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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1910-07-07

South was entitled to the same treat
ment he meted out to the North.
He forced the negro Crum on
Charleston because it was Charles
ton. He would no more have acted
that way toward either Portland
that on the Atlantic side or thaton the
Pacifc-one in the Republican State
of Maine and the other in the Re-
publican State of Oregon-than he
would have taken to bed with him
a venomous cobra of the Indian jun
gle.
Hence he writ himself down a
bully to punish Charleston simply
because it is Charleston. Nov | want
to see the Southern Democrat who
will toss his cap in air in honor OF
this Gessler.
But how about Tennessee Coal
and Iron? I'll tell you. Col Roose-
velt, President, posed as the only
great, original and genuine octopus
chaser. He kept the country in hot
water for seven years. He never
touched an octopus. Show me one
trust he ever harmed. He thunder
ed in the index. He marched up
the hill with 10000 men and then
marched down again. AS carpet
knight he was simply superb, and
could look and talk the reformer as
never man did before. AS Presi-
dent he was the very essence and
of the Turveydrop of
reform.
Well, there was panic in 1907,
notwithstanding the blessed and d.
vine tariff. Some folks were i'll
hammered enough to call it Roose-
velt panic" 1t brought unnum-
bered disasters to the financial and
commercial world. Millions crum-
bled into thousands, and thousands
into nothing. The very devil was to
pay.
There was the Sherman antitrust
law that was very embarrassing to
monopoly. The steel trust had one
competitor, and that was the Ten
nessee Coal & Iron Co, that the panic
had hit hard. Here was the oppor-
tunity of the steel trust, and it came
down to this town at the hour of
midnight, and after long confer
ence with President Roosevelt, he
granted the steel-trust men immu-
nifty and licensed them to violate the
antitrust law and buy and absorb
their rival, the Tennessee Coal &
Iron Co.
Take down your history of the
10th century and read how popes of
Rome granted indulgences to COM
NIT sin, and for largess Leo X would
allow one to commit every crime de-
nounced in the decalogue. That
was the precedent for Roosevelt's
indulgence to the steel trust, to
which every hill of corn, or plant Of
tobacco, or row of cotton, or field
of wheat, oats, rye, barley, every
blade of grass of the meadow, has
paid tribute every year the past
third of century. Nay, every in
habitant, man, woman and child, of
all races and conditions, has been
laid under tribute by this grasping
monopoly, that bestowed on Carne-
gle half a billion, and filled Pittsburg
fuller of millionaires than Tophet is
of fiddlers.
That is what Rooseveltism means,
and all it means-that whatever
such matchless character as he
shall order shall be the policy of the
Federal establishment. There is
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1910-07-07
Executors Notice.

All persons having claims against
the estate of John Blanch, deceased,
will present them, duly attested,
and all persons indebted to said estate
will make payment to the undersigned
executor at his place Of residence.
DOWN CHANDLER,
Executor of the Estate Of John Blanch,
deceased, 6-23-4t
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-08-25
M'MURRAY ON WlTNESSSTAND
Declares He Did Not Try to Bride
Senator Gore.

Sulphur, Okla, Aug. 19.-"It has
been charged that you, through Jake
L.. Hamon, offered Senator Gore $685.
600 or $4,000 as a bride to influence
him in congress to withdraw opposi-
ton to the approval of your contracts.
Did you or did o not offer Senator
Gore such a bribe?"
To this question, in the hearing be-.
fore the congressional committee in.
vestigating Indian land affairs j. F..
McMurray answered NO"
The witness also denied he ever Of
fered $685. 900 as a bride to D. G. Nc
Curtain, a Choctaw lawyer. Senator
Gore has testified Hamon had offered
him the bride in the senator's Office in
Washington on May 6 last. Mr.. Nc
Murray testified he twice had called
on Senator Gore after that date and
the senator had made no reference to
the alleged offer of bribery until his
speech in the senate on June "a.
Jake l.. Hamon, mentioned by Sen
ator Gore as being the mar who of.
fered the bride in McMurray's behalf,
took the stand two weeks ago and de.
MED he had ever made any such offer.
The examination of McMurray will be
continued,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-08-25
News Of the Week From Vari-
Gus Parts Of the State.
FORAGE SITUATION is BETTER
Recent Rains Have Improved 1t In
Practically All Sections of
the State.

