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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-06-12
Federal Control of Labor.
From the Augusta Chronicle.

From the Augusta Chronicle.
That was striking point made by
Hen. Jacob PhinizA ex-mayor OF Au-
gusta and president Of the Georgia
Railroad and Banking Company, IN
reply to telegram from the New
York World asking for his opinion on
President Roosevelt's declaration in
favor Of federal control of railroads.
Mr.. Phinizy's telegram to the
World, as reproduced in yesterdays
Chronicle, was as follows:
eff President Roosevelt is properly
quoted in his Indianapolis speech he
certainly advocates absolute control
upon the part of the government OF
the railroads.
81 am a strong believer in proper
regulations by the government, but
If they want absolute control they
should buy the railroads, paying for
them a fair and equitable price.
at wouldn't be a bad idea for the
president to advocate in this eonnec-
ton the regulation OF labor upon the
part OF the government
Government regulation cf labor. A
revolutionary suggestion. you will
sx at once. And yet, it sounds no
more radical than did the suggestion
OF government ownership or control
of railroads ten or fifteen years ago
We may we'll stop and ask ourselves
whittier are we drifting?
But government control Of labor
would interfere with personal rights
and Individual liberty. Certainly
but is it not equally true that gov.
ernment control Of railroads inter-
feres with the rights Of capital ane
the freedom Of legitimate industry
Mind you, we are not discussing
government regulation" Of railroads
eny more than we are discussing law.
governing the personal conduct Of IN
dividuals; but absolute, complete gov
ernment control" the assumption o
authority to direct the management
OF all the railroad properties in th'
United States without assuming eithe
moral or financial responsibility TO
their proper and successful conduct
che taking out Of the hands Of ex
Derts-men trained throughout thei
lives in this particular branch OF ser
vce-au of the railroad properties o
the country and turning the' over t
government oficeholders-men VIII
know no more about managing rail
roads than you or me. But that toe
without making the government or II
agents responsible to any one in cas-
such management proves failure
as is almost inevitaa'e.
Mr.. Phinizy, soea& as 9faeaca
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-06-12
LARGE BAND WILL GO.
Bandmaster Schumacher in Columbia
Frida5- to Complete All Arrange
TuentS

Frida5- to Complete All Arrange
ments.
Arrangements are being made to
take the full quota of the second reg
iment band to the Jamestown expo
sition on South Carolina day and yes
terday Bandmaster schumacher ot
Sumter was in the city to consult with
Col. Henry T. Thompson, as to the
details. In order TO take all of the
members it will be necessary for the
band to raise some additional money
and it has been planned to give a
concert either at the theatre or at the
park for this purpose. At the concert
at least thirty pieces will be in The
band and an excellent programme
will be arranged.
The outlook, according to the rail-
read officials here, is for a very
large attendance at Jamestown on
June %. The display maze ny ILLS
State will be one that no one need be
ashamed of, and in fact it is planned
t., have a most elaborate showing.
The band will give a number Of con-
certs. playing in the parade and be-
tween the addresses in the Virginia
state building and in the evening at
the reception to be given. Replies re
ceived by, Col. Thompson to the let
ters recently sent out show that nearly
all of the members Of the militia Will
take part and the cheap railroad rates
will attract hundreds of others who
will see the exposition for the first
-t:me.-The State, June S.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-06-12

Has your stomach gone out of bus
mess? II so you can reach the top
notch of physical and mental power
bv using HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain
Tea. 35 cents. Tea or Tablets. Chi
mas Drug Store.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-06-12
For the sake Of Justice 70 the al

For the sake Of justice 10 the af-
Aicted and for the good OF humanity.
il is my right ard duty TO recommend
HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea. We
eve our country d our fellow-r9-i
a duty. Tea or Tablets, 50 cents. &:
ra's Drug Store.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-06-12

The ssf<ey Of the cit. for u aN
erage system is progressing rapidly
under the direction Of Supervising
Engineer Lyons.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-06-12
COUNTY SUMMER SCHOOL.

The County Board of Education
has decided to have a four weeks
SPINNER School for Sumter county
beginning July 5. A county school is
especially desirable this year as there
Will be no state School. Pri11:ry
Methods. English and Mathemadcs
will be taught. No allowance as
sist the teachers to attend can be
given this year. Everthing will be
d.ne to make the four weeks session
profitable.
-, c..l:o,. ~
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-06-12
WINTHROP COLLEGE
SCHOLARSHIP AND ENTRANCE
EXAMINATION.

