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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1909-06-19
COTTON CROP IN POOR SHAPE
Small Decrease in Acreage--No
Crop at all in Central Texas

New Orleans, lathe Times
Democrat, in publishing its first
report on the cotton crop of 1909,
will tomorrow summarize con-
ditions as follows:
There has been a moderate de-
crease in acreage probably
about 5 per cent.
Taking the belt as a whole,
the condition of the plant leaves
much to be desired.
The supply of labor is fairly
adequate, as a rule, though there
is a good deal of complaint in
some sections"
Among the reports from the
cotton belt of unusual features
is the following from Austin,
Tex:
That Central Texas is with
out a cotton crop, with half
OF the month of June gone by,
may be state of affairs difficult
to imagine, yet such is the case,
and to farmers of this section it
is sad reality.
This is generally admitted
throughout the rural precincts,
and it is believed that the same
conditions exist throughout the
State and most of the South
west. The State department of
agriculture in this city confirms
this statement. In fact, there is
so little cold ground that a com
parison between the acreage of
this year and that of last, is next
to impossible. About the only
cotton well grown at the present
time has been raised almost ex-
clusively by the hot house
method. "
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1909-06-19

robbers, but several checks and
other articles We're taken, which
are sure to turn up some time
and give the guilty ones away.
This is the first robbery Cheraw
has had in some years.
There have been several kill
ings among the lower class of
whites on the Marlboro side of
the Pee Dee First man named
Jacobs shot another man whom
he discovered in his back yard
and diagnosed as chicken thief.
After lingering several days, his
victim died Next, two men on
Mr.. Olin Pegue's plantation got
into a . 4Rwnken quarrel over
some women, and one named
Robinson shot and killed Purvis
and left flor parts unknown.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1909-06-19
WANTED HER GOLD FILINGS.
Discarded Sweetheart Took Money
Instead, Then Shot Girl.

New York, June II. After
taking $40 from her in lieu of the
gold filling in her teeth, which
he had paid for, Michael Marty
nick, of Bayonne, N. j., today
shot Mary kraschak. She is dy-
ing in a hospital.
The pair had been engaged for
some time. but the young woman
grew tired of her lover, and last
night they quarreled. Martynick
demanded that she return all his
gifts.
She complied, but Martynick
said he had paid for filling her
teeth, and wanted the gold.
Miss Krasnack said that she
could not remove the filling, but
gave him S10s After taking the
money Martynick drew a revol-
yer and fired a bullet into Miss
krasnick' breast.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1909-06-19
Negro Lynched in Florida

5 Tampa, Fla, June 16.-Word
reached here just before the
telegraph office at Arcadia, Fla,
was closed that a negro was
iynched there late this afternoon
for an attempted criminal assault
on Mrs. p. r Read, wife of a
prominent citizen of Arcadia. A
posse was formed as soon as the
news of the attempted crime
spread and within an hour the
negro was captured within a
short distance from the scene of
the crime and lynched. This
makes the second lynching for
attempted criminal assault in
the last SIX weeks.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1909-06-19
Tore Fathers Will to Pieces.

New Orleans, La, June II. -
Dr. William NJ. C. MILAN, an en-
ployee in the United States
custom house at New Orleans tore
his fathers will to pieces when
he discovered that it gave more
property to him than to his
younger brother. This fact was
disclosed today when the mutilat-
ed document. that had been
patched together, was filed in the
civil district court There for pro-
bate. The amount of the property
involved is about 81 600.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1909-06-19
PORK AT IT'S HIGHEST.
Never in June Have Hogs Sold at
So Per Cwt. Since 1882.

Chicago. June II. The highest
June price for live hogs since 1882
was established this week at the
Union stock yards when best
porkers sold at the long predicted
figure of So hundredweight.
With the exception of 1902, this
is the highest price recorded for
any month since the Cudahy
coroner in pork in 1893, when live
hogs sold at So. rs hundred
weight.
The prevailing high prices are
due to unusually light receipts
of live hogs this spring at all
western packing centers, the eX-
tremely high price of grain last
year prompting many farmers to
dispose of their stock rather than
to pay eXorbitant prices for food
stuff.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1909-06-19
Bryan Says He Will Not be Can
didate for Senator.

