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VOL. X.
NO CHANGES IN CABINET.
W ■ -
President’s Official Family All Asked to
Remain,
GIVES CABINET GREAT CREDIT
For the Achievements of His Admln
lstratlon--Cordlal Relations Be
tween the President and His Advis
ors.
) Washington, D. C., Special.—Presi
dent McKinley has announced clear
ly and forcefully to the members of
bis cabinet his desire that they should
all remain with him during the four
years of his coming administration.
His wishes were made known in an
extended speech at the cabinet meet
ing in the White House Tuesday.
Responses were made by all the mem
ber* present, and while there was no
definite pledge from any of them that
they would accept the portfolios thus
tendered afresh, there was, on the
other hand, no definite declination.
The day’s proceedings set forth the
wishes of the President in the matter
and relieves the members of the cabi
net of the customary obligation of ten
dering their resignations at the end of
the terms, unless they have made an
irrevokable decision that it will be im
proper for them to continue in office.
It also sets at rest all speculation and
slate-making of the country’s political
prophets, for it is understood gener
ally that there is hut one doubtful fac
tor in the homogeneity of the present
cabinet. That factor is Attorney Gen
eral Griggs, as he holds his present
position at a great financial sacrifice.
Still Mr. Griggs replied in terms of
warm appreciation to the complimen
tary remarks of the President and
voiced no intention of retiring from
his present position.
This is not the first time that the
President has expressed to the mem
bers of the cabinet his pleasure at the
support they had given him. He said
as much in a general way at the last
cabinet meeting, when the members,
several of whom had been scattered by
the political campaign, got together for
the first time and congratulated him
upon the outcome of the election. Tues
day the President evidently had pre
pared for the occasion and in his ad
dress reviewed the work of the admin
istration in the past four years—four
of the most exciting years the country
has known in three decades. It was
rather a surprise even to the cabinet
members themselves to note how ac
curately the President had fixed in his
memory the sequence of events and
how calmly he relinquished the per
sonal credit for suece-sful strokes of
policy or prudence and attributed the
honor to the member of his official
family In whose Immediate depart
ment the matter in question had arisen.
He said that if the result of the re
cent election was an endorsement of
his administration, it was no less an
endorsement of the men who had stood
by him in the time of strees and ne
cessity. The credit for success, he
said, lay with the heads of his various
departments and he should shrink from
entering upon another four years of
office without, the men who formed his
present official household. He said he
knew that in asking them to remain
with him there was scarcely one who
could do so without some sacrifice
either in money, leisure or personal
inclination. At the same time he said
he should feel happier if all of them
could gratify his wish.
Secretary Hay was the first to re
spond. He said that for his part he
deeply appreciated the complimentary
references made by his chief and that,
he thought there was not a member of
the cabinet who yould sever such
pleasant official relations without re
gret. and even then only in case of the
most urgent reasons for retirement
Secretaries Gage, Long. Hitchcock
Wilson, Attorney General Griggs and
Postmaser General Smith each spoxe
in turn and in much the same vein.
Engineers flay Win Sirike.
Terre Haute, ind., Special.—The
strike of the hoisting engineers in the
Indiana coal fields, which was declar
ed Monday, may be settled by the end
cf the week. Ten of the Indiana oper
ators signed the Illinais scale and will
pay the wages demanded by the engin
eers for one year. The signing cu t :e
realc means an eight-hour day and a
20 pen cent, increase in wages for the
ttrikers.
25 Imigrants Barred.
Philadelphia. Special.-Twenty-flve
immigrants, who came here as saloon
passengers on the Americah tin steam
er Sweasland. were denied admission
to this country by a hoard of inquiry
’ of the United States immigration com
missioners, on the ground that they had
violated the contract labor law. It was
proved that a ‘first class passage ha l
been paid for them by John Alexander
Dowie, the "Divine Healer of Chica
go >• w ho is about to found a city call
ed Zion, near Waukegan. 111., where he
intends to eetablish a lace-producing
plant.
