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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-04-30
PAGE FOURTEEN
SHALL COTTON PROVE ANOTHER
LOST CAUSE"7
Continued from Page Six

less no man of common sense can fail to
realize that if we Of the South are ever to
obtain fair value for that magnificent staple
on which our wealth and happiness so largely
depends we must have organized effort aud
organized effort on the part Of the men most
directly concerned the cotton planters them
selves.
What but the organized holding movement
Of the planters prevented cotton from golg
down to it's old famine price of five cents
during the panic9 What but this prevented
bank after bank in the South from breaking?
What but this so quickly restored a feeling
Of hope and security to the finacial South if
not to the whole country7 The cotton planters
have done magnificent work, a work Of which
the whole South should be proud. It would
be little short Of treason and dishonor in the
Southern people to desert the planters now
when the brunt of the fight is C1er now when
the men who have been most loyal to the
cause have most cotton to market, now when
the rest have quietly unloaded at the fairer
prices made possible by the loyalty of the few.
If, say, these most loyal men are to be the
chief sufferers and are compelled to surrendec
ANONYMOUSLY to low prices, with faith in
themselves, 1dlLn III Guo1F OFSdn1ZdC1OnS Ia1Un
IN the Southern people shaken as never before
then are we Southerners traitors and false to
ourselves to them and to our own best
interests.
hope [ have said enough now to set every
intelligent Southern man TO thinking and
studying as he never thought or studied before
What are the chances OF success with
this crop if the Southern people an be aroused
to sense of their danger and their duty to
themselves and to cotton? I do not hesitate
to say that they are of the best. There is
no good reason, no reason Oh earth, for the
present low price Of cotton except lack Of
confidence, lack of interest and Of support on
the part Of Southerners Of our great staple.
Will you readers pardon me few personal
words [ have not dimes interest person
ally in the value Of cotton. My work is and
has been all my life with the seed and it's
product, principally cotton oil and in that
only in technical professional and advisory
way For four years now, and every time
with success, I have endeavored to get our
oil mills fairer price for their oil as compared
with other competing fats and oils I have
but just finished my annual examination and
report on the cotton oil situation and its
remarkable similarity to the cotton situation
has naturally attracted my attention and
study.
What Are Real Facts in Reference to Cotton?
l. We have no cotton to speak of carried
over from last year.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-04-30

people are ecOnOm1Zlng on high priced arC1cleS
and luxuries will be the rather bought in
place of such articles. Our cotton mills may
carry smaller stocks at time and our whole
sale and retail houses may carry less at time
but the people will use as much cotton goods
as ever.
4. Our cotton will not be wanted quite as
soon in the season this year as usual for the
reasons above stated but it will be wanted and
every pound Of it will be needed and bought
at good prices if it cannot be had at cheap
price before new cotton in any quantity can
come on.
5. There must be at this time between
fifteen and twenty-five per cent Of this entire
season $ crop in the hands of the planters.
This is not enough in an ordinary year to
hold back when we have five months Of
actual consumption still ahead of us but it is
enough to control the price both for the rest
of this season and for the first six weeks or
more Of next season if it is wisely and slowly
marketed.
The real problem before the Southern people
is therefore an extremely simple one. 1t
consists in nothing more or less than in holding
what is left Of our cotton till consumption
catches up with what has already been
marketed.
Considering the large percentage Of the
crop that has been marketed, the much smaller
proportionate length Of the consuming season
that has passed and the hand to mouth policy,
always customary in hard times years, of
purchasing everything, no man in his senses
ought to expect that cotton should be at
good price at this time or for some months
to come. The buyers are specializing on the
chances Of the planters being unable to hold
their cotton long enough and having more than
enough for present wants are doing all in
their power, aided by many disloyal Southern
ers to destroy the confidence of both bankers
and planters in the ultimate value of the
staple and induce the marketing Of the
remainder by the time they need it..
Let the Southern people, the Southern
merchants and the Southern bankers rally
to the support Of the cotton planters, inspire
in them renewed confidence, induce them to
stop selling their cotton till it is actually
needed and without buying futures, without
the support of single cotton exchange or a
single bull anywhere, by pure law Of supply
and demand the planters will realize a fair
value for their cotton yet this season and the
South save many millions of dollars There
IS no theory or sentiment in this It is sound
common sense. 1t is political economy reduced
to it's simplest elements.
Ii the South wants to continue her un-
exampled prosperity of late wears IF she wants
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-04-30

