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Straps and /acts. ? The United States senate on Tuesday passed a bill providing for the admission of two new states into the Union. One of the new states is New Mexico, and the other is to be composed of the territories of Oklahoma and Indian Territory. The question ail the while has been as to whether Arizona should be erected Into a state with New Mexico, and there has been much opposition to the proposition; but the whole thing is now settled by leaving Arizona as she has been. The new states are to be known as New Mexico and Oklahoma. ? A London dispatch says that the privy council, the highest court of Oreat Britain, has just handed down a rieeialnn the effect of which is that Green and Gaynor will have to be sent back to the U. S. for trial. Green and Gaynor are the contractors who were mixed up in the big swindle of -the government at Savannah, Ga., for which Captain Oberlin M. Carter was sent to prison as a party. Green and Gaynor escaped to Canada, and the question as to whether they could be brought back to the United States for trial has been under consideration since August 13, 1902. The Canadian courts refused to give the fugitives up; but as the result of the decision Just handed down in London they will be brought back to the United States. ? Two parallel lines of marble monuments will flank the route Of the Panama canal and permanently mark the boundaries between the domain of the United States and that of the Republic of Panama. The present plans are to place the monuments so close together that a person standing at the base of any one can see either of the nearest two In the line. The lines, when completed, will be forty-seven miles long and five miles from the center of the canal. In order to locate the marble shafts the first survey of the land ceded to the United States is now being made. C. Vincent Peterson, an American, retained as consulting engineer to the secretary of public works of the Panama Republic, is representing the local government, while A. McLeod Miller Is carrying on the work in behalf cf MaJ. Gen. Davis, governor of the Canal Zone. On opposite sides of the pedestals will be chiseled, "U. S. A.." and "R. de P." Otherwise the marble will offer smooth surfaces for future initial-whittling tourists. ? The house committee on industrial arts and expositions on Thursday agreed on the amounts of the voHnni nnnronriatlons to be rec ommended for the government's participation in the exposition to be held in 1907, on or near the waters of Hampton Roads, Va? in commemoration of the first permanent settlement of English-speaking people on the western hemisphere. The total recommended is 12,650,000. Of this $2,000,000 is to be used in connection with the land exhibit, under the direction of the secretary of the treasury. It is recommended that $250,000 be appropriated to defray the expense of the national commission provided in the bill known as the Jamestown-Tercentennial commission and expenses of the government participation in the naval, marine and military exhibit. For the entertainment of foreign naval and military officers, to be expended under the direction of the secretaries of war and navy, $175,000 is recommended; for a government building to commemorate the settlement of Jamestown $50,000; to provide moorings in Hampton Roads $15,000; for rehabilitating a Monitor to reproduce the battle between the Monitor and Merrlmac $10,000. ? Louisville, Ky., Feb. 8: With rain and sleet falling over nearly every mile of country from the Ohio river to New Orleans, the usual avenues of wire communication which have been demoralized since Sunday, today went from bad to worse. Nearly every branch of commercial life felt the interruption and the prospects for better conditions are not promising: A storm area is moving in over the Central Gulf region. The indications are for warm rains over the entire district south of the Ohio during the next thirty-six hours. The telegraph and telephone companies are fighting against tremendous odds. Enormous quantities of new material are required In widely scattered areas and difficulty is experienced In finding workmen. Business is accepted only subject to indefinite delay. It is believed that it will be a month before communication is resumed over regular routes. It is estimated also that with the present laxge force of men it will be ten days before the wires are restored between Chattanooga and Atlanta alone, to say nothing of repairing miles of broken wires and broken poles throughout Mississippi. Arkansas, Texas. Louisiana. Florida. Georgia and Kentucky. ? In a statement issued last Wednesday concerning the recent discussion of the imprisonment of Jefferson Davis at Fortress Monroe, in 1865-66, Gen. Nelson A. Miles says: "The matter has been agitated at different periods during the last forty years, but never before has it been discussed in the halls of congress. As far as my official action is concerned, it was directed by the highest authority: it received the approval of. and has never been questioned by my superiors or the government. I have no apology to offer of any kind to any person. The charge that the acts of the highest officials of the government or myself were prompted for the purpose of humiliating Mr. Davis or the people who associated and sympathized with him. is as puerile as it is utterly untrue. It is to be regretted that the high officials. President Johnson. Secretaries Stanton and Dana. Judge Advocate General Holt and Major General Hall, are not living, in order that they might answer the vicious vituperation by which their names are now assailed. Still, I am sure that they acted in good faith, and as they be lieved for the best interests of the country, upon information then in their possession and the condition of the country at that time." ? A report issued by the census bureau last Tuesday shows the quantity of cotton ginned from the growth of 1904 to January 16 to be 12.767,000. counting round bales as half bales. These consist of 12,524,777 square bales, 289,025 round bales and 98.110 Sea Island bales. Counting the amount as running bales the total is 12.912,312. This was ginned by the 30,221 ginneries which were operated at some time this season prior to January 16. The statistics of the cotton ginned to the corresponding date of 1904 show a total of 9,859,277 bales, embracing 9,038,- I 890 square bales and 7,407,480 round bales, and 72.970 Sea Island bales and 30.171 active ginneries. In the canvass this January. 