PARIS SHOW ENDS
The Great Exposition Closes With
Brilliant Scenes.
Paris, By Gable. —The exposition
closed Monday with (the evening illu
mination. Bbve tickets were charged
for one admission. There were few
visitors in the daytime, tickets lacking
purchasers ait a sou each. The boom
ing of a cannon from the first story of
the Eiffel tower announced that the
exposition of 1900 had ceased to exist.
It ended in a blaze of illumination, the
final evening being celebrated by a
night fete. The attendance, however,
was small, visitors being kept away
by a cold, drizzling rainfall. Official
statistics show that the exposition was
a gigantic success from the 'point of
view of attendance, which was double
that of the exposition of 1889, when
25,121,975 passed the gates. When the
gates of the exposition of 1900 closed
this evening, more than 50,000,000 per
sons had passed through. The British
and Belgians headed the list in 1889, in
point of number, but this year the
Germans were first and the Belgians
second with the British far behind.
Americans also formed a very notice
able contingent. Indeed they were im
measurably more numerous than at the
previous exposition. The record pay
ing day this year brought out more
than 600,000 visitors, as compared with
a maximum of 335,377 in 1889. This
evening tickets which had brought a
sou in the afternoon, were so.- at the
rate of five for a sou.
A curious scene was witnessed at the
exposition gates shortly before 6
o’clock, when the authorized ticket
booths which earlier in the day had
been selling tickets for two sous, re
duced the price to one. The street
hawkers, indignant at this, attached
cards to their coats inscribed: “Give
you a ticket for nothing.”
The work of removing the exhibits
can begin after midnight. No vestige
will be left of the great exposition but
the art palaces. The prefect cf .the
Seine submitted to the municipal coun
cil a scheme to demolish a.ll the build
ings on the Champs de Mars and T ro ~
eadero. The centre of tne grounds will
be maintained in the form of gardens
for the embelishment of the city,
while the wide border will he sold for
building Jots for the erection of man
sions and hotels. The State is asked to
abandon its right to use the site for
future expositions.
The closing days of the exposition
have been marked by wholesale bailiff
seizures of the properties of a num
ber of concession holders, chiefly res
taurant-keepers and proprietors of
side shows, who have failed to meet
their financial obligations.
Fatal Fire.
.Popular Bluff, Mo., Special.—Fire,
accompanied by a terrible fatality oc
curred Monday morning, resulting in
the total destruction of the Gifford
house, a large three-story frame build
ing. The known dead are as follows:
Heck Clark, Rebecca Owens. Helby
Dehart, Curly Borry. Fatally injured:
Etta Hargrove, Winslow Stowe. Miss
ing: Eugene Dalton. Injured: T. A.
Smith, mrney Pernaud, Charles
Stradley, Mrs. Benjamin Shelby. Pink
Berry, Elmer Freshear and James Up
church. An unknown woman is also
thought to be fatally injured, and
about a dozen more are slightly burn
ed or received bruises in escaping
from the building. The fire originated
at 12:30 in the morning in the rear o£
the hotel and in a few minutes the
building was a mass cf flames. There
wore in the neighborhood of forty
five guests in the building.
Death of Harcus Da y.
New York, Special.—Marcus Daly,
cif Montana, one of the wealthiest
mine owners of the world and the man
who put up such a bitter fight against
W. A. Clark when the latter ran for
the United States Senate, died at the
Hotel Netherlands. Bright's disease
complicated with heart weakness was
the cause of death. His wife and chil
dren were at his bedside, and the ehd
came peacefully.
Alaskan Report.
"Phe report of Gen. Randa.ll, of the
department of Alaska, conveys con
flrmation of the reports which have
come from that region, from time to
| time , concerning the decimation of the
i Indian and Eskimo inhabitants. Gen.
