THE FORT MILL TIMESVOLUMEXVIII FORT MILL, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 19Q9 NO. 1

NO POTASH TAXCongressman Lavor Gats Committee

to Romovo Duty

FROM TARIFF BILLThe Farmers of South Carolina

Will Save Over a Quarter MillionDollars by the Action of the

Committee In Removing the Tax

From Potash.

Washington, April 8..A specialto the Columbia Record sayB aftera week of diplomatic activity, RepresentativeLever of South Carolina,today won a decided victory for thefarmers of his State and the South.Following his represehtatlons as to

the effect of the potential duty of 20

per" cont'on potash and potash salts,tho ways and means committee todaypromised Mr. Lever to remove

by committee amendment the offensiveparagraph from the hill.The flrBt step in the dlreetion

pledged by the committee was takenthis morning when the committee inexecutive session of its Republicanmembers voted an amendment removingthe duty on all potash saltsexcept basic slag, a variation of thestandard product. Learning of thisexecption, Mr. Lever again called onChairman Payne and after explainingthat basic slag, too, was an essentialpart of the demand submittedin behalf of tho farmers, Mr. Paynesaid that he thought the committeewould certainly vote a supplementaryamendment at its meeting tomorrowmorning.The action of the committee Is a

personal triumph for Mr. Lerer andho is highly gratified at the result.The attention which Mr. Levsr's representationsreceived at the hand:> ofthe committee. Republicans, Is theresult of a consistently practiced policyof conciliation on the part ofMr. Lever as well as of the respecthis energetic fights on particularquestions bellore ithis have calledforth on both sides of the hous^.Among both Republicans and

Democrats Mr. Lever has manyfriends, and in that way ha can alwaysget a hearing. After that herelies on bis presentation of hiscase. Mr. Lever's activities havebeen unceasing since telegramsreached Washington from Mr. E. J.Watson, directing his attention tothe possibilities bidden away in theadministrative clauses of the bill.There is one New Knglander on theways and means committee, Mr. Hillof Connecticut, and as the New Englandsoil in many localities requirespractically the sans.* kind of fertilizationneeded In the South, itwas not difficult for one knowing theground as well as Mr. Lever to interestcertain Republicans In histight.

The victory of the South Carolinianwill mean something over u

quarter of a million dollar* a yearto the farmers of South Carolinaalone, while to the South as a wholeIt will mean more than $2,000,0001b his speech recently on this subjectMr. I^ever estimated the possible lossto South Carolina farmers from theenactment of thie clause at over

$300,000, and a telegram he receivedfrom Wr. Watson this morningpractically substantiate* his estimate.The indication* now are that the

Payne bill will go to the Senate withpotash and its salt* on the free list,and it is not thought that there willI>e mum cnance oi ion auiy oeirtgrestored in the upper house.

WILL SERVE UIS TIME.

Brought liwk and Put in the State

Penitentiary.Columbia, April 7..Sheriff Causey"has brought to the State penitentiaryHenry Haynes, the desperado

who was arrested in Jacksonvill'a few days ago and brought backto this State to serve out Ave yearrfor manslaughter and 16 months on

the charge of breach of trust withfrauduledtt Intent. THe arrest ofHaynes is the culmination of 10years of evasion of the law.forllaynes. although convicted in 1899of manslaughter, has succeeded In

keeping away from the officers ofthe law until Sheriff Causey got on

his track and located him in Jacksonville.Haynes escaped from Monck's Cornerbefore he could be brought to

Columbia to begin his sentence Justafter he was convicted In 1899. Theguards from the penitentiary hadalready started for Monck's Cornerto bring Haynes and a number ofother prisoners here when It was

learned that Haynes had made hisescape. Since 1899 Haynes has beenable to keep away from the officersof the law.

Sheriff .Causey sthtes (that Justas soon as he came into office hestarted to track Haynes and finallywas able to make the negro move

out of the State which ended In thearrest at Jacksonville.

Fishermen Drowned.

Naples. April 7..By the burstingdyfc* today at Catanzaro, 22

awept to sea. Elevenof them

GUILTY OF MURDEREJLLHD ON* MAN AND TWO

HVLFLBSS WOMMN.