824 ginners have refused returns or failed to report and the quantities previously returned by them have been brought forward for this report without any addition. The total quantity of cotton thus brought forward is 327.243 running bales. A maximum estimate of the quantity ginned by these establishments between December 13 and January 16 is 32,724 running bales. This estimate of 32,724 bales is not included in the above totals. In this report no account has been taken of (inters obtained by cotton seed oil mills from working cotton seed. The final report of the season will be Issued about March 25. The final report will distribute the crop by counties, segregate upland and Sea Island cotton, and give weights of bales. In connection with the census director the report says that every complaint regarding the accuracy of the returns of individual glnners which has reached the census office, has been %% A * 4 - J - "J ? /V mntArlal careruuy invesiigwuru, unu nu mmo .?*. errors have so far been found. <Tht \|othrillf inquirer. YORKVKLLE; S. C.s FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1905. The senate is certainly entitled to congratulation on account of making: such a wise provision for the Indian Territory with regard to liquor. It is a matter of regret that the Federal government is not in a position to help some of the other states out in this regard. The United States senate has made prohibition of the sale of liquor for a period of twenty-one years a condition precedent to the admission of the Indian Territory into the Union as a state, and it would seem that If the territory cannot learn total abstinence in that period It can never do so. Nearly all the telegraph wires throughout the south went down last Wednesday night, and the newspapers were unable to get any news from the outside world for Thursday morning, and there has been but little improvement in the situation up to this time. Mail schedules have been thrown out of adjustment by the unprecedented weather and the resulting confusion is general. Secretary of State Gantt specifically denies the charges made by the investigating committee as to the conduct of the business of his office. Members of the committee assert on the other hand that more could have been reported than was. Perhaps it would be well to appoint another committee to find out who is right in this controversy. The people are entitled to know the whole truth.?Columbia Record. To our mind ihe case seems to have passed the committee stage.and might, with propriety, after the usual formalities, be submitted to the consideration of a petit Jury. If the dispensary law were so constructed as to ( rovlde that each county might deal in liquor or not as it chooses, it would be wrong for prohibition counties to ask liquor dealing counties for any part of their profits; but so long as the state elects to conduct the liquor business, and use any part of the profits for educational purposes, it seems to us that it ought not to discriminate against one county in favor of another, in the division of those profits unless at the same time it is willing that counties which are to have no share In the dispensary schoo! fund also be exempted from all taxation, on account of the penitentiary and the lunatic asylum. The Columbia State objects to county control of the dispensaries because it would mean the creation of "three ilo7.pn little devils to take the Dlace of one big devil," and argues that the "big devil" Is somewhat handicapped by being subjected to the "limelight of publicity." So far as we are concerned, we would rather see all the devils annihilated; but If this cannot be done, we think that the three dozen little devils will do less harm than the one big one. The one big devil seems to have managed the publicity question very well up to this time, especially at headquarters, and we are doubtful as to whether the little devils could take care of themselves half so well at their respective homes. The Columbia Record, which is violently opposed to any change In the present law regulating the purchase of whisky for the dispensary and especially to the Raysor-Manning bill which recently passed the senate, remarks; "The dispensary can only be run honestly by honest men." This is very true; but to our mind it only adds force to this observation that was made a few days ago by the Columbia State: "Is It not time for those who have quieted their consciences by declaring It the best solution of a vexed problem 'If honestly administered' to recognize the fact that virtue Is as likely to reign in a house of prostitution as hone ?ty in this great whisky machine?" The best way to get rid of the Imperfections In the law is to kill the whol business. The Brice-Toole Bill. As to whether the senate will pass the Toole bill which went through the Viaiioo Kv otwh o lnrttii mqinrltu Tnoc. day night, remains to be seen; but there will be no occasion for surprise In such a development. At best the Toole bill is only a small concession to the principle of local self government. The bill introduced in the senate by Senator Brice early during the present session provided that any town in which there is a dispensary, might get rid of such dispensary at the pleasure of a majority of the voters living within the corporate limits of the town. This was killed. The Toole bill, as we understand it, is merely to bring about the status sought by the original Brice bill. That is counties shall have the right to drive dispensaries from their limits at the pleasure of a majority of their qualified voters and that there shall be no penalizing tax. In other words, this new bill merely seeks to do away with the half mill tax that was imposed for voting out dispensaries. Under the Toole bill, the odds are still in favor of the dispensary, for even where a majority of the voters of a municipality are in favor of abolishing the dispensary from under their noses, it may be a matter of consld erably more difficulty to secure, the support of a majority of the voters of an entire county in such an undertaking-. However, it is gratifying to know that the house has seen proper to acknowledge its error on this question, and It Is hoped that the senate will also agree to a remission of the obnoxious penalizing tax provision. Thk probability of the establishment of an additional district judgeship in this state, and the assurance from President Roosevelt to Congressmen Finley and Aiken to the effect that he will give due consideration to such recommendation as the South Carolina delegation may see proper to make has brought forth quite a swarm of Democratic aspirants to the position. Among- those mentioned* are B. A. Morgan of Greenville, George S. Mower and George Johnston of Newberry, George E. Prince of