: Randall makes it clear the advent of
j t he white man from the States is re
sponsible for the difficulties of the
aborigines and appeals for prompt
succor. The gold hunter has taken
f-om the Indian his means of subsis
tence and communicated to the ISski-
L, O h ie dhecscs without giving to the
one new resources, or to the other the
I knowledge and remedies necessary to
I combat the imported allroauta.
TRENTON, GA.. NOVEMBER 16,1900.
THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY
The South.
After spending nearly two months in
Belief work among the sufferers at Gal
veston and other places on the Texas
coast, Miss Clara Barton feels there is
no longer a necessity for her to remain
in the field. Th% work of relief will he
continued; however, during the entire
winter, but the local Red Cross in Gal
veston, organized at Miss Barton’s sug
gestion, and the local committees at
the variousjpoints on the mainland
will be amply able to distribute the
supplies noyon hand and the large
quantity that will continue to be sent
without thetgid of Miss Barton’s staff.
It is her purpose to leave Texas within
a few days.
Iln the basement of the chapel of
Washington and Lee University, at
LexingtonAVa., the office of the late
Robert EM re tormorly president of
that instW preserved exactly
83 he
a paper has b sturbed. Once
or twice a yeuA t com is carefully
dusted, but at a 1 lies the windows
lire kept close and the shutters
drawn. Letters iat he received the
laot morning tb‘ was able to work
lie on his writii 'hie under a paper
weight. The me g papers of the
different membe >f the faculty lie
untouched. They . re never exam-j
ined.
Rev. C. A. Langston, formerly of
Boston, Muse., was istalled aa pastor
of the Church cf ,Our Father, anew
Unitarian structure, in Atlanta Mondoy
night. Among the officiating ministers
were Rev. Marion F. Ham, of Chat
tanooga, Tenn.; Rev. Fred V. Hawley,
of Louisville, Ky.; Rev. George A.
Thayer, of Cincinnati, 0.; Rev. Sam
uel A. Elliot, of Boston; Hon. Fred
erick G. Bomberg, oi Mobile, Ala., and
C. Breckinridge Wilmer, of Atlanta,
Ga.
It is announced that the North At
lantic squadron will winter in Gulf
waters and that Pensacola, Fla., has
been designated aa their coaling sta
tion. Large quantities of coal is now
being received at the Fensacola navy
yard. The fleet is expected there early
next month, and will manoeuvre iD
Pensacola harbor.
The North.
Mrs. Lizzie Doty, of Mexico, Mo., has
Just won a curious law suit brought
against her by a firm which manufac
tures bronze monuments. Some time
ago she ordered from tbe plaintiffs a
$384 bronze monument, to be erectei:
on the grave of her parents, with this
inscription: “Tbe Lord is my Sheph
erd: I shall not want.” The engraver
made it read “fear” instead of “want,”
and Mrs. Doty refused to pay the bill
The,lawsuit followed. The judge in
structed the jury that if they consia
ered the inscription to be a material
variance from the words of the Psalm
ist they should find for the defendant
and they did so.
Divorces have grown to such an alar
ming extent in Indianapolis, Ind., that
the judges have agreed to suppress
the record of divorces granted. Thev
place this action upon moral grounds.
Judge Carter, of the supreme court,
said, in explaining their action, that it
is believed women are impressed with
the ease of securing divorces when they
read the long lists of cases. The judgts
believe eight hundred divorces are en
tirely too many for the county in one
year and will do all they can to sup
press the evil.
At the recent meeting of the West
Pennsylvania Lutheran Synod the pres
dent stated that the Rev. Dr. Daniel
Hauer, of Hanover, had entered the
75th year of active service in the min
istry, being now 95 years old, and per
haps the oldest living minister in the
world in point of service. He was pas
tor of some Lutheran churches in Vir
ginia in the arly years of hl3 ministry.