There are few exceptions to reports
coming from the several counties of
the state that show a smaller yield of
grain than had been anticipated, most
of them showing that the crop har.
vested will be even larger than the
earlier reports indicated that they
would be.
Rains last week were quite general
over a large section of the state and
these have acted to the betterment OF
the forage situation and with warm
weather from now on there will be
good prospects of securing enough hay
to car for stock through the coming
season without difficulty. Already the
meadows are taking IN a brighter ap
pearance and there is apparently go.
ing to be eve greater improvements
in the situation during the coming few
days. Corn is showing up in splendid
shape.
Haying will be general at this late
season of the year as a result of the
rains, and the next two or three
weeks will. see the farmers busying
themselves about this task. Men are
hard to get, the labor situation being
that demands urgent attention if
the threshing and haying still to be
done is to be cared for on schedule
time.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-08-25
REBELS TAKE MANAGUA
City SurrenderS Without a Shot
Being Fired

New Orleans, Aug. 23.-Confirma-
ton Of the reported fall of Managua
without resistance, following the entry
of the insurgent forces, was contained
in a cablegram received here by the
acting consul of Madriz at New Or
leans. The town was surrendered
without any conflict, it was stated.
After almost a year of severe fight
ing the revolution, which was orig
,inally launched by several hundred
Nicarasuan insurgents at Bluefields,
Oct. 10 last, practically closed with
the capture by the revolutionists of
the cap:tal city of Managua.
Cablearams received in New Or.
leans II ounced that Managua had
fallen. When the insurgent army ar
rived DR.. Madriz had already abdi-
Gated in favor of Jose Dolores Estra-
da, who in turn issued a proclamation
declaring Lis brother, General Juan
Estrada. president of the reunited re.
public of Nicaragua" General Juan
Estrada has been the nominal head
of the insurgents. Madriz is said to
have left Managua.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-08-25
MAY Be CARRIED TO COURT
Cases Involving County Seats in North
Dakota.

OdkOLd.
Complications arise at every turn in
the organization of new counties in
North Dakota, a new one exceedingly
difficult of solution having just popped
up in M%ountraill, Burke, Renville and
Sheridan counties that will very likely
reach final settlement in the courts.
1t involves the manner in which the
names of cities aspiring to become
county seats secure their names on
the ballot.
There is apparently no provision by
the laws of the state for the placing
of the name on the election ballot.
In the early or temporary organization
a temporary county seat is provided
by the county commissioners, such
county seat to remain as the seat of
government till an election can be
held.
In the several counties in which
the question has been raised, there
are from three to five cities after the
honor, but they are at a loss to know
what to do in order to get their claims
for recognition on the ballot. Counsel
has been retained in some of the
places and efforts are being made to
reach a settlement of the situation so
the county officials having charge of
the election will know how to proceed.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-08-25
YIELD SURPRISES FARMERS
Wheat Crop Larger Than Had Been
Expected,


Harvesting is rapidly coming to
an end in this state, about only the
late wheat and some of the very late
oats and the fax remaining to be cut.
T%hreshing operations were carried on
quite extensively during the past week
and will be general this week. Some
of the %threshers are having difficulty
in getting enough men to make up full
crews, but a large number of machines
are now starting the season in ear
nest.
Yields generally are surprising and
are much in excess of the estimates
made earlier in the season. The rea-
son is that very few realized how we'll
the heads had filled or how unusually
long they were as compared with the
length of the straw. Not only this,
but the grain is exceptionally plump
and heavy, some samples of the early
threshing weighing up to sixty-two
pounds to the bushel, remarkably fine
in color and grading up to the top
notch.
Some fields near Grand Forks have
yielded as high as twenty-eight BUSH
els to the acre, but these cases are
exceptional. However, much of the
wheat that al estimated at six to
eight bushels to the acre is giving ten
to fourteen and even up to eighteen
bushels.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-08-25
DENIAL FROM TAFT
Took No Part in Committee Re.
buff to Roosevelt
WRITES LETTER TO GR|scoM
Panied by "Columns of Unfounded AS
sertions" Concerning His Attitude
in New York Situation.

