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if B^llfcrf IB F Oil® VOL. XXXVI. NO. 22. IN AN INFERNO OF FIRE ANO WATER ,>nREDS OF KANSANS MEET DEATH X —r Topeka, Kans.. May 31.—'<? -Rain Sias been falling for two hours, nd this has had a tendency to oheck the fires In the dwellings. Absolutely no reliable estimate of the lives lost can be made for the reason that the flooded district can not be traversed. It -s at least two hundred, and may be larger than this. People were cooped up in their houses and could not escape from the fire or flood. If there :s no further rise in the river tonight it is possible for a i.i-ge number of the beleaguered people to be rescued. Boats have been telegraphed for and a train load will arriv, . i a : w hours from Ottawa and others from Emporia. It will be impossible, before daylight to make a really reliable report about the extent of th*? d iinagp. Alrr.-'M sup- rha.- iri.Tn esf 1 ' ’.- have h»'cn m•• L * to r» those remaining. hut t!.* - task has n too great for ‘li p f i ’.it'' S at hand. Fire Chief Wilrnarth says th it the fire on the east si tic of Kansas avenue, In North ibp ka, sk:ng 'ac re- maining b -Hidings. The fin* is going to ward : !-■* wind a i : ’• - v -• v* to check its progress, but th-r t - is so much burning wreckage t’-’a'iiig about that the destruction of the remap mg h ures is re garded as < .-rtain Peopb on the roofs of houses ire yet heard cub'ng frantically for help. It is said that two boats loaded with people weio sw.imp'd and that a dozen or more pcr>-'us wire drowned. HOUSES FULL OF WATER FLOAT ABOUT ON FIRE Topeka. May 30. -The tire, which began in North Topeka, already sur rounded ;.v water, this afternoon, l« still raging at l-i o'clock tonight and the entir- ity will go. Four hundred houses have been bin ne:l and as near as can be learned about one hundred and fifty persons are dead. Most thes were burned to death. P-.i.’tig h-tnscs ?<re floating ab-Mi, set rhe burning bn;!-Jngs contain feet of v -ts! The current Is so strong that no , • rin aprr-a • h any of the burning bn Mings r. >pi * are gathered on the ; . ..f in-, j.-ps and will meet death either . ‘ir ■ or bjrnlrg. ') :e crFs tor help can b- ouinotly bard a mile away The v. Mty is v.itl'.y exulted be’.i u : e of tbu f i<t that no aid (‘an cx-iouded • - prk is 5 miles wide. No possible esti ,, >t- of th’’ financial h>s is obtainable ■ tated that it will reach into ALL GREAT FACTORIES HAVE BEEN DESTROYED N -re ■; .1 was th., manutacturlng mills t!irc< w -len mills and otic r man itt.jn.g e; terpri.-m are entirely de stroyed v. r supply of the who e mt. ba- been it on. The waler troni rivr extends :.e.<rlv a mile on the F" ith sin ■ ■ Rock is .nd depot nis bad t b" abandoned, and more than five hundred p- on this side of tn- Jif. has resulted .. South T.ipek't. The p.-ross the river for miles and the ap .. to that bridge a.- f! >od« put-,lie builnieg"- Topeka is • rev ablejo tak' ... re of ' t: ■: ' ’’ a •t- • ; per 1 with .■ • repiuii J t out r , : p o-:. i. : y. lt and j: is sale f’ • 'V- n ' ■ 1 ' Nnrta Jng nr'iwr.i! g :.*r-<:.s during the THE SUNNY SOUTH — == DURING " ' ' = • THE SUMMER MONTHS ! Will Be Brimful of New, Snappy Features £> jC' T7* 7TkT Will be made a distinctive feature of the summer K’K-z M IV/11 issues. A new serial, one of the best “action” stories ' obtainable, will run through the warm months, and “The Blazed Trail” is just luring its most graphic chapters. In addition, short stories will be published plemifully throughout the summer. Articles on the picturesque and entertaining phases of Southern and < ; national life, illustrated with high-grade photographs, will be another strong j i attraction, which, combined with a trenchant editorial page, Mrs. Bryan's de- j ( partment, and Mr. McAdam's finely edited literary page, will increase the < ‘ / readability of the paper. \ ? Don’t Miss a Single Issue; Same Price- sOc per Year The Weekly Constitution and The Sunny South, doth, From Mom Until January 1. $!.OO. This Covers Full Period of Watson’s “Life of fefferson,’’ to Be Printed in The Weekly Constitution. ! i PREDICTS CONTINUED • j • RISE TN THE RIVER • t St. Louis, May 31.. Weather c • ? • Forecaster Bowie, of the St. a o • • Louis bureau, has predicted a e O o • continued rise in the Missouri o B f • and Mississippi livers ami has » | • • » sent warnings to various points e i threatened along those streams. 