President McKinley has sent a life
saving medai to the sailor. Olsson .at
Copenhagen, Denmark, who saved 20
members of the crew of an American
schooner.
A St Paul, Minn., dispatch says:
“The condition of Senator C. K. Davis
took a decided turn for the worse to
day, inflammation of the kidneys hav
ing developed.”
Governor Jomes A. Mount, of In
diana, has been suggested as Secretary
of Agriculture. The Governor is not
seeking the place.
Foreign.
Gen. Baden-Powell, according to the
London Mail, has contracted enteric
fever, but his condition is not serious.
The Russian minister of agriculture,
M. Yerloff, after visiting the coal de
posits recently discovered on the Black
Sea coast in the government of KutaK
estimates that they will yield 1.640,000
tons annually for 60 years. He consid
ers the quality excellent.
Sunday laws are strictly enforced is
Honolulu. Not only are all saloons
and bars kept tightly closed and stores
forbidden to sell, but any one who at
tempts to pls-y ball or indulge in any
other sport on Sunday is carried before
a magistrate to pay a fine or go to
Jail.
A Berlin dispatch says that Mgr.
Stabewski, archbishop of Posen, in
Prussian Poland, issued a manifesto
against the German Centrist candidate
and in favor of a Polish candidate. His
course has attracted much attention
and the government will probably take
notice of it.
A London dispateh says that Earl
Cadogan has consented to continue to
retain the office of Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland.
DEMOCRATIC,
IT’S A SICKLY SMILE
Arp Says He Tries To Be Good to
Republicans;
MEETS THEM WITH A SMILE
But Bill Says That It Is a Very Weak
Article--Didn’t Know There Were
So Many McKinley Men.
The scriptures tell us to rejoice with
these who rejoice and weep with those
who weep. I am trying to do it, but
it is an awful strain. When I meet a
McKinley man I try to smile, but it is
only a sickly grin and is only skin
deep. They are 'pretty thick around
here now since the election and so be
tween mouitning with the Bryan r. en
and rejoicing with the republicans my
countenance has lost its normal and
natural condition and it Is hard to tell
whether lam crying or smiling. We
did not know that there were more
than a dozen respectable McKinley
i-tes in the comini unity, but it turns out
that there were scores of them. Neuiiy
all of the plutocrats voted that way on
the sound money platform. They lend
money and want it paid back in gold.
A good many farmers who have some
cotton on hand were led to believe
that it would go up again to 10 or 12
cents if McKinley was elected, but it
dropped 15 points the day after the
election. But it is all over now and
the wheels keep rolling on. Let them
roll. The millionaires and plutocrats
can’t eat their money or wear it out.
It is obliged to go back bo the toilers,
the people,, in some way. The Stand
ard Oil Company dei.lrred a dividend
yesterday of 40 per cent, but Rocke
feller don’t hoard it. He give-5 away a
b’g slice to education and utilizes the
■rest. What a blessed thing it is, that
a man can’t take his money with him
when he dies. If he could I reckon we
poor folks would perish out in a gen
eration. After all it is not money that
brings happiness. A good living, a
competency honestly earned, brings
far more happiness than riches. This
kind of talk is 4,000 years old, butthe
people don’t believe it yet; everybody
wants money, a big pile of money; 1
would like it myself; I want some for
a rainy day and some to give away,
but we are not in distress, and never
have been, though for some years of
the war and just after we were on the
ragged edge. Talk about ’prosperity,
J saw it last week over in South Caro-’
Tina. There is a nice little town over
there called Prosperity, but I didn’t
see it. II went to the old town of
Darlington. I was there eighteen
years ago. It was a good old town
then, but it has renewed its youth and
taken on new life and I hardly knew
the place. Cotton mills and oil mills
pnd good farming have done it. The
botton crop of that ooun.ty is 30,000
bales and the tobacco crop was 6,000,-
000 pounds and it brought half as
much money as the cotton crop. Fif
teen years a.go there was not a pound
for sale raised in the county. They
didn’t know it would grow there. Now
there are three large warehouses,
where it is auctioned off every day. I
attended the auctions and it was a re
yelatdcn to me. The farmers’ wagons
were unloading all around and their
’> tobacco was piled up neatly in long
rows and their names and the number
of pounds written on a card and stuck
in the split end of a little white pine
stick and that was stuck in the center
of the pile. For an hour or two be
fore the auction begins the buyers
from Richmond and Wineton and Dur
ham and Liverpool and other markets
went all around and examined the
quality of every pile and took notes.