The examination for the award Of
vacant Sch !arships in Winthrop Col
lege and f + the admission Of new
students w II be held at the County
Court Hou,e on Friday, July 5 at 9
a. m. Ap aicants must be not less
than fifteen ears of age. When Schol-
arships are vacated after July 5, they
will be av srded to those making the
highest average at this examination,
provided they meet the conditions
governing the award. Applicants for
scholarships should write to Presi-
dent Johnson before the examination
for Scholarship examination blanks.
Scholarships are worth 500 and
free tuition. The next session VIII
open September IS, 1907. For further
information and catalogue, address
Pres. D. B. JOHNSON,
5-S-7-3 Rock Hill, S. C.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-06-12

We are prepared to make contracts Ior
bagging and ties for Fall delivery. We may
be accused of being somewhat premature,
but we made our purchases some months
ago. and the market has made decided adj
vance since then, and we candidly believe
that orders placed now will prove profitable.
We have liberal supply Of these goods on
hand now and the advantage in placing or
ders at this time, is that you get your goods
Immediately, and you have them on hand
when needed. Those who are our regular
customers or whose financial standing justi-
fies it we will ship the goods when ordered
and make them payable October 1st.
Our offerings this line consist of NEW JUTE BACGG
D and IA pounds NEW SUGAR SACK BAGGING 1 34
and pounds.
NEW ARROW TIES.
We have no second hand baggng ties of kind to of
fer Our experience teaches that does pay handle
them at the difference in price
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-06-12
O'Donnell s Company.
A Bargain.


dandh odselem
Adng
portuniy 5 soon.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-06-12

WANTED-Au the farmers in Sum-
ter county 20 know that We can in
sure their cotton against destruc-
ton or damage by hail. $50 in
surance per acre will cost SOC. per
acre. Citizens Insurance Agency.
Phone 14S. 5-S-6t
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-31

court by writ of error. and would be
entered on the docket there within
thirty days.
The decision of Judge Lewis" said
Mr.. Knaebel, will have no hearing on
the equity suits already filed by the
government or those which will here
after be fled to vacate patents to coal
or timber lands obtained by corpora
lions and others through process of
having dummies to make entries. ap-
parently in their own names. but really
for the benefit of the corporations or
other persons buying them. Judge
Lewis holds that it is not a criminal
fraud, but his decision acknowledges
the force of the holding of the SUI
preme court to the effect that it is an
equitable fraud"
Government agents will continue in
vestigating the alleged land frauds, it
was officially announced, until orders
are received from Washington calling
a halt. over 10000 acres of land are
involved in the various cases under in
VestigauOn, and their value runs into
millions.
The single Indictment that remains
undecided is d case agtinst Robert
Forester Benjamin n. Freeman, Will
liam Morrison and James Morrison.
They were indicted on two charges,
and Judge Lewis has reserved his de-
cision in this case, because it involves
a different principle than the others.
He is yet in doubt as to what kind of
land can lawfully be selected under the
soldiers additional homestead entry.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-31
SALT LAKE AFTER
NEXT CONVENTION
Commercial Club Expects to
Round Up Wool Growers
at Helena.
SHEEP MEN LIKE THIS CITY
MANY WILL ATTEND DRY FARM
ING CONGRESS.

At the forty-fourth annual eonven-
ton of the National Wool Growers as
ISOLATION, TO be held in Helena on Jan.
Ia, Is and 16, Salt Lake will ask that
the forty-fifth convention be held in
this city. The convention last spring
was held in salt Lake. 1t was one OF
the most successful of any convention
ever held by the association, and there
Is strong sentiment among sheepmen
TO make Salt Lake the convention city
in 1909. A representative of the Salt
Lake Commercial club viii accompany
the delegation and in behalf of the city
invite the wool growers to come here
in 1909
A great many of the delegates 10 the
wool growers convention at Helena
viii come TO Salt Lake to attend the
Dry Farming congress on Jan. p to IS.
The wool growers are interested in the
project of the congress and will unite
with the farmers in their attempt to
reclaim the arid lands. All of the dele
gates in attendance at the Helena con-
Vention will he asked to come to the
congress at Salt Lake, which opens a
few days after the close of the Wool
Growers convention.
Representatives from the United
deliver the following papers at the Dry
Farming congress:
Drought Resistant Grain Crops, w.
NJ. Jardine, assistant cerealist, office of
grain Investigations. bureau Of plant
industry.
Dry Land Tree Crops" Silas C. Ma
son, office Of plant life history bureau
of plant industry.
Summer FallOWing i'll Relation to
Dry Farming in the Great Basin" c.
S. ScofieId, in charge of office of agTi-
cultural extension, bureau Of plant in
duStTy.
Dry Farming: Past and Future g"
i. c. ChilcOtt, in charge of office of
dry land agriculture. bureau of plant
industry.
Climatic and Soil Moisture Condi-
tons of the Great Plains" L. ]. Briggs.
in charge of physical laboratory, bu-
Teau of plant industry.
"Prickly Pear as d Dry Land Crop"
David Griffiths, office of farm man
agement. bureau of plant Industry.
"Dairying under Dry Earning Con-
ditiOns." Ed H. Webster, chief of dairy
division bureau of animal industry.
Relation of Dry Farming to the
Livestock Industry" Will c. Barnes,
inspector of grazing, forest service.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-31