Anderson, and Stobo Simpson of Spartanburg. All of these gentlemen are anxious for the place, and their friends are urging their claims warmly; but somehow we have a fear that they are all allowing themselves to be played for dupes. The chances are that John G. Capers, Ernest Cochran or some other Republican will get the place, and the Democrats will get nothing beyond the political disadvantage of advertising their willingness to accept office from a Republican administration. We would like to see the appointment go to some able Democrat, but we are not looking with a great deal of confidence for such a development. WITH THE LAWMAKER8. Matters of More Striking Interest In House and Senate. A bill to require marriage licenses was discussed In the house on Wednesday, and was Indefinitely postponed by a vote of 58 to 50. The subject had been considered previously during the present session, and the vote of Wednesday indicates that the license idea is growing. Mr. L. O. Patterson's bill to establish a state reformatory for youthful criminals passed the house on Wednesday. As introduced the bill carried an appropriation of $15,000, but this amount was cut to $5,000 and it was provided that the building be done by convict labor. PICKINGS FROM POINT. Matters of Neighborhood Interest In Northeast Bethel. (yorreapeiKleoce of the Yorkville Knquirer. Point, Feb. 8.?There are several "Point" postoffices. This is not an office; but we have a good R. F. D. mall, which is delivered daily by Mr. Edgar Faris. Webster gives quite a number of definitions to "point," several of which are applicable to this little community, but I should select "object" as the more suitable, as Its residents are principally, energetic farmers, who live at home and give strangers a cordial welcome. We have a nice little church In which Rev. W. B. Arrowood, holds services every Sunday afternoon. We also have a nice school building and good school, which Is under the supervision of Miss WlUnoth Jackson. We find the telephone a great convenience, especially in calling a doctor in. Dr. Bigger, who has a large practice, is busy riding day and night, He has several cases of pneumonia, to say nothing of grip which is a common complaint. Miss Mary Boyd is convalescing, and we hope will soon be able to resume her studies at school. Little Miss Mildred Currence is confined to bed with grip. Mr. Currence is also sick. Mrs. D. M. Johnson has been very unwell for sometime. Miss Martha Boyd Is improving; Mr. Arthur Suggs Is also convalesing. Several of our good farmers have left us. Mr. J. P. Boyd and family are greatly missed, Mr. Boyd having sold his property to the Catawba Power company and moved to Union county, N. C. Mr. Boyd made us a brief visit last week. He seems to be much pleased with his new place of residence. We were glad to welcome our old friend, Mr. Jasper Anderson from Union. He also likes his new place of residence and the many conveniences, which he finds in his little town makes it more home-like. We were sorry to see that Senator Brice's bill for the abolition of the dispensary was defeated. Mr. John Less Thompson expects to leave in a few weeks to take a business course in Richmond, Va. ? ^ ? BULLOCK'S CREEK NOTES. Items of Interest In Southwest York and Northwest Chester. Correspondence of the Yorkrllle Enquirer. B*..'uvock'9 Creek, R. F. D No. 1, February 8.?Miss Beatrice Pratt is qulie ill. M '3. Docie Grlffln, is somewhat indisposed at present. Mrs. Mamie Howell is also very sick. Mr. Everette McGurkin, visited Wllkesburg one day this week. Mrs. McGorkin was preparing to visIt her cousin, Mrs. Ed. Worthy, in Meridian, Miss., this spring, but recently received a letter from Mrs. Worthy, stating that she and family had taken up residence in Rosco, Texas. Mrs. McGurkin says she is now undecided as to the definite date, when she may attempt to visit Mrs. Worthy in her far western home. Mr. John Page has moved to Wilkesburg. Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Pratt visited at Wilkesburg not long since. Miss Ella Whitesides visited her aunt. Mrs. Osborne, a few days ago. On January 25. Mr. R. C. Thompson was severely burned. Mr. Thomson had been confined to bed for some time by ill health, the day on which he was burned, being intensely cold, he requested that the hot water bottles be placed in his bed. The request was complied with, when one of the rubbers burst, thereby depositing the boiling water on the sick man's body, from the waist downward. The family physician, Dr. Will D. Hope of Lockhart. was hastily summoned to tbe bedside of the sick man. and his condition was pronounced rather precarious. He however, lingered on until Tuesday, the 3rd of this month, evincing most wonderful fortitude in his great Bufferings. On Friday, the dark angel of death invaded the peaceful homestead and deprived the family of Its kind, loving and Indulgent father, and the wife of her thoughtful, loving and cherishing companion. The body was taken to Gaffney. his one time home, for Interment. Mr. Thomson was much beloved by both white and black. It was pathetic to see his old servants and one time slaves approach the casket, (as the stricken wife and sorrowing sons and naugniers reureaj, 10 tuxe a mini imcwell of their loving and greatly beloved master. The entire community regrets the death of this noble hearted man. and how many think. "We will not see his like again." ? Columbia Record. Thursday: This afternoon when the New York and Florida express, coming south, entered the city at Blanding street It came in collision with a shifting engine. Both engines were demolished, and the mail car was also badly torn up. The engineer of the shifting engine was badly hurt. The other engineer and firemen Jumped and were not injured. The passengers were considerably shaken up and bruised but no serious damage was done them. The mail car and two freight cars attached to the shifting engine were wrecked. LOCAL AFFAIH1. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. W. B. Moore, Manager?Requests parties living along the telephone lines to lend a hand toward removing all wires that In any way obstruct the public highways. He wlh appreciate any efforts along this line. Star Drug Store?Tells you to stop that cough by using Starr's syrup of white pine and tar. The price is only 25c & bottle. First National Bank?Asks that you send It your cash and checks for deposit by mall If not convenient for you to call at the bank. Deposits by mail will be promptly receipted for. F. C. Black?Publishes a letter from Mri L. B. Foushee, endorsing the Security Life and Annuity company of Greensboro, N. C.