The auctioneer talked so fast I could
not understand him, but the buyers
did. I reckon there were two or three
hundred piles in each warehouse and
the aucti crowd went
from pile to pile and sold each one
whore it was. I heard some knocked
down as low as 9 cents and some aa
high as 57 cents. There is one curious
rule about tobacco auctions that does
not apply to any other auction. The
farmer can reject the highest hid and
keep his tobacco. Ilf he and his boys
have resolved that their crop shall
bring 20 cents a pound and it bring*
only 19 he turns the card down and
takes his tobacco home, or maybe
hauls it around to another warehouse,
where the same buyers find it {next
day amd mayble bid over 20 fbf.
it. This is one of ihe * of tbe
trade. The different, between the
grades was hardly perceptible to ray ,
eyes, but the buyer/? know. It was all
a bright yellow, hut some was brittle
and wormeate-n and some 4yas soft and
pliant as a kid glove. This was bought
for wrappers. This evolution has come
within ten years, and is increasing
every year, for an acre of good to
bacco will bring SIOO and it costs only
stocu3tivate4t2.s ollay shrdlu srdl
$25 to cultivate it. My friend, Mr,
Williamson, the banker, told me hfc
had thirty-five acres planted this year
and it netted him $77 per acre. There
is another evolution in Darlington
county. Ten years ago no wheat waz
grown there. Now every farmer cows
wheat and a large flour mill has re
cently been built. It was the same
way in middle Georgia. Until about five
years ago all that region was under
the ban, and the farmers did not pre
tend to grow wheat. Now they make
more wheat to the acre, all around
Griffin and Barnesville. than we can
make in north Georgia. And so evolu
tion and revolution is going on, but
they don’t give McKinley credit for it
in South Carolina. It is amusing to
hear them tell about the prosperous
segroes over there. Between cotton
jod tobacco they pocket a pile of mon
ey, and spend nearly every dollar be
fore they leave town. One man sold
them thirty-seven Rock Hill buggies
in one week, and Mr. Williamson told
me of a darky who drew $57 and spent
$35 of It that day for a fine gun and
a pointer dog. He will be begging h*
landlord for an advance before Christ-*
mas. II hada delightful time at Dar
lington and %pnnettsvllle and Bishop
viUe and iasfflbt Rock Hill. Blshop
ville ought named ‘Sweet Ab
buth, the loveHVi village of the
plain.” I found old friend® and ac
quaintances at every place and was
honored far beyond my deserving. My
wife hasent got me back in the traces
yet. Near Blshopville I found an old
time friend, Mrs. Reid, the sister of
my schoolmate®, NeJ Gouiding and
John, and of Frank Gouiding, who
wrote the “Young Ma.rooners.” She
is now eighty-nine years old and came
nimbly dcwn the steps to meet me.
Her husband preached in Jftit.
church, near by, for fortyfour ygf*&s
ana is buried in the Mt. jton' r’Mfis- 5
vard, where that eminent is*rj by
iivlne, Leighton Wilson is bur/* %
teansglistened in tne dear old s
syes 'as w r e talked of her honor th
ar, Dt. Gouiding, and the olu , '
>f Coluinous, who bad passed ove
raver. ■ ■ *
And Rock Hill was another revela
tion. It is a beautiful little city of
s,ooo,people and four large cotton mills
and the largest buggy factory in the
sou . lit turns out 10,000 a year, all
kinds and prices, from a darkey’s chep
vehicle for $3O, to a rubber tiro for
$l5O.
