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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-06
New Series-VOI. XXI. No. l2
the COTTON MARKET.
PRICES HAVE DECLINED OWING
TO RAINS IN TEXAS.
american Spinners and LiyerpooI
Shorts Still Trying to Cut Down
Level of Values.

New York, April 1-Prices have
given way, notably on the new crop
months, owing to heavy rains in Tex
as. They are still so high that it is
believed very large acreage will
planted in spite of the RACES in -
cent years by the boil weevil. \
can spinners are still fighting
dealers and Liverpool sh' is
said, will ship 10000 b. Ne
York in the near future. : local
stock Of certificated cotton has lately
increased about $500 bales. Recent
ly it was decreasing, an important
item every day. The tendency is now
the other way. Dry goods reports
are more or less gloomy. The outside
public holds aloof from the specula-
ton. The weakness in the stock
market from time to time has GER
tainly not helped matters.
Farm work at the South is making
rapid progress. The copious rains in
Texas, it is believed, will do an i'm
mense amount of good. Receipts at
some Southern points Of late have
been liberal. Rumors have been per-
slstent, too, that the bull leaders were
quietly selling the May option and
going into July and October. The
idea of some is that the bulls have
no hankering to face big shipments
from Liverpool for delivery on May
contracts. Bulls in their turn DENY
that they have been selling and they
predict higher prices later on through
the operation of the law of supply
and demand. They predict that sup
plies will be down to very low
| point by September and that unless
an enormous crop is raised this year
the visible supply of American cotton
will again be very low on September
1, 1911.
LlVerpoops spot and call sales have
lately been large. Bull leaders and
large spot people here and in Phila-
| delphia have at times been good buy
ers. The Egyptian crop outlook is
said to be less favorable. Prices at
| Alexandria have advanced sharply re-
| Gently on certain days. A better in
| quiry for yarns is reported at Boston
Spot markets at the South have been
pretty generally firm. If American
spinners are pessimistic, European
spinners are optimistic 1t is said
too, that in most continental countries
| cotton mills have only about six
weeks supply of the raw material
! Manchester's reports are cheering as
TO increasing trade and the tone OF
, the market.
| In fact roughly speaking, it may
be said that while America is bearish
| Europe is bullish on cotton.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-06
SUMTER NEGRO MURDERED,
CALLED TO DOOR AND HEAD
SPLIT WITH AXE.
DOsia Rogers, Whose Mother Lives OH
Divine Street Murdered in Her Own
Door in Manning-Tier Child
Tracking In It's Mothers Blood.

Last Saturday, Annie Rogers, a ne
gro woman living at No. 6 Divine
street was called to Manning by wire
telling her of the murder the night
before of her daughter, Dosia. in
Manning.
Dosia Rogers was a negro woman
about thirty years of age. She had
been living in Clarendon county. in
the country for several years, but last
Tuesday moved to Manning and was
occupying a tenant house tc the rear
Of Probate Judge Windam's house.
She was found about o'clock Satur-
day morning just inside her door with
her head split open as if with an
axe. She had probably been called to
door during the night, and when she
opened it, the murderer got in his
deadly work.
The neighbOrs heard no unusual
disturbance during the night, but
Judge Windham states that he noted
liieiI iiS pilu uOS dClcu III u very eA-
cited mannear near onto midnight.
The wonlSsl was native of Man
ming, but for some years her people
have been living here. Dosia has
been living in the country, but the
entire family had decided to go to
Manning. Minnie, her mother was
expecting to move in with her daugh-
ter, and gave her thirty dollars, her
surplus money, to get things in read
mess for the family to move from
here there this week. 1t is very like
ly that the murder was committed for
the purpose Of robbery, as none OF
the money turned over to her by her
| mother could be found.
Dosia leaves little girl four or five
years Of age, and there are bloody
tracks on the floor where the child
had stepped in her own mother
blood and tracked it over the floor.
No clue to the guilty party has yet
been found, though the coroner's jury
is still at work on the case. A young
negro named Ben Miller, who was
seen about the place the afternoon be-
fore the tragedy, has been arrested
but he denies any knowledge Of the
affair. 1t may be that the woman
was followed from the country by one
who committed the crime. So far the
whole thing is a mystery.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-06
To END COTTON FUTURES.
But House Tsill Probably VIII Not
Apply To- Grain Exchanges.

