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Arizona republican., 1906-08-12

These are excellent verses and i'm prove the hymn, making it expand with the country, but it does not definitely bring in the south. Martin Zimmerman has changed a couple of Van Dykes lines and as thus amended America reads as follows:
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1906-01-12
A Gigantic Enterprise.
Woodlawn, S. G..

A member of the Paris Geo
graphical Society, M. Loicq de
Lobel, is conducting negotiations
for the building of a railroad
tunnel under Bering Strait be-
tween Cape Prince of Wales in
Alaska and East Cape in Siberia.
He declares that responsible
American capitalists are back of
him. DR.. Waddell, a noted civil
engineer, has gone to Alaska
with a party, to make the pre-
liminary survey. 1t is estimated
that the work will require four
years and cost from $3.50, 900, 900
to $500, 100000. The tunnel will
be thirty eight miles long, with
the Diomede Islands half way
between to serve as a power
station. If this gigantic enter
prise is pushed through, we may
travel from New York to Paris
without leaving our car, and the
victim of seasickness may defy
the waves to harm. him.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1906-01-12
"THE WINGS OF The MORNING"
An Exciting and Interesting Story Of
Love and Adventure.

The concluding chapters of the
Holiday Case are published
IN this issue of THE TINES. In
the next issue of THE TIMES we
will begin the publication of a
serial story entitled, The Wings
of the Morning." written bv
Mr.. Louis Tracy. The very fact
that story is written by Mr.
Tracy is a sufficient guarantee of
its being a most charming and
interesting narrative. The
Wings of the Morning" is a story
OF matchless intreague. romance.
loved, lost and won, illustrating
the saying that everything is fair
IN love and war. This story
a6ounds in thrilling adventure
strategy love making, courtship
under difficulties and peculiar
conditions. The reader ;s
charmed from start to finish and
is at sea to determine the final
OUTCOME. being kent. in Glqpstapt
the t heart and hand of tba ior
heroine. Look for the story Ine
heo'n IN next weeks TIMES. ~
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1906-01-12
MlSSTATEMENTS OF ACTUAL FACTS.
Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars Have
Been Spent in the Last Few Months
to Deceive the Public.

Never before in the history of
the cotton trade has such a null
titudinous amount of bear"
dope and intentional misrepre-
sentation of actual facts been
given to the South through paid
advertisements in the columns of
the press and by the distribution
of circular letters through the
mails. Operators who are NOV
ing heaven and earth to depress
future contracts and the prices
of spot cotton are cudgeling their
brains in the modern art of Jug
Cling figures and making new
high records in distorting statis-
tics in the supreme effort to
make a small yield of American
cotton take on the appearance of
a plentiful supply. Hundreds of
thousands of dollars have been
expended in the past two months
in cablegrams, kilograms, paid
articles in newspapers, postage
and market letters in an hercu-
lean undertaking to deceive the
public, discourage the farmers
and local spot holders into rush
ing the remnant of this crop on
the market. unsettle public opin-
ion in the South temporarily so
as to break the market and in
duce liquidation. The spinners
have threatened to withdraw
from the market, which is an
absurdity in the face of their
enormous commitment of the
entire output of their mills for
the next six to eight months.
Prominent bear" leaders take
peculiar interest in daily publish:
ing comparative estimates of
this crop with years that have
gone before. These tangled and
muchly juggled statistics eman-
ate from the Offices of gentlemen
who breathe the atmosphere of a
climate one thousand miles from
Southern cotton fields and whose
eyes have not seen the actual con.
dition of a single cotton field in
; the South this year. The stats.
tics and daily reports which they
!. put out in the stupendous effort
, for private gain are simply the
, Nightmares of overcharged brains
: rejecting individual views in the
forlorn hope of changing at leas
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1906-01-12
Mr.. WELLES RESIGNS
AS GENERAL MANAGER.
Receiver Robertson Promises Good Ser
vice on the Union And Glenn
Springs Road.

