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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-08

Of acres OF such soil; and they only
await the hand OF man to bring them
into the worlds markets as live COM
mcrcial factors"
Corn aud Wheat Belt OF the Sudan.
What kind Of crops can be raised
in that country, your excellency2" I
asked.
Almost anything that Is now pro-
duced in Egypt" was the reply. 1.-THE
Gezireh Is already growing great
deal of durra, a millet whose seed
forms the chief food OF the natives. 1t
produces an excellent hard wheat and
also maize. AS 1t Is now. that plain
Is the chief granary OF this part OF the
world. 1t raises 80 much that, when
the season is good, the crops are more
than the people consume. and at such
times the grain, is stored away-in great
pits. I have seen durra pits forty feet
deep and about fifty feet in diameter.
They are to be found about almost
every village; and. at ordinary times,
are kept full! of grain for fear OF
famine. While the mahdi reigned his
soldiers robbed the durra pits. and the
result was that whole communities
We're wiped out by starvation.
New Railroads md Irrigation.
But II the bad years eat up tho
good ones. where ia the Sudan to get
its grain for export?" asked.
THAT will come by irrigation and
better transportation. AS 1t is now the
people rely upon the rainfall. which is
not sure. In the future. that. country
can be irrigated by the two Niles. and
that without diminishing the supply
Iof water required for Egypt. Then the
land will have water all the year
round. Improved methods OF cultiva-
ton will enormously increase the crops.
AT present, the native merely walks
over the ground after rain and stirs
1t up with stick, while his wife and:
and covering them with their feet.
After planting nothing Is done until
two months later, when the crop is
ready for reaptng. '
Gas to transportation, everything is
brought to the river on donkeys or
camels, which eat their heads Oft on
the way. and II has to come down the
Nile on boats at high freight. we
hope to soon build railroad into tho
Gezreh. which, will give 1t an outlet
to the Red Sea: and there will be other
roads branching off from that. furnish
ling transportation facilities for the
whole country"
but Is the region between the White
and Blue Niles the only country you
have where grain can be raised?"
BY no means. We can raise grain
( In nearly every province. There are
grain areas In the south and in the
west. The Bahr-el- Ghazal, an immense
country on the northern edge Of the
Congo watershed, will raise grain, and
there are many region along the rivers
inHthe north which will produce enor-
nous crops when the water Is put upon
then.'
Where Cotton Map Nc Ring.
How about cotton?"
u see no reason why the Sudan
should not eventually be ono OF the
chief cotton countries OF the globe. We
are experimenting, with 1t in ali the
provinces and are meeting with great
success. The land between the White
and Blue Niles might be made one
great cotton plantation, and the quail
ity OF the crop would BIO excellent. AS
It is now we are raising excellent cot
tonson thu Red Sea near suakt.n, There
are about 10000 acrea planted there,
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Excluding about 10000 small vessel.
the commerce. OF tho world S!s carrted
on by $4,000 vessels Of a total tonnarsI
OF about 400 9 1000. "
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-08