4 • From reports already received, q i it is feared the conditions that 9 i i prevailed during the great flood ® • of 1881 may be repeated. g • • • O-»C*-O *0 o -s-G a.O • •■© o-G day The names nf the <lro\vned cannot ; be given tonight, as it is impossible to , as; ertain the correct numb'-r of vi iims | W ill W’rMht. who manned one of the I boats, told of the death of a mother ami j liild whi' h h- witness*-,]. ami whi« h so * nff< ted him that he could not continue ! his work. His story is is follows: I ‘ I was lust i< turning with a woman and ; two chiiure’i from a house near North and ; Harrison streets. As I was coming ba--k in Van Buren street, a woman with i card climbed out. on to the por* h and attempted to get into th- lioat The small boat I had was tilled to its capo ity, ami >t would have been impossible f<>r me t«' haxe done anyti iag if I had trit I The woman wait swept away in the current before* my eyes." | The insane asylum !r very near Ihe rtvor . on the south side, and on at'count of the rapidly rising water it Is not iuiprobaid«? i the whole institution may ’nave to be abandoned before morning. Th< asylurh is < ■•iuposed of ten buildings, and is the big gest public institution in the stat*.', with about inmates. NORTH TOFEKA A SCENE OF THE UTMOST DESTRUCTION l ivery part of N «rth 'Top* ka is I 3 s-i'cnr ot utmost desolation. Not a square foot of land can be seen la ■•• u . this art<' .j >on There is but a small <'han\p oi any of the residence.- * ; bring l r n. stamllng at li.*- end of-the fr- d t j period. She; ry, (.‘nkland and tli«* region about, the’reform schotd north of North ’ • Tor- ka ;ire all under th<- r.; dung wa --r . ; but the situation is iavorubie in these k ! jdacus. t-omyarud With what w--. ? N'U t-h . T ‘p-k.l is undergoing, 'idle plan of try - 1 i:.- t cross th-, river mar what remains , • o- Kansas avenue bridge nag been a *• -i - . I d. I Nearly all th" fires have been put out : by 'll'' r.iin which tins lallcn nearly all , j ni'-tut. IHe sKy 1- overcast and the rain i bids rair to continue ail day. it was j soon I* ■•"giiiza n tii.it row boats would b* i oi nn use in battling with the cum-nis. ' THE AWFUL WORK OF NORTH TOPEKA FLOOD : Briefly stated, the present condition of ; tii.- T"od is this: One hundred and seventy to two' hundred people drowned. ' i Eigth thousand people without I homes. Four million dollars’ worth of . property destroyed. Identified dead five. Floating bodies seen, twenty. People missing, two hundred. Houses burnt, result of fire from slacking lime, probably t wo hundred. Banks Collapsed, two. Wholesale grocery stores flooded, two. Big Business blocks almost ready to crumble, fifty. Wholesale commission houses de- i serted, six. Rock Island train containing' one hundred and fifty passengers held here by high water. City water works plant useless. The known drowned: KARL RUPP. CRIVILLELE RUPP TWO RUPP GIRLS. [ G. H. GARRETT'S 5-YEAR-OLD SON. TWENTY BODIES UNIDENTI FIED. TWENTY-SEVEN WENT DOWN WITH THE RAILROAD BRIDGE Kansas City, June I.—A message to The Times from Kansas City, Kans., byway of Leavenworth, at 2 o’clock this morning' says: “Twenty-seven men were on the Union Pacific btidge, which spanneu ; the Kansas river, when it went down, and all of the men were drowned. ••It is said that many persons saw the helpless men drown.” THE CITY IS WITHOUT ANY ’WATER SUPPLY i t'liy M" . May 31.