On January 9th The Mercantile
Trust and Deposit Company of
Baltimore, Nd, trustee, applied
to Judge Brawley to have a re-
ceiver appointed for the Union
and Glenn Springs railroad, and
on hearing the case Judge Braw-
ley appointed Mr.. Edwin w.
Robertson, who came up Monday
and took charge.
We clip the following from The
State of the 9th:
Union. Jan. 8. While in the
city today Mr.. E. w. Robertson
of Columbia, who has been ap-
pointed receiver of the Union
and Glenn Springs railroad,
stated that the road would be
put in repair at once and that
the much needed stations would
be provided. A satisfactory ser
vice will be given in every re-
spect.
Mr.. P. I. Welles has resigned
as general manager but all other
officials and employees will remain
with the road, so far as is known.
The damage done by the de-
railment at Prides has been re-
paired and the road has been in
operation today.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1906-01-12
UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT AT
CRESCENT STEAM LAUNDRY.
Charley Hames Gets His Arm Seriously
Hurt while Cleaning Laundry
Machine.

Tuesday morning while clean.
ing the collar and cuff smoothino
and CLOSING machine of the
Crescent Steam Laundry Charlie
Hames got his arm caught be.
tween the rollers, and the flesh
was terribly torn, mashed and
lacerated from about half way
between the wrist and elbow.
and above the elbow. No bones
were broken, but the flesh and
muscles are badly bruised. He
forgot to throw the machinery
out of gear while he cleaned it
with a cloth, and the machine
being in motion his arm was ta-
ken in between the rollers, and
when he found his arm thus fas-
tened, in his excitement he pulls
ed the lever the wrong way and
thus increasing the pressure ins
stead of loosening it, and when
his condition was seen by another
operator who ran from the far
end of the house where Charlie
was, 1t was necessary to reverse
the lever and almost take the.
to pieces before he could
get the pinioned arm out. DrJ
j. M. Lawson was Immediately
summoned and dressed the in
Jured arm. DR.. Lawson saws
all of the bruised flesh will have
to stuff off. and if this does so
without effecting the artery, the
arm can be saved and not ampu-
tated. but if the artery is effected
he will have to amputate the arm
which will be about the elbow.
This is very unfortunate acci-
dent. Charlie had been working
in the laundry for about a year,
and is familiar with the machin-
arW L,+ rfiS SAI. -cY..> -, ,ss- = -
stead of throwing the machinery
out of gear before cleaning it, he
increased the pressure by throw
ing the lever the wrong way.
We sincerely hope his arm can
be saved to him, as he is young
and industrious and will make
a useful man.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1906-01-12

the companies that exploited
them, and never picked at all.
One ran away on plantation in
Mississippi, and destroyed half
an acre of cotton. Cotton pick
ers and gold bricks are in the
same category to the average
farmers mind. Yet there is a
mechanical cotton picker that
has worked. George Lowery
has made one which with it's five
operators picked 1,484 pounds in
"a day. A thousand pounds is
good work for five hand pickers.
The machine with five men did
the work of seven or eight hands.
1t is not yet in it's final shape.
The promoters admit that it is
not adapted to all kinds of cot
ton. Yet with it's limitations, if
it could save even one-quarter of
the $75, 100000 or more annual
expense and render the present
labor supply adequate for gather
! ing the crop, Mr.. Lowery would
go down in history with Eli
Whitney. ~
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1906-01-12
CAPT. R. P. HOBSON'S LECTURE.
capt. Richmond Pearson HObson on the
Lecture Platform.