( and the policies It issues. J. Q. Wray, The Leader?Makes announcement of several special bargain offerings for next Monday, including ribbons, boys' clothtng, men's hats, children's shoes and thirty lbs. of good rice for a dollar. Foushee Cash Store?Gives notice that its annual ribbon sale will be held on next Monday, beginning at 10 a. m.. It says it has Just received 100 bolts of new ribbons and has hundreds of ribbon remnants at the "lit | nesi piiien ?r?ci uucicu. Dobson Bros.' Cash Store?Has Just received another assortment of new millinery goods?bright, crisp and new at unapproachable prices. Jas. M. Starr?Has sold Macmurphy & Co.'s fertilizers for years and does not hesitate to say that there are no better goods made. See him. NOTE AND COMMENT. Among the people who struggled into Yorkville from the surrounding country during Wednesday and yesterday, there were quite a number whose prln[ clpal object was to get their Enquirers. This thing of being almost completely cut off from the outside world is a new but decidedly unpleasant experience for the people of this locality. It is only when we are deprived of them entirely that we can best appreciate the advantage of good mail, telephone and telegraph communications. In compliance with the request of Messrs. F. H. Barber, R. L. Sturgls, W. B. Wilson and C. E. Spencer, we publish in another column President Harvle Jordan's call to the cotton growers of the south. Because there were no rural malls out of Yorkville Wednesday or yesterday. It is doubtful as to whether th? call for the precinct meetings tomorrow has had as much publicity as was desired, but interested people of the various townships will no doubt see that they are properly represented at the county convention to be held In Yorkville on Saturday, February 18. ABOUT PEOPLE. Miss Ethel Hudson of Waxhaw, N. C.. Is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. W. O. White. Mr. E. R. McElwee came up from Columbia Wednesday afternoon returning yesterday morning. Rev. Dr. J. H. Thornwell is getting along very nicely, and his condition Is much more favorable than it was several days ago. Mr. J. J. Hunter has received notice ?- J -rill of his appointment as auuuur, auu ?*..? probably be ready to take charge of the office about the 15th Instant. Mr. D. E. Boney, manager of the Fanners' Mutual Life and Fire Insurance companies has secured the services of Mr. Thomas W. Clawson. as assistant in the office work of these two companies. The business of these insurance companies, by the way,? has grown to considerable proportions. Probate Judge Williams reports the arrival of a new grandson at midnight of the 7th and 8th, and he Is In a quandary as to which day the little fellow shall hereafter consider his birthday". Mr. J. L. Duncan, magistrate for Bullock's Creek township, came to Yorkvllle Tuesday on business; but because of the conditions of the roads was unable to get back home until today. COTTON CONVENTION. Date of township meetings, Saturday, February 11. Date of county convention, Saturday, February 18. Date of state convention, Tuesday, February 21. As the result of the altogether pardonable haste to get the machinery of the proposed organization Into working shape at the earliest possible moment, there has necessarily been more or less confusion, particularly as to dates. The call of Mr. John A. Latta, published last Tuesday fixed the date of the county convention on the 16th Instant, and properly so; but the card of Messrs. Barber, Spencer, Sturgis and Wilson, published In another column, assuming that the call fixed the convention for the 18th, recommends that date to avoid confusion. This card having been sent out to all the papers in the county, and being1 calculated to cause more confusion otherwise, and there being still time for correction. the call of Chairman Latta has been changed to conform to it. The township meetings are to be held tomorrow, Saturday, February 11. The county convention is to be held in the court house at Yorkville on Saturday, February 18. The state convention is to be held Tuesday, February 21. IN THE GRIP OF ICE. The weather of the past week is the roughest that has been experienced in this locality for years, and but few people have recollection of any such continuous interruption of ordinary business for so long a time. Conditions seemed bad enough on Monday with the earth covered with the sleet of two days and rain still falling; but on Tuesday and Wednesday the situation grew worse instead of better, until travel became not only uncomfortable beyond endurance; but more or less dangerous. No rural mails went out of Yorkville either on Wednesday or yesterday, tne carriers being afraid to venture on the roads, because of their generally treacherous condition. During Wednesday afternoon and night, a steady rain froze as fast as it fell, and on Thursday morning all exposed surfaces were sheathed in ice from a quarter to a half Inch thick. A gentleman who came In from the country Thursday morning said that a portion of his journey reminded him of a trip through an icy tunnel. "Out In the open," he said, "I could do very well; but where the road runs through the woods and the limbs of the trees on either side are weighted down by ice until they meet in the centre, I enI encountered a proposition the like of which I do not care to tackle again." The telephone system suffered seriously, not only In Yorkvllle but throughout the county Wednesday night. Wires were broken and poles were torn down by the accumulating Ice until there were but few connections left in the town and none what ever with outside points. It will no doubt be several days, probably a week or more before the dam are can be repaired. The damage to the shade trees In Yorkvllle has been very considerable, numerous limbs having been stripped off by the weight of the Ice, and although It has been Impossible to get any definite information along that line, the probability is that fruit trees of all kinds have been more or less seriously injured. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? The exercises at the Graded school were suspended Thursday and today on account of the rough weather. ? Only Supervisor Boyd and Commissioner Crawford were present at the regular monthly meeting of the county board of commissioners last Wednesday. Commissioner Stanton failing to put In an appearance on account of the bad weather and rough traveling. No business of Importance was transacted, except In connection with the auditing of accounts. Messrs. Rainey and Lumpkin have been notified of their appointment as commissioners, and having sent forward their respective bonds will probably receive ?UUI.. ?Va nart foil/ tneir commissions, wn.mii mc > <.?