Of this season and the first part at least of
next. IF God helps the man who helps him
self, as we are told, then he is on the side
of the planter and whatever be our religious
belief we cannot afford to be other than on
the Lord s side too. One lost cause is enough.
We can and must win this one.
EDWIN LEHMAN JOHNSON.
Memphis, Tenn March Is, 1908.
Some one recently sold an autograph of
Andrew Carnegie for 40 CENTS" says the
Montgomery Advertiser This was a relative
ly small affair. Mrs. Cassie Chadwick sold
his near-autograph for several hundred thou
sands of dollars-Wa shington Herald.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-07-24
Wood State With JAMS

Tacoma.-The United Industrial
Commercial Company, capitalized
for 81 100000. with II. c. Kumamo-
to, a local Japanese contractor,
lanes B. Churchill and Nugent
Kautz, as principal stockholders, was
recently organized and Federal I'M
migration officials are investigating
to see il il is a scheme TO flood Wash
ington aud Oregon with Japanese
coolies. 1t is proposed to establish
colonies in the Puyallup and Yakima
valleys and in Oregon to raise fruit
and vegetables.
In a conversation with a prospect
i've buyer, Kumamoto, the principal
promoter of the company, practically
admitted that the company was
formed to eyade the contract labor
law, and that many Japanese would
be brought to this country as share
holders.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-07-24
Miners Favor Amliation.

Denver, July 21.-The question of
a closer working agreement with the
United Mine Workers of America
was brought officially before the con-
vention of the Western Federation Of
Miners The matter came up during
the consideration of President Moy-
er's annual report, in which he adj
vocated such an agreement. The dis
cussion brought out the fact that
many members felt a union with the
United Miners organization might
force the Western Federation men to
adopt the check-off and contract sys-
TEN. The latter organization does
not make contracts of any kind.
The fight against afliliation of any
sort was led by George Hutchinson,
but he was badly defeated and the
president was instructed to appoint
committee of five to devise ways and
means whereby a working agreement
can be obtained.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-07-24
PORTLAND MARKETS.

Wheat-Track prices: Club, SAC;
red Russian, SIC; bluestem, sec;
Valley, SAC.
Barley-Feed, $24.5O; rolled,
$2750Q2S.
Oats-No. white, $26.5O; gray.
$26.
Hay-Timothy, Willamette Valley,
fancy, SIS; do. ordinary, $12; East
ern Oregon, $3.50; mixed, $15;
alfalfa, $12.
Butter-Extra, Csc; fancy, FAC;
Eggs-23 a 24c.
Hops-19O7 crop, 5d612c.
Wool-Valley, 100 l6 Ac ID;
Eastern Oregon, ga Ice, as to
shrinkage.
Mohair-Choice, 18@1Shc.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-07-24
BY E. E. ELLIOTT, AgncuImrist,
and c, w. LAWRENCE. Cerealist
STATE COLLEGE Of WASHINGTON

In several eases found advisable to cross bae on ana IS M
oha parents or some outstanding order to correct s
o! or secure desirable character crosses made during tho
past hHe Fe1f number hundreds while varieties pr,c RIM into
the Thousand While the large majority these have been rejected
rs showing no superior excellence been taken 70 nroear
such as showed promise During season of 1908 there a almost
one thousand new selected varieties growing on the Expre Sta
ton farm 1t was early recognized any experiments carried On
at Pullman would all conditions for the wheat ;
sections of Eastern Washington. the hbridzaton work has
o parts of the state stations having established at different
eS at MayVew Garfield county, Snake and Horse
Heaven region Benton Rzve Adams county. Quincy
Douglas county and Connel Franklin county The most extensive
experiments were carried Rtzv work there COVERING five
seasons The primary object of all this to produce new
wheat possessing the ability without SCATTERING until # d
DC cut WIN header to be smut resistant good nilno
qua ana to be true winter variety that time methods IF
harvesting and marketing have changed and know LEDGE of what
constitutes good milling wheat until it was evident that
these original objects could entire field of desired inn
proVement or recent been paid t tho t,
OF the milling quality of the grain researches have gone @
into the habit of growth of the plant and its relation TO fine m
on which be 1t found that in fine ea 4
regions of the state wheas which adapted to these io
conditions must be developed before profitable wheat grow inc m m
my established At the time single variety can be a
lutely depended under all conditions
While there doubt that through rigid selection which has
accompanied this work whea which have revealed
valuable qualities have been rejected this because the
e%pernters have kept close to the objects During
recent years these objects have been enlarged at the
the field of inquiry almost every possible problem connected
with the wheat industry.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-07-24