AS was announced in the col.
umns of THE TINES last week
Capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson
filled his engagement at the
opera house Monday night. It
Is well known to those who have
read the many things about Can't
Hobson in the newspapers. that
he is the acknowledged and now
famous hero of Santiago harbor
when he with several others
tioated the old vessel Merrimac
to the entrance of the harbor
and touched the fuse which ex-
ploded the mine and sunk the shin
in the harbor with view to bot
tie up the Spanish fleet of war
vessels. This brave, fearless
and noble deed made Capt. Hob
son the hero of the Spanish
American war, and his praises
have been sung throughout the
civilized world as one of the
bravest and most daring of men.
Capt. Hobson has by his recent
eGdas eeGidtaahsssa as asseaffiH1ab6l eaff1s:asb6leH I as MS deed
of doing-that of an orator, q
profound philosopher and states
man. His lecture topics are
"America's Mighty Mission;"
America: Mistress of the Seas"
"The American Navy: It's Bril-
liant Past; Its Glorious Future;"
America: The Peacemaker
Among the Nations.
All of these topics are most
ably handled as the live issues of
the day. He is an enthusiastic
advocate of strong navy, be-
lieving by the correct mainte-
nance of a good navy by the
United States would be the safest
and surest plan to keep and pro-
mote peace between all nations.
He regards the misSoin Of Ameri-
ca to be that of a world domina-
ton, not for conquest, but to
give them the benefit of civil and
religious liberty and the building
up the brotherhood of man.
Capt. Hobson is broad and con-
servative in his views and a
lover of peace between all ma
tions, would like to see a cong
ress and international congress
for the purpose of perpetuating
peace and the settlement of every
real and imaginary trouble be-
tween the nations of the world
and thus avert all wars and re-
sort to arms and bloodshed.
Peace, peace, let peace ever
reign.
J Capt. Hobson is a person of
great magnetism, convincing
and converting in his arguments.
He is very entertaining when
speaking of the United States
navy. He carries his audience
with him in most delightful
manner, showing his thorough
knowledge of his topics and Civ.
ing to the people valuable infor-
nation which to them is a reve.
lation. He asked for a rising
vote upon the question of a peace
congress and asked that the
mayor memorialize the authori
ties in behalf of this great worl
and thus show that the senti
ment of the best people were
with him in his advocacy of tht
worlds peace congress.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1906-01-12

made wool, cotton, silk, leather,
flax, hemp, ramie, pelts? | dom t
suppose it would be an exaggera-
tion to say that more of the hu-
man family depend on cotton for
clothing and shelter than any
other one article certainly on
cotton and wool.
The cotton belt can produce all
the meat food products necessary
for the liberal subsistence of its
lnhabitants-cattle, hogs, sheep,
goats; all animals necessary for
draft and transportation pur-
poses horses, mules, oxen, Jacks
and jennets; all the fruits grown
outside the tropics and many of
the tropical fruits in the lowest
sections of the cotton belt-ap-
pies, peaches, apricots, pears,
ounces, grapes, currants, figs,
and almost every variety of
berry Strawberries, raspberries.
blackberries, dewberries, huckle-
berries, gooseberries, etc.; vege-
tables, such as, for instance,
grow and mature above ground
okra. tomatoes, beans, peas, egg
plant, cucumbers, artichokes,
squaShes, etc.; root crops, such
as grow and mature under ground
sweet and Irish potatoes, beats,
t1rnips, CARROTS rf9ts,, nCTTuIas, arti-
chokes, radishes, etc.; the finest
watermelons, muskmelons, cam
taloupes, citron plants and pump
kins.
If you will extend the lines l
have indicated for the cotton
belt proper so as to embrace the
States of Maryland, Virginia,
West Virginia, Kentucky and
Missouri, you can find, with that
area in the cotton belt. coal, lime
and iron ore enough to manufac-
ture every implement of hus-
bandry and those articles used
for domestic purposes to supply
every inhabitant within those
boundaries and thousands to
spare 1OI ehpOi y liIO OIHSl oldlSS
and countries. In enumerating
thus some of the resources Of the
cotton belt | omitted to mention
tobacco. alcoholic spirits, wine,
beer. l might also mention the
toothsome and abundant supply
of the finest fish that swim in
our waters-the terrapin, oyster,
crab, clam, shrimp and cooter of
the shell-fsh species, but fear |
have already tried your patience
by too much detail, some would
probably say trifles, but when
the sum total of all these appar-
ent trifies are divided by the
wants and comforts of the peo-
pie and are intelligently taken
advantage of they become almost
incalculable. In 10 years time
the cotton belt will be the richest
agricultural and manufacturing
country in the world and furnish
more of the comforts and luxuries
of life than any other known
part of the universe of the same
area.
WoodlaWn, S. G..
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1906-01-12