> days. ? The Bedford Telephone system has been hard hit by the Ice storm of the past few days, and although It is impossible to accurately estimate the full extent of the damage, it is undoubtedly very heavy. With the Ice steadily accumulating on the wires, until something had to give way under Its weight poles were snapped In two or torn out of the ground and wires were broken. In some cases where there were half a dozen or more wires on the same poles the cross-arms were pulled off. There are cases where whole miles of consecutive poles have been prostrated. The same condition exists on most of the long distance lines. Under similar circumstances the expense of repairs has been considerably more than one thousand dollars, and the damage in this instance Is heavier than it has ever been. THE GOLD WATCH CONTE8T. Owing to the weather conditions, no doubt, the returns In the gold watch contest are rather lighter than usual. Sheriff Brown and Superintendent Carroll made the count last night, and found only about 600 votes in aJL Their report te as follows: Edna Wright 16 Ava Greene 4 J. F. Gorrell 80 Isabel Arrowood 17 Bessie Adams 4 Sudie Allison 7 Benj. Black 109 Margaret Blaine 2 T. P. Castles 210 Emma Creasman 70 Florence Cody 41 Ella Carroll 976 Bessie Farls 17 Mattie Ford 144 Clara Fleming 319 Nettie Green .' 308 Nannie Grist 179 J. Hamilton : '. 22 Posy C. Hardin 15 F. M. Howell 4 Mrs. J. T. Jones 19 Wilmoth Jackson 269 L. W. Jenkins 12 W A. Kennedy 11 Blanch Love 276 Pearle Langford 43 Clara Mitchell 67 Lillian Milholen 2 Ella Neely ; 21 Ida Ormand 6 Minnie Palmer ssi J. K. Roach ..." 5 Fannie Smarr 588 Lida Smith . 406 Belle Smith 637 W. H. Stevenson 438 J. G. Shannon ' 7 Bessie Shurley 2 Susie White 4 J. H. Wltherspoon 17 Envelopes containing: ballots may be handed to Sheriff Brown or Mr. Carroll. When the ballots are sent by mall the envelopes containing them should be marked "watch contest" and addressed to Sheriff H. G. Brown, Box 72, Yorkvllle, S. C. LOCAL LACONICS. District Missionary Institute. The Missionary Institute for Rock Hill district convened In Chester M. E. church, Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock. Rev. W. P. Meadows, presiding elder In the chair. There were seventeen preachers In the session from the district at large. After devotional exercises conducted by the presiding elder, the topic for discussion In the morning' session wtlb oiuiuuhl^, ?. "The beat method of obtaining full conversions and accessions to the church." Messrs. Meadows, Duncan and Wilkes occupied the time in discussion. The topic for the afternoon session was?"The Importance of full collections and how to get them." Messrs. Turnlpseed, Friday, Peele, Stokes and Rouse discussed the topic. Session adjourned at 5 p. m. The Institute was closed by an excellent sermon on missions by Rev. W. B. Duncan, at 7.30 p. m. The preachers all returned home much inspired and feeling that it was good to be there. Death of Mr. William Patrick. Gastonia Gazette: After a long illness, extending over a period of 12 or 15 years, Mr. William Patrick died at 3 o'clock Friday morning in the Bethel section of York county. Death was due to consumption from which he had suffered for years, growing gradually weaker. He had been confined to his bed for several weeks. Friday afternoon the funeral was held at the home, Rev. W. B. Arrowood conducting the services, after which the body was laid to rest in the cemetery at Bethel Presbyterian church. Surviving the deceased are a wife who was Miss Margaret Glenn, a daughter of Mrs. M. M. Glenn of Gastonia, and three children, Ralph and Mamie at home and Lytle Patrick who is a student at the Maryland College of Pharmacy, Baltimore. Besides the immediate members of his , family the following brothers and sisters survive: Dr. G. R. Patrick of | Union, Mr. T. J. Patrick and Mr. J. W. Patrick of Bowling Green, Mr. S. W. Patrick of Bethel, Mrs. William Bigger of Clay Hill, Mrs. J. E. D. Barnett of Ebenezer, Mrs. W. B. Riddle of ( Bowling Green, and Mrs. R. L. Quinn of Bowling Green. ?M?? Ootton Growers to Confer With 1 President.?President Roosevelt has appointed Monday, February 20, at 12 o'clock, to meet the committee of ten J appointed by the New Orleans Cotton Growers' convention to confer with the I president, secretary of agriculture and ' mill men with a view to making ar- ( rangements to enlarge America's cot- ] ton trade with other countries. The 1 committee will also confer with the secretary of commerce and labor. ( About fifty leading mill men from , every southern state are expected to * meet the committee at the Raleigh ho- j tel in Washington at 4 o'clock on the i afternoon of Saturday, Feb. 18. Ex- ( Senator John L. McLaurin is chairman ' of the committee appointed by the j New Orleans convention. j BRICK BILL JAW 8011 [Continued from First Page.] drunken man. Take the case of the man in Greenwood who while in a drunken condition killed his own son, drunk with liquor sold him by South Carolina. Experiments have failed over 100 years. God's command Is "thou shalt not." The Jews were given this command, and it required 1,000 years to teach them that It Is the height of folly to tamper with an unmitigated evil. Mr. Gaston In Rsply. Mr. Gaston chairman of the house committee on dispensary, said In a. general way that the legislators have come here expecting to handle this question without fear or favor. This bill was In the house last year and was passed?with certain amendments. When the bill was presented In 1904, the argument was that no county could get rid of a dispensary. The legislature gave them that right with these restrictions, that a levy of a half mill should be placed on that county to enforce a police measure within Its bounds. Mr. Otts wanted to know why no penalty was placed on Marlboro and Greenwood, which had never had a dispensary. Mr. Gaston declared that that was not the question at the time, the object being to give a county the right to vote out a dispensary with reasonable restrictions. While the dispensary law is not a beneficent measure forced upon the state, still it Is a police regulation, a burden on the entire state. Where Is the Justice In saying that this tax will be placed on a county to aid in enforcing the law where that county has none of the burden to bear. The bill has not kept any county from exercising Its right. Is s Special Tax Constitutional? Mr. Nash of Spartanburg declared the Issue Jo be solely the repeal 'of the half-mill tax imposed on counties which vote out the dispensary. He argued on the constitutionality of the act now on the statute books. The nnnotltutlAn nrnvMoa that t Q voa ahfill |/? w? ivivw ?.?