Omaha, Neb.. June II. Will
liam J. Bryan will not be can
didate for the United States SEN
ate from Nebraska next year.
In letter t. the Omaha World
Herald, received here today, and
dated at Parker, Ill.,, June II,
Mr.. Bryan says;
Il reiterate what | have said
several times before. namely,
that | don't desire to be a candi-
date for the senate, and do not
expect to be. While | will not
say that VIII not under any cir
cumstances be a candidate, it
will require.some emergency now
unforeseen to bring me into the
race, and | hope no such emer-
gency will arise. -
This letter is in answer to a
telegram calling his attention to
what purported to be an official
statement that he would seek
the office.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1909-06-19
Horny Man Killed Self and Mule

Columbia, S. c., June IT,
Because a creditor had threat
ened to seize his mule if he did
not pay debt, John S. Granger.
a white man aged 40, yesterday
morning shot his mule, in the
woods near his home in Horn y
county, then turned the weapon
on himself. inhicting almost in
stantly fatal injuries. A man
named Watts. tits reported here,
had bill of sale on the mule and
had declared ne must have lis
money.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1909-06-19

manufactured of iron to the
American consumer. If we could
reduce the tariff on manufactur.
ed iron we could get cheaper
prices. but under existing circum-
stances the tariff law bars out
the European competitor, who
is already handicapped by hav
ing the ocean frelghts to pay,
and our people are charged the
cost of production In Europe,
plus the freight, plus the tariff
and this is the source of Car
negie's millions.
Assuring you of high apprecia-
tion of your friendship in the
past and hoping to continue to
merit your confidence and sup
port, am
Sincerely yours,
b. r. Tillman.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1909-06-19
Death at Wedding.

Brillion, Wis, June II. While
the marriage VOWS of Miss Cath
crime Mulhaney and John Barts,
a leading business man of this
city, were being solemnized, Mrs.
Joseph Manlik, a friend of the
bride and groom and who attend.
ed the ceremony, fell dead from
apoplexy.
Her body was carried out of
the church on stretcher prece d.
iog the wedding party.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1909-06-19
Negro Bitten by Dying Mule

Salem, Black River, special in
the Columbia State: One Norris
Johnson, a negro tenant of DR..
w. j. Mckay, lost a fine mule.
In its death agony the mule
seized Norris leg and the by
ISLANDERS had to prize its mouth
open to release the negro's leg.
This was on Monday, 7th; on
Saturday his doctor said the leg
would have to be amputated.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1909-06-19
DR.. Byars's Arrest Not Premature
Says Member Of Commission.

Columbia special in Charleston
Post, June II; Mr.. Stevenson
and Mr.. Fielder deny that DIR.
Byar's arrest is premature. They
say there is abundant evidence
to convict MIN. They explain
that Mr.. Patton and Mr.. Lyon
We're out OF town when the ar
rest was made, that's the reason
they did not know the evidence
against DR.. Byars.
Mr.. Stevenson said: The ar
rest of DR.. Byars was made pur-
suant to directions from the COM
mission and was not hasty or
premature. When it reaches
the trial stage the evidence will
convince the public that il was
not only a proper but an abso-
lutely necessary exercise of duty
to arrest hiIn while in the juris-
diction.
More than this. !, was not
prudent tC say as the court of
general sessions must deal with
the case and manifestly nothing
Of the evidence should be reveal
ed in this discussion.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1909-06-19
Robbery at Cheraw. Killings OH
the Pee Dee.

