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Straps and 4"acts. ? Ashevllie, N. C., April 27: If present plans go through the vast boundaries of the Toxaway company at Lake Toxaway. including the hotel property and the adjoining lands, will pass into the hands of a syndicate, the primary purpose of which is to develop water power. Inquiries today revealed the fact that the deals have not been closed yet. but that representatives of a well known firm of this city, which has handled many of the large deals in this I' section, are now in New York, and possibly the deal will be closed within a short time. While it could not be definitely learned to whom the property was to pass In case the deal Is consummated. there is a rumor to the effect that J. B. Duke and N. B. Duke, the millionaire tobacco magnates, and the principal owners of the youtnern rower company, which controls the "electrical situation" In Piedmont Soutn Carolina, are prospective purchasers. To this rumor further confirmation Is added today by a special from Washington to the effect that it is reported there that the Dukes have an option on 50.000 acres of land in the Toxaway section, and that the company plans to develop 30,000 horse power to be used across the line in South Carolina. It is well known here that a deal has been pending for some time, and that the title to the large boundaries of land in Transylvania and Jackson counties is being looked up. Rumor has it that the syndicate, if it takes up the option, will build several other large dams and develop hydro-electric power. Further rumor has it that the resort features will be preserved and the hotels managed as in the past. Pending the close of the deal, no ar rangements have so far been announced for the management of the hotel property this summer and the boundaries 1 have been closed, so far as fishing is concerned. ? Danville, 111., April 2": Several persons were injured and much property was damaged today by nine elephants that stampeded Just after they had " ?*?'-J a nor !) ftpr several Deen umuaucu num c? hours' ride from Chicago. A large elephant made a break for liberty, bowling over the keeper and escaping. The animal was followed by seven other bulls, which ran bellowing through the streets and across the fields. Later, while the entire force of trainers and keepers were engaged in the usual sport, of hunting elephants in automobiles, a female elephant escaped. For several hours the elephants were at large, hunted by all attaches of the circus, the city policemen and the more venturesome citizens. The elephants at first moved In a bunch, then separated. They stopped for nothing except brick and stone buildings. Such small frame structures as coal sheds, fences, and trees as came in their path were pushed over, trodden down, uprooted and thrown to one 3lde. At the home of William Miller three elephants found , insufficient room to pass between the summer kitchen and house, so they , pushed the kitchen aside, frightening the persons inside from the table, but } Injuring no one. At the home of Jos- , eph Peebles, after overturning a shed , and killing a horse, one of the animals attacked Peebles and hurled him against the side of the house. Peebles j is in a critical condition. Barney O'Neal, a liveryman, was thrown from | his wagon by the elephants as they dashed down a side street in front of his team. F. K. Rabbe, one of the keep- , ers. while assisting in stabling three , of the bulls after their capture, was , hurled against the side of a barn and ( injured. Several other persons were j slightly injured, mostly because of , horses rrlgntenea Dy me pacnyuerms , or through their own fright during the stampede. More than 100 homes were damaged to some extent by the elephants, but the total loss probably will not exceed $10,000. Several truck gardens and orchards were partly ruined in the outskirts of the city, while many shade trees were broken, or uprooted. One elephant was still at large tonight. ? New York Journal of Commerce, Wednesday: "Thus far there have been no private settlements arranged between the cotton 'shorts' and the group of operators, known as the 'Big Four,' who are credited with having cornered the May option. And it was learned from an official source last evening that no negotiations are in ] progress looking to a compromise. A number of local firms, in no way concerned with the manipulation, have, it is understood been technically converted into shorts as a result of the Knight, Yancey & Co., failure. . These firms it is understood, have had no difficulty in closing out their short items 'at the market' when they have explained the situation. Of the 'Big Four,' two members, namely, William P. Brown and Frank P. Hayne, claim to be cotton merchants and not speculators or manipulators. Their business, they argue, is selling to manufacturers. Therefore, they study the situation and finding the consumption far in excess of toe production they buy cotton contracts and make arrangements to supply the customers. Eugene A. Scales and James A. Patten are more in the class of speculators. But all claim to wish to take delivery of the cotton they have purchased by contracts. For they are not willing, it is understod to sell this cotton except for export or to mills who will guarantee to use it for inanu facturing purposes. They have themselves sold, they assert, on this basis a large part of the cotton they have contracted for. If the May shorts do not default, it means that