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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1910-04-06
WILLIAM STATES LEE, JR.
Interesting Sketch Of the Life Of a
Former Lancaster County
Bow.

Boy.
The presiding genius of all the
arrangements for the coming of
the institute and of it's enter
tainment while here has been
Mr.. w. s. Lee, Jr., vice presi.
dent and general manager of the
Southern Power Company. To
Mr.. Lees timely efforts was
due the fact that the Institute
met in Charlotte and his has been
the master hand that has been
directing the plans for the prop.
er entertainment of the distin-
guished visitors while in the city.
The Southern Power Company,
CharlOtte's foremost and the
South's best-known corporation
engaPed in the development of
of hydro electricity, is host to
the Institute and will show the
visitors here something OF how
Southern waterpo wers are har-
messed at Greit Falls, S. c.,
Friday. The following biograph.
ical sketch appea ed in The
Electrical World recently:
William States Lee was born
in 1872 in Lancaster, S. @. He
received his primary education in
the common schools of Ander-
son county, South Carolina, and
his technical education at South
Carolina Military Academy, from
which he was graduated in 1894.
After graduation he taught for a
time in the graded schools in
Anderson, and then took up en-.
gineering work. rising rapidly
from transit man to resident en-
gineer of the Pickens Railway
Company, and subsequently be-
coming resident engineer of the
Anderson Water, Light & Power
90. When with the latter com
parry he had charge of the con.
struction of the Portman Shoals
hydro-electric plant on the
Seneca river, in which was in
stalled the first 10000 volt gene
rator put in service in America.
After putting this plant into op
GRAFTON Mr.. Lee spent about
year on construction work in
connection with the United States
government coast defense plans
for Charleston harbot.
In October, 1898, he became
resident engineer of the Colum-
bus Power Company, which
company had just then let the
contract for dam on the Chatts-
hooche river at Columbus, Ga.
This dam was completed in the
autumn of 1900 and in Dece mber
OF that year part OF it was car
ried away by food. The re-
construction of the dam, together
with the building of transmits
sion lines, substations, etc., was
then put under Mr.. Lees direct
supervision with the title OF
chief engineer. Mr.. Lee modi-
fed the design and raised the
height of the dam, completing it
in the spring of 1902. 1t is to
be noted that this river is re-
msrkable for it's quickly rising
foods, which often exceed fifty
times the normal flow. This
was the first large dam built in
the South, and the experience
game d in fighting q river with
such quickly rising floods may
account for much of Mr.. Lees
success in later developments
where similar conditions were
encountered. During bis con-
nection with this company Mr..
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1910-04-06
CRIME COSTS 100000 AN HOUR.
The Heaviest Tax Suffered by the
American People.

y ime costs the United States
$ln0. 900 an hour.
The yearly cost of crime in
Am-ric, is estimated at 1879
600, 900.
If crime could lie checked alb
: lucy tor eight months the
Wig would pay tie national
d bt, 1864 900 900.
The snnua' imports at the ma
ton are 500 100000 less in val.
ue than the cost of It's crime.
American gold minds yield
! IS th4 N half the nations annual
CT me expense
Tie market va'ue Of all the
horses, sheep, and ca',le In the
country is about she same as the
annual crime bill.
The coal. wheat and wool pro
duced annually in this country
represent a value about the same
Ms The actual cost OF crime.
These figures are quoted from
an article by Hugh Q. Weir in
the World to-day, and should
command the attention OF every
business man and woman OF the
nation.
The cost Of crime is appalling.
Why must the well-behayed
citizens of America be burden.
ed with taxes to meet such ex.
pensess ssks the Nashville Ten.
nesseean.
Why is it that ten thousand
persons are murdered annually
i'll the United States?
Why is it tha, only two mur.
derers out of every one hundred
are punishedi
Why are there four and one
halt times rs many murders for
every one million nhabitants as
there were twenty years ag'
The answer is simple.
Crime protection has become
An esiab ished business in the
United States.
Burglars, pickpockets, bank
robbers, smugglers, white, slave
dealers, and illicit liquor sellers
have their machines for defence,
and TO the great discredit of the
American people these machines
are almost identical with poli,i-
cal machines in many places.
Thousands Of so.called lawyers
do nothing but protect such
criminals. Police officials are
carrupted and bribed at great
cost. Even Courts are bought
and the political machines of
great states are in the hands of
such criminals.
Every year there is an increase
in the amount of lawlessnese in
the United States.
1t is estimated that 25O,OOO
persons pursue crime as . voca.
ton, and are never touched by
the Law in this country.
What improvement can be ex-
pected when courts are plainly
within the power of criminal
gsnesi
What hope is there for enforce
ment OF the laws when a govern
or stands ready 10 pardon crimi.
mails that engage lawyers no be.
long to his particular factioni
Is it not time for the decent
citizens of the United States to
organize and cut down the ma
tion's crime billf
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1910-04-06