HOWARD Il. JONES.
siae 'riines. Disphtci; 4


II courteous request that !
graph of the SHAFT over tho
Hiss Annie Garter Lee and
"Reminiscences Of her death
at my grnndfdtler's Ii be-
reply l Will 4tatc that such
MS may bc able to give
labor of love-" for have
by ptecept and example
revere the name OF Ice. y
cen. M the darkeys say
knowledge is necessarily.
I'm an unpublished account
occasion written by my, my
A invitation and from let
trcral Lee, Mrs. Lee, Gem
III Lee. General Bragg. from
Of our family and from
htement left by Mr.. G. raid
~ &c skilled stonecuttor, who
Il monument and lnbored
ia devotion to complete 1t.
and her daughters, Misses
les and Annie, having been
their ancestral home,
b the Potomac, after vari-
finally sought a quiet re-
rep White Sulphur Springs,
4 William Duke Jones' Here
a quiet resting place. far
bid turmoil of war. Here
Ss .ind plenty. where no sound
III the tread or tramp Of arm
an heard, they lived cheer
ping and praying that the
osts' would give vjgor to
cause. wise Insight to the
Ulcers and prayers unccas-
.Tttt tnt NJ IN v.a Ht,p
and brothers.. In the a,i-
IL. while thor hearts were
no calamities to the loved
n, and fighting on the out
arkened shadow Of sorrow
j them in their little home
sweet daughter and sister,
ened and faded day by day,
hope and attentions were
The stricken loved ones
ptfnd her couch and tender
liz OF family and physicians
avail. Earth was receding
Heaven opening to her pure spirit,
with smile OF light she passed
er eternal home. October 90. 1852.
Ienven gives It's favorites early
III
! kind hands ana loving hearts the
ed low in tho ground" In the pri-
cemetery OF Mr.. William Duke
es. Amid sobs and tears the last
crlng touch was made to the fresh
nd t. c fu-iai rite OF her church,
,cd to all. Earth to earth. dust 10
t." and the Spirit was with God.
! gave Il.
Monument Erected.
he conception OF the monument
'cted ~ 1869 was the inspiration
ny father. Mr. Joseph lSpccd Jones
of Mr.. Duke" .InLes TIL.
Q. design and workmanship
that OF AR. Gerald Crowder.
ded to above. NJ. Crowder was all
~ engaged IN similar work for Mr..
es,s family. With this laudrtle In
alton. these two set quietly to
X. Mr.. Crowder chiseilinR from TIE
We granite taken from the hills
rby. DPy by day he worked ear
tly and with devotion. But the
7ssjtics of war called to his pa
tism. and. though an invalid and
md the are OF conservation, he left
to follow the noble father in the
ny of Northern Virginia. He fol-
ed his leader through many perils.
On long marches. even though his
18th failed day by day. Ny father
called t. General Rraxton BraRg a
We OF Warren county. TO have him
ailed and allow him TO return and
ipleie the work unfinished. The fol-
ing letter shows results OF this ef-
Armies Confederate
states.
"ysichmond. April Is, 1864.
Ny Dear Sir.-Private Crowder Will
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-17
SMITH WILL SUCCEED ALGER.
Congressman from Grand Rapids,
Mich, Secures Republican Caucus
Nomination for Senator.

Lansing, Mich Congressman
William Alden Smith, of Grand
Rapids, was last night nominated to
succeed United States Senator r. A.
Alger. As there are only half dozen
democrats in the Legislature this nomi-
nation by the republican caucus is
equivalent to an election.
When the caucus adjourned We'd
nesday night after the fifth ballot,
Congressman Smith was the leading
candidate, having 43 votes, but Ga
were necessary for choice. Last
night before the first ballot was con-
cluded it was evident that the Grand
Rapids congressman had won. Mr..
Smith received 98 votes.
Congressman Townsend had &c, a
loss of one since Wednesday night
Arthur Hill, of Saginaw, whom Gov.
Warner had charged with using i'm
proper campaign methods, had one
vote, Charles Smith Of Hubbell had
two and William C. Mcmillan, of De-
troit, son of the late Senator James
Mcmillan, who had "a votes Wednes-
day night, withdrew Congressman
Smiths nomination was made unani-
nous amid great cheering.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-17
TRADE AT HOME
Way Farmer Should Giue
His Support to the
Local Merchant.
PRESERVES HIS OWN MARKET
depreciation of Village Property
Must Inevitably Mean Deprecia-
ton of Agricultural Property
and Encouragement of
Monopoly.

Copyright, 1906, by Alfred c. Clark.)
The most serious problem tnat con-
fronts the rural towns and villages
of this country is the competition of
fered local enterprises by the cata-
togue houses of the large cities. 1t is
a problem for which a solution must
be found If the prosperity and sta
'billty of the nation is to stand.
And the solution of this great prob
lem lies in the hanFi of the people of
the towns and villages and the farms,
especially the farms.
The people of the rural communities
have everything to lose and nothing
to gain by sending their money to
the catalogue houses, by passing by
their local merchants and sending
their dollars to the concerns who have
absolutely no interest in their COM
munities.
These catalogue houses do not pay
taxes in your town; the local mer-
chant does. They do not build side
walks in your town; the local mer-
chant does. They do not contribute
to the building of roads over which
the crops of the farms are hauled to
market; the local merchant does
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-17