New York, Aug. 23.-President Taft
and ex-President Roosevelt are again
fellow workers in the same political
field. The fear that they might pull
apart had been forefended by a full
explanation on one side and an unre-
served acceptance on the other.
The president makes it plain in a
letter given out here by Lloyd c..
Griscom, president of the New York
Republican county committee, how the
misunderstanding arose. He explains
that he never took any part in a COM
mittee cabal to defeat Colonel Roose-
welt for temporary chairman of the
coming Republican state convention.
On the contrary, he explicitly deplored
the result of the committee meeting
which chose Vice President Sher-
man; he rebukes the party leaders
who have permitted it to go abroad
uncontradicted that the president was
behind their factional preferences; he
insists that at every opportunity he
advised the fullest conference with
Colonel Roosevelt and he explains
that he has been panied by the col
umns of u%nfounded assertions in the
newspapers concerning my attitude in
respect to the New York situation"
For his part, Colonel Roosevelt,
when he read President Taft's letter
as communicated to him at Oyster
Bay, said:
81 am very glad to see President
1aft's letter and am pleased with it"
Ought to Be Avoided.
In the course CT the correspondence
there comes out a telegram from the
president to the vice president hither-
to withheld, but of which mention had
nevertheless crent into print. In sub
stance the president informed Timothy
l.. Woodruff, Republican state chair
man, and William l.. Ward of the ma
tional Republican committee, that
the thing of all others that ought to be
avoided is a controversy in the con
vention."
The presidents letter throughout is
temperate, though positive. Mr.. Girls.
com, in his comment on it, was much
more outspoken. He did not hesitate
to charge that the Republican organi.
cation of the state had played politics
with the presidents name and had
mis~represented his attitude.
Colonel Roosevelt in his statement
explains what had been the course of
his negotiations with the organization
and how, after his successive rebuffs,
he had felt that further overtures
could not consistently come from him.
His future attitude he does not define
because he is as yet uncertain what
effect on public sentiment President
| Taft's letter will have when it has
been read and digested by the voters
of the state.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-08-25
FLY is HELD RESPONSIBLE
Health Officials Say Babies Deaths
Could Be Prevented.


One-fifth of all the deaths that have
occurred in the state of North Dakota
since Jan. 1 have been of babies less
thai n year old and the causes of
such deaths in a majority of the in
stances have been preventable. The
common house fly, Secretary J. Gras-
TICK of the state board of health de-
%alares, is the greatest destroyer OF
infant life.
The number of deaths that have
occurred in the state since the first
OF n present year is approximately
$500, or an average of about 1926 a
month. Of this number, if the reports
are correct, yer $50 of those deaths
were of babies less than one year old.
Principal causes, according to health
officials, are the failure of parents to
manifest any seeming knowledge of
even the most simple and common
place health rules, such as diet, lack
OF proper care and exposure.
While this remarkable condition is
revealed by the vital statistics an
even more interesting situation is re-
vealed in the birth records, which for
h month of July are shown to be the
highest that have been experienced in
the state. There were 1,145 births
during the month, while during the
same period there were only 1926
deaths. One-eleventh of all the births
occurred in Ward county, which led
with 100 new arrivals, while ~one-sixth
of all the deaths occurred in Cass
county, which reported tifty-eight.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-08-25
FROM The PLAGUE
Great Alarm Caused by Cholera
Outbreak in Italy.

Bari, Italy, Aug. 20.-The epidemic
of cholera which has broken out in
Southern Italy is steadily showing an
increase in the districts affected, par
ticularly in the town of TRAM, where
the number of deaths already is more
than thirty. The epidemic is of a vio-
lent type and the death rate is high.
Even greater danger is anticipated
from the fleeing population of the in
fected districts, who may bear the
germs of the disease to regions not
yet involved. TRAM seems almost de-
serted as a result of the panic, 10000
of the residents, fully half of the pop
ulation, having fed the town. Fully
as many have escaped from the island
town of Barletta.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-08-25
CLEAN SWEEP IN CALIFORNIA
Late Returns Indicate P~rogressives
Elected Entire Ticket.