Washington. March 31.-A new
cotton anti-option bill. to be known
as the Scott BILL prohibiting transac-
tions In futures In commercial mar
kets. is likely to be reported TO the
House.
IL Is practically settled. so far as
the subcommittee on Agriculture IS
concerned. that the grain exchanges
will not be affected by the proposed
legislation. the members taking the
position that there is no sentiment
I'm tho West for such elimination of
the grain futures. as In the case Of
the cotton exchanges. and that the
grain exchange representatives who
testified before the committee made
a much better showing than the cot
ton exchange officials presented.
There was no final action at this
afternoons session OF the Sub-Com-
mittee. but II Is probale that by Sat
urday morning a bill will be ready
for submission designed TO stop effect
ually future dealings on the cotton
exchanges. The full committee will
meet the middle OF next week.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-06
ASYLUM COMMISSION APPOINT.
ED.
"o'. Ansei Names Men to Buy Land
And Erect Buildings.

Columbia, April 2.-The Commits
sion to purchase lands for the State
Hospital for the Insane and n oroo+
certain buildings was appointed Vac
terday by Gov. Ansel for a term of
one year. The members of the cor,-
mission are: DR.. j. w. Babcock. su-
perlhtendent of the State Hospital for
the Insane; DR.. Robert Wilson. Jr
chairman of the State Board of
health OF Charleston; Judge r. O.
Purdy, of Sumter; DR.. Geo. p. Cron-
er' or Newberry, and Lerov Snrines
OF Lancaster. The appointment was
made under a joint resolution passed
at the last session of the last genera,
assembly, after the condition of .ho
state hospital had been fully discuss-
ed IN both the house and senate.
Inc appointment of Dr.. Babcock
and DR.. Wilson was provided for h,,
the resolution. Under the resolution
the commission is authorized TO hor-
row the sum of 100000 on the credit
OF the State from the sinking fund
OF from any other source, if the same
can not be secured from the sinking
fund. Not over per cent. per an
mum Is TO be paid on the money. The
FUNDS Will be used for purchasing ad-
ultlonal lands and the erection of oor
tain buildings.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-06
BUCKET SHOPS RA|DED.
FEDERAL OFFICERS INDICT og
MEN.
SharScs OF Conspiracy Made Against
Well Known Firms and Their
Agents.

Washington, April 2.-The govern
ment of the United States today made
It's first vigorous onslaught on stock
gambling, which, in scope practically
covers the country from the Missouri
river to the Atlantic Coast.
Brokers' offices in New York. Phila-
delphia, Jersey City, Baltimore, Gin
cinnati and st. Louis were raided SIM
ultaneously at II o'clock eastern
time) today by special agents of the
department of justice, who were arm.
ed with bench warrants issued by the
Supreme Court of the District of Co.
lumbia
Conspiracy indictments, in which
29 persons are named-five of them
said to be millionaires and all inter-
estod in brokers' Offices in large cities
Of the United States-were returned
late yesterday by the Federal grand
jury Of the District Of Columbia upon
evidence which agents Of the depart
ment Of justice had been gathering
for more than a year.
The indictments were withheld yes
terday on the request of Attorney
General Wickersham, so that the de-
~partment Of justice detectives might
make the raids simultaneously uopn
the places suspected of being bucket
shops"
The men indicted are said to be
those financially interested in the cor
porations known as E. S. Boggs & Co.,
which has Offices in New York and
Philadelphia; Price & Co., which has
offices in Baltimore and New York.
and the Standard Stock and Grain
Dealers, which has offices in Jersey
City. Philadelphia, Cincinnati and st.
Louis.
The three firms indicted maintain
more than ESQ Offices and branch
Offices loacted from New England to
Oklahoma.
With the aid of United States At
torney Baker of the District of CO.
lumbia, Special Assistant Attorney
General A. Gruce Bielaski and Chief
F1nch of Attorney General Wicker
sham's bureau of investigation have
been presenting the evidence to the
grand jury for several days.
The theory of the conspiracy indi-
Gates that every man was connected
with the operation Of the three firms
which did business in the district had
entered into a conspiracy to relieve
people of their money. The govern
ment maintains that eevry alleged
bucketing transaction OF the local
brokers named was the act of each
and every person charged in the in
dictment
In prepared statement issued to-
day Attorney General Wickersham
expressed the belief that the return
of these indictments and the prose-
cutiOn of the defendants therein will
do great deal toward destroying the
| operations of but9letshops throughout
the country
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-06