the country will be 'combed' for supplies to meet May deliveries, to an extent probably unprecedented. If these deliveries are successfully made and are sold by the 'Big Four' operators in a way not again to become available on the speculative market there is still the July 'corner' to be considered, for the operators have, it is understood, been heavy buyers of July deliveries as well as May. and the question of where the additional cotton to supply July delivery is to come from is agitating many members of the local cotton trade. A new feature in the situation is the Knight-Yancey failure and the wholesale irregularities that it has brought to light in the way of irregular bills of lading. There have been about 50,000 bales of cotton brought back from Europe at a loss to help out the May shorts; but the Knight-Yancey failure develops the fact that the cotton that European manufacturers have been counting on, and for which alleged bills of lading have been forwarded, does not actually exist and the European shortage, therefore, is much more serious than has heretofore been supposed. In the saint- way New York tirms who have made arrangements to receive cotton here at New York to make their May deliveries find that shipments are being unexpectedly delayed and fears are beginning to be seriously entertained that irregularities in < bills of lading will be found to enter into the local supply situation. Tne present so-called corner may be said to mark a new development In cotton manipulation. Heretofore the great spot houses, the MeFaddens and others. have usually been sufficiently strong to bring forward enough cotton at the last moment to provide a deluge of deliveries, and thus make an object for bull operators not to force the situation to the last extreme. The entrance of James A. Patten and his large west ern following into the situation pre- I sents a new factor, as it places, according to a very general market view, a combination of financial strength quite equal to that of the large spot operators and at the same time a degree of expertness in manipulation of cotton supplies quite equal to their own. The net result of the speculation is that the cotton business of the country is at a complete stand, awaiting the result of the current contest of manipulation and money." <TIu ^(orluillr (fnquirrr. Kntertd at the Postofflce in Yorkvllle as Mall Matter of the Second Class. YORKVILLE. S. C.t FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1910. Mr. Patten seems to be having his Inning with the Manchester traders who treated him to a rough house recently. The appointment of Governor Hughes of New York, to the supreme court bench Is generally recognized as the best that could have been made. Governor Hughes is a man or fairness and unimpeachable integrity, and these qualities added to his splendid intellect, make him just the man for the high position to which he has been called. If the bears had sold a whole bunch of cotton cheap and the purchasers had refused to take it, we can see why there would be big cause for complaint, but where the bears have sold a whole lot of cotton at a fairly good price and the bulls are clamoring for the privilege of coming across with the cash, we do not see where the bears have any right to howl. Cotton Seed Bread. As to whether cotton seed will ever become a staple article of human food, like wheat, for instance, cannot be safely predicted; but one thing in connection with the proposition is reasonably certain, and that is that if cotton seed does not eventually take high rank among the more desirable breadstuffs, It will hardly be because of its unfitness for the purpose. Cotton seed meal has been ground into flour and made into bread as an experiment. and proving successful and palatable as an experiment, capital 1* becoming interested and is arranging to put the cotton seed flour on the market on a large sca|e. That it will take a lot of time, trouble and expense to introduce it, there Is very little question; but other less desirable and less promising food stuffs have been popularized by the expenditure of time, trouble and money, and the chances of cotton seed as a staple article of food seem good. It has always been a difficult matter to educate people to take on to newthings either in food or dress. There Is a kind of unexplalnable conservatism that enters into the proposition that is hard to overcome, and while this conservatism is reasonable in all things that do not have the aditlonal backing of special and particular inter?st, no such objection should be urged against cotton seed with the people of the south for it is their business to stand by the cotton seed just as they stand by cotton, for it is profitable for them to do so. During the past fifteen or twenty years cotton seed oil has largely supplanted hog lard as a cooking fat. Hog lard used to be practically the only thing known for the purpose in this section. There is little else known at this time. The admixture of cotton seed oil has gone on apace, until the percentage of the oil is larger than the percentage of the hog fat: but still so long as there has been no change in the name, there has been but slight objection. Only continue to call it lard and 1* nil rUht II (9 Ull lB>?. The pure food laws, which by the way are generally good, had their origin very largely in the efforts of the western hog raisers to discourage the sale of cotton seed under the name of pure leaf lard. The admixture of cotton seed oil enabled