temporarily the laws of supply
and demand. The interest of
the spot holder is not considered.
The great desideratum is paper
contracts and hot air. Thou
sands of people read this bear
ish dope" scattered over the
South daily and know it to be
false, yet Vow tremble in doubt
and surrender their honest con-
victions and Southern manhood
before the edicts which emanate
from the fine Italian hands of
their enemies. This crop can no
more be compared with past
yields in the matter Of picking,
ginning and selling than could
the enormous production of 1904.
Let every man in the South stand
pat on the actual conditions
which confront him. Spurn
these juggled statistics as you
would an adder invading the holy
precincts of your home and re-
main fixed and unalterable in your
determination to secure higher
prices for the balance of this
crop, which will unquestionably
prove to be one of the smallest
grown in a number of years.
Yours truly.
HARvIE JORDAN,
President Southern Cotton AS
sociation.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1906-01-12
CUTTING C0TTON'S COST.
Remarkable Invention Which Reduces
Expenses.

Arthur w. Page describes as
follows a wonderful machine that
may prove to be an enormous
economic discovery.
Many mechanical cotton' pick
ers have been invented to gather
the cotton from the plant. Some
picked everything in sight, lint,
leaves and bolls. Some were
made principally to sell stock in
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1906-01-12
A BIG PLUM FROM UNCLE sam.
Spanish War Veterans to Get Their
Claim Attorneys Succeed in Estab-
fishing the Claims Made by the Men
who Volunteered from this State.

/
who Volunteered from this State.
Washington, January 6.-The
work some time ago undertaken
by Governor Hayward through
his special attorneys, Mr.. W.
Boyd Evans, of Columbia, ane
Calhoun & Sizer, of Washington,
u. c., appears to be rapidly ap.
preaching a recovery of very
handsome sum for the Spanish
American war soldiers of South
Carolina.
1t has required much time and
a great deal of work on the part
OF the special attorneys to bring
the case to its present favorable
condition.
Relief was first obtained from
SCongress by getting an Act
passed and the question of the
;tonstruction of the statutes, after
'asWarm contest before the Court
of3Claims, was finally decided in
favor of the State, and the mat
Ter having been referred to the
accounting officers of the treas
ury department for final adjudi-
cation and settlement, the at
torneys have just succeeded in
getting the required data to
enable them to make up the
claim in itemized form.
1t required hard work to get
the claims itemized in proper
form and filed before the iimita-
tion expired. but the governor
and the soldiers can congratulate
themselves upon this having been
done, and the claim is now safe,
avg, I: s;-5 fo5sff 5af amoant GnoGra' T1l Claimed IS
$l15; 145. 66, of which $14,97O 90
is for the 1st regiment, SIT. 187.-
68 is for the End regiment, $2,-
81 is for heavy artillery,
So, ,875. 25 is for the naval militia,
and $75, 1872 is for rejected
men, staff officers, clothing and
camp equipage.
The above decision of the Court
in constituting the Acts of Cong
ress, was to the effect that the
officers and enlisted men of the
above organizations are entitled
to compensation at State rates
from the respective dates upon
which they first assembled at
their company stations or head
qnarters to the date of muster
into the United States service.
AS some difficult questions will
arise in the application of the
provisions of the law to the par
ticular phases of the case, on
account of it's being composed of
so many different items. it will
be some time before the matter
can be finally settled, and the
money turned over to Governor
Hayward for distribution among
the soldiers, as required by law.
The hearty cooperation of the
commanding officers of the vari-
Gus organizations with the above
attorneys, and particularly Mr..
Evans, in furnishing to them the
required data and evidence, will
greatly facilitate the settlement
and distribution of this money.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-06-28
REMEDIES NATURES WORK
Fingers Of Young Man Remade to
Fit Him for Service
in Navy.

Minneapolis.-Sidney Middleton left
the clinical operating table at st.
Mary's hospital a few days ago At. as
soon as the wounds made by the sur
geon's knife are healed. to be received
into the United States army.
When nature designed young Mid
dleton she did a good general job, but
there we're a few details which were
obviously overlooked. Two fingers.
the little and ring finger OF the right
hand, we're united in one sheath Of
skin. This never bothered the young
man while he was working on his
fathers farm near GARFIELD, Mich, but
proved to be a serious obstacle when
he applied for enlistment In the navy.
Examining Surgeon Robert bach
man suggested an operation. but Mid
dleton's lack OF funds proved a seri-
Gus obstacle. The government does
not supply money for the medical
treatment Of prospective recruits and
a clinic offered the only solution Of
the dificulty. DR.. Bachman himself
conducted the operation and reports
that II was successful.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-06-28
BURNING MINES oF UTAH.
Veins Of Coal That Have Been A6re
Since They We're Discovered
by White Men.