.Nllcgcd DiScOvcrcr of North Pole Has
Enough

Chicago, April 1.-Commander
Robert f.. Peary who arrived in Chi
cago today, declared in an interview
that for all time he was positively
through with polar exploration.
am absolutely at the end of my
career as an explorer" he said. ere
ports that I am to lead an expedition
into the Antarctic regions are not
true and ] certainly do not contem-
plate another trip to the North Pole. -
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-06
VOWS VENGEANCE ON CCM.LIER'S
Secretary Ballingcr to Hold Weekly
Responsible for Attacks.

Responsible for Attacks.
Washington, April 2.-Secretary Of
the Interior Ballinger announced this
afternoon that in due time he would
institute proceedings in law against
Golfers Weekly as the result Of the
publications concerning him which
are appearing in that paper.
In connection with the article in
the current issue, headed, "Ballinger-
Shyster,' in which MIR. Ballinger is ac-
cused Of IAN objectionable breach of
professional honor" in come ction
with bankruptcy proceedings in the
United States court at Seattle in 1904,
the Secretary said
For the malicious, villainous and
untruthful attacks, of which this is
simply another chapter, l propose to
bring them to Justice"
While Mr.. Ballinger would not indi-
cate when or in what manner the
matter would be brought into court,
iiN odih tlidl IL Hc llNeU lOIS cilOuRH
they will suffer all the penalties the
law vii warrant"
''They have deliberately sent their
agents and e. ssaries throughout the
country to traduce me by a campaign
of Villification that is not warranted
by any facts whatsoever. If they think
they can attack me with impunity
they are mistaken.
Every suggestion they make has
been thoroughly covered by testimony
and orders of the United States Dis
trict Court for the District Of Wash
lngton, Northern division, eXonerat-
ing me from the slightest suspicion
of any irregularity and impropriety."
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-06
BOY CHARGED WITH ASSAULT
clarence Turner Lodged I'm Jail on
Serious Charge.

Florence, April 1.-Clarence Turn
cr, the 15-year-old son of Mr. X w
H. turner, of the Efingham section,
was arrested yesterday and brought
10 Florence and placed in jail on the
charge OF having committed helm
Gus crime, or rather made so by stat
u'ory law upon a 14-year-old girl.
living in the same section.
Application will be made at once
for bond
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-06
SPLIT ON RAILROAD BILL.
TWO VIEWS EXPRESSED Rv
THOSE OPPOSING MEASURE.
bliI Arranged as Having Been Die.
tated and Manipulated by President
And F"afted by His Attorney Gen.
eraf Democratic Members
~ Sign Minority Report
> Atative Mann Sponsor.
,nlngton, April 1.-Widely df.