As to the coal land act, the court
says:
When it was passed, little was
known of the locality and extent of the
coal measures in this western country;
and if We were permitted in this case
to seek for a policy in that act, we
would say that the predominant one
was to induce the discovery and deVel-
Opment of such deposits"
The court held that the first count in
the indictments did not state an offcnse,
and quashed the second count also,
holding that the affidaVits etc. alleged
to be part of the conspiracy, were not
required by statute.
Ernest Knaebel, assistant attorney
general said that the cases would all
be taken TO the United States supreme
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-31
OOASHES COAL
FRAUD CASES
Judge Lewis in United States
Court Knocks Out Federal
Grand Jury.
1e INDICTMENTS KILLED
COURT SAYS GOVERNMENT
PROSECUTION is ALL WRONG.

Denver, Dec 30.-In another sweep
ing decision Judge Robert e. Lewis, IN
the United States district court today,
freed eighteen defendants of the charge
of Illegally acquiring coal lands IN
Colorado under the dummy entrymen
system. and said that the whole theory
on which the government has worked
in the prosecutions is wrong.
All the indictments in land cases
found by the federal grand jury last
summer except one have now been
quashed by Judge Lewis. The indicted
persons released from prosecution by
Judge Lewis decision today are;
Those Who Go Free.
Charles W. Haberdeck, Magdalena
Haberbeck, Gustave 1aberbeck,
Charles II. Dodge, Anna Dodge. Louis
NJ. Rumsey, Frank p. Fay, William
Baer, Arie Keitel of st. Louis: F. W.
Keitel and Otis 3. Spencer of Denver:
Charles Z. Herr, Robert Forester. Viii
liam Morrison, James Morrison, Frank
Eldredge, George Coe Franklin and
Benjamin N. Freeman of Durango, and
Walter S. Rice, Routt county, Colo
RADIO.
The opinion of the court was founded
on the case of the St. Louis people who
were members of a company known as
the Yampd Coal company and were
charged with obtaining 5000 acres of
land in ROutt county valued at $500, coo.
Judge Lewis held that there is no law
which makes it criminal for d citizen
to agree in advance of an entry of coal
land to sell to others whether individ-
uals or corporations, the land that he
might acquire by purchase. He said
that section $40. relating to conspiracy,
was inapplicable TO these cases, as it
dealt only with pension matters and
not with land transactions. The rules
and regulations of the land Office can
not be made the basis of a crime, Judge
I owls lid
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-31
FLUSH SEWERS WITH BEER
Revenue Officers Enforce Law to the
Letter in Oklahoma.

Oklahoma City, Okla, Dec. 3d.
Twenty three hundred barrels of beer
valued at $17,500. belonging to the New
state brewery, were today poured into
the sewers of this city by United States
Internal Revenue Collector Charles
Howard.
The brew was completed after Okla
homa became a state. The state au-
thorities would not permit its sale and
shipment from the state
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-31
LETTERS THAT NEVER CAME

Waco. Tex. Dee 3O.-Oficers have
just discovered the fact that sbundle
yof letters. registered packages, etc,
was stolen from the mail trucks at
Temple, Tex, probably Saturday, and
taken to a thicket near here and
orened. About $4,000 worth of checks,
money orders and drafts We're found in
a pile where the letters had been torn
open, but all registered packages and
money in letters had been taken out.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-31
Mrs. winsIOw's Soothing Syrup

Has been used for YEARS by MILLIONS
of MOTHERS for their CHILDREN
WHILE TEETHING. with PERFECT
SUCCESS 1t SOOTHES the CHILD.
SOFTENS the GUMS ALLAYS ali
best remedy for DIARRHOEA Sold BIZ
Druggists in every part of the world Be
sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Sooth-
ing Syrup and take no other kind
twenty-five cents a bottle GUARAN-
TEED UNDER THE FOOD AND
DRUG ACT. JUNE 30 1905 SERIAL
NUMBER 1893
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-31
BARGAINS.