Through a long line OF cliffs from
Colorado to central Utah. and then
southwest toward Arizona extensive
beds Of coal are found. and recent geo
logical investigation into this coal
formation Of the far west has deVel-
oped what may be termed burning
mountains, or coal beds, a Gre With
surface indications of constant COM
bustion for ages past.
These coal fields Of Utah are some-
what widely separated, and even the
known fields have been comparatively
little explored; therefore very little is
known Of their productive area.
The edges Of thtse beds come to the
surface in these cliffs nearly 1000 feet
above the bordering desert. and in
ages past this coal has burned into
the mountain cliffs until smothered by
the accumulations of ashes and cover
ing OF superintendent rocks. In
places the heat Of this burning coal
has been SO intense as to melt the
rocks.
From surface appearances the fires
have gone out IN these cliffs, but at one
point in the canyon Of Prince river,
where the coal is being mined. the
rocks are found to be uncomfortably
hot and the miners were compelled TO
retire for fear the fires would again
break out.
Other coal fields lie In the desert
west Of Green river. At two places
near tributaries OF the Fremont river
the Goals are buraing. and have been
without cessation since they were dis
covered by the earliest explorer. The
origin of these fires has been the sub
ject of much speculation.
Three explanations are commonly
heard among the Mormons, who in
habit this peculiar country where the
mountains burn.
One explanation is that lightning has
by chance struck the edges Of these
coal beds at various times since these
mountains were lifted up.
Another is that forest fires raging in
the mountains came in contact with ex-
posed coal. The more thoughtful point
out that the forests In this desolate re-
gion are too sparse for forest fires to
occur.
Still another and more common ex-
planation is that the Indians built
their campfires under the protecting
ledges OF the mountains against the
coal. and 1t was thus ignited. They
point to the fact that there are ruins
of the habitatlons OF cliff dwellers here
and that in their day the Goals began
to burn.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-06-28
LIKE A CARGO OF SNOW.
Steamer Brings in Load Of Salt from
Sicily Which Looked
Wintry.

Looking down over the high hatch
way combing into the after hold OF
steamer discharging at an East river
wharf up by the Grand street ferry,
a waterside stroller saw in the hold
below what seemed to be a cargo OF
snow-an odd cargo for a vessel to
bring. says the New York Sun.
They had already got out the bulk
Of it from Immediately under the
hatchway and almost down to the YES
sells floor. but all around still arose
white banks of it reaching up almost
to the vessels decks; and half way
up one Of these steep snowbanks a
man was at work with a pick. dis
lodging masses OF It to fall TO the
open space at the center. where stood
men with scoop shoyels piling this
snow into great iron tip buckets,
which, as fast as they were filled,
were hoisted up to be dumped into a
chute running down over the steam
er's side. this chute emptying into
carts on the wharf.
From the steamers forward hatch,
at the same tine and in like manner,
they were discharging from the same
snowy cargo, but over the other side
Of the vessel, the cargo from the after
hold going across the wharf into a
warehouse. while that from the for
ward hold was going into lighters
alongside. a customs oficer at each
point noting the weights Of 1t as the
stuff was hoisted out.
It was salt, the snowy white cargo
with which from stem to stern this
steamer was loaded; a cargo OF $500
tons Of salt, brought from a place in
Sicily where they make salt by the
evaporation Of sea water from arti-
fcially made ponds OF about 20 inches
IN depth.
To one whose ideas Of salt were
confined to the trifiing quantities of
It that he saw in shakers and salt
cellars on the table this cargo of
thousands Of tons seemed like a lot
Of salt; really like something curious
and interesting and remarkable AS a
matter Of fact in the various uses to
which It is put salt is used in enor-
nous quantities, and to those &C
Quainted with salt and the salt trade
salt in full cargoes. large and small,
Is something quite familiar.