*??.? ?> ? be levied equally upon all of the counties. The act of 1904 declares that there shall be a special tax In a county to enforce the general dispensary law ?a criminal law, and therefore Its constitutionality Is doubtful. There has grown up in Cherokee such a sentiment against vlolatlans of the dispensary law that the law is enforced rigidly although there Is no special constabulary there. Any other county having the septlment against the sale of liquor will have "the moral sentiment to enforce the law. He does not believe that a county without a dispensary should participate In the profIts, but there should be no penalties. Declares It to be an Outrage. Mr. Foster of Lancaster declared the bljl passed last year to have been an outrage upon the freedom of the people of South Carolina; ^t suppressed freedom of thought and freedom at the ballot box. He favored the bill. It Is a question which should not be left to the people of the incorporated towns alone. It Is a county matter. This is not a question of expediency, not a question of blind tigers, but a question of right. He wants the people of Lancaster to have, the right to vote on this questlofi untrammeled. If this bill should not pass he would try to get Lancaster to vote out the dispensary even with the tax. Mr. Richards asked Mr. Foster If this tax had been placed upon Cherokee county. Mr. Otts?Simply because the governor has not dared to do it. Mr. Foster continued that they had a sheriff in Lancaster county who would do more to keep down violation of the law than all the dispensary constables. Mr. Laney Is Satirical. Mr. Laney defended the action of the house In passing this half mill tax amendment last year. While Mr. Laney was talking, the lights went out and a great deal of confusion resulted. With a great deal of irony he declared that tie had voted for this "undemocratic" measure. To knife the dispensary would have a tendency to return to the old barroom. Are not a great many people In Cherokee giving their support to the enforcement of the law because they fear this one-half mill tax to be placed on them? He argued that there is crime in prohibition coun? ties as a result of drunkenness. Mr. Richards, as a member of the dispensary committee, spoke against the bill. He declared his unalterable opposition to strong drink, and if he thought the bill would give prohibition to South Carolina he would vote to throw the state dispensary into the Congaree river and to dynamite every dispensary in South Carolina. But what are the conditions in Maine, what are the conditions in Kansas? There are more legalized barrooms in either of those states than there are dispensaries in South Carolina. They are legalized in that they are licensed by the Federal government. There is a barroom in Kansas for every 419 of population. Under the dispensary law there Is less drinking in South Carolina. less liquor selling than in any other state. Mr. Otts?You are arguing that to repeal the half mill tax would kill the state dispensary. If It interferes with local self government, had not the state dispensary better be killed? Mr. Richards declared that prohibition was passed In Atlanta under Henry W. Grady's leadership, and liquor flowed there Just as freely as It Is doing now in Cherokee county, for he has reliable information that Mr. Otts has been misinformed In regard to the conditions there since the dispensary was voted out. He was in Lancaster once when there was prohibition, and liquor was flowing freely. There Is more contraband liquor seized in the prohibition county of Greenwood than In any other county in the state. Mr. Ashley said there Is only one question Involved and that is the taxing of people to vote out an evil. Daom(ytinr/i Vnplr /loplnrpH that Imposing a tax of half a mill Is penalizing: morality. The people are supreme and they will not stand this legislation which was put upon them last year. He predicted a political upheaval unless something be done. He Is one of the 49 who voted for the original Brlce bill last year. Mr. Otts. rising to a question of privilege, declared that there are fewer blind tigers In Cherokee county than vhen there was a dispensary law. He courts Investigation to prove his statement. He spoke with a great deal of earnestness and declared that Mr. Richards had accepted second-handed Information. The reports of Illicit selling In Cherokee county were sent out by a "sorehead." a magistrate whose son had been running a beer dispensary. He cited the figures as to sales thf?re Christmas 1903 and Chrlt tmas 1904 to show the vast difference In the traffic since the removal of the dispensary. The Vote on the Motion. The house then voted on the motion to strike out the enacting words, as follows: Ayes?Banks, Boyd, Brantley, Clifton. Culler. DesChamps, Doar, Dukes, Rdwards, Eptlng, E. J. Etheredge, Ford, Ga?ton, Gause, Glover, Graham, Grav. D. L. Green. Gyles. Harley, D. O. Herbert, HIgglns, Hutto, Irby, Klrven, Laney, Lawson. Little. Lyon, Plttman, i Turner?Total 31. Those who voted nay on the motion i fand favored the bill) were?Ardrey, i Arnold, Ashley, Baker. Bass, Beam- 1 ruard. Bradham, Brant, Brlce, Brown- < ng, Bruce, Cloy. Cothran. Davis, DeVore. Earhardt, L. B. Etheredge, Fos- i er. Fra?er. Frost. J. P. Gibson. W. J. i ilbson, W. McD. Green. Hall, Harrell- l ?on, Haskell. Hemphill. Hevward. t Keenan, Kershaw, Lomax, McColl. Mc- I Madden, McMaster, Massey, Miller. Horgtui, Morrison, Moses, Nance, Nash. Nicholson, Otts, Patterson, Poston, Prince, Pyatt, Rawllnson, Reaves, Riley, Sanders, Saye, Sellers, Sheldon, Slnkler, Spivey. Stoll, Strong, Taylor. Toole, Tribble, Verner, M. W. Walker, J. M. Walker, Whaley, Wlmberly, Yelldell?68. Pairs?J. E. Herbert and Richards, Lester and Hamel. CALL OF COTTON. Official Address to th? Psopls of ths South. Editor Yorkvllle Enquirer: The enclosed general call for organization, addressed to the people of the south, has Just been received by us as members attending the late New Orleans convention for York county, and we hand It to you with reqOest that you publish same at once. This call, as to its details, does not wholly agree with the call already issued by the state authorities, and confirmed by our county chairman But really, as the purpose is to so organise-that the people interested are' to have mass meetings at home, whilst at the various court houses they are to assemble by delegates from the home meetings, and at the various state capitals, by delegates from their county conventions, it will not matter which call is followed; whether the home meetings be by