San Francisco, Aug. 21.-With the
continuing of the official canvass and
the receiving of late returns from re-
mote districts indications are that the
Lincoln-Roosevelt league, the cham
pion of progressives in California,
elected it's entire ticket at the pri-
mary election.
In the contest on the advisory vote,
by legislative districts, for United
States senator, late returns indicate q
slight plurality for John D. Works.
Supporters of Allen G. Spalding claim
the endorsement for their candidate,
declaring he has captured fifty-three
out of the 100 districts, which would
oblige his party representatives in the
legislature to vote for him regardless
of Works plurality of votes.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-08-25
LAND PATENTS TO BE ISSUED
Will Be Given to Dakota Settlers
Within a Short Time,

Settlers on lands in the Dakotas,
which have been withdrawn by the
president, because they are said to
contain coal deposits, will be able to
get limited patents in a short time.
Assistant Secretary Pierce of the in.
terror department said that w. B. New
man, a clerk in the general land Of
fees, has been sent to the Lem.
mon land office to assist the local Off
GERS in getting out patents for lands
on which proof has been offered.
kilograms exchanged between the
department and congressman from the
Dakotas indicate that the settlers will
be allowed to take patents under the
act passed in June of this year cover
ing only the surface of the land and
leaving the coal for future disposition.
1t was said that every effort
will be made to see that the settlers
receive their patents as expeditiously
as possible and that there is no in
tention to hamper the homesteaders in
any way.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-08-25
Estimated That at Least Fifty
Persons Lost Their Lives
in the Flames.
WALLACE PARTLY DESTROYED
Property Damage in Idaho City Will
Total $1,000, 900 - Hundred and
Eighty Fire Fighters Missing.

Spokane, Wash, Aug. 23.-The Pa
cific Northwest is facing the most ter
rible forest fire situation in its his
tory. Over fifty persons are known to
be dead and 100 or more are missing.
The list of injured will approximate
200. Half the town of Wallace is
swept clean and there is a possibility
that two or three more towns in the
district have suffered complete de-
struction. Half a dozen small towns
and villages are seriously threatened,
and their inhabitants are hurrying to
places of safety by the thousands.
The situation is most acute in the
Occur d'Alene district of Northern
Idaho, Reports from other parts of
the Northwest are of a less discourage
ing nature.
Some of the fires have been con-
troIled, others are less threatening in
the absence Of wind, while in some
districts the fire fighters have divert
ed the course of the flames from towns
that were threatened.
In Eastern Oregon, between Baker
City and La Grande, are several fires
which are doing serious damage to
live timber.
There are several fires in the imp
qua valley in Southern Oregon, but so
far they have not done any great dam
age. The fires in the neighborhood of
Grants Pass, Ore, which became de-
cidedly threatening Sunday evening,
are for the time being under control.
In the vicinity Of Medford and Ash
land, Ore, the fires are less menac-
ing, only because there is no wind. In
both these places all the men obtain
able have been drafted into service to
backtire and trench.
That the fires in Southern Oregon,
in many cases, are of incendiary origin
has been a matter of general gossip
in Medford for several days.
No hope of rain is yet given by the
United States weather bureau, the
prediction of the district forecaster for
two days being fair weather through
out Washington, Oregon and Idaho.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-08-25
VIGOROUS DEFENSE OF TAFT
John Hays Hammond Addresses Ohio
Political Club.

Cleveland, Aug. 21.-With the state
ment that President Taft was one of
the ablest and most sagacious of the
Hays Hammond made a vigorous de-
Tense of the administration at the an
nual outing of the Cuyahoga County
League of Republican clubs.
Mr.. Hammond justified Mr.. Taft's
support of the Aldrich-C Cannon section
of the party on the ground that if he
had plunged into a Republican civil
war his four-year term of Office would
have been barren of results and not
n of his campaign pledges could
have been carried out.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-08-25
SIX MEMBERS FOUND DEAD
Score of Others of Fire Patrol Gang
Missing.