in he spring OF 1904, together
with transmission lines to Rock
Hill and Charlotte. The capaci
ty of this plant was 10000 h. p,
and the rapid sale of the entire
ou'p put led to the formation bv
the same interests OF a much
larger company, under the name
of fhe Southern Power Com
pany. which took over the Ca
tawba Power Company and pur-
chased large waterpower rights
on the Catawba and Broad
rivers. Mr.. Lee was made cniet
engineer and in addition acted in
an executive capacity as second
vice president. This was on
June "a, 1905.
Previous to the organization
of this larger company hydro
electric development in the
South had been mostly local ia
scope, having tor an object the
supply of power to few cotton
mills in the Immediate neighbor-
hood of the power plant or at the
end OF a comparatively short
for Mr. Lee to produce a net
work or system extending over
hundreds of square miles and
rivaling IN amount of power
transmitted any hydro-electric
s> stem in the world. Since The
summer of 1905 there have been
built under his direction two
81 ,OOO-kw. and one $4,000 XIV.
hydro-electic developments; 500
miles OF 5O.000.volt line; 400
miles OF 100000 volt line and
about 6 substations supplying
power and lights TO more thai
125 cotton mills aud 40 towns.
Among the pioneer work involv-
ed was pntting in service a high
tension transmission and distrib.
uting system reaching $50 miles
in one dir ec,ion and 100 miles in
another direction at 100, 900
volts; tied in to a $4,000 volt
distributing system and opera
ted with the same degree of safe
ty as q low-tension system. The
prospects are that this system,
OF which Mr.. Lee is practically
the head, is only in it's infancy.
Mr. Lee possesses to q remark.
able degree that rare combina
ton of keen business sense and
engineering ability which enables
him not only TO design, construct
and operate his plants, hut also
to develop them to their fullest
commercial efficiency and put
them on arm business basis.
His ability TO rapidly ansly ze
the most difficult problems and
his kpack of inspiring confidence
in all with whom he comes in
contact are his striking charac.
teristics. He has always taken
al active part in industrial aud
other affairs which pertain to
the welfare of the country in
which he lives. He has, for in
stance, been warmly interested
in the preservation of the natural
resources of the country, and
especially of the forests, and ap.
peared before the congressional
committee on conservation of
forests at various times.
Mr.. Lee is q member of the
American Institute of Electrical
Engineers, the American Society
of Civil Engineers and the
American Society of Mechanical
Engineers; president of the En-
gineerin9 Association of the
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-10-03
GRAND FRATERVAL SHOWING

The Sovereign Grand Lodge, l..
o. o. F. just closed it's seth
annual session at the city of Atlanta,
Ga. At the close of last year.
the condition of the Order, as
reported from all parts of the
world, was as follows:
Subordinate membership De-
cember 81 1909 1854, OS6.
Encampment membership De-
cember 81, 1909, 2l7,533.
Rebekah Lodge membership,
December 81. 1909, 633, SIS.
Brothers, 215, 28O. Sisters, 49,
335.
Patrlarchs Militant member. hip
December 81, 1909, 24,315. p.
Total memberships, including
subordinate lodge members and
sisters only of Rebekah lodges, l.
952,412. ...., e..
Brothers who are members of
Rebekah lodges are not included
in last item.
The net increase in subordinate
membership al, sos.
Net increase in encampment
membership, 1908.
Net increase in Rebekah lodge
membership, 1854.
Net increase in Patriarchs
Militant membership, 2,215.
The amounts expended in relief
in 1909 are as follows:
Relief by lodges, 50, GAL, 638. 20.
Relief by encampments, 1924
452.84.
Relief by Rebekah lodges, $780,
834.82.
Total relief, SIS, 356,925.S9.
Total relief as shown from 1880
to December 81, 1909, by the offic
a records, $3.50, 987, 34O.67.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-10-03
4 PLEA FOR AoPEEuLNEss
Writer Well Describes Psssimism .,
q Gin and ths Pessimlst .
Man 20 Avoid. ~