They do not help to build school
houses for your children; the local
merchant does. They do not assist in
the support of your churches; the
local merchant does.
But there are some things the cata-
gogue houses do for you and the
first and greatest of these is TO assist
materially in bankrupting your com
munity. The dollars they take away
never come back to you. They will
never help TO make city of your vii
iage. They will never increase the
value of your real-estate holdings by
making local improvements.
Let us look at the subject from the
standpoint Of the farmer, for it is the
farmer who is the greatest patron of
the catalogue houses.
The town or village one, two or
three miles from his home is his mar
ket for the butter and eggs and other
produce of his farm. The half dozen
or more merchants of the town, each
anxious to obtain his full share of the
business of the community maintain
"a competition thGt affords to the
farmer at all times top prices for the
products of his farm. 1t is these half
dozen merchants that make farm
profits possible; the profits are in no
way due to the catalogue houses of
the cities.
But the farmer persists in sending
mis- dollars TO the city. He wants a
buggy, or a set of harness, or a pair
OF stockings, or any of the necessities
or luXurieS of life, and to get them he
takes out his mail order catalogue and
looks at the finely printed cuts, reads
the well written description, and, pass
ing the local merchant by, the mer-
chant who has purchased his produce
at the best market prices, the mer-
chant who has helped to build the
community, he sends his dollars to
the catalogue house in the city and
takes what they choose to send him.
What is the result?
One after another the doors OF the
local stores are closed, and where at
one time there were half dozen mer-
chants, each bidding for his share of
patronage by offering fair prices for
that which the farmer had to sell,
there is now but one merchant who
mas a monopoly, not Cnly OF the sell
ing, but of the buying as well, and he
pays what he pleases for the farmers
produce.
The farmer can continue to send his
money to the catalogue house in the
city for his supplies, but he cannot
send his produce to the same place.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-17
FIXED THE BLAME.
Train Crews and Dispatchers Are
Held Responsible for the Wreck
at Terra Gotta, D. c..

Washington. d. C.-The coroners
inquest over the Terra Gotta wreck of
December 30 last night held for the
action of the grand jury Harry H. Hill.
debrand, engineer OF dead" train No.
2120; Frank i. Hofimier, conductor of
that train; =. f. Dent, train dispatcher
at Baltimore; William d. McCauley.
division operator of the Baltimore Sc
Ohio railroad; b. l.. Vermillion. engi.
neer of local train &C, into which 212C
crashed; George w. Nagle, conductor
of train Sc; j. w. Kelly, trainmaster
of the Baltimore & Ohio, and William
NJ. Dutrow, the telegraph operator at
Silver Spring.
All the men held except Dent, Nc.
Cauley and Kelly were in the building
where the inquest was held and were
arrested
The verdict of the jury was that the
deaths were caused by impact, due
to the act of Operator William Dut-
row in displaying an improper signal
to the crew of train 2120," and directs
that Dutrow be held for the action of
the grand jury. The jury also held
the others already mentioned as re-
oPoi0i'io III a iSSSel deSTee LOT inc
deaths. The jury arraigned the block
system on the Baltimore &c Ohio as
not affording satisfactory protection
to the lives and property of it's
patrons, arraigned the system of
wages paid the operators and signal
men on the road and recommended
that all block signal stations be kept
open "a hours day and no additional
duties given the operators aside from
working the signals and attending to
their telegraphic duties.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-17
By an Explosion of Gas
Under a Furnace.
INABIG STEEL MILL
The Jones & LaughIin Plant at Pitts
burg Is the Scene of a Most
Appalling Disaster.

Pittsburg, Pa.-One of the worst
explosions in the history of the
Jones & Laughlin steel works oc-
Cured last night at the Eliza furnace,
when a large quantity OF gas which
had accumulated at the base of the
furnace became ignited and exploded
Tons of molten metal were showered
around the furnace for a radius of 40
feet. Out of a force of 80 men en-
ployed at the furnace when the explo-
sion occurred three, John Cramer, An
drew Featherka and Gustave Kessler,
were taken to the morgue, their
bodies horribly mutilated by the fire.
Seven men are in hospitals and "a
others have not been accounted for.
While the mill men are inclined to be-
lieve that all the missing men were
not cremated in the molten metal,
nothing definite is known as to their
present whereabouts. Only one man,
George Knox, has turned up since the
explosion and he says everything hap
pened so quick that he doubts whether
the men escaped.
Chief Peter Snyder, of the Fourth
fire district. was seriously injured
Willie ulItCtluS lne IlfeHcH 10 GAllu-
guish the fire which followed the eX-
plosion.
While responding to the alarm a
hose cart was struck by a street car,
injuring two firemen and killing 4
horse. The windows of the street car
were shattered and a panic followed
among the passengers. Two women
were injured by being trampled on.
The scenes about the entrance to
the mill were pathetic when the fami.
lies of the workmen learned of the
disaster. Women, men and children
gathered about the gate and made
frantic efforts to gain admission Sew.
eral of the women rushed upon the Of
ticers and fought them, crying to be
allowed to enter the mill and see their
loved ones. Young children ran Np
and down the streets crying that their
father was dead Later it became
necessary to call additional police to
fOrcibly escort the women and chii.
dren to their homes.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-17
WERE MELTED IN LIQUID STEEL.
No Trace of is Victims of Explosion in
Steel Plant Is Found.