Slightly soiled Wheeler & Wilson and
Singer machines sold at greatly re-
duced prices. IS Main street. Singer
Sewing Machine Co.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-07-17
CRUSHES Her SKULL.
Woman Trying to Hold Burglar
Falls From Window.
Robber Detected in Room, Flees to
Roof of Adjoining House-Attemp-
ing to Slide Down Pole to Ground.

Max Prichep and his brother, Abe,
keep clothing store, at $50 Essex
street, New York, and sleep in the
rear. Along about $3.50 Thursday
morning Max woke up and saw two
men prowling around the room. Max
jumped up and began shouting for
the police at the top of his voice.
One of the men made for the door
leading into the front hallway. The
other whose name was subsequently
learned to be Levine, after first strik-
ing Max in the face, went through the
rear window, taking the sash with
him and sending a shower Of broken
glass into the back yard. A third
man, who was in Abe's room, got
away with So in cash.
The man who went through the
rear window ran across the yard,
climbed a fence, and got into the
tenement at ISL Norfolk street. He
ran to the roof of the house. He
found a number of persons on the
roofs Of nearby tenements when he
reached that of ISL Norfolk street.
The crowd saw him and yelled. Le-
vine leaped from the roof and grabb-
ed a high clothes pole, which stood
near the house in the rear yard. He
began to slide to the ground.
AS he was passing the second story
Mrs. Annie Kelbauer poked her head
out of the rear window to see what
was the trouble She saw Levine
coming down the clothes pole, and
reached out and caught hold Of the
trousers. Levin struck at the woman
with one hand, but was unable to
free himself.
According to the people in the
neighborhood, ne then grabbed the
woman and pulled her by the hair.
She lost her balance and went crash
ing to the pavement of the yard. She
landed on her head, crushing her
skull. Levine then slid down the
pole, and climbed over a fence into
the rear yard of 149 Norfolk street.
There the police found and arrested
him.
Mrs. Kelbauer was hurried to the
hospital, where she died shortly af-
their arrival. Prichep grappled with
the thief who made for the front
door, and held him until the police
came. At the station-house he said
he was Ellis Levine. The name OF
the third man was Harry Strunhall.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-07-17
SWEPT OVER DAM.
Six Persons Perish in River Ac-
cident in Pennsylvania.
Engine of Gasoline Launch Brooke
and the Boat Drifted Toward the

Six persons were drowned late Fri
day evening near Russell, Pa. Nine
persons had taken a gasoline launch
on the Conewango River, which was
very high, owing to recent rains. The
boat was swept over dam and six
people drowned. The dead are:
Mr.. and Mrs. John Best and daugh-
ter. Violet, aged IS, Of Warren, Pa.
Mrs. George Baker. Warren, Pa.
Mrs. Hilda Knox, Warren, Pa.
O. F. Butts. travelling salesman
from Philadelphia.
A dispatch from Russell, Pa, says
that Mr. and Mrs. John Best had in
y4ted company of friends to take
supper with them at their cottage on
the Conewango River and had come
down to the Russell boat landing to
meet them.
The visitors were in one naptha
launch, and Mr.. Best and his party
in another. The boat containing the
visitors became lodged on pile a
short distance above the dam and
Mr.. Best went to assist them, when
the engine in his launch broke and
the boat containing nine persons
drifted toward the dam without an
oar to stay them
When the boat reached the dam
it was drifting broadside and it went
over, turning upside down. Six OF
the nine persons were caught under
it. The other launch could not be
gotten off in time to prevent the sad
accident, and those people in it could
only sit and watch their friends go
to almost certain death.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-07-17
SNAKE ENTANGLES HAWK.
I-nusual Incident Witnessed by sa'
luda County Farmer.