—With , tiie K w ii -I Missouri rivers nearly fain f'-'-i above the dis usti ■ .s lev-1 of PsM. and their sir l!- n till.' sw-.id oi-' 12 square miles of the eily and its ‘ iburli«. Kan-as i'it,-. tonight lis in the worst flood of its history. In Tie v.-illio nf th. Kav,. or Kansas river, Ir-tw i-n tbiseii.r and Kansas City. Kans , ' a report lias It feat a number of lives ■ |. is be"i lo'-'t. One report says fourteen, ’ id another Inly. Twelve bodies were -ninl i as the, floated prist during the Tb>- fin.' n al 'ass has been increasing ail d-i and I'id : fair to continue. The he.i vi' t loss is at X rniourdale, where th. !o sos to the packing industry nnd j at $2,500, I Argentine, another suburb, iias suf fer.-q .si s estimated at $500,000. Cither la ■ ivlii-11 cannot now be estimated will ins: o-a- tiie total very materially. i A i ni"’.irdale r witli a population of 16.000 | "pi, is deserted, and its site marked ■■ni ? ' ii.v tin tops ~f buildings and a num | lier of fires, 1 i- layees from Armourdalo for the i most p.u t are huddled together in the im mense aii'i:i"rium of the convention hall, a '.li" -rh sec hundred found refuge wii i fra i.ds in more fortunate parts of tin- ' ll T.i-i liiirds of Argentine fs un ibr v. :i-i-. More than 4.500 people in |: i iburb f • :,u oty In the higher part ;'if the town. All brid-.'- s over t",' K.iiv river arc ■ down, and tiie onli < "iiimunlcation with Armourdale is by boat. 1 <.i tj ■-"i • i ity tonight Is without a water ; supply, the flood having disabled the . mpimr .-tai ion, and the utmost care is mg talo-n that no fires shall break out. E'-’ on.ill fire, it I- fear' d, would start .-'iiiflagration. Only one street car line j in tin i-ity is running tonight, owing to tii. -.il'ling of the power plants by the 11.1011. Th- ranr.'.'id \ards are blockeded with ti. ins unable t ■ get out. Not a train has goti" out "f tin ity ex, ept to the east tod.n and It Is said that, there is little yr spo. i of an improvement In the situa tion fur several days The stage ot’ the river nt 6 o’clock to night wi's o fe, t I in 'hcs. The previous high record was made in IRSI, when the riier ros<- to 26 feet 3 inches. By tomor row morning .i«- nrding to the prediction • Si'.p -rinti ndent O'Connor, of the wrath ; el lune.. U. th-, love! will b" 31 feet T!.- union passenger station, by the rise of the lioo'l todriv, was rendered prac ti- ai -. . ss At one end the water was throe feet deep and at the other four feet. In the baggage room baggage was fas ti neil to tackle and suspended in tiie air oin of the r> icli of the iv.'iter. Numerous t rescues, some of them made by the nar- ■ lowest of margins, occurred during the WORST FLOOD IN KANSAS CITY’S HISTORY i K - is City, M.■ Mac 31. The greatest j ‘lo.hl in th-- t:i't >ry of Kansas City, I K. i- . .nd tin bottoms of Kansas City, I M - , piv-vails h-r ■ today and millions of : dollars’ loss wilt result. A gr.-at body of water coming from the i west swelled the Kansas river at Kan . as City, Kans., and rn-hr-d with terrific ' force over the outlying railroad tracks i and the crowned wholi's.'ile districts of i the west b'itloms. and finally into the I union depot i Shortly aft"r noon the Third regiment, ATLANTA, GA„ MONDAY, JUNE 1. 1903. Missouri national guard, 800 strong, was ordered out, both as a preca tionary measure and to stop looting. FIFTEEN DROWNED IN KANSAS CITY BOTTOMS Fifteen persons have been drowned in the west bottoms during the day. Be cause of the difficulty of recovering the bodies Identification of m- st of tiie dead is impossible. The dead as rep-.i ted are as follows: i JAMES DEB.MAN, drowned on Osage avenue. UNKNOWN -MAN WITH TWO CHIL- 1 Dlti-IN drowm-d at Mill and i. . ag. UNK.NUW.X WU.uAN, ue.d In a mass of drift. WILLIAM HERBKKT and TWO OTHER PERSONS, d ow’i-d at Second and Osage. THREE MEN and TW<i 'AOMEN. i drowned by tiie capsizing of a I at mar ■ the Union Pacltle bring A man on a belt iin ■ engine which ! was surrounded by wat- r w.i ■■ en t " ! disappear. I The flood d district c- .'i .irea 3 i miles long by 4 miles wide. ’> flood forms a semi-cir.