Pittsburg, Pa.-Partial investigation
to ascertain the number of fa-
talitieS that occurred at the Eliza fur
Co. Wednesday night, when an ac-
cumulation of gas exploded, bursting
the base of the furnace and shower
ing tons OF molten metal over about
40 men, was completed last night and
shows that the bodies of 12 men, hor-
ribly mutilated have been recovered.
From 10 to 20 men are missing, it be-
ing generally believed their bodies
were consumed by the hot metal, and
ten men are in hospitals terribly
burned, four of them expected to die.
1t is doubtful whether the number
of men killed will ever be known
From present indications over 10
men were caught like rats in a trap
by the fiery metal, which flowed over
their bodies TO a depth of six feet No
trace of them, it is said will ever be
found. OF the dead bodies now in the
morgue, several are minus arms, legs
and head
The condition of the injured is
pitiful. A number of the men have
their eyes burned out and others were
so badly injured that amputations of
arms and limbs were necessary.
gruesome story is told by Deputy
Coroner Laidley, who says that one
foreigner, apparently youth, became
crazed by his injuries and before he
could be prevented leaped into a pot
of molten metal and was inCinerated.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-17

In disposing of that he is absolutely
dependent upon his local merchant,
and by his patronage of the catalogue
houses he has killed competition, and
must now take whatever is offered for
what he has to sell.
Mr.. Farmer, are you helping to kill
the goose that is laying your golden
egg?
Are you sending your dollars to the
catalogue houses and by so doing kill
ing the local industries of your town?
Are you putting your merchants out
of business. and creating monopoly
that will pay you what it pleases for
the products of your farm?
If you are doing these things it is
time for you to stop and consider the
future You will have to look but
little way ahead to see the result, and
it will not be an attractive picture that
greets you. The prosperous COM
munity Of which you are now part
will fade like the summer flowers be-
fore the winter winds. and almost as
quickly.
1t is the fact that there is a market
within close proximity to your farm
that makes your acres valuable. The
men who maintain this local market
for you are the men who cause the
railroad trains to stop at your town.
Take them away and soon the town
will be wiped off the map. The
churches will close for lack of support.
The schools will cease to be a pride,
and your sons and daughters will lack
the opportunity that is theirs by right
of birth, and your acres, that are now
valuable because they lie in close
proximity to a market, will show a
depreciation that will astonish you.
Your interests are identical with
those of the merchants of your town
By sending your dollars to the city
you may cause the merchants to close
their establishments, but when they
are forced TO this they can pack their
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-17
VERDICT IS GUILTY.
TRIAL OF SUBSIDIARY coMPAN.
les OF TOBACCO TRUST ENDS.
THEY ARE CONVICTED OF FORM.
ING AN ILLEGAL COMBINE
AND MONOPOLY.

New York.-A jury in the United
States circuit court returned a
verdict in the so-called tobacco trust"
trial which had been on hearing be-
fore Judge Hough for the past three
weeks. The jury acquitted Carl Jung
Dluth and Howard Il. Young on all
counts charging conspiracy in re-
straint of trade and combining to con-
troll the licorice paste industry, but
finds the MacAndrews & Forbes Co.
and the j. S. Young Co. guilty on two
counts, one of forming an illegal COM
bination and the other of being mo-
nopoly. The corporations named,
which were joint defendants with
Jungbluth and Young, were acquitted
of the charge of conspiracy. Counsel
for the defendant companies at once
moved for an arrest of judgment and
Judge Hough will hear arguments on
the motion next Monday
The cases were prosecuted for the
government by Special Assistant At
torney General Henry w. Taft. The
evidence was largely documentary,
the government having m the presen-
tation of it's evidence introduced over
275 exhibits, consisting of private let
ters passing between the various de-
PENDANTS relative to the licorice paste
business. These letters the govern
ment forced the defense to give up.
A fine of not more than $4,000 or
less than $1,000 can be imposed for
each violation Of which the corpora.
tionS have been found guilty
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-17
YANKEE IN DIAMOND FIELDS.
Commissions to Study Country
Which Produces Such Men,