precincts or townships, or whether two or three delegates be sent to the county convention, or whether the county conventions meet on the 16th inst., or the 18th inst., so long as they surely meet; but we suggest that as to our county convention it will be safer to adhere to Saturday the 18th Inst., the day named In the county chairman's call. Yours truly. F. H. Barber, R. L. sturoi8, W. B. Wilson, C. E. Spencer. General Call For Organization. Monticello, Oa., Feb. 1, 1906. To the People of the South: The time has come for action; In unity now is your only strength. The movement Inaugurated at New Orleans whereby the Southern Cotton association was organised, is the hope now for the accomplishment of lasting benefits to the cotton growers of the south, and to reap the full benefits of chat organization, and to successfully carry out its purposes, it is essential that we have organization In every precinct In the south. The people of the cotton .growing states are aroused to the Imperative necessity to do something, and the line of action marked out for the Southern Cotton association, at New Orleans, after full and free consultation between bankers, merchants, brokers, professional men and farmers, is the g Mde to follow and we must be enthusiastic, determined and must not tolerate any hesitation or deviation, or else our efforts will be In vain. It is hardly neceesary for us to bripg to your attention the fact that unless we control the markets and demand, and receive fair and Just prices for our cotton, bankruptcy stares u.s in the face, and there can be no escsipe from it except in the manner Indicated by the plan suggested to the Southern Cotton association and the executive committee, to which your attention is called and Is as follows; 1. To tie up and take care of the surplus of this crop; remove it from the markets until next fall and hold balance of crop until prices advance. 2. Reduce cotton acreage and use of commercial fertilizers under cotton at least 26 per cent of that of last year. 9 Apronw tnr n cronorfll cvstem Of bonded warehouses under control of the people of the south. 4. Organize the producer)* of the 9outh In every cotton growing county on a business basis to carry into operation a permanent system of relief and protection for the future. In hearty accord then with this plan, and in order to start the movement for organization In the entire south, we earnestly call upon the people to assemble in their respective voting precincts, beat or militia districts on the 11th day of February, 1905, at 1 o'clock p. -m, and elect a precinct chairman for each precinct and county. And also appoint a committee of three on acreage and membership; this'commit* tee to immediately request tlae signature of every cotton grower In that precinct to a pledge to reduce his acreage 25 per cent under that of the previous year. Also elect three representatives to a county convention to be held at each county seat on Thursday, Feb. 16, 1905, which shall elect its own officers and elect one representative to a state convention at your state capital on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 1906. Be sure you elect as your representative from the county one of your leading citizens, and one who will be certain to attend the state convention. We again urge upon the people of! the south a loyal and strict compliance with these suggestions, and append herewith the call of the executive committee for the state convention. and also the duties of the county and precinct conventions: The Call. The cotton producers, merchants, bankers, manufacturers and members of the different professions of each voting precinct or political sub-division (or by whatever name called) of each county or parish in each cotton growing state or territory are hereby oalled n man* An )llA 11th riflv f>f FohniArV. 1905. for the purpose of organising and electing officers, and after so organising shall elect three representatives of that precinct to the county or parish association to be held on tlae ISth of February at the parish or county seat Each county or parish shall convene, organize by the election of its own officers, and elect one representative to tl.p state or territory association to be held at the capital of each cotton growing state or territory on the 21st day of February, 1905: provided, that the Tennessee state convention shall be held at Memphis, and the Indian Territory convention be held at South McAllister. The state or territory organization shall elect, in addition to their own officers, -the members of the national executive committee as follows: Alabama, three members. Arkansas, two members. Florida, one member. Georgia, three members. Louisiana, two members. Mississippi, three members. North Carolina, two members. Fouth Carolina, two members. Tennessee, one member. Texas, three members. Oklahoma, one member. Missouri, one member. Indian Territory, one member. The membership for all persons Joining this association shall be twentyfive cents (25c), and fees thus collected to be turned over to the treasurer of the county or parish association, who shall retain one-half of the amount so collected for the use of the county or parish association, forwarding one-half to the treasurer of the state or territorial association. The treasurer of the state or territorial association to forward one-half of the ^rruuiii rtri'triveu uy inivi iu juiiii n. Latham, Dublin, Texas, the treasurer of the Southern Cotton association, and report the amount thus sent to Richard Cheatham, secretary, Monticello. Oa. The county or parish association shall pay its own treasurer. The parish or county association shall fix a reasonable compensation to be paid the township or political subdivision canvassers for collecting the above named pledges and statistics, to be paid out of the county funds. Every township or political sub-division not heretofore organized is urgently requested to perfect its organization at once. Such precincts or counties as have heretofore organized for the purposes herein stated, under whatever name, are requested to hold their meetings in accordance with the above call and become members of this association. Mutt Act Now. The people must act now and shake off the obstacles in the way of the prosperity of this section or it may be another decade before we get the desired relief. In unity there is strength; let all our people stand together in a > common cause. \ Each dally and weekly paper in the , state is respectfully requested to copy snd call attention to this call, and give 1 their co-operation In giving notice to i those interested !n the proposed meet- , Ings. Harvie