CheraW special in the News
and Courier, June II: Last night
unknown parties entered DR.. I.
Z. Wannamaker's drug store,
and carried away about forty
dollars in money. The men got
on the roof through a second
story window in the bank build
ing next down. and entered the
store through a skylight. Two
tills were rified, and the safe
opened and the money drawer
broken open and carried away.
There is as yet no clue to the
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1909-06-19
Doctor Shoots Patients Brother,
Claims Self Defense

Dillon special in Columbia
State, June is: In a personal
difficulty today between DR.. III.
A. Edwards of Latta and John
Kirby of Dillon, DR.. Edwards
was painfully hurt and Kirby
dangerously shot.
Kirby was at DIR. Edwards Of
fee in Latta this morning, where
sharp words passed between
them, growing out of some pre-.
vious Misunderstanding. DR..
Edwards and Kirby met again a
few hours after at the home of
julie Kirby, brother of John, at
Dothan, four miles from Dillon,
where DR.. Edwards was attend
ing one of the family. The diff
ficulty was at once renewed, Kir-
by closing In and throwing DR..
Edwards to the floor. Kirby is
physically much the stronger
man. DIR. Edwards, it is said,
felt that his life was in danger
and drawing his pistol, placed
the muzZIe against his antagon-
ist, firing four times IN rapid
succession, all the shots taking
effect, three of them in the left
aide and front, about the short
ribs.
Three Of them pissed entirely
through Kirby's body Just to the
left of the spinal column. The
fourth strnck just below the left
arm. pit and lodged in the chest
cavity. The physicians regard
his condition as exceedingly
grave. DR.. Edwards is painfully
but is not considered seriously
hurt.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1909-06-19
North Carolina Girl Struck by
Lightning.

Charlotte, N. c., June II. -
Lightning from a clear sky
struck Miss Sallie Underwood, l6
years old, daughter of r. j.
Underwood, at River Bend, re-
mote town in CASTOR county,
yesterday, telling her and pro-
ducing a state of coma from
which physicians have been un-
able to arouse her. At 10o'clock
tonight the girl was still uncon-
scious.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1909-06-19
Hosue Destroyed by Lightning in
Greenwood.

Greenwood Journal, June 16:
A fve-room house on the place
of Mr.. G. ". Buchanan was
struck by lightning last Friday,
and set or FIRE. The building
was totally destroyed. Mr.. Buc-
hanan had 500 insurance on it.
1t was occupied by West Arnold.
Fortunately nc one was in the
house when the lightning struck
it.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1909-06-19
SENATOR TILLMAN EXPLAINS.
In Letter to'a Williston Friend He
Tells Why He Voted Against
Putting Iron Ore on Free
List.

Washington special in Colum-
bia State, June II: Senator
Tlllman today gave out a
letter which he wrote to DR.. w.
O. Smith of Williston as to his
vote against putting iron ore on
the free list. DR.. Smith, being
always "Tillmanite," wrote to
the senator for an explanation.
The two letters follow.
Zach McGee.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1909-06-19
Kershaw Man Killed by Lightning

Camden >pecIa III ne News
and Courier, June II Bolton
Goff, we'll known Young white
man. % years OF age ard uu-
married. whose home was about
seven miles from Camden. was
KILLED this evening by lightning.
BE was going from his barn to
the house whep struck.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1909-06-19

Chamberlain's Cough remedy is
sold on guarantee that if you are
not satisfied after using two-thirds Of
bottle according to directions, your
money will be refunded. It Is up to
you to try. Sold by j. f. Mackey Co +,
and FuDderburk Pharmacy. w-s
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1909-06-19

20 you have that dark brown TASTE IN
your month every morning when you 9ake9
If so. yon are bilious and should takb two
or three of those little BLOODTNE liver
PILLS. easy to take, never sicken. Weaken
or grippe, 25c mailed by The Bloodlbe Co..
IDc.. Boston. Mass Crawford Brof Spe.
cial Agents i49.79
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1909-06-19