Hopefuiness II . true sign Of grea,,
ness. It means . conviction that w
are greater than our troubles. great,r
than the world itself. greater than
death. and can hold our own when
ever 1t comes. In the universe any
where and through all eternity. Such
conviction makes q man god. 1t Is
better than riches or high position.
1t makes poor man q king. A per,
son who constantly fears or worries
,s practically an atheist. He has !,
faith in himself or any other beiE,;.
He does not usually live long. Wor.
~ kills more than whisky; it really
hardens the arteries.
No man has a right to kill his
friends by sad. morose counle-
nance. A long face is mark OF re;
ligion. 1t is out Of date Just now and
forever. Sour-looking people should
De shut up in Jail; they are danger.
GUS. 1t Is good thing to- throw back
your shoulders, walk erect. and be-
neve that you own the whole city.
You do 1t as really as anyone else, Haud
you feel better for the, belief. Mos;
OF our troubles are fear for the future.
only "bogies" which disappear when
you walk up to them. There is q
good time coming. It is here already,
II we only knew 1t.
10 doubt would be disloyaIty.
To falter would be sin.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-10-03
Hume and Envy.

SanaZzao being present one day
when several persons. and among 9th
evs, some medical men. were discuss
ing which was the most general dis
ease. he offered to decide the dispute:
and, on being asked to do so, he re-
piled that the fever Of hope killed
more persons than any other On q
similar occasion. when some physi.
clans were consulting as to what rem.
edy was the best for weakness OF
sight. he observed that envy was more
likely than anything else to quicken
he power Of vision. IT,
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-10-03
The Fat,,er OF Waters.

Z. 1t was IN the year 1519--i20 years
before the Mayflower reached Plym.
outh rock--that the mississippi war
8rst seen by the eyes OF white man.
Proof was already at hand that Flor
ida was not an island. for in 1919 Al
varez de Pfneda had followed that
coast as fear as the site of Tampico in
Mexico. where he found Cortez and
his men. Pineda then turned back
and after while entered the mouth
of the Mississippi. which he called
Rio de Santa Espiritu. He seems to
have been the titst European TO sail
upon this great river How far he
ascepied It is not clear. but he spent
six weeks upon It's banks trading with
the 1ndians.--John Fiske.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-10-03
Father Could No, comfor, Her.

A little girl during presidential
campaign became very much inter.
ested, and made flag to be carried in
the parade. When the time came for
marching she supposed, of course, she
could go with the boys, and was very
much abashed, when told that little
girls did not march. She was incon-
solable. and going home threw her
self sobbing upon the lounges; her f.
ther tried to comfort her. but to no
purpose. when finally, being able to
endure It no longer, she pushed him
away, saying: You're not a little
girl, you never were little girl, you
never will be a little girl. and SO don't
know how feel Go away" ..
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-10-03
NOTICE Ess ruUucArIsA

Serial OlsO7
Department of the Interior,
u. S. Land Office at Carson City,
Nevada
Sept. Is, 1910,
Notice is hereby given that
Antonio Zulino, of Shelton. Ne
vada. who. ON March 18. 1905,
made Homestead Entry No. 953,
Serial, No. O19O7. for 81 Sc Sec.
%, and 81 SW4, Section %, Town
ship 80 N. Range Sc E. M. D.
Meridian has filed notice Of inten-
ton to make Final five year Proof,
to establish claim to the land
above described. before the County
Clerk of Elko County, at Elko,
Nevada, on the 25th day of Octo-
Der, 1910. ~
Claimant names as witnesses:
John ]. Hylton, of Shelton, Nevada
Simon A. Merkley, of Shelton,
Nevada
George M. Clayton, of Ten Mile,
via Elko, Nevada.
Arthur L. Clayton, of Lee, Nevada.
Louis j. Cohn..
ReOister
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-10-03
BEGINNING OF USE OF IRON
Hard to Trace Exactly, But Its Origin
Is Thought to Have Been in
Central Europe.