ing views on regulative control
common carriers, including a split
minority presentation, are expressed
In reports which accompanied the
submission of the Administration
railroad bill to the House by the In
ter-State commerce committee TODAY.
That measure, drafted by ATTORNEY
General Wickersham at the instance
OF PRESIDENT Taft, introduced by Rem
resentative Townsend, Of Michigan.
and transformed by radical changes
oy House committee into a substi-
tute measure, already is being de-
oated in the Senate, and the House
probably will follow the naval appro.
priation bill.
CHAIRMAN Mann, who will act as
sponsor for the BILL though opposed
to the Commerce Court and otbers of
lts provisions, will seek to fix a date
on Monday.
The majority report stamps the
proposed legislation as even mora i'm,
portant than any preceding Acts for
the control of Inter State and foreign
railroads, imposing no undue burdens
nor interference with railway man.
agement, and comforting large bene.
fts upon the shippers and public at
large.
Inc minority report, striking at the
commerce. Court, declares mo un-
tried, experimental legislation of
doubtful character should he entered
upon by Congress at this time. when
neither shippers, consumers nor rail-
roads ask for such legislation"
Inc minority members, while
earnest advocates of Federal regula-
tion or supervision Of Interstate rail-
roads, attack the bill as paterna,is-
tic.
Inc minority also arraigned the
Dill as having been dictated and man.
lpulated at the Instance of the Pres
ident and drafted by his Attorney
General. "The preparation and man.
ipulation of the measure" saws the
minority lis a mortifying and dis
couraging commentary upon the
peoples representatives and thew
claim that the bill so dictated bv the
Administration transfers the vital
work of the Interstate comnoaroe
commission to the department Of ius-
tice''
Still another set Of views is pre.
rented by Messrs. SIMS of Tennessee
ana Russell, Of Texas, Democratic
hlenoers OF the committee, who re-
iuse to sign the minority report
though in favor of some of its fea-
lures.
Mr.. Richardson, of Alabama. who
signed the minority report, believes
the bill leads to Government owner.
snip OF railroads and will offer an
amendment prescribing physical VAL
uation, instead of fluctuating value Of
capital stock, as a basis for ascer-
tanning fair and reasonable rate
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-06
COUNTY SUMMER SCHOOLS.
ent OF Education Swearingen on
The Subject.

The subject.
that summer schools for teachers will
be held in several of the counties of
the State during the coming summer.
The available income from the per-
manent school fund will be $5.S51.S0
or $136 for each county. This amount
Dis not enough to defray the expenses
Of a summer school, yet 1t has been
the custom in the past for the coun-
" boards of education to pay part of
the instructors salary.
State Superintendent Of Education
Swearlngen yesterday addressed the
: following letter of instructions to the
county superintendents Of the State:
This year the available income
from the permanent school fund will
amount to s5.S51.SO. This amount
has been apportioned among the 43
counties for the maintenance of sum-
kmer schools for teachers.
THE apportionment OF S136 TO
each county will not defray the neces-
sary expense. but neither the State
superintendent of education nor the
State board of education has the right
TO authorize or require that II be sup
Nbplemented from county funds. In
. former years 1t was the practice.
among county boards OF education.
TO pay some part of the instructors
salary. In 1909 several counties con-
Quoted summer schools independent
Of state support. and the policy was
mot questioned.
This practice seems to me the
only means Of making county sum-
mer schools efficient. and each county
superintendent and county board
must determine the expediency of
such a supplementary expenditure.
y summer school instructors will be
' appointed and their compensation
fixed by the county superintendent
with the approval of the State super
intendent. IL is most earnestly rec
commended that the session continue
four weeks. IL possible.
= Wherever district schools are de-
sired by neighboring counties. the SUI
perintendents should arrange all pre-
nminaries at once. and report these
20 the State department
Rule IS. page 60. school law, 1909.
states clearly the conditions govern
ing the renewal of first and second
\ grade certificates. Please write me at
your earliest opportunity. giving
plans as 10 place. date of opening and
closing. names of all instructors, sal
aries and subjects TO be offered. The
following is the resolution of the
State board authorizing this course
Resolved. That the income from
the permanent school fund be divided
among the counties. with the request
that each hold a summer school in
dividually or in connection with some
other county. and the county super
intendent of education be requested
TO report to the State superintendent
OF education on blanks furnished by
him."
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-06

some OF the Albany legislators ap-
pear to have been hold-up men first
and lawmakers merely on the side
Chicago News.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-06