And then the college girl®. Oh, my
country. Four hundred full grown
girls in uniform, and they looked so
happy, and healthy, and loving, that
I found myself humming. “Oh, wx>uld
I were a boy again.” lit made me feel
cad to reflect that all these girls were
born to be mated as well as married,
but some would be neither, and alas,
some would be married- but not mated.
—Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution.
To Make Bone Compost.
One who can scrape together sev
eral barrelfuls of old bones on his
farm can convert them into valuable
fertilizer. In order to do this he must
decompose the bones. This may be
done in several ways. Perhaps the
simplest, most effective and most
economical way is as follows.
Place the bones in a wooden tank or
hogshead, packing them with un
leached wood ashes. Supply enough
water 0 keep both bones and ashes
thoroughly moistened, and in
months the bones will be so softened
that they may be pulverized by mere
ly sho*big them over and sifting
them. 4th _ and ashes both
on- the farm, ihe-warmer may with
this simple method, and with no out
lay of fljgney, produce a considerable
quanth >f the very best fertilizer for
some if *‘S of vegetables.
Where one wishes to hasten the pro
cess, he can use caustic lime instead
of the wood ashes. Tlys method
means the outlay of some money, and
the caustic lime is not easily obtain
able in remote places.
A third method is to use caustic
potash instead of the ashes. Like
lime, this costs something. It the
caustic potash 3 dissolved and heat
ed, and poured .vhi a hot over the
bones, at the rate of one part of pot
ash by weight to four parts of bone,
It will decompose the bone so that it
will be ready to use in several weeks.
If the farmer have several wagon
loads of bone on his farm, the result
of the accumulation of a year or more,
he may not be able to handle it in
wooden vessels. In that case he can
dig a trench in compact soil, and put
the bones in them in bulk to be treat
ed with the ashes, the caustic lime or
♦he caustic potash. The wood ashes
will make nearly as valuable a com
post with the bone as either of the
other two substances named. Tbe
farmer can take time to use the ashes.
Knowing when he wishes to use it, be
A*an begin three months before that
time to use the ashes method. F'or
example, if he wish to use a bone
cqtopost next May, he can collect
.tfie bones from now until next
TSrember, and in that month he can
ypgVn the ashes method. In April he
JLil have the bones decayed so that
he/can fine them thoroughly, and in
they will be in proper shape tr
apply to the soil.
Ecglish Superstition In 1900.
In tbe West Country only last week
a field at standing barley was “over
*loq>te<r;fcy a crone who had long been
supjteyied to desire to add the field to
her own adjourning acres. W T hen the
owner of the barley sent his men to
cut rt down, tbe cutter would not cut:
then the horses would not move. So
he borrowed a neighbor;* cutter. It
fell to pieces. It wa4-topairetoJ4a
neighbor's horses Caw 0611 P ut
on anand the
These horses and "men had not s J>een
included in the "overlooking.” And
this is seriously believed, even by edu
cated farmers of today, to be duetto
occult influence
REPMT
le Views the Situation in the thil*
ippines From Several Points.
MFFICULTkS OF PACIFICATION
Hpt Concealed by Commanding Gen
eiwi. Dosen’t Seem Hopeful oi
Termination of the Guerrilla WaV.
