondence emphatically confirms this
view. Thousands of tons of the new
summers are said to be rotting in stOr-
age. The boom is dead. sales being /
almost at a standstill. though the high
ly praised new sorts are freely offered
for seed purposes at prices running
from two to 10 cents pound Ell i
dorado comes out with about the pest /:
reputation of the lot, and is considered
as well worth trial by all interested {
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-04-25
Market Gardening.

The Orlando Reporter prints an ar
ticle which gives Il good idea of what
is being done in this state in the line
of market gardening:
As an illustration Of what determin-
ed men can accomplish in Florida soil
if they go about it intelligently it
would do many pessimist good to
look into the great cantalOupe enter
prise of the Harrell and Company
plantation at Anthony.
Here are men who will control 600
solid acres of Rocky Ford melons
this season. They themselves plant
ed 375 acres. The seed alone costing
800. Fortunes have been made in
this business by a number of grow
prs in that section and about OcaIa..
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-04-25
jacksonville and DeIand Fla Wednesday, April 25 1906

In other localities. such as Starke,
Lawtey, Plant City and Lakeland
other fortunes are being made in the
single industry of strawberry grow
ing.
Elsewhere. as at Hastings. they
have great reputation as a potato
growing section and vast deal of
money is annually poured into that
and other places devoted to this crop.
Again, the lettuce and celery dis
tricts of Sanford, Ocala, Manatee and
Tampa afford practical illustra tions
of the wealth there is in the soil and
climate of Florida
And so with the bean and tomato
sections of the East Coast where men
often make enough out of single crop
TO retire and live on the proceeds for
life.
These are not extremes or isolated
cases. Time was when a great big
Interrogation mark could be planted
with every seed in this state Cues
tiOns like these would arise: viii
it come up? Will it fruit i'm time
to catch the early Northern market?
Can | get it TO market if it should
grow? Will I get anything for it
if it reaches market? But that time
is now past.
All these questions can he answered
in the affirmative. yes. To be sure
there may be conditions where for Il
single season. in one part of the state
or another. Il crop may not pan out as
expected. A wet spell. a dry spell or
a frost may get in their destructive
work and there will be loss But a
loss of one crop in single locality
must not be permitted to blacken the
eve of all the crops in the state And
of course freight rates sometimes eat
up the entire shipment and there is
loss after the labor has been done. and
yet that is not the rule for, after
section once grows a crop of any kind
to such proportions that there is some
thing more than a few scattering in
dividual shipments, then the railroads
make it a point to go to extra trouble
to secure that crop at such rates that
make it profitable to the grower
Then too the time is not far off
when this matter of arbitrary and
oppressive railroad rates will surely
be regulated. And the question of
and market men is also
being solved. There are many hon
est men in that business and the
state is now over-run with buyers who
purchase the crops on the ground,
saving all risks on the part of the
grower. These are all healthy and
hopeful conditions. and any man who
now desires to go into the market
business for profit has only
% select his location and follow his
lei2hbOrS: for what one man has done
others can do.
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-04-25
Whole No. 1645.

vator publishes letter which contains
several good ideas.
! The book mentioned. 'Ten Acres
Enough is an old one, having been
| published by the Orange Judd Co.
about forty years ago. We do not
know whether they offer it for sale
now or not, but there are many good
things in it. The following article
shows the difficulty of getting work
your own foreman
/ have been wanting to write you
ever since / finished reading ''Ten
Acres Enough but as this is the
busy season. | find it hard to do any
writing other than the ordering of
seeds. etc. Then. too. 1 am doing my
own Overseeing this year. and l find
that what, with looking after the
plOws, getting corn and cotton land
ready. looking after and doing a good
deal of the work in the truck. and the
getting of small fruits started. seeing
that the dairy (abOut twelve milk
cows. is looked after as it should be.
and all the other details are attended
to. gives me about all / can well at
tend to. But to go back to ''Ten Acres
Enough" ] want to say that it is
without exception one of the best
things | have ever read, and I wish it
could he placed i'm the hands of every
young man clerking in the city stores.
Could these fellows but know what it
would mean to them in years to come.
would they but cut loose from the life
of slavery that they are now leading
and get out into Gods free air. and
work in mother earth. as some of us
have learned rather late in life not
only would the labor question of the
South be solved. but the coming gener-
alton would be made up of better and
stronger men and women than that
which we. the early middle-life people
of today, represent. Having been
through every stage of store life, from
errand boy at S1.00 per week. to
manager. at from $4,000 to $1,000 per
year. I know whereof I speak.
But enough of this: | want to know
what you in confidence think of the
cOtton-chopping machines as we have
them on the market today? Will they
do good work if the cotton has been
planted with Il Caldwell drOpper. or
are they only intended for use where
the old style planter has been used?
Being a Northern man | naturally
look for all the improved machinery
I can find let me say word right
here as to the ordinary Southern over
seer: Three years ago | bought
Planet Jr CultivatOr: this was when
/ first came down here. | have had
three overSeerS. and not one of them
could I get to use the machine. Being
my own overseer this year. | tell you
right now that the tool will he used
the coming summer. and two Georgia
made ones as we'll 1t seems to me
that tools such as Hydes cultivators
should save lot of work I'm cotton
and corn. Am | right? | am very
anxious to meet YOU personally for
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-04-25
Good Ideas.