Spokane, Wash, Aug. pa special
from st. Joe, Ida, says: Six mem
bers of the fire patrol gang of twenty
six men have been found dead in Elk
Prairie and Avery. The other twenty
are missing.
Thirty men out of a crew of forty
seven fire fighters, in charge of Forest
Ranger Lee Hollingshead, are miss
ing and are believed to have persisted
Big creek, a tributary of the st. Joe
river, sixteen miles from Avery, Ida,
was swept by flames.
This word vas brought to Spokane
by w. D. Mcclellan, a newspaper pho
%tographer. Mcclellan was one of the
relief party which made the trip to
Big creek Sunday to rescue survivors.
The heat was so intense that the
party was unable to approach the spot
where the camp had stood.
At least five are dead at Newport,
Wash. The known dead are:
George Zeigler, rancher; Mrs. Err
NEST Reinhardt, George R. Campbell,
Thomas CARR and a rancher named
Cady.
Several persons were rendered in
sane.
Mrs. Reinhardt broke away from
her rescuers after they had borne her
from her burning home and rushed
back into the flames.
Ordered to Shoot VandaIs.
Soldiers of the T%wenty-fifth United
States infantry, colored, who are pa.
trolling Wallace under the direction
of Mayor Hansen, have been given or
ders to shoot vandals, whose depreda.
tions have become serious.
Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget
Sound trains through the burned dis
trict, which are carrying refugees. are
being furnished with guards of colored-
soldiers.
Train No. 1 of the Northern Pacific,
w~estbound, reached Spokane after an
exciting run through the flames at the
Idaho-Muutana border. Every car
was badly scorched.
Flames are threatening Newman
Lake, a summer resort twenty miles
east OF Spokane. Ranches are being
burned in that vicinity and buildings
are being consumed.
Liberty Lake, another summer re-
sort eighteen miles from Spokane, is
approached by fire from two sides.
Several cottages have been burned.
The st. joe and st. Mary valleys,
In the heart of the richest timber belt
in the United States, are being swept
by flames and already 100 homestead
ers have been burned out. Five hun
dred men are lighting the blaze and
st. Joe river steamboats, are kept with
steam up ready to take the people to
safety.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-08-25
GAYN0R IS OUT OF DANGER
Physicians Say Complete Recovery Is
Assured.

New York, Aug. zl.-Mayor Gay
nor's condition is excellent, his ply.
sicians said, and the period of danger
has now passed. The doctors agree
that he will be completely recovered
within a short time and he will go to
the Adirondacks to complete his re.
covery Mayor Gaynor, though, has
indicated that he thought he ought to
return to his home in st. James, l.. l.,
after leaving the hospital.
The physicians have practically de-
cided not to operate to remove the
bullet. as they think Mayor Gaynor
will suffer no Inconvenience from it.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-08-25
SHALLENBERGER is BEATEN
Mayor of Omaha Gets Democratic
Nomination for Governor.

Omaha, Aug. 20.-Additional re-
turns from Tuesdays primary election
indicate Mayor James G. Dahlman of
this city has secured the Democratic
nomination for governor over Govern
or Shallenberger by a safe majority.
Returns from 1888 precincts out of
1,645 in the state give Dahlman "a, 949
and Shallenberger 22,652. The re-
naming precincts unheard from
would have to give Shallenberger a
5 to l vote to overcome this lead.
Mayor Dahlman has started on his
election campaign through the state.
Governor Shallenberger abandoned his
watch of the returns and started for
Iowa to make a speech.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-08-25
lONGWORTH AGAIN CANNON
Ohio Congressman Will Oppose the
Speakers Reelection.

Beverly, Mass, Aug. 19.-Represen-
tative Nicholas Longworth of Ohio
gave out a statement in which he says
he will never support Speaker Cannon
again and that he does not believe
Mr.. Cannon ever can be reelected.
This is regarded as the actual begin
ming of the real fight on Mr.. Cannon.
The fact that the statement was
given out Immediately following the
conference at the summer White
House regarding plans for the coming
congressional campaign is taken here
as indicating that President Taft as
well as Vice President Sherman is
behind the movement to eliminate Mr.,
Cannon. F." i .i,Ff
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-08-25
Would Close Stations.

Investigation is being made by the
North Dakota railroad commission
into the question of closing up rail
road stations on branch lines out of
Minot. Recently the railroads request.
ed that they be allowed to close nu-
merous stations, but before permission
would be granted a complete investi-
cation is to be made. The falling off
in business is given as the reason for
the requests made by the railroads.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-08-25
Chicago Live Stock.

Chicago, Aug. 22.-Cattle-Beeves,
$4.50@8.50; Texas steers. $3.7O@5.85;
Western steers $4.O0@7O0; stockers
and feeders, $4.10@6.2O; COW and
heifers, $2.60@6.50; calves, $6.5O@S.-
rs. Hogs-Light, $8.65@9.1t; mixed,
$8.15@9.00; heavy, $7.85@8.7O; rough,
$7.85@S.05; good to choice heavy, S.
05@8.70; pigs, $4,000 Sheep
Native. $2.50@4.50; y~earlings. $4,000
$50; lambs. S4.75@6.85.