the lard" manufacturer to sell cheaper than otherwise, and the idea was that if manufacturers could be compelled to market the mixed product on its own merits and under its own name, the price of hogs would be better, and that idea has proved correct. Now that oil and laid cannot be sold as pure lard, and people know the difference, they have the idea that the lard is the more desirable and buy it. Our southern people are not different from the others. We would not suggest that any one should use cotton seed Hour simply because it is a southern product. We believe firmly in the idea of the right of every individual to eat that which he likes best if he can afford it. Hut still we would suggest that every family give the cotton seed (lour a chance, maki bread of it and determine whether or not it is good. If the southern people can find in cotton seed a satisfactory substitute for wheat, it will mean great wealth for them. TENNESSEE IN UPROAR. New Primary Plan Does Not Give Satisfaction. Two United States senatorships, the governorship, the state supreme bench and perhaps the position of Tennessee in the Democratic column are involved in the bitter political tight now in progress in that state, says a Wash ington dispatch or April L't. The Carmack killing. the Cooper pardon, the liquor issue, and now a new primary election system, conceived and promulgated by Governor Patterson and his friends, are responsible for the strained relations. The new primary is the boldest political stroke ever perpetrated in Tennessee. This, its enemies declare, takes the party power absolutely out of the hands of the voters and maintains it in the hands of a self-perpetuating political organization. This is the organization headed by Governor Patterson. When the primary was first proposed. Senator James H. Prazier, who was promised his seat in the senate without opposition by the organization if he went into it. refused and h;<s issued a statement denouncing the whole scheme as a betrayal o' the ' people. t'nited States Senator Robert L. Taylor is. it is understood, preparing to issue a similar statement. Nine candidates for the supreme bench of Tennessee have refuse?' to go into it. They will make the fljci t as independents. According to information received ] here by prominent Tennessear-s. the organization programme is to elect Benton McMillen, former member of congress and former governor, to the t'nited States senate in place of Sena- < [ tor Frazier. Governor Patterson, who Is a candidate for a third term, is grooming' himself to come to the senate in the , niace of Senator Tavlor, at the expiration of his third term as governor. The laws establishing absolute pro- < hibltion in Tennessee passed over the veto of Governor Patterson are to be modified materially and perhaps repealed. Fully half of the Democrats in Tennessee are onnosing the plans of Governor Patterson and the differences between the two factions are irreconcilable. This leads the Republican leaders in that state to hope for the election of the next governor and it is said that the anti-Patterson Democrats will aid materially to that end. CRISIS IN COTTON. Patten Offered Yesterday to Take All the Cotton Tendered Today. New York, April 28.?This is the eve of the greatest test, perhaps, that bull operators In cotton have ever faced. Tomorrow is the first notice day for May contracts and it is estimated that ; 200.000 bales of cotton, representing a money value of $14,000,000 are piled up in New York and vicinity ready for delivery to the bull leaders. Most prominent among these are James A. Patten of Chicago, Eugene Scales of Texas, and Messrs. Hayne & Brown of New Orleans, whose operations have been < made the subject of Federal Inquiry. | Mr. Patten is personally on the ground [and in his own words "is ready to take all the cotton tendered me?and pay for it." ] With the approach of not ce day it had been expected by many that an unprotected short interest would be discovered, thereby causing a sharp advance. But during today's trading there was nothing to indicate the existence of any important interest in May which was not prepared to deliver cotton some time between now and the end of that month. In consequence the market showed considerable nervousness on the part of the smaller May longs who had been holding on to their contracts in the hope of an advance on covering by speculative shorts and the market during the day experienced a break as a result of liquidation. May declined to 14.40 or $1.75 a bale under the closing figures of the pre- 1 vlous night and about $2.50 a bale below the high level of last Monday. There was a considerable rally later, however, and after the close it was re- 1 ported that brokers representing Patten had been heavy buyers of May, July , and October contracts. There are few In the trade apparent- 1 ly who doubt the ability of the bulls to take all cotton tendered them on no- ( tices, but It is, 01 course, uoubuui ii the cotton brought here will be deliver- 1 ed at once. There are some who think ' that only sufficient will be tendered to force the liquidation of any weak long | Interest and that the balance will be carried until near the end of the month. ' If the entire amount available is tendered, It will represent probably the greatest transaction in spot cotton at , any one time in the history of the market. ? ' Patten said this afternoon: "I am ready to take all the cotton that is tendered me and pay for it. What Scales and Brown are