DIR. W. 9. Smith, Williston, s. G.. 'S
My Dear Friend: Your letter
of May 27 has remained unanswer
ed because | have been overwhelm
ed with work here and have spent
several days in South Carolina
looking after matters at Glenn
son and lost one day as ] return
ed by reason of q railroad wreck.
have never. printed anything
about my vote on iron ore and
will very gladly give you an expla-
nation direct. l notice that my
old enemies are making great
howl about my votes up here,
while many others who have not
been enemies ore yelping in
chorus, simply because they
are ignorant of conditions. The
trouble with many editors in
South Carolina is they take and
read the Associated Press dis
patches, which are colored In be-
half of the Repu blicani party, and
(are garbled and condensed aud
give no adequate conception of
things as they really happen.
The facts in regard to iron ore
are simply these: THERE'S over
whelmiDg evidence that there are
no independent steel or iron pro
ducers. The steel trust has alb
solute control and enjoys a
monopoly of the iron and steel
business in this country. The So
CALI independent concerns are
dominated and controlled by it,
though not all owned by it. The
steel trust fixes prices and the
Others conform.
ias There are immense, wellnigh
ineEhaustible, table deposits of
iron ore in Michigan, Wiscon-
sin and Minnesota, and the steel
trust controls immense deposits
In these States. 1t also controls,
or some of its subsidiary COM
panies, large deposits In Cuba.
1t was brought out in the debate
that some of the Eastern com.
panies have contracts with the
Cuban mine owners to import
not less than 100000 tone a
Ngear of Cuban ore, and | do not
Think 1t worth while 30 let this
Tome In free when it would ma k @
mo difference whatever to the
consumers of iron and steel as to
the price we would pay for these
articles. | believe that the Am
erlcan producer Of iron and steel
/that is the steel trust mainly }
can compete with England,
Germany and France in the mar
kets of the world, and that the
whole scheme of protection of
manufactured steel is bare
faced robbery Of the American
people. No one but an idiot will
contend that the duty on iron ore
will increase the price of any thing
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1909-06-19

Williston, S. c.. May 81 1909.
Senator b. r. Tillman, Washing
ton. ID. c. Z
Dear Senator: Having always
been a ''Tillmanlte" at the ballot
box, am emboldened to ask ii
you have ever stated your reason
for voting for duty on iron ore,
and il such statement is in print
that you will send it to me.
j am curious 10 know why.
Yours truly,
w. g. Smith
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1909-06-19
TILLMAN THE FRIEND OF ART.
The Senator's Speech in the Senate
this Week Favoring Putting
Works of Art on Free List.

Washington special In the New
YORK Tribune: Senator rillmau,
speaking with his usual vehem-
ence and candor, said in support
OF the paragraph:
Mr.. President, In rhis debate il
has not been my good fortune
to be found endorsing the views
expressed by the senators from
New York and Massachusetts.
Bot on this question feel bound
to say, IN an humble and modest
way, making no pretencs what
ever OF belpg an art cOnnoisseur.
that if that poet who told us that
"a thing of beauty is a Joy for
ever" told the truth, this is not
the place where the American
Senate should display niggard-
liness, narrowness and 4 penny
wise and pound foolish policy.
The contemplation Of beaut)-
tut paintings and statuary by
wen the most ignOran: person
must exert an elev&ting and re-
fining influence Many a boy
has become inspired to do like
wise, has had his soul en!hused
and his miud fired with ambition
to become great painter or
sculptor, by seeing great woI ks OF
art
! had the misfortune last year
to become very i'll, and was or
dered to Europe as a means Of
relaxation and rest. | had the
opportunity to visit the great art
galleries of Florence, Paris and
London, 70 say nothing of the
smaller ones in other cities where
sojourned briefly. While
did not get as enthusiastic over
some of these things As other
people seemed to be, | saw
enough to convince me that the
American people can afford to
encourage the import, sion Of
some of those masterpieces, some
thing that we can get as a means
OF elevating the thought and in
spring the artistic genius Of our
people.
| noted in London that halfk
dozen OF the finest collecuons
were donated to the public by
private individuals. who had
spent a lifetime and fortune,
or two or three fortunes, In COL
lecuons such as are no more TO
be gathered together on the globe,
because they have secured the
four corners of the earth almost
to get these curios and artistic
gems " hich have been gwen to
those people and they are the
greatest treasures in London to.
day.
When we consider that paint
ing is imperishable If it is cared
for-that is, for several centuries
at least, and one hardly knows
how long a we'll cared for paint
ing will last-we can understand
how 1t ls imt .0ssible that these
mu]ti-milljonares will not add TO
the stock of artistic wealth in
this county, and in time they
Will increase the artistic genus
Of our people by merely having
their galleries accessible. MANY
Of these rich people are liberal
rnGugh 20 ALLOW their art gale
liea 70 be visited hv the public
nu civen DAYS, and others have
loaned their masterpieces to this
or that public @ tilery.
As / sand, If you want to be
Uard on these rich people and
want TO make them DO this, that
and the other, let US cut out some
of the methods by which they get
this money, bnt let us allow them
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1909-06-19