Avery Blount, Prospennw LralsUuBasiien Mm, Seat to the Gallows

by tfvp Jury.Amite City, La., April 7..-Late

this afternoon the Jury la the caseof Avery Mount, charged with themurder of J. O. Brelaad. Mrs. Brelandand Mrs. Joe Bverette, broughtin a verdict of guilty In the frst degree.The yerdict carries the death penalty.The accused man received the verdictwith much ooolnees.Judge Ellis fited Friday of this

week for the hearing on motion fora new trial.

Bouut, a prosperous merchant, ofTlckfaw, wan indloted on the ohargeof murdering "Buz" Dreeland, Mrs.Breeland and the letter's daughter,Mrs. Joe. Bverette, and wee triedfirst on the separata Indictment of"Buz" Breeland's killing. (Jarfleldand Ben Klnohea, two brothers, indictedfor complicity in the assaasinntlnno r» wo# /> K® ^i*/i

« V / WW VV UV V1IOU.

The killing of the Breelauds, andMrs. Everette waa oat of the mosthorrible crimes ever committed Inthe State. The tragedy occurred onthe night of January 22. near Tickfawseveral miles south of AmiteCity. Breelnnd and his wife werebringing their daughter, Mrs. Everette,from her former home in LivingstonParish to live with themnear Tlckfaw. Mrs. Bverette's husbandhad boea killed by Bea Klnch*en a few days before.

Breelund was shut from ambush.H« was on foot, and tha two womenwore riding in a buggy. Acoordingto Breeland'B dying statement AroryBlount, accompanied by some otherperson, then levelled guns on Mrs.Breeland and her daughter. Thelatter held her young baby in herarms. The elder woman was firstshot and killed. Mrs. Everett® inthe meantime was beseeching theassassins to spare her baby's life.

Her supplications finally resultedin the child being taken from herarms and laid by the roadside. Themother was then shot te death.

TRYING TO KILL OPIUM TRADE.

New Law Prohibits Importation and

Use of I>raf.

Washington, April 7..One of themost Important bills paaeed at thelast seeBlon of Congress, and whichbecame effective on April 1, wasiiiui piuuiuiiuiK uum iuu luipuriikUouuud use of opium iu the UnitedStatee for any purpose w-hatever,except for strictly medicinal ,/urpoBea.

Iu recent years the smuggling ofopium Into this country has ben one

of the serious curses of the time, andall of the larger cities have experienceduntold trouble from suchJ raffle, especially among the Chinese,as the records of the poliee tsatloaaand Criminal Courts abundantlyhow.Under the new law. If nny person

jhall fraudulently or knowingly iraoorter bring Into the United States,or assist In so delng. any opium or

any preparation or derivatives orshall receive, coneeal, buy or sel\or In any manner facilitate the transportationor concealment ef sale ofany such opium products after theirImportation, knowing them to haveteen Imported eontray to law, suchgoods shall be forfeited and destroyed,and the offender ahall be vnedin any sum not e reeding $R,0<10,nor less than $u'i. or oy imprisonmentfor any time not exceding twoyears, er both.

The treasury department had goneover the new law carefully, and in a

statement Just Issued by SecretaryMacVeagh, Is Is made plain hereafterthere shall be no traffic In this productif it Is posible to stop It.

In issuing full directions to collectorsat the different ports, theseofficers are cautioned to guard closelyagainst fraudulent Importations hereafter.In addition to this, the Stateand municipal officers have been sentcopies of the new law by the treasurydepartment with ful directions forcarrying it out, and with instructionsalso for making arrests and pushingprosecutions when such arrestsare deemed necessary.

Although more smuggling of opi-!um is done perhaps in San Franciscothan in any other city in theUnited States, because o the verylarge number of Orientals there, thetraffic in the drug has grown to enormousproportions in New York, Chicago,Philadelphia, Boston and elsewherein the East during the lastfive years. Not only this, but insome instances negroes, too, havebeen known to become steady andregular users of the drug, so thatnow the Chinese immigrant is notthe only person to feel its harmfuleffects.Many murders among the Chinese

in different parts of the country havebeen directly traceable to the illegaluse of this drug, gnd It is believedby those who have made a caerfulstudy of the mater that the new lawwll be most beneficial In Its effectsWhen ita provisions become generallyk^own and ita mandates are carried

jout.