-k. re n ting . ,t!i and I west, and from tin- u.ii 'U depot, which |is located under high alls tic- mark i tiie dividing line b-.two u K.i. si, City, Mo., proper, an" what l-.nov . i- the west bottoms i'll" prill "pa il'iui . d'-m --up to last night was at Xrm i Argentine, in the p.o--.;: g' h"i - . •tri. t. on the Kansas ri.c . on the eMremc Southwest iiord' f of tri'- C IT.-- lil 1 Early tills mornn-g the r e m . Kan sas river met tiie w sour! on the nortliW' st and nu , timid ly at tiie highest point at lb union depot. ALL RAILROADS ABANDON THE LINES IN THE CITY J Des Moines, lowa, May Si Eight au thenticated fatalities have oi-yurr- d in and about this city from the flood, ei.d tiie property loss will mount into t-. million.- At 6 o'clock tonight D s Moines river had declined 14 Inches from its maximum height of 24 feet early this m■•.’ tilr.g. Nut withstanding the steady rain that has fallen tor three days it is b- i v"I dan ger of further rise is past, as reports from points above L>< Moln-s r:: the river has been falling for twenty-four hours. The extent of suffering among the several thousand Hood refuge, s lias been reduced tc a minimum by tiie better or ganization of relief work and now they are nearly all free from extreme arufter- I Ing. ' The few remaining .oca will hold, i The river continues o !>■■ fr on half a I mile to two miles >vi< ! - . how- i'.-r. effoct | ually cutting pff comm giieat’-ci between the main part of Dis Mob. from the east, north and south. T! ter 1? filled ■i with debris ami boating -.cis. it will i be several days before the ■ - I uavs will resume schedules or the street railway can operate. Tiie police report thieves in boats are plundering stocks of merchan dise in the business district to an alarm ing extent and several . rests have been mad'''. One officer had a li.it tie with a rob ber who escaped. Neith-r was wounded. ! Not a. wheel Is turning in the frutory j district and no effort is made to open ■ business houses. The (ir- c Western W.-i - bash and Burlington reads have com | pletely abandoned their lines in this city j and the Northwestern, 1: -ck Island and | St. Pau! roads are very badly crippl' d. ! The water and electric igiit and power i plants are still running, but it is only by : the employment of several hundred im n i to man pumps and work on tiie levees. ' For over two days it lias rained epnstant- IJy and the mercury has stood close to j the freezing point. I Scores of men. women and children have ] spent hours at a time in su.'.king wet gar ments, sitting on the roofs •( their homes awaiting the arrival of ri mers. The last of these was removed at D o'i-.oek. Mme ' fatalities will result from xr-m-iire Ilian i from drowning j This afternoon the relief authorities i announced that they were i-onfronted with a food and fuel famine. M. at markets ail i over tie- city declare they have oniy two : op three day s' stock on hand Tln-r< is no train entering the city and no pros ! poet, of getting a shipment of freight into Des Moines in less than three or four I day s. There is only a nv a ''-r coal supply and tiie light aid power plant and the i waterworks have an insufficient supply. ‘ Notic was sent to i-v<-ry r- sid'-nt. in the I city to draw an extra supply of water to : provide against the closing of the plant. ARKANSAS RIVER OUT OF BANK Muskogee. Ind. T.. May M The flood j condition is growing serious. Tiie Arkan- I sas river tonight ig out if Its banks and lowlands arc flooded. The river is now . even with tin trucks of the Missouri, i Kansas am! Texas