going to do I don't know. It's none of my business. I am here to attend to my own , business. They bought cotton and I bought cotton and we have never had any agreement to work together. I i have not the least idea how much cotton is going to be tendered to me and I won't say how much I have bought. I do not look, however, for any excitement in the market." i "CYCLONE SMITH." South Carolina Senator Compels Attention on Cotton Question. "Senator Cyclone Smith." That is the way the Washington Times takes liberties with the junior senator from South Carolina, heretofore known to fame as "Cotton" Smith. It is stated < on the authority of the Times that "Cyclone" is the name that the senator has earned for himself since he has ' been pouncing Aldricn and the rest of them on the cotton probing business. The Times says in this connection: "Senator Smith of South Carolina has gained a sobriquet. He is called 1 'Cyclone Smith.' This is because of his cyclonic delivery in debate. He can ] speak faster than any man in the senate. "His first real debate came yesterday when he attacked the attorney . general because of the 'cotton trust' probe instituted by the department of ' justice. The South Carolinian is a cotton expert. He knows the business from the seed in the ground to the fabric on the store shelf. He, organized the cotton growers in the movement to hold the staple for better prices. "This fund of cotton knowledge was used to overwhelm the senate yesterday. For nearly two hours the senator spoke and ten relays of stenographers were necessary to catch his remarks. Not a note did he use. All the torrent of talk seemed to rise spontaneously and tne deluge was complete. "Withal, Senator Smith spoke to good effect?for a new st nator. He held the attention of more Republican senators during his address than many of his older Democratic associates do when they rise to address the senate. He did more. He baited Senator Aldrlch until that leader rose to defend the tariff from the South Carolina onslaught. That was how vigorously the attack was made. "Senator Smith is not exactly of the fire-eating type, but he bord*. rs closely on it. It is suggested tha a little more senate training will temper him somewhat and that he is therefore destined to become a forceful debater." Gaston's Cotton Crop.?From information the Gazette has been able to gather from a number of farmers who have been approached on the subject, the cotton crop in this county is in pretty bad shape. While it has not all been planted, quite a large per cent of the acreage has been put in and the recent cold weather has prevented the seed from taking hold and growing. Much of the seed, it is believed, has rotted. One well-posted farmer said that he believed a large part of the crop in this county would have to be replanted. He further stated that he did not believe there was anything like ii sufficient amount oi seen in me county to <lo the replanting that will ixnecessar.v. Because of the unusually high prices prevailing liming the past season for cotton seed a majority of the farmers ;? Id their seed supply too low and now .t is going to be a hard proposition to find seed for replanting, especially in view of the fact that severely cold weather in the south will, according to press dispatches, necessitate replanting perhaps ninety per cent of the crop in the cotton belt. Gnstoniu Gazette. Winnsboro. April 27: Safe-crackers visited Winnsboro last night, forcing a window of the ticket office at the Southern passenger station and successfully working the combination of the safe in the office, where they secured about $22.7 in cash. Nothing save the money in the safe was molested. They did no' In-oak open the cash drawers of the safe which were locked and contained a small sum of money. Agent Skinner is positive that the safe wtis securely locked when he left the office at 11 o'clock last night, but when Operator Hutson entered the office at 5 o'clock this morning he saw that Unsafe was unlocked and upon examination $22.7 was discovered missing. < unbundled and eighty-five dollars of this money was in an envelope with the express messenger's receipt book, having been deposited with the ticket agent to have been shipped to Headquarters I .?-? TV.I.. I I, ,.. r,.lli..i i, III, I llll* lll"| Illll^,. 1 in.- .... . a ci'iiw bar and Iodk Iron bull, an- tin* I I nnlv chi?'s y?*t found. LOCAL AFFAIRS, NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. in Trustees of School District No. 37?In- ?n vite bids for $10,000 worth school tn bonds. r R. T. & L. Belle Allison, Admrs.? Give notice that on May 30 they a(' will apply to the probate court for is final discharge as administrators of sa the estate of R. M. Allison, deceased. a First National Bank. Sharon?Wants th you to remember the emergencies so that come in life and will help you ilt to protect yourself, against them by helping you to save. Carroll Furniture Co.?Has received ar another shipment of 36 x 72 matting ar rugs and offers them at 50 cents . each. ? J. L. Williams & CO.?Are offering " special bargains in Men's suits at ci $7 SO $9.98 and $12.48 the suit. ..r *tar Drug Store?Advises you to use Pratt's lice killer to relieve your poultry from the ravages of vermin. It also sells other Pratt remedies. York Furniture Co.?Is showing a varied line of bamboo porch shades, Ni porch rockers, hammocks, lace cur- Sj tains, shades, etc. . York Supply Co.?Expects to receive a carload of cane seed this week SP and wants to supply