LIVES ARE LOSTAnd Property Damaged in Various

Section of Country

BY A HEAVY STORMSeveral Cities Arc Damaged by a

High Wind That Swept the MiddieWestern States, 'Which Crippledthe Telegraph Service and

Wrecked Houses and Schools.Detroit, Mich., April 7..At least

eight persons lost their lives in thestorm that visited Detroit and Michiganlast sight and today. AnthonyKaup, a saloonkeeper, Joe Kadich, abarber, and Adam Felln, all of Wyandotte,attempted to cross the Detroitriver in a row boat from Wyandotteto Canada this afternoon in aflfty-mlles gale to settle a wager andall three- were drowned when theirboat capsized. Kadich bet Kaup Avedollars that he wonld not dare tocross in the small boat and Felln wasthe stakeholder.

At Jennings, in Missaukee county,three young men. Bernard CarlsoD,Charles Jackson and John Torrey,were killed by being caught .underm «mi Luni w»m mown aown oy inpwind at the Mitchell Brothers mill.

Eight year old Benjamin Hellmerwas killed by lightning near Ironalast night and Ray Miller was killedat Brightwood today when he wasstruck by a roof that had been blownoff.

Many Killed.Chicago, April 7..Reports of last

night's storm damage received heretoday are that ten persons are knownto have been killed In Mississippiand at least 15 were injured.

At the Terrell plantation, east ofWeot Point, Miss., a number of negroeswere killed.

Reports from western Tennesseestate that the storm wrecked manysmall buildings.

At Wabash, Ind., Mrs. Jas. A.Hayes and four children were pinneddown beneath the wreckage oftheir home, which caught on Are.The mother was badly burned, beingrescued, and will die. Thechildren were seriously hurt. Thehigh wind wns followed by a cloudburst.Many brid'ges are washedaway. A dozen houses were demolishedin Wabash. The damage wi'nreach several thousand dollars.

At Perua, Ind., four factoriesand Heveral school buildings, manysmall structures, were wrecked b>the wind. »

Several Men Missing.Cleveland, Ohio., April 7..The

fishing tug George Floyd, with sevenmen aboard, and the sand suckerMary H., with nine men are missing,and the barge Norman Kelley, witha crew of four persons, was rescuedtonight after a desperate fight, asa result of a fierce windstorm whichraged on Lake Erie today. The windblow a sixty-mile gale throughoutthe day. Life savers have been unableto do effective work.Tn* steel bars* Kelley's crow

three m«n and a woman, were pickedup after floating fifteen miles fromKelley's Island, when the boatIJroke away and ^drifted to sea.There was neither an engine nor anoar on the barge, so the crew wasat the mercy of the waves.

^" vera.1 small buildings werewrecked and buggies overturned inCleveland. Two men were blownfrom the shore of the Lake into thewater. Both were rescued.

Injured in New York.New York. April 7..The high

gale that prevailed to the west andnorth of N^w York city today,causing havoc with telegraph andtelephone lines, attained its fullforce here nt 7:45 o'clock tonight,when the wind reached a velocityof 60 miles an hour. Several personswere hurt and much damageand discomfort, resulted.Two persons, an elderly woman

and a child, were badly hurt bybeing blown off their feet and dashedagainst objects in the street.

At Rochester John Velth waskilled this afternoon during a 51mile an hour wind storm, and a

12-year-old child sustained a fracturedskull from a v^lnd blownchimney.

At Buffalo from three o'clock untilfive this afternoon the wind torethrough the streets of Buffalo atthe rate of 72 miles an hour. Oneman was killed and many peoplewere Injured by parts of building*detached by the force of the windand hurled through the air.

Great Damage at Toledo.Toledo, April 7..Hundreds of

men out of work, thousands of dollarsdamage done and many personsslightly Injured as tho resultsof a hurricane that visited Toledoand vicinity today.The wind attained a velocity of

89 miles an hour in this city. Theroof of the plant of the MassilonBridge. Company, 180 by 4ft feet was

ripped off. and hurled into a fieldand 300 men were thrown out ofemployment until the damage canbe repaired.

Pedestrains were Injured by fallingsigns, parts of roof, chimneysand limbs of trees and many womenwere blowed over by the wind.

1 la email town* near Toledo con<

CASTRO LANDS1

HE LEAVES THE STEAMER ATFORT 1)E FRANCE.