Olympia Findings of fact and
final orders We're issued and served
upon the Northern Pacific railroad
by the Railroad Commission as fol-
lows:
Ordering the erection of a station
at Irby, the installing of a caretaker
authorized to receive, receipt for and
deliver freight, and ordering one of
the three trains in each direction to
stop daily ON flag; ordering the erec-
ton of q station at Lamona and Or
dering the installing of a caretaker
as above; ordering the erection of a
station at Krupp, the installation of
regular agent and the stopping of
a train daily in either direction on
flag; ordering the construction and
erection of station at WaukOn and
the installing Of a caretaker; order
Ing the erection of a station at Win
chester, the construction of side
tracks or industrial tracks and the
installing of an agent or caretaker;
ordering an agent or caretaker to
be installed at Bossburg; ordering
the erection of a station at Malaga
and installing an agent or caretaker.
An order was entered against the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
ordering it to forthwith change its
station building at Ritzville so as to
provide for two waiting-rooms,
either by charging or changing the
Interior, and ordering the installa-
ton of modern and sanitary toilets.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-07-24
Matron FIogs Two Little Girls.

San Francisco, July 21.-FOlloW-
ing the flight from Oakland and the
capture in this city of two little girls,
inmates of the West Oakland Home,
and accusations of cruel treatment
made by the children, it is probable
that an investigation will be ordered
The West Oakland Home is one of
the leading charitable institutions on
the other side of the bay, and sew
eral of the most prominent club and
society women of Alameda county
are known as its patrons. The &C
cusatiOns were made in the Juvenile
Detention Home here by the two
children, who brought from the West
Oakland Home the marks of pun
ishment more sever than ever had
been inflicted on an incorrigible boy
The offense for which the punish
ment was inflicted, according to the
story told by the girls, was stealing
brief ride on passing wagon Be
fore they were carried away from the
Detention Home last night by Mrs.
.Ielissa Van Werner, matron of the
West Oakland Home, the children
accused her of having administered
the logging which had left welts and
bruises all over their bodies. The
logging, they said, had been done
with long buggy whip. Mrs Van
Werner said:
Il do not care if the whole of Ala
media county condemns it. | think
was justified and would do it again"
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-07-24
NEWS OF The STATE
1000 Eagles Expected at sca.tl,

10000 Eagles Expected at Seattle
Seattle.-The tenth annual session
of the grand aerie of the Fratern II
Order of Eagles, which will be held
in Seattle, August II to 10. under
the auspices of the mother lodge Of
the order, Seattle Aerie No. /, is ex-
pected to attract perhaps as many as
10000 members from the United
ates, Alaska, Canada, the Philip
mines and the Hawaiian Islands
About $4,000 will be spent for the
entertainment of the visitors, and
$500 will be given in prizes for the
best bands, lodges having the great
est number of members, most hand
some banners, and in many individ-
ual prizes.
One of the features will be the
parade, August 13. Bands will in
clude the famous Boston and Mon
tana Band, of Butte, Mont, the
crack band of the Kansas City aerie,
and fife and drum corps from Wash
lngton, Oregon, Montana, Utah. Cali
fornia and Colorado. Military bands
from Fort Lawton Puget Sound Navy
Yard, and other military and naval
posts will participate. Every band
in Seattle has been hired for the oc-
casiOn.
1t will be II years ago on August
IL since the theatrical managers of
Seattle met to discuss some business
matters. The half dozen men in
dulgcd in a walk and brought up on
the tide flats. Seated on lumber
pile near the Moran Ship5uildiag
plant, in a spirit of jest, officers were
elected of the Seattle Order of Good
Things" They met occasionally.
and fines were imposed on "a coup e
of the members at each meeting, and
the money used to buy refreshments.
At a special meeting of the new
order on March u, 1898, one year
after the memorable session on the
lumber pile, the first steps toward
making the organization a perma-
nent one were taken. 1t was decided
to change the name, and John Cort's
suggestion of "Fraternal Order of
Eagles" was adopted. The picture
of an eagle on the wall of the hall
gave Cort the inspiration. May IS.
1898, Secretary of State viii d. Jen-
kins issued the charter for the Grand
Aerie, Fraternai Order of Eagles.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-07-24
TAMPER WITH GOLD COIN.
CHARLES Wciland, Once Preacher IN
Los Angeles, Heads Gang.