1t Is commonly believed that the
use OF Iron commenced in either Az.
riob or Asia. The latest investiga
lions prove that II was not worked
In Egypt until the ninth century be.
fore the Christian era. or in Libya Tin.
til $50 B c.. that the Semites aGopt.
ed its use still later, and that It has
been known In Uganda only within
the last five or six centuries. In
China iron Is first mentioned in 400
Il. G. Bronze weapons were EN-.
ployed in China until 100 AID, and in
Japan until 700 AID. According to q
MI. Ridgeway. who has Investigated
this subject. the metallurgy Of iron
must have originated in central
Europe, especially in Noricum. which
approximately represented modern
Austria and Bavaria. Only at Hall.
staff and in Bosnia and Transylvania
from which countries the Achaians
and Dorians are supposed to have
migrated to Greece, are found evil
dences OF gradual introduction of
iron, at first as an ornament applied
to the bronze which 1t ultimately dis.
placed. Everywhere also iron was in
troduced suddenly-a fact which i'm.
plies a foreign origin. He says that
meteoric iron was known In Egypt In
remote antiquity, but no doubt II was
worked as flints are worked, by cutting
or chipping. and was not smelted. In
other words. 1t was metallurgy, not
the knowledge. Of iron that originated
In central Europe
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-10-03
Neglected.

Dame Rumor-oh. what 1 know
bout youi
Mrs. Grundy teagerly)-Cut It loose.
y dear! Start something! Cry It
ON the housetops! Purvey the pub
ity to your hearts content!
.j:;me Rumor-Don't you care?
Mrs. Grundy-Care nothingl Why
iocle think 80 little Of me nowadays
rat really require the services of 4
"a. Ting press agent to keep me froaa
rit!rg into innocuous desuUtudei
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-10-03
Application No. 1852

Application No. 1862
+ Notice of Application for Per-
mission to Appropriate the Public
Waters of the State of Nevada.
Notice is hereby given that on
the 2Srd day Of July. 1910, in &C.
cordance with Section Is. Chapter
XXI of LEGISLATURES of19O9, one B.
G. Mcbride of Elko, County of
Elko and State of Nevada, made
application to the State Engineer
of Nevada for permission to appro-
pirate the public waters of the
State of Nevada. Such appropria-
tion is to be made from Overland
Greek and its tributaries in Ruby
Valley, at points in Sec. 25 T. 80
N. R. So E., 600 #. North / cor.
between secs.25 and 26, by means of
a dam, and all unappropriated water
including the flood water is to be
conveyed to points in T. 80 N. R..
!, SO E, T 80 N. R. SO E. M. D. M. by
means of bitches, and there used
for irrigation and domestic use.
|, Water not to be returned to
! stream.
Date of first publication Septem-
! Der a.: 1910. ...
Date of last publication October
j29, 1910.
Signed:
Emmett D. Boyle
State Engineer
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-10-03
Regular Junkabop.

what's the trouble with you, any
way, doc?" yawned the human OF,
trich" In the sldeshow.
Trouble enough" growled the sur.
geon. Didn't operate on you and re-
move two horseshoes, a pound of
JACKS. hle and glass stopper from
your stomachH Don't you intend to
pay me my bili?"
Tile human ostrich" yawned again.
Guess not, doc! Don't you thinx
you have got enough out of me al
ready2"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-10-03
Signed:
Emmett D. Boyle
State Engineer
Notice of Assessment

Nevada Hydraulic Mining and
Milling Company
"a Corporation). !
Location of principal places of
business, Oakland, California.
Notice is hereby given that, at a
regular meeting of the Board of
Directors of said corporation held
on the 9Th day of September, 1910,
an assessment of one-fourth "a of
one (I cent per share was levied
upon the subscribed capital stock
of the said corporation, payable
Immediately in United States gold
coin, to the Secretary of said cor
poration, at its Office, 906 Broad
way street, Room Sd, in the City
of Oakland, California.
Any stock upon which this asses. :
ment shall remain unpaid on the
Goth day of October, 1910, will be
delinquent and advertised for sale
at public auction, and unless pay
ment is made before, will be sold
on the 18th day of November,
1910, at 2 o'clock p. M, to pay the
delinquent assessment, together
with the cost of advertising and
expenseof sale.
I'd VIM. H Kroning, Secretary,
906 Broadway street,
Oakland, Cal
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-10-03
limo TO Get.