Very Much Annoyed by American

Government's Interference WithHis Flan of Visiting Venezuela.Fort de France, Martinique, April

7..Ciprlano Castro, in a rageagainst the British government andthe State department at Washington,left the steamer Guadeloupe at thisport today and has taken up quarterson shore. Finding all ports in theWest Indes, excepting Fort deFrance, barred against him, the presentcourse was the only one left opento the former Venezuelan dictator.

Senor Castro's wife will continueon board the Guadeloupe to LaGuaira.me American monitor Montana

came Into port this morning.The Guadeloupe, on board which

Castro" and his party sailed fromFrance,^M arch 28,*after four monthsspent-in Europe, came into Fort deFrance late last evnlng. While atPointe-a-Pitre of the island of Guadeloupe,where the steamer touchedyfesterday, Castro was notified bythe British consul that the Britishgovernment had decided not to permithim to disembark at Port ofSpain, Trinidad, consequently Castrodecided to leave the Guadeloupehere.The decision of the British, acting

on a request from the State departmentat Washington not to let himland at Trinidad, was unofficiallycommunicated to Castro a secondtime this morning. He expressedhimself as annoyed and angry at thisdecision, which he characterized asa violation of the rights of man.He is furiously angry with the Americangovernment and the FrenchSteamship Company. The latter refusedto let him continue on boardthe Guadeloupe to Colon.

After expressing his annoyance atthis unexpected turn in his affaire.Castro disclaimed the bellicose Intentionwith regard to the existingpolitical situation In Venezuela withwhich he has ben credited and hedeclared that his only purpose inreturning to Venezuela was to givehis attention to his private business.

Castro appears still to be in illhealth.The steamer Gaudeloupe left here

at noon today for Port of Spain andVenezuelan points. She wns followedout of the harbor by the cruiserMontana.

8TABBS I1IS WIFE.

Drunken Negro Trie« to Kill All

Ills Family.Rock Hill. April 7..This evening

at 8 o'clock Lawrence Boyd, a wellknown negro cook, while drunk, runamuck on Ratterree hill and succeededin a\£}Ost murdering his wife,Louisa, stabbing her deeply in theshoulder. He started for theirchild of three years old and cut atI , III- -I~* »-» » - * V *iw. run miua smut?! KUlUUmi til mill

and prevented him from cutting thebaby, but received a nasty cut onthe arm herself. Boyd then fledand has not been caught.

CHARGED WITH MURDER.

Two Police Officers Shot Another

Man to Death.

Fitzgerald, On., April 7..Indictmentscharging murder were returnedby the Irwin county grand Jurytoday agalnat Chief of Police Druebakerand Patrolman Johnson, whoon Saturday night sh<$t (to deathRobert Oresham, manager of a localmill, the officers stating that theywere after him for an alleged theftand shot him down only after hehad fired shots at them in a darkalleyway. The officers are in jailwithout bond.

Guest of Honor.New York. April 7..United States

Senator Benjamin R. Tillman will bethe guest of honor and one of thespeakers at the annual dinner of theSouth Carolinians in this city April22. Members of other SouthernStates societies and of the Southernsociety have been invited to attendthe dinner.

Fight About Taxes.Atii a1 r* nln hria A *>« ! 1

iuuuiriruiifi| v/aiaiu ia, n(M 11

Four men were killed and many other#wounded In a conflict with thelocal Carabineers. The authoritiesare endeavoring to collect new taxes,which are exceedingly unpopular.

slderable damage was done. Manyhouses were struck by lightning andthe occupants stunned, but therewere no reports of fatalities.

Six injured.London, Ont., April 7..Six personswere injured, one fatally, and

a financial loss of full fifty thousanddollars was entailed by a northwesthurricane which pased over this citytoday. At the Aberdeen publicschool, a tall chimney crashedthrough the roof, imprisoning 30(1pupils, and creating a panic. MaryLaburltis, aged 9 years, was fatallyInjured, and four other pupils were

i eevererly hurt. The fire departmentworked rapidly and succeeded irquieting the children, who were re-moved by me&a& of tedders.

CUT IT OUTThe Farmers Urged To Reduce

The Cotton Acreage

VERY GOOD ADVICEWhich Would Help Out Wonderfully,If the Cotton ProducersWould Only Follow it Out GenerallyThroughout the Cotton ProducingRegion.Columbia, April 8..President B.