Jordan. Pres. Richard Cheatham, Secretary, Monticello, GFa. i SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Six negro children were burned to death in a cabin on the property of the Oketee club In Beaufort county, Sunday night. ? The Chester bar has endorsed Hon. ^ A. 0. Brice for appointment ae United States district judge in the event that the bill creating another Judgeship In this state becomes a law. ? Spartanburg is moving for the next 9tate reunion of the Confederate veterans. The. committee having charge of the matter of fixing a time and selecting a place has not yet made a report t ?The Charleston bar ' has recommended R. W. Memminger for election to one of the new judgeships provided for in the circuit bill now on the point of becoming a law. It has been understood ail along that if Charleston would agree upon an aooeptabie candidate the general assembly would give ^ the city one of the judgeehlpe. ? The building occupied by the Bank ^ of Spartanburg, Arch B. Calvert president. was gutted by fire last Wednesday night The flames were dlscoved at about 10 o'clock, and trouble with the water connections contributed to their progress. The books and papers were saved. The building was owned by A. G. Floyd and was fully covered ? by insurance. ? Columbia Record: On account of the uncertainty of the cotton planters over the price of cotton, and their Inclination to reduce acreage, the shipping of fertilizer 'from Charleston is just now unusually dull, and whereas 350 cars should be pull'td out of the city every day loaded with phosphate, not more than 76 are sent from the city daily by the six companies In ths business. Some 400 cars are empty and idle at the junction, there being no call for them from fertiliser ship- . pers.. ? A gruesome And was made at the Monarch cotton mills in Union last Wednesday afternoon when, as the cotton wasdraOrn through the long black suction pipe Into the picker room, in the midst of which, as It fell out, was a long, black withered linger. The missing member was apparently the third Anger of the left hand and the nail still remained on It Where the cotton the Anger was found In came from of counfe cannot be ascertained, but It is thought It must have been here in Union county, as the Monarch mill is a heavy buyer of Union county raised cotton. ? Spartanburg Journal: Geffney has had two months of prohibition.' Conditions now are so much better than they were two months .ago before the dispensary wm voted out that It v would be bard to muster a corporal's guard to vote it back. The people are in better circumstances and are ready for work. Fines in the police court have been reduced 71 per cent and fines for disorderly conduct are* almost a thing of the past The few fines imposed are for selling whisky and transporting agaihst the law. There was great talk of blind tigers . : before the election,- but there is not the evidence of these vislonless animals now that there was before the election. Those who talked tigers were not counting on Mayor Oaffney and Chief Lockhart \nd their able assistants. A tiger iteeti not come from under cover unless he wants to be hunted down. ? Representative Vs ner, gf Oconee. -? In a correspondence from Columbia, to the Walhalla Courier, has the fallowing to say in respect to the filling of appointive offices in the legislature: There are- some very objectionable features in the munagrment of the appointive offices here. The chairman of the ways and nations committee has his son as clerk a.' that committee at $4 per day, also a daughter in the engrossing department at the same salary, so that member drhws 911 per day. Then there is a member who has a son in the house a :tlng as page at |? a day. The clerk of the supreme court has about half of his family in ? ?? ">? -*? ? h,<iu Thla ilnca 'JIIIL'C HI LUC OUbW U'.'VMV, _ T not appear to be a wise or healthy state of affairs. I thought of trying to get the office of page for some worthy boy in our county, but there came so many, applies tions that I gave up the idea. However, I would feel very small, not to say mean, to put one of my own children in such a place after the people had elected me to the office. Certainly such appointments ought to go into other families than to those who a;*e represented in the house or senate. ? The legislative committee Investigating the books of the secretary of slate has made a report to the legislature, indicating that affairs in that office are in somewhat bad shape. However, the friends of J. T. Gantt, the secretary, claim that the only fault on his part is In looi/te and bad bookkeeping. The committee's report says: ^ When we first went to this office In April 1904, we were Informed that we could conclude our labors "In 10 minutes" and were shown the bank books and a mere statement of amounts, aggregate, received in that office and amount paid state treasurer. On Insisting that we came for & real examination we were begged for time to prepare books, etc. However, your committee went to work, but soon found, on account of the absence of books and improper entries made In the books furnished which had been badly kept, your committee feeling the need of a thorough examination adjourned and secured the services of an accountant, J. C. Hoi lis, of Gaffney, S. C., and with hi*/ valuable assistance made up a book of every Item ^ we could find and was furnished by R. M. McCown, the assistant clerk, said book being now in tbe possession of your committee. After adjourning and before our return with Mr. Hollts many erasures and corrections were made on the books attempted to be kept. The only wa> we could do was to handle each declaration for charter, return, application for notary public? in fact, every paper during Mr. Gantt's administration. Seeing that considerable time would be consumed in this examination, we did not feel justineo In going back of hit term without express authority, so did not do so, but feel now that this should be done by >. the committee to be appointed. In comparing the return of corporators to the charters that were recorded, we found some unrecorded and others erroneously recorded, such as where e charter had been granted in the sum of $15,000, same was recorded as having been issued in the sum of $50,000. This work we did not complete on account of a very damaging Are in the office, where, principally, ? all records were kept, and since that time we have been unable to do any such work, for the books were badly Injured, hence such examination was necessarily suspended. In many cases we found where over collections had teen made, aggregating $367.56 ranging from 50 cents to $77.50. There J