Washington, D. C., Spedai.— Id.
lea. MacAithur, commanding e
Urmy in toe and naif y
fovomor cf the islands since 8
1900, has submitted his report, t. a
War department. A consd-darabV'
lan of the report relate* to 1
which took place previous to tb
when he assumed command,f a
publishes some of the eorresi
ind proclamations of the F-iii.
tainod before that time. Ho ss*
ihe change cf Aguinialdo’B pdlns,
ibandontirg his army mi, 111 101? fp
starting a guerrilla worfaire. The con
ditions of the country have afforded
advantages for such a policy, he says, x
is they have cabled the insurgents- to
appear and disappear at 'their conven
ience. Ait one time they are soldiers
a Lely after are within the •
os in the attitude of
ves. A widely scotterc'’
Filipinos quickly toffy
warfare, which led
g dissem inatooh of' An
there ba|np *3 mvl
t-\ e . W energetic-
implication
lot, 1000. #es government is
number oP e course by senti
which did Kess-like considera
regular r pointed
between thf 1 -wxpert iflb the
Americans him fq ChlJ. H’
captured, the'* '*
the snmeJ>e>ruA , „ W<
wounded andiS® to uf< fo t
Gen. and with OU,
distribution ofx^^ |
soldiers of the
end mien c-e. He says
desultory work has demanded morev
discipline and aa much of valor Jr ,
required during - the period
rjfcai- operations against concentrat*
efflfei-d forcee of iuaurrectiaaiste. Gen.
MacArthuT , speaks in the highest
tortus of the service rendered by th*
troops amid all labors and Wardships.
“The Filipinos,” says Gen. Mac-
Arthur, “are not, a warlike or feroc-ioua
people. Left to themselves, a large
number of them woufd gladly accept
Amoncan supremacy, which they are
gradually comjng to understand mean?
individual liberty and absolute %ecurl
ty in their lives and property. Tt
have been maddened, however, dr
the past five years by rhetorical
istry and sentiments applied b
tional pride, until power of d(i'
uating in matters of public e
private interne it has ben a’
tireiiy suspended. Asa
all other ooneldcratior
seem to be actuated
in all doubtful xv'
wair men are r
when going .
kin, regard’
The as*' dt
orumeat- e*** a
r&ecl the 'in- Jxciueive
■the United hut this me*
difficulties wppns Filipinos were placed* 1
entirely in <\)mtrol, and secret muni
cipal governnjents were organized in
various tow net under insurgent aus
pices to proceed simultaneously with
the American) government and often
through the 'same pqtj?onnel. NPre®i
dents and town
in hchclf of \rr.e-- v
in behalf 'T (I-,.
paradoxical a- it may con
siderable apparent follrit^^@B| , -the
Interest of bo h.”
Wherever there is a group at insur
gent forces contiguous towns contrib
ute to their support and render great
assistance in secreting th-cisoldiers and
helping them to escape. The report
slays the su-oce s of the guerrilla sys
tem depends upon complete unity oi
action among the native population.
Thsit there i-3 such unity is frankly
acknowledged, but how it is brought
about Gen. Mac Arthur suys he is un
able to ascertain. Intimidation ac
counts for the condition to some ex
tent, hut fear would not be sucoeesfu/
os the only mauve.
Value of Standard Oil Stock.
New York, Special.—Standard Oil
certificates were quoted eit 7.00 bid,
none offered, as against 6.55, Fr-iday’i
highest and until Saturday the highest
on record. The par value of the com
pany’s entire outstanding stock is $97,-
500,000 and $7.00 per share Indicates a
market value of $682,500,000. During
this year the company has paid $46,-
800,000 dividends. .
Aga inst Cotton Oil mil - .
Jaekscn, Miss., Speulal.—Attorney
General McClurg haa filed a declara
tion in the circuit court charging 1$
cotton oil mills in the Stete with vio
lating the new anti-trust law. The de
claration asks for a forfeiture of char
ter and that the otatutaryi *enalty be
imposed. It also sets forth that the
mills violated the law by entering In
to a combiner ion to control the price
pf cotton seed and that this combine
ticn*also prevents competition among
insurance fompanics for old mills and'
competition a more railroad* fcwL&ul
tug jhe seed. During the early pwrt of
Ihe season the pike of the seed we*4
as high as S2O per ton.
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