A. j. Yellowly, Of Louisiana, has
been appointed revenue agent to sue
ceed e. w. Screven, deceased.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-06

Ihe negro Masonic lodge hall was
burned at Rock Hill Sunday; loss 49,
600.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-06

Smallpox has broken out in Ander.
son and the Board of Health has or
dered general vaccination.
The Ketchikan miner., 1910-04-08
What Other People Think
Loring, Alaska, April 4.

Loring, Alaska, April 4. Editors Miner:
 So much has been said lately in your valuable paper boosting for territorial government and "our" delegate, and now accord ing to the bill introduced by "our' delegate and reported in the Seattle papers, our" dele gate is certainly entitled to all the "bokays" that the Miner or any other paper published on the Coast (where the principal in dustry is fshing) can throw at him.
 The grand point about the bill appears to be that all is neces- sary for a man to be qualified to pay the expenses of running the district is that he shall be direct ly or indirectly engaged in the fishing business, and then he must come through with $6.O0 a year.
 It must certainly be thought that the Natives here are a de- cided step in advance of the Natives down in the states, as the latter are given reservations, rations, blankets etc. to keep them from starving, which the Natives here do not get, and now this work of art" proposes to tax every man among the Alaskan Natives $500 a year by reason of his being fisherman.
 For what purpose is this mon- ey to be raised? To be paid into the Alaska Fund for roads, schools and care of the insane, with the roads in the front seat" and as the government is at present supporting these schools and starting others wherever necessary and is look ing after the insane, why it nat urally looks as if this extra tax is to be devoted to the building of roads for the fishermen to row their boats along, as certainly no one would propose to tax the fishermen to build roads for another industry that is not pay ing any taxes at all-the Alaska mines.
 Also another item, the tax of ten cents per ton on copper ore with all of the copper properties at present shut down on account of the low price for copper.
 Then every box of fresh hali- but or salmon shipped out of the district has to pay 80 cents or $1 taxes, all of which must come out of the fishermen's s pocket and so on down the whole list of
The Ketchikan miner., 1910-04-08

boat, net and gear taxes.
 But what can you expect when during the last twelve years so many men working as fishermen have made their pile" and re- tired to Seattle and elsewhere and put up Alaska buildings etc, and now it is only right that the ones that are left here should chip in and help the "poor" placer man build few roads. Now if that is a specimen of what is going to happen to this country under a "delegational" form of government with one non-producer, what will the fisherman have to pay under a territorial form of government with several hundred non-pro- ducers.
 Would it not be we'll for the people of the country who will have to pay the bills to watch out a little and see what the change of government is going to cost them in dollars and not be led around any longer by the nose by a few office seekers.
 Resp. yours,
 Fred Patching.
The Ketchikan miner., 1910-04-08
To Stewart in a Small
 Boat

A letter has been received at this office from the three argo- nauts, Joe Mahoney, Phil Gill and Fred Herd, who recently made the trip from this city to Stewart in a sail boat. It says:
 We arrived here on the 23rd of last month at two o'clock and have been busy ever since, mak- ing a half decent place to camp. There is six feet of snow here, and in places it goes anywhere from eight to ten feet, so if you see any one in Ketchikan think ing of coming down here, you can tell him there is nothing here just now but snow, and plenty of it.
 We had a pretty fair trip with one or two exceptions. Rowed all the way to Maple Bay and then we got a fair wind which carried us into Stewart the next day. We made camp once in the meantime, stopped two days at l the Cape and got a couple of mowitch; also laid over one day at Maple Bay and cooked some. grub.