Percy--Dearest. let me be the star
Of your life.
Pessy--You'd better go. Percy. I
hear father approaching.
Percy--oh! but feel brave tonight.
] shall be your star. even II he does
come.
Peggy--Yes, but you had better
travel on your orbit while you have
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-10-03
4 COMPARISON OF REPUBLICANS

President Taft now declares that
the dayt ,of the "pork-barrel"
should be numbered, and intimates
that another bill of the character
Of former ones will merit veto.
That is a reform that all but
those specially interested can
heartily join in. But the pr resident
goes much farther than that, and
reads congress and his par ty a
lesson on the combination of con.
gressmen to secure part of the
swag as being as dangerous to the
public veal in certain of its aspects
as corruption"
This indictment of republican
legislature is startling coming
from this source, and shows that
President Taft sees which way the
political wind is blowing and that
he is becoming more progressive.
In the same speech he further de-
clares: The evil in the corrupt
control of congress or a legislature
by private interest is manifest, and
always calls for condemnation 1t
is too bad that the eyes of the presi-
dent were not open to this log.
rollin g process-if not corrption-
when Aldrich, Payne and Cannon
were forcing through the tariff bill
which he considered the best tariff
law that the republican ever
enacted, but which he now says
must be revised forthwith by
piecemeal.
A veto, Mr.. President, of the
tariff bill which protects the trusts
in plundering the people would
have everlastingly made your
political fortune. The refusal of
his constituents to endorse the
standpatter Congressman Tawney,
whom !you especially vent to
Winona to vouch for, shows that
such veto would have been
welcomed, and the increased in
surgent sire myth and democratic
victories from Maine to California
indicate the same feeling else
where.
In extenuation of the presidents
signing the tariff bill, it must be
said that Mr.. Roosevelt during hit
seven years as president refused to
even recommend any tariff
legislation, although it's crying
necessity was just as urgent then
as in 1909. The republican leaders,
with but few notable exceptions,
we're stalwart standpatters, and
Mr.. Roosevelt was more subservient
to their demands on the tariffs and
other issues than President Taft
has been. The great difference in
the attitudes of the two presidents
. is that while Mr.. Roosevelt was
loud in proclaiming reform with a
large R, he accomplished no reform
during his two terms of office,
while Mr.. Taft in less than tive
years has done something and seems
to be willing to try and do more.
He Is making a real effort to
reduce expenses and extravagant
appropriations something which
Mr.. Roosevelt never did.
The moral, of this story is, that
no republican president seems to be
able to divorce himself from the
worst element Of his party; and
whether inclined to stalwartism or
insurgentism he finds his hands
tied, for both faction declare that
tariff protection is a cardinal
principal of the republican party"
and revision Of the tariff is only
q question of standing still or a
slight reduction.
When we hear ola republic an
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-10-03

president vetoing an appropriation
bill or a tariff bill which a great
majority of his party has voted
for, we shall know with our eyes
shut that the republican game is
about played out.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-10-03
Cultured culalne.

so your daughter has been to cook
ing SCHOOL,"
YES" answered Mrs McGudiey.
II suppose she has helped along the
household economies?"
Not exactly She has made US ap.
preciate our regular cook 80 much
that we have to raise her wages every
time she threatens to leave"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1910-08-19

| '''insu otlek company ui mar
otu county began the manufacture OF
"''eN NJ tner plant on lu's1ay, and they
'''' Ha',s"ea 'hat the business mas hand
SUNG '"'u'e before II. ms company
.'en's LOOK over the Ga lamotia
No'npa"' p'aht' wmeh they nave
'"'''"S"'y "'erhau'eu ana 10 wh''h
lucy nave auueu large line "' new ana
'''S' "pp'oVeu 'h"eh'hery i"' tue manu-
m n' '''' W ''"S p'ouu.'s !" '"ei' me
"eS start OUT Win .he nest wishes "'
tue community iot SUBSTANTIAL prosper
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1910-08-19
AN ACCOMPANIED FACT.

Returning on Tuesday from the great
dam at McCall's Ferry. Mr. James II
Harlow, the noted hydraulic engineer
states that it will he completed by today
Friday The halt dozen openings left
In the dam during its construction have
bcn filled nearly to the top and on Tues
day the backwater had already extendc /
up the stream four miles.
This great lake will be Increased to
seven miles in length when water runs
over the breast Of the dam. and will
doubtless become a famous resort. Onc
yacht has already been launched on II.
bosom. This dam is the greatest mas,
of concrete construction in the world
So hard is its composition that after the
ice which annually pours down the rivei
with such terrific force that 1t cuts down
huge trees as would an axe had beer
rushing through its openings with tenn