Mr. Alfred Mosely is an Englishman
who admires American ways so much
that he sends commissions here to
study us.
Mr., Mosely does not admire us
without reason. 1t is not a very
specific reason. It's name is Mr.. Gard
ner +. Williams, and it is by way of
being an American mining engineer.
Mr. Williams directs the diamond out
put of the world.
Mr.. Mosely made his fortune in
South Africa. He watched Cecil
Rhodes dream of empire develop and
knew the men who made it real. The
one who took his imagination was
Gardner Williams.
Here was a man who had left
Michigan at the age of Is to go with
a pioneering father to California in
the flush days of the early mining
camps, had had a taste of California
mining, had gone when still young
man to explore in South Africa and
had become general MANAGER of the
great monopoly of the diamond
mines.
A fighter of financial battles and a
manager of men, a writer. scientist
and one of the worlds greatest en-.
gineers, he so stamped his PERSONAL.
ty on the people among whom he
lived that he was feted and choered
by all South Africa when Eo retired
last spring and came back to the
United States to build a home for his
leisure years in the land OF his birth.
Worlds Work.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-17
PaVioff Is Assassinated.

St. Petersburg, Russia.-Lieut. Gen
Vladimir PavloR, the military pro.
curator, generally known since the
days of the late parliament as Hang
man Paylolf," from the epithet con.
stantly applied to him by the radical
deputies, was shot and killed Wednes.
day while walking in the garden OF
the military court building. The as.
sassln, who was disguised as a work
man, was captured after a long chase
through the streets.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-17
A Wife Murderer Is Lynched.

Waterloo, IA crowd of more
than ! 900 men Wednesday night bat,
tered through the walls Of the county
Jail at Charles City, la, with railroad
irons, tore hinges !roLl the doors and
took James Cullen ont AID lyached
him for wife murder.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-17

stock of goods and go elsewhere, but
you cannot pack up your farm and
move it; your acres must lie in the
bed you have builded for them whether
it be fair or foul, and it is up to you,"
Mr.. Farmer, to spend your money at
home, and in this way you can solve
the greatest problem that now con-
fronts this country.
Will you do it?
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-17
Keep Your Money at tIora

Don send money to mail order
houses to deposit Your home bank
is the only safe place to keep it and
will pay you as good interest as can
be had. and then you run no risk as
in such cases as he Cash Buyers
Union failure. The home bark will
grant you favors and mail order
houses never do.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-17
Gives $780, 900 to a Hospital.

Pttsburg, Pa.-Mrs. James Oliver,
widow of James Oliver, of the
Oliver Iron and Steel Co, who died
about year ago, last night announced
that she had given 100000 to the
South Side hospital for the erection of
an addition in memory of her late hus.
band.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-17
A Strike for H;rher Waues.

New York. - One hundred and
fifty freight handlers employed by
the Baltimore &. Ohio railroad at its
freight yards at st. George, Stt ten
Island, went ON strike last night for
an increase IN wages.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-17
Two Men are Found Dead.

New York.-Two men were found
dead in bed in a lodging house
at 222 East One Hundred and Tenth
street last night. One of the men
was printer. Sam McManus, aged 25,
but the identity Of the second man is
unknown. A bottle that had contain
ed whisky or wood alcohol was found
on table in the room.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-17
Congress.

Washington.--The senate on the
10th passed the bill limiting to l6 the
of hours in which train EN-.
ployes may be consecutively employ
ed. The house passed the army appro-
priation bill.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-17
Congress-.

Washington.-On the 9th the senate
devoted most of the session to debate
Of the bill limiting the hours OF labor
Of railroad employees. The house con.
tinued consideration of the army ap.
preparation bill.