Mr. Whit Stewart, of Sa1uda
county, tell the following remarkable
snake story" A few days ago near
his home he saw a hawk pounce upon
large black snake and fly away. :s
After going only short dlstanSe aas;t.iv .I
bird was seen to suddenly and s"'teiS
At5 On going to the spot Mr. ! Ste Stewart g,sad
Himself tGune SIlb about the bird and firmly
ninioned ntnio1s his wings to his body. Vain
ntntId0h p. did the hawk endeavor to olsen
tsngle itself from the snakes coils;
It was. so to speak, hand to hand
conflict" which he witnessed. -
When, in his opinion, the hawk
had expired from strangulation, Mr..
Stewart killed the reptile On un-
winding it from the hawks tody. ne
was astonished to see the bird Cart
away with the swiftness Of the wind.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-07-17
DEADLY WHITE DAMP GAS.
Suffocated Eight Miners in an Aban'
doned Mine Shaft.

Eight Italian mine workers were
reported killed by white damp in an
abandoned shop of the Lehigh and
Wilkesbarre Coal company at Honey
Brook, Pa, Thursday.
Two of the men were sent into the
mine to measure the water. Then
two more went to assist them. 1t
was believed that the force was in
adequate and the others were order
ed to help them When they did not
return after a reasonable time an in
vestigation was made and the pres
ence of the deadly white damp was
discovered.
DR.. John Farrar, of Audenried,
was lowered by a rope into the slope,
distance of $50 feet. He was over
come and had to be hoisted out and
revived. Later rescuing party FOL
lowed and was also overcome after
one body had been recovered. Inc
rescuers have not been able to make
much progress on account of the gas.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-07-17
Runaway Team Thrusts Shaft
Through Mans Brain.
WILD DASH BY HORSE
Samuel Cohen, New York Manufac-
turer, Meets Sudden Death While
Standing on the Street.-A Police.
man Was Flung Of After the
Wagon Had Been Smashed Into a
Mass Of Wreckage.

With two policemen clinging to the
fragments of the harness, a runaway
horse dashed the end of a shaft
through the brain of Samuel Cohen,
a hat manufacturer of Nos. 201-2e3
Wooster street, New York, as he
stood waiting to enter the Bleecker
street station of the subway shortly
after six o'clock Friday night.
Death came almost instantly
Cohen was carried to the sidewalk,
where the body lay for nearly an
hour in rain waiting for permission
from the Coroner's Office to be
moved.
Startled by futtering piece OF
paper at Green and Bleecker streets,
the horse, which was attached. to a
single wagon driven by Alexander
Barris, of No. % Rutgers street, rear
ed into the air and dashed forward.
The jerk broke the king bolt Of the
vehicle, and the forewheels and shaft
separated from the main body Of the
wagon moving forward with the
horse.
Barris clung to the reins for about
half block, and then the strain
proved to great for him. The reins
were torn from his hands and the
horse dashed on.
With the crashing wreckage of the
vehicle behind him the frenzy Of the
animal became greater with each
stride, and although Traffic Squad
Patrolman Joseph Allen, who is sta
toned at Broadway, two blocks from
the spot where the wagon had brok-
en- made a-frantic effort to- seize the
horses head as he swung by, the
animal evaded him, and went tearing
down the street. The policeman
clutched at the wheels and axle as
they passed and hung on trying to
overtake the horse. But the. speed
of the animal was so great that the
policeman had great trouble to main
tain his position in the rear.
East on Bleecker street went the
terrified horse trailing behind him
the ruin of the wagon and the shout
ing policemen being in the rear. 1t
was just about the time the sky
scraperS in the vicinity were empty
ing their crowds of workers, and the
street was packed from curb to curb.
At Bleecker and Lafayette streets
Traffic Squad Policeman Bracken
sprank at the head Of the running
horse. The animal reared, and then
came crashing down on the pave
ment as the weight of the big police
made itself felt. Standing at that
point was Mr.. Cohen. He had not
seen or heard the animal coming and
was not aware of his danger.
The pointed shaft, broken by col
lision with lamp post, struck the
man squarely in the center of the
forehead and crashed through his
skull and brain.
AS soon as the horse could be
brought to a standstill, which was
within a few feet of the spot where
Cohen was killed, the limp body was
lifted of and carried to the sidewalk.
A drizzle of rain was falling and the
policeman who bore the body laid 1t
down in full view of the gaping
crowd. Nobody thought Of bringing
a blanket or covering. Later 1t was
taken to the Central Office but
short half block away.