Harris, of the South Carolina StateFarmers' Union, has issued the followingaddress, which he desires thatthe county papers of the State shouldcopy:

"Again I want to call your atten- ,tion, farmers, that now Is the time yto fix price on the 1909 cotton crop. |Will you make It 8 or 15 cents? It ^Is in yonr power to make it either. t"I want to, if I can impress upon jyou, that diversification of your (crops 1b the keynote of the situation,1 want to urge every Southern farmer ^to plant at least 25 per cent of hiscotton land in food crops, so aB tolet's see if It will pay us as farmersto diversify our crops. To my knowledge,the farmer who has not been v

making home self-supporting has ^been swapping $1 for 50 cents. Now plet's see if this assertion is true. a

"The farmer who bought corn last, ^year paid $1.10 cash for it. If he 0

borrowed the money to buy with, It 1cost him $1.25, as he paid interest a

on the money. If he hauled it home eten miles it cost him 10 cents. It tis worth 10 cents per bushel to haul acorn ten miles, so his corn cost him p$1.35. Now, any good, progressive 2farmer can make all the corn he willneed on his farm for 35 cents per fbushel. You see he gave a dollarfor what he could have raised for a3 5 cents per bushel. Are any of uthe Southern farmers guilty of the tabove? If so. go and sin no more. n

"Did you buy any bacon? It is nselling now for 12 1-2 cents ca6h. gStill swapping $1 for 50 cents. Anygood farmer can raise enough for this family use or 3 cents per pound. sDid you buy any hay? I you did

eyou are still at the same old way aof exchanging. If you bought n

nhorse or a mule you paid from $200to $250. You can raise one just

oas good for less than $100. Now,

(brother farmers, do not say that youcan not raise corn for 35 cents. Try 1

to do it. I have met more than 50farmers this year that raised it for 11

less than 35 cents per bushel, and 1

as many as 15 who raised It for less a

Minn 0 0 nnnfo

"The farmer who is raising corn n

for 3 0 cents, bacon for 3 cents, rais- 8

ing his own horses and making homeself-supporting has quit swapping $1 o

for 50 cents. The farmer who is labuying is still at his old job. While 1the farmer who is buying on a lienand mortgage on his crop is Just iswapping $1 for 25 cents, for thecash buyer is swapping $1 for 50cents. He can raise it for half whathe pays for it when he buys it.Brother farmer, if you are guilty ofthe above sin I say to you, Bin no

more."Now, what price will you have for

the 1909 crop? Will you have 8 or15 cents? Romember, it is all in Jyour hands, and you will get what- dever price you make it. To get 15 $

cents you will have to diversify your i

crops and stop exchanging $1 for f

50 cents, or you will never be able i

to get a remunerative price. Now, t

what is the use of the farmers of tthe South to raise 12,000,000 balesof cotton and not get for it any imore than they can for a 7,000,000- tor 8,000,000-bale crop? Think of 1the enormous expense of raising theextra 5,000,000 bales to bear the <market down. And who does this?It is the farmer. Think and consld-:-r for a moment what you are doing (

and you will quit it,"Do you think for a moment that

the manufacturer would do any suchruinous business as this? No, hewould stOD one-half of his machineryat once and curtail his output onehalfand make the same profit.Now, brother farmers, use a littl-good business judgment and common(TAA/1 hnrcm cmnon T hno r oswin r* fo e

er say Mr. Jones Is going to cut hiscotton acreage and I will just increasemine. Sad, but thlB is tootrue to make a joke of.. This is justwhat the speculative world says youwill do. The most essential thingfor the farmers to do this year isto plant 3S> per cent of cotton landin food crops and live at home.

"I took dinner the other day witha man who lives in the country. 1can not say that he was a farmer,for his dinner did not satisfy me incalling him a farmer, for everythinghe had on his table was bought.Out of curiosity I asked him how hecured his bacon. He said Mr. Armourcured it for him. I askedhim what tomato he found was bestfor canning. He told me his werecanned in Baltimore. I asked him

. what kind of turnips he sowvd for' making salad. He told me he bought! that also. Then I v;anted to knowwhat kind of cotton seed bo planted.