bridge It has been I raining all day and theje is no Imme | diate prospect of relief. | CYCLONE IN LOUISIANA. I Welsh, La.. May 31 -At 6 o'clock Inst, j' night a cy clone started about 3 miles south of here and swept everything be fore it for a distance of 2 miles. The two-story house of E. Carroll, a wealthy farmer, with all the outbuild ings and barns, was completely wrecked Ed. Burgess, a hired man, who came from Crystal River. Fla . was killed, and Carroll and his wife seriously Injured. Their daughter was slightly injured It is reported that two whiti men and a negro were killed by lightning west of this piace. STORM HITS ATLANTA HARD. One death, three Area, the disruption of the street car system nnd the crippling of the telephone, electric light, telegraph i and police signal systems were the more : serious results of the storm which visit ed Atlanta yesterday afternoon. Miss Lula Higgins, who boarded, at 721 Marietta street, while eating a collation on the back veranda at that number, was struck by llght : ning and almost instantly killed. The Georgia Avenue Presbyterian | church, which was located at the cor ner cf Georgia avenue and Grant : street, was struck in two places by ! lightning and was burned to the I ground. The residence of E. D Nealy, 376 Georgia avenue, which adjoined the : church, was badly damaged by fire. The residence of Mrs. Nera Strauss ; 391 Grant street, which also adjoined i the church, was also badly damaged | by fire. I Thirty-right trolley cars of the Geor ! gia Railway and Electric Company had | their fuses burned out and became in , operative. Four others w re derailed by j sand and mud being washed upon the ! track. The entire system was disrupted i for about two houm. i \|| , ! i B ■t i i ‘ IL'-'' z • j ;%/< j • - x -’'y i ; /7’ Vfe i i ’FT-; : i r ’ * // // —•• * • w/ "" I THE S’T"OF«2< FJLATFORM. i WHITE OFFERS ADVICE! TO HIS RACE. | j Says Negroes Should Buy Stock in i Railroads and Get Control. Should Own Their Thea ters and Hotels and Employ Own Race. Washington May 27.—-(Special.)—“l will , ’ probably vote for President Roosevelt, ■ i but 1 am not enthusiastic.’' This declaration was made at a colored i people’s meeting here last night by George H White, a negro, who was for merly a. member of congress from North Carolina, lie was the orator ata meeting : of the Historical Association In the Metro- i poillan African Methodist church. Ills subject was the ''Trend of the Times,'' and bis remarks were devoted to the race problem from tiie viewpoint of an ex i congressman with a grievance due to ! not obtaining recognition by the present administration after he lost his congres i sional job. lie drew a doleful picture tf* the future for the negroes. He did nut think the j trend hopeful from the negro's point of I view. White spoke of the comparatively ■ insignitii ant problems confronting the ■ negro prior to tiie act. of emancipation. ! j Io"’ referred to the activity of tiie colored i -.nan since then, especially along commer l cial lines, and his loiaity tn the American ■ flag, and gave considerable data relative i to what he has accomplished In business ! fields. Tells Them to Try Commerce. ' "Whatever solution there may be to the ; colored man’s problem.” said White, i ‘'none will come through moral lines of i right, but instead as a matter of neces- I sity. That necessity will weigh as heav i |lj upon the white man ag upon the negro. My advice to negroes, as I am • able to see their necessities. Is for them i to advance all they can commercially. ! Open stores of your own. Become pro ; prietorg of your own theaters, your own I hotels Rpn them for yourselveg, as you : now run your churches. Own your own railroads. Buy stock in railroad lines, obtain controlling interests, and make the policy of those roads to suit yourselves, In accordance with your own views. Be come