"A man who reads and who knows
how to do good work; who knows
in the country"
Under this title the Southern Guilt
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1906-10-02
Visitors Sec Ely's Mines
And Marvel at Showing

Sunday was busy day for visitors in
specting the district. Every carriage
in Ely was pressed into service TO take
various parties to the mines up the
canyon. The visiting newspaper men
were taken in charge and they visited
The Ruth and were taken on the skip
by Foreman Curtis and allowed to go to
the 500 foot level of the Ruth They were
ali loud in the praises of what was shown
them and after coming to the surface
all agreed in the opinion that Robinson
district contained mere ore. in sight
than all the other camps in the State
combined.
The papers represented in the visited
were Ogden Stan dard and Examiner,
The Salt Lake Telegram, Tribune,
Desert News, Reno journal, Denver
paper and several others publications.
Johh A. Fulton, a mining man who
has spent eight years in the gold mines
of South Aferica was one of the part
les who visited the mines. Mr. Fulton
said: Great camp, did YOU say?
never saw anything to beat it. ! saw
ore enough to keep reduction works
busy for many years to come and | did
not see half of what | am told you have
| had heard of Ely when in South
Africa but had no idea of the magni-
tude of the ore deposit. y
John Welsh, Mayor of Park City,
Utah, which boasts of some pretty
good mines of its own, after looking
at the Ely deposits, exclaimed: at is
certainly wonderful showing. There
is copper enough here to supply the
worlds demands for years to come.
Ely it destined to have great futuae. p"
Richard j. Evans. of Salt Lake
said; cit beats anything ! have seen.
You have here the making of an in
dustrial city. The five or six hundred
visitors who came in on the lirsd trains
are the advance guard Of other thous-
ands Of investors who viii come now
that they can do 50 IN comfort.
Governor Sparks said Nevada is
a great State and Ely's mines will
add UNNECESSARILY to its greatness. -
ELY is all right" said John T.
Mitchell, the Republican candidate for
Governor, "You folks are looming up
big. A number Of my friends in Gold
field are coming over here soon 70
enter this field | look to see Ely at
tain great Importance as city and
centre Of population in the next few
years. White Pine comfy is making
good and before long will be able to
obtain what it asks for politically
and otherwise.
These views were echoed by all who
saw the mines, and especially by mining
men who had not previously visited Ely.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1906-10-02
EIy's Destiny as Sure
as the Sunshine Overhead

ely, as sure as that VIC now look
upon yonder sun, is destined to become
the railroad and mining center, and
distributing center of Eastern and
Central Nevada, This little mining
hamlet will give way to city of stone
and steel, filled with great churches,
cathedral spires, parks, and all thing
that go to make up populous center
There will be troops of smiling children
filling the streets to and from school
and every morning the tin bucket
brigade the army of honest toilers,
vending their way to the mines and
smelters. The effect of the coming of
the Nevada Northern Railroad will be
to transform this entire region, a re-
gion unrivaled in resources and posi-
bilities You have streams that can
be used in the electric plants that will
light your homes, drive your machinery
and irrigate the neighboring valley,
which, Mr. Rockhill tells me, is un-
surpassed in fertility. New towns will
spring up in all directions.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1906-10-02
Nevada's Prosperity
Like the Ea9le'S Flight

Nevada stands today as only an
other name for opportunity and its
future prosperity men shall likcn TO
the eagles flight.
A. +. Cheney, was next introduced
and spoke of the Influence of the Law
on Mining He said:
AS the mining interest is of para
mount Importance in Nevada, and the
durability of the value of property
rests upon the law, it is to your in
terest that the influence of the law in
the future, as in the past. is toward
the upbuilding of this industry.
There is conviction in the heart of
everyman that he who goes forth to
seek should have. This feeling is not
q new one, for, as you remember, it