* *nd he quickly answered: 'I plant' Toole's and Cook's.'

"So you can readily see that he' was a planter and not a real, real- farmer. This is the kind of farming» that causes 8-cent cotton. I was

in a grocery store the other day andone of these planters caaio in to

^...

PROVED A FAILURETHE WILLIAMSON PLAN DID NOT

WORK WELL.

Practical Tmto Prove Same Amountof Fertilizer Will Produce MoreCorn Without Stunting.For the benefit of all the doubting

Thomases in corn culture, I ask youto publish some tests made in Fairfieldcounty by good, conservativefarmers. The men had such implicitfaith In the Williamson method thatwhen approached on the subject of(rowing more corn per acre, or asnuch with less expense, they wouldreply: "Give me the Williamsonplaa and I will make more cornban Dr. Knapp."But maay are the converts since

harvesting the crop of 1908, and therear 1909 will bid a long farewell onnany farms to Mr. Williamson.>Vhlle his plan of preparation (thats, a deep seedbed well prepared) isvhat we want, we do. nat want anynore stunted corn that takes a fertlizerbill a yard long to pay for halfhe yield.Due credit hag been given Mr.iVilliamson for having provod thathe yields can be increased, and I

iope the day is not far oil when everyarmer in the South will have alvaysa seedbed ten to fifteen Inchesleep, well filled with humus made bygrowing cover crops before the corn,ind when every farmer's fertilizertill in the fall will read so many tonsif high grade phosphoric acid (andf need be, some potash), but noto much 8-4-4 or 8-3-3 that he buysvery year In the face of the facthat nitrogen floats in abundanceround him, and can be secured byilanting peas, soja beans, crimsonlover and other legumes.The following are the tests reerredto:Mr. W. J. Durloy planted one

,cre of corn on Dr. Knapp's plan,sing the same amount of fertilizerhat he did on the Williamson plan,nd secured ten bushels more perere than he made on the Wtlllamonplan.F. R. McMeekia & Bro. staked off

wo acres side by si le. using the Iame amount of fertilizer, and statdat the time that the Williamson Iere would "skin" the Knapp aero aaile. They harvested thirty-five Iushels on the Knapp acre and thirty 1a the Williamson acre. Their en- Iire crop for wages this year will 1e plantod by the Knapp method. IMr. D. L. Stevenson tried the two

aethods, planting the poorer acre byhe Knapp method, using the samemount of fertilizer per acre. The ICnapp acre yielded thirty bnsholsind the Williamson acre twentyeven.Mr. M. W. Doty, one of the largstplanters in the county, will work

lmost his entire corn crop on Dr.Cnapp's plan this year.

W. R. ELIOTT,,oeal Agent of Farm DemonstrationWork, Winnsboro, S. C.

BLACK HAND SCHEME,

fust a Fool Notion Caused by DimeNovel Reading.

Atlanta, Oa. April 7.."It wnsuat a fool notion I got from readinglime novels," said Daniel W. Johnion,Jr., the 18-year-old boy whovan jailed here laat night for havingittempted to extort $35,000 from\sa O. Candler, prominent hankerind Georgia's wealthiest citizen,hrough Dlaek Hand methods.The young man at first told thp

>oIice that he had been forced byhree strangers to write letters toMr. Candler, demanding the moneyfJe now admits that the scheme wasif his own concoction.Johnson wrote the second letter

Sunday, repeating his threats ofloath to Mr. Candler in case of hisnon-compliance, and then went toihurch and took his regular placeIn Mr. Candler's Sunday school class.

Commits Suicide.Richmond, Va., April 7..Frank

T. Glasgow, Jr., 38 years old, awell known resident of the city, andconnected with the Tredegar ironworks, shot himself through thehead at the office of the plant todayand died instantly. Ill health resultingIn despondency was thecause.

buy some corn, flour, bacon and hay.He asked the price of corn, $1.10:flour, $7 per barrel; bacon, 12 1-2cents per pound, and hay, $23 perton. He said to the merchant. 'Areyou going to ron me?' The merchanttold him he had robbed himself.You did It by planting all the cottonyou could last year."Now. brother farmers, let's look

at things square In the face and seethat October cotton Is being soldfor about 9 cents on the New Yorkexchange. Now, are you going toplant, another big crop when youknow that 9 cents Is about the costof production? Surely not. ThereIs just one thing that will keep youfrom delivering your cotton crop of1909 for 9 cents, and that la organizeinto the Farmers' Educationaland Co-operative Union of America.Plant 35 per cent of your cotton cropInto food crops and yon will get asmuch money for an 8.500,000-balecrop as you will for a 13.000,000balecrop.