self-reliant. "There is no hope for the negro In par ty politics. We must create Industries for ourselves, become employers ot our own people. I myself, in New Jersey, am employing twenty colored men. arti sans. and work such as this, now being I started on a small scale throughout the - country, wjll grow to great proportions." White criticised the recent speech of I Senator Simmons. In regard to the educa ' tlon of the negro, and added: ■ rhe trend of the tiiQes is against the ; negro, and the time has come when he must' curve out hjp own destiny. He must wait no longer for his 40 acres and a. mule, but must get control of business interests, however small. He must be- I come a landholder. There is no color in a greenback. No question of race Is there in land, a forest or a farm. The man who. in these days, gets gold and property [s tiie man who succeeds, irre spective of his color.” No Hope front Republicans. "The negro has nothing to hope for i from the republican party. Since the Dred Scott decision there has not been hande 1 down from the supreme court of the United States a decision that I can call to mind in favor of the negro. "The cutting down of negro representa tion in the south has not been proposed by democrats, but our so-called repub lican friends I am not a democrat and there is no place in the democratic party for a seif-respecting negro The negro today is without a party. He has but few friends -n the. 'e-aibl-.-an " irty the party which he helped to put in powei. “To tiie letter of President Roosevelt with refernce to keeping ajar t.ia? doors of opportunity for deserving colored men. 1 take off my nut. That subsequent bit tor of the president to Mr Clark Howell, at Atlanta, and his act in turning down Samuel Vick as postmaster at Wilson, N. made me weak. "I will probably vote for President Roosevelt. He will he nom'nat.ed arid I will have to vote for him. But 1 am not enthusiastic." DUPONT GUERRY CHOSEN. SUCCEEDS DR’. ROBERTS AS WES LEYAN’S HEAD. His Election Is Received with Ap proval by the Friends of the Great Institution. Macon, Ga . .May 29.—(Special.)- Hon. Dupont Gnerry. of Macon, succeeds Dr. Roberts as president of Wesleyan Female college, and will assume active manage ment of tb.it institution at the end of the present week. The vote which made Colom' Gnerry president was taken at 3 o'clock, and at 5 o’clock Colonel Gnerry sent the board a letter accepting the position. Twenty-three votfs were east, and of that number twenty two were for the col onel. Election Gives Satisfaction. The election of Colonel Gnerry has mot with the full, free and emphatic indorse ment >f tiie pi iplo hi re. Ail Macon is sa.tis!i• -d that the board has done wlsc’v and has done well. Uj's adaptability to the work before him is universally conceded, while his capabilities t. > faithfully and successfully discharge the duties are In dorsed by all. The salary of the president at Wesleyan h.as been $2,000 a year and a living at the college During the session of the board today the salary was increased, but the figures now in effect are not given out. the members of the board asserting that that 1s a matter with which the people have nothing to do. Faculty Members Elected. The election of the faculty and officers for the ensuing year resulted as follows: James C. Hinton. A.M. dean of the faculty, Lovic Pierce chair of mathemat ics and astronomy. Rev. AV. B. Bonnell, A M . secretary of the faculty, chair of natural science. Rev. Charles R. Poster, A M., chair of ancient languages. Daniel Koets, A.M., chair of modern Languages. Mrs. J. B. Cobb, A.M., chair of English literature. Miss Emily M. Allen, A.8., rhetoric. Mrs. M. M. Burke, A.8., history. Miss Eloise Pickett, A 8., principal of academy. Miss Anna Pittman Prosser, drawing and painting. Edouard Hesselberg, A M., M.A, M. 8., director of music. Miss F. Eva Massey, A.8.. M 