when BLOODINE RHEUMATIC LINI.
NENI has cured so many cases OF Rheu-
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25c and SOC bottle Crawford Bros.
Special Agents 49.74
Connecticut western news., 1909-01-07
TurnIp Taste In Butter.

The following is from a German az rlcultural publication:
 The milk from cows fed on turnips has a peculiar odor and taste. Ap- parently some volatile product from the turnips gets into the body fluids of the COW and thus affects the milk This fault may be corrected by warm ing or aerating the milk. But, besides this. certain organisms, as coli bac- teria. Actinomyces odorifer, Penicil- Hum brevlcaule and tactic acid bac- teria, which are found In the faeces of COWS fed on beets or turnips, also produce the turnip flavor and aroma in butter made from milk or cream in which they are present. The turnip taste of butter may be due to both of these causes together. Butter may have the turnip flavor and aroma. however, even when no turnips are fed, as coli bacteria causing the taste are found also on oats, barley, corn, rape and other feeding stuffs. Pas teurizing tho milk, with subsequent aeration, is recommended as a means of preventing the development of the turnip flavor in butter.
Connecticut western news., 1909-01-07

CONSTRUCTING AN lhkIoATIoN DITGH. ing streams for irrigation purposes and raised large crops of vegetables and grain. However, irrigation did not make any extensive headway until the civil war and during the early seventies, when the great tide of im- migration turned toward the west. In 1870 only about 10000 acres of land were cultivated by Irrigation in the United States. In the next ten years this number was increased to 100000 acres. During the years between 1SS0-00 irrigation experienced n great boom. and the number of acres in- creased to nearly 100000. Tn 1902. the last census, the acreage was 9,o34.- 526, and each month sees thousands of acres added until the total is nearly 15,0o0,Oo0 acres today.
 Among the great irrigating engineer ing feats of this country is the won derful Strawberry valley project at Vernal, Utah. now under way. where a storage reservoir will be built to hold 5000, 100000 gallons of water. and a tunnel three and one-half miles long Is being cut through a mountain. The work is being done by electrically driv- en tools, and when completed the wa ter will first be used to generate cleo tricity for lighting and power purposes and then for irrigation. The entire electrical equipment for this plant was furnished by the General Electric com pany. The Williston (N. D. project and the Buford-T Trenton project in the same state are operated entirely by electricity. The current is generated by Curtis steam turbo-generators and Is used to drive the large motors con- nected with the centrifugal pumps. Another system has been installed at Garden City, Kan. and still another at Salt Lake. Ariz. At the last named place the vertical shaft General Elec- tric generators are directly connected to large water wheels for generating the current.
 The amount appropriated and ex- pended by the government for irriga. tion from 1901 to the close of the fls- cal year ended June 30 last is over $37, 100000.
 The irrigation net gives the secre- tary of the interior a very wide lati-