- - IN ttNiN olAGs
Los Angeles, July 2t.-The dis
eoyery of fine workshop. estab-
lished by counterfeiters, at the bot
tom of a deep, abandoned shaft in
the old Dominion copper property,
near Globe, Arizona. disclosed an
extraordinary romance of the pulp.
and mines, and clears up a counter
letting mystery without paralIal i'm
the West. Charles Wiel..d. Of this
city, who cast aside the clJgh to enter
the ranks of the Socialists, is the
head of the counterfeit gang and has
been arrested and placed in the ter.
rltorial prison at Tombstone. His
younger brother, Fred Wieland. az q
p, and his half-brother, Edward
Neaman, both Los Angeles Socialists.
are in the same prison. All were ar
rested by George w. Hazen. of the
United States Secret Service, who
discovered their den and connscated
their tools and materials.
Hazen has returned with Al $40
gold pieces which the trio had doe
tored and which almost defy dotcc-
Eon, responding to the tests by acid
and by scraping, and having the true
ring. Hazen says they are the most
skillful workmen he has ever known.
They made thousands of dollars by
their criminal operations and the
coins tempered with have been
passed all along the Coast.
Fred Wieland, who studied in a
Y. M. c. a. school here, seems to
have been the mechanical genius. lie
invented and made a machine for
shaving the faces of the coins and
removing the milled edges. In the
edge and between the faces copper
was inserted, soldered and pressed
into correct shape in another ma
chine of young Wieland's invention.
So cleverly was this done that banks
took the coins UNDERSTANDINGS.
The gold removed was melted into
ingots, after being alleged, and sent
to the United States mint.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-07-24

North Yakima-The murder in
california of Edward Butler, a gyp-
sy, has revealed the whereabouts of
hebecca Butler. the dead mans wife,
VINO has been wanted here since last
iail Tor Obtaining from Brighton Uhl,
an Old rancher of Selah, $4,000 under
ialse pretenses. The woman is held
ny the Sheriff in Mendocino county,
california, as a witness in the muir
der case.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-07-24
SEATTLE MARKETS.

Wheat-Bluestem S9c.
Oats-$26.5O0 27.50.
Barley-$25@ 26.
Hay-Eastern Washington timo-
rhy. $15017 per ton; Puget Sound
hay, $1OG12 per ton; wheat hay
$3.50 per ton, alfalfa, $9.50@1O
per ton.
Butter-W Washington creamery, csc
per 10; ranch zoe per n; Oregon,
24c per ID.
Eggs Selected local, Esq zoe
per doz; Eastern AMI Oregon, 22e
per doz.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-07-24
Crushed TO Death by Log.

Ii|aco-While playing on the
sand at Long Beach Sunday after
noon, Maude Mallot, the 15-year-old
laughter of C. 7. Mallot of Portland.
was crushed to death by log which
.oiled down upon her from a caving
sand bank.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-07-24
Auto Cavorts and Is Are Injured.

nellngham-A heavy automobile
1'ase coming in from Lynden was
90 ieeAed sunday night and every one
-. us . passengers was injured A
e stripping from one of the wheels
ca". thrust into the steering gear,
acu uslhg the machine to dash squarely
ssn rusS the street and turn a somer-
over IL foot embankmtnt.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-07-24
Methods of Improving Wheat.