"B. fcUBRlS.

WANT IT BACK ;* |

The State May Be Asked To PayBack a

LARGE SUM OF MONEYIjoaned It Hy the United StatesGovernment Many Years Ago.Names of the States That Receivedthe Money and What KachOne Received.Washington, April 8..If the bill

Representative Murdock of Kansashas Introduced in the federal houseof representatives, requiring twentysixStates, which in 183 6 were loanoH198 ftft" '

ior nnernal improvenients,to return this money, becomesa law, the federal governmentwill have a hard tint collectingfrom South Carolina, which is saidto have received the sauie amountas Georgia, $1,051,422.09.

In 1S3 6 there was a surplus of$23,000,000 in the national treasuryfrom the tariff taxes, and a bill waspassed lending this amount to thevarious States then in the Union,with the understanding that It wasto be returned whenever they werecalled upon to do so. The apportionmentof the money was made accordingto representation in congress.Vv hen three installments had beenpaid In 1839, congress repealed theact. When the repealing act waspassed ( it provided that the moneyapportioned "remain with the Statesuntil otherwise directed by "congress."

While some of the States havekept the fund segregated and loanedit out at interest, other States havelost track of it completely. All theSouthern States lost their part ofthe fund during the reconstructionperiod, and in many cases all therecords relating to it wore destroyed.New York, however, received$4,01 4,520.71, and has kept theamount Intact. It has been loanedout at interest, and the amount receivedfrom the investment put Intothe State treasury. New Jerseyand Delaware are also said to havekept their part of the money segregated.The various accounts are still carriedon the books at the national

treasury department, and each secretaryof the treasury has had to givea receipt for the money. It is.carriedas "available funds."

Mr. Murdock said recently that hosimply wished congress to "otherwisedirect" as the bill provided in1839, and he is confident the amountcan be collected.

It is said the president and thesecretary of the treasury have approvedthe plan of Mr. Murdock, andhave agreed that if the bill is passedKv I. ~ **44'i; >.wiif,n;3!j mo nuuruuy generalwill have no trouble In settling upthe old account.The largest amounts received by

the States are as follows:New York $4,014,520.71Pennsylvania 2,867,51 4.78Ohio 2,007,269.34Virginia 2,198,427.89Illinois 477,919.14Georgia 1,051,422.09South Carolina 1,051,422.09Massachusetts 1,338,173.58Maine 955,838.25Now Hampshire . . . . 669,036.79Vermont 669,036.79Rhodo Island 383,335.30Connecticut 764.670.60

For the last 25 years, say someof the older members, attempts havebeen made to have the nation apportionthe remaining $5,000,000between the States, but all the billsIntroduced have died in the committee.The now States that were created

since the money was apportioned arein favor of having the amounts returned,but the States that receivedthe benefit, especially the Southernstates that lost it entirely, will fightany attempt to force a payment.The bill has cause-! n y. d deal of

discussion among th» i ebershipof the house, and v. is saidthe States should be held responsible,it is not believed the bill can pass.

LYNCHED FOll MI RDER.

Strung l*p and Body Then Riddled

"With Itulleta.

Pensacola. Fla., April f>..DaveAlexander, a negro, was lynched herethis morning for the murder of PollcrmaiCanton, whom the negroUceman Canton, whom the negroslating arrest. While the police stationwas comparatively deserted, acrowd of 25 men, at the point ofrevolvers, took the black man fromhis cell and hanged him from anelectric light pole, a half block fromthe Jail. As the body swayed In theair, 40 bullets were fired into It bythe mob.

Woman Dies of Wound.Bogalusa, La., April 7..Mrs.

Elizabeth King, aged ?.4 years, diedhere today from the effects of a bulletwound inflicted last night by flDeputy SherifT R. 3. Carson, who Cwas a boarder In Mrs. King's house. Ij The shot which struck Mrs. King Iwas aimed at a supposed burglar. II Carson was exonerated by the coro- «ner'a jury. I