8., piano. Miss May Hollister, piano, guitar and mandolin. Miss Ira Van Metre, piano. Miss Marie L. Skidmore Conner, violin, harmony, theory, history of music. Miss Sal-lie Turner, voice culture. Miss Florence E. Ramsey, voice cul ture. Miss Charlotte M Brown, elocution and physical culture. Miss Carrie 1., Miller, bookkeeping Miss Annie E. Lyle, stenography and typewriting. Miss Josephine M .Skaggs, matron. Mrs. M M Burke, librarian. Miss Annie E. Lyle, secretary to the president. Miss Carrie L. Miller, bookkeeper. James A. Camp, steward. Bubonic Plague Appears. Santiago do Chili, May 26. It is rumor ed that the bubonic plague has appeared at the seaport of Iqulque. PRICE: FIVE CENTS. OF W COTTON CROP. I General Agreement by Correspond j ents That the Seasen Is from Two to Three Weeks Late. Increase in Acreage in Georgia Small. New York. Mhy 28.—(Special.)—The ■ Journal of Commerce will tomorrow issue i the results of a careful Investigation of i the acreage planted in cotton the condi -1 tlon of the plant and the progress of i farm work. These results in brief are: First, An increase, to be exact, of eight i tenths of 1 per cent in the area under cul i tivation; second, a decrease of 16 * pqints l in condition, and, third, agreement that the season is two to three weeks late. In other words, an increase of 224.-122 acres is indicated while the crop's av- r age condition is 75. compare! with 919 reported last year by virtually tiie same correspondents. The returns .ire from 1.3 W eorrr-sp ■-! ents whose reports bear av rage date • f M.iv 24. North Carolina reports an in creased area of 6 per cent or i'5..443 acres. South Carolina 4 per cent, or 5i 1 .671 acres Georgia three-tenths of 1 per cent or H. 572 acres; Florida 1 per cent or jpl acres; Alabama a dr crease of 3 per cent or 109.769 air -s; Mississippi a deerea of ' 1 per cent, or 22,701 acres. I.ouisiana and Texas, no change from last year; Arkansas, Increase of 6 pre cent, or 120,418 acres; Tennessee, increase of 2 per cent, nr 12.'50 acres; the Indian Territory an increase of 5 per cent or 33,685 acres. In condition. North Carolina reports a decrease of 10 per cent; South Carolina of 17 per cent. Georgia of 22 per cent Florida of 10 per cent: Alabama of 15 per cent; Mississippi of 9 per cent: I,"ins lana 12 per cent; Texas 21 per cent. Arkan sas 15 per cent. Tennessee 10 per cent, .f.nd Indian Territory 10 per cent. MISSISSIPPI FEARS CUT WORM Crop Outlook in Delta Section. Now Very Gloomy. Jackson, Miss., May 28.—(Special.)—Re ports reach here from the delta that cut worms have destroyed thousands act-:’ of cotton In that section during the past week. The ravages of the worms have been especially bad In Issaquena county. Ihe warden of the. penitentiary received no tice from the sergeant of the Watson convict farm last night that 400 acres o: state cotton had been destroyed by the worms and replanting of the entire f i--' will ba necessary. The sergeant stal J in his letter that the other farmers in the vicinity are in the same plight. The outlook in this section is - ■“ gloomy. A portion of the count.v w., overflowed during the break in the level below Greenville, and farming opera tions were thus made from four to s < Weeks later than last year. Fully two weeks will be lost by the replanting, and unless there is a bate fall this year the crop will undoubtedly be cut shoe, The delta planters have a record, how ever, for never making a tot il tilute of the cotton crop, and as the acreage has been somewhat increased tins season, conditions are now favorable for a noi • nial crop unless there should be a spread I of the cut worms to other counties. LOWELL MILLS MAY RESUME. Lowell, Mass., May 26.—1 t was officially announced here today that an attempt ■would be made to resume operations at the cotton mills here on June 1 The mills were shut down on Saturday, March 28.