Three suggestions methods of Improvement
FIRST the purifying existing practices which
followed threshng grain, impossible strains
pure and unmAed Large hreshng pass
no effort being made clean the machines
An examination of apparently wheat will re-
veal " presence OF many different varieties often unlike field
and belonging widely separated grades miller prefers
to do his blending and have grades quality
which constant and naturally purchase mixed grades
1t should be the weatgrowers pure strains whatever
variety ne prefers 10 this he should set off
the field from which and carefully remove
from all plants of varieties unlike keep 1t
may appear aboriou task but considerable
In short time little study varieties will pick
the undesred plants glance but necessary
rogue clear the than begna
soon as the heads appear and the finishing touches should be given
when the field is ready If possible
be reshed separately from the crop
should at least be clean of grain lodged
few moments spent in doing this will be well repaid
cured By following this practice pure any variety
may be secured in sufficient quantity plant large
acreage 1t Improvement advantage
of immediate results.
The second method here suggested
requires longer time obtain considerable quantity of seed but
has the advantage larger probable improvement in yield well
as quality Close study variety great
differences in the habit of growth
OF the plants found growing given passerby
highway can detect at distance certain stools plants which
cidedy superior those growing may
able for its wonderful stoong habit showing productive capacity
Another resistant popularity
feature characterize another
plants show the pecuarties
increased right the As
with single individual by planting separately
cured within quantity acquired
possible, several different selected by
side the time of which will undoubtedly
perior character o rejection of
The third method improvement
possibly be left to the Experiment Station
skill and knowledge of the habits of plant Notwhand
ing, is all impossible any bright keen eye
and nbe fingers to experiment with such work providing he has
patience continue the rigid selection the cour-
the large number of produce
which fail here referred
that known hybdzaon the production
by artfcaly crossing we'll established kinds.
The first efforts hybdz wheas
which could by
Agricultural number
hundred varieties secured Selections however
rgd that the number
the time only eight being showing superior
excellence Each the hybrdzaon continued
much having been gained from the experiences attempts
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-10-30
PUT OFF TRAIN;
THEY ENTER SUIT
s. p. STockARD AND WIFE ASK
$4,000 DAMAGES AGAINST L.
q N. RAILROAD.

s. P. Stockard and wife have filed
suit in the Circuit Court against the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad for
damages in the sum of $4,000. ]. H.
Dining is attorney for the plaintiffs.
Allegations in the case have not been
filed, but 1t is said the suit is based
on the fact that Mrs Stockard and
baby were put off the l.. & N. pas
senger train at siding in Alabama
during storm for an alleged irreg-
ularity in their ticket.
Papers in the case against the al.
legged detective Graham alias Camp
bell have ben sent up from M. Pleas
ant and filed in Circuit Court to be
presented to the grand jury. The de-
was connected with the Gran
berry case and was arrested on a
charge of malicious threats to extort
evidence He is out on bond Of $1,000.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-10-30
BUTCHERS FOR
CITY ABATTOIR
MEET WITH COMMITTEE AND EN-
DoRSE THE ENTERPRISE-To
INVESTIGATE.

A meeting of the special commit
tee appointed by the Board of Mayor
and Aldermen for the purpose of in
vestigating the question of the es-
Establishment of a public abattoir, was
held Wednesday afternoon at the city
hail The butchers of the city met
with the committee and expressed
hearty approval of the proposed en-
terprise. 1t was decided to send DIR.
P. D. Biddle, City Health officer, to
several towns in Tennessee where
these abattoirs have been establish
ed to find out the working plans and
their success, their cost, ETC., and re-
port back. 1t is only question of
few months before the abattoir will
be established for the demand ap-
pears to be practically unanimous.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-10-30

would not entitle same under the law
to place upon the official ballot.
I'm this interview with Mr. Fariss
| did not call his attention to the ne
cessity Of Mr.. Beasley's name being
certified TO the County Election Com
mission for the simple reason that it.
did not occur to me to do So. At that
time I did not know who the Repub.
lican nominee for Congress in this
district was, and had known, or had
thought of it, l should not have pre-
sumed to have instructed an old and
trained politician like Mr.. Fariss
about his duties with respect to his
party's nominees. Besides it is not
made the duty, under the law, of
members of County Electio nCommis-
sions to notify candidates or the
friends thereof, of the necessity of be-
ing properly qualified in order that
their names may be placed upon the
official ballot.
&C. A. FORGEY, Chm.
"Maury Co. Elect Com"
Columbia, Tenn, Oct. %, 1908"