your needs, pi Also has peas. Purina and Corn pc feed, etc. _ Herndon & Cordon?Talk about a variety of goods of every day use, P'some of which you need today or will tomorrow. n Yorkville Hardware Co.?Want farm- i> ers to come and see It for all kinds o. of farm tools, and especially spring ai tooth cultivators. J. Q. Wray?Makes some pointed re- u marks about shoes and also talks <j? about gents' furnishings, ladies' vs goods, domestics, etc. so National Cnion Bank. Rock Hill? j. Calls attention to the fact that It Is st better to save and have, than to spend and crave." S< First National Bank. Yorkville?Points A. out that it is persistent saving? "\V keeping at it?that counts, that will w help you to independence, rhomson Co.?Invites special atten- s< tion to the good qualities of Schloss ie Bros." clothing for men, which It is vs showing in spring styles up to $18 Ri the suit. r*1-'?OA Atinnnnooc ?nA. v* t\irivpuilitiv-Qrin. VvU. miiiwuuvvu -Kv X1l oial sales of white Roods and linens, \\ including sheer white fabrics. Eng- o' llsh domestic, nainsooks and long h cloths, and several extra special m values. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? Messrs. T. M. and H. E. Ferguson, ar have purchased the R. J. Caldwell at property on King's Mountain street. ? The work on the C. & N.-W depot st Is progressing steadily and the building p{ will be completed in a few weeks more. Mi ? The spring dry goods trade in te Yorkville continues good and up to the sc expectations of the merchants. The lo town is enjoying patronage from a ri wider and more extensive territory m than ever before. e\ ? Mr. Joseph E. Hart is getting well ar along with the work of taking the cen- tr sus, and will easily complete the enu- ta mreration of the people within the time allowed by law: but of course cannot fit give out any Information as he is not to authorized to do so. bl ? There was a wreck on the Southern ht between Rock Hill and Chester yester- fr day and one of the through trains from or the north by way of Charlotte to Co- 1,1 lumbia, (No. 27) had to be detoured cl from Rock Hill through Yorkville down Ihe C. & N.-W to Chester. of ea ABOUT PEOPLE. lit - - /-> In Misses L<eiia ana uarrie urKgmy ui ? Lancaster, are the guests of Mrs. J. S. Drake in Yorkvllle. 00 Mrs. D. E. Jackson, who has been cjuite ill at her home on Yorkvllle R. A' F. D. No. 6, is able to be up again. 's Miss Mary Dobson, who has been ra teaching school in Georgetown, has re- Pr turned to her home In Yorkvllle for the Wl summer. Gen. J. C. Boyd has been up from Co- th lumbia this week on account of the Pr rifle shoot at Sutton's Springs, near in Yorkville. ta Dr. S. H. Griffith of Gaffney, was In te Yorkville Wednesday and yesterday on CM professional business, giving attention sh to those who are afflicted with troubles th of the eye, ear and throat. Ci Mr. A. Frank Woods has been confined to his bed at his home in Yorkville for some weeks past, and while he has been very sick, there seems to be ta reason to hope that he is gaining m strength slowly. Among the out of the county lawyers th in attendence on court this week were: Ti J. K. McDonald, Winnsboro; F. I. Os- al borne, Charlotte: Mr. Cox, Charlotte; ar John Gary Evans, Spartanburg; S. E. th McFadden and J. H. Marion. Chester; o'< M. B. Jennings, Spartanburg. re Mr. R. C. Allein, cashier of the First n' National Bank of Yorkville, who has ni been through a long siege of illness ui with pleurisy, was on the streets of P( lorkvilie yesterday, excuanging sim- ? ings with his many friends, who were glad to sec liim out. Mr. Allein is get- st ting along very nicely. ra , cr sk TRACTION LINES COMING. D( Just how long it will be, cannot be pi definitely surmised; but there is every of reason to believe that it is only a qucs- ar tion of time and not a very long time at re that, until the whole Piedmont section pt will be scovered with a network of traction lines that will connect all the p< important towns. al This is the logic of the present oper- bi ations of the Southern Power company, ta This company is now driving more than a^ a hundred mills, and furnishing the ti? power for thousands of smaller enterprises and that it should take up the w transportation question is so natural m that it is hardly reasonable to look for vi anything else. H Mr. \V. S. Lee, first vice pies' lent of a the Southern Power company, was in er Yorkville this week on court business, m and while here, a representative of The n( Enquirer hud u pleasant talk with him j< about things in general and this trans- \\ portation proposition, especially. Mr. j, Lee was not talking for publication, at pi all: but in response to a question as to 19 whether Yorkville would probably be included in the proposed lilies, gave out ar his general view of the situation about se like this: he "Of course, you can see from the gr magnitude of tin- investments of the sh Southern Power company, the company tv is looking to the future rather than tie- dt pending upon the present for its prof- dti its. The business in sight now is not th nearly sufficient to justify the tremen- a| dous investment that is being made. The country must develop and the cl. Southern Tower company recognizes th that it must help in this development, js which it proposes to do. Naturally, the ta lirst traction lines will hi- between the wl larger towns and over the most promis- qt ing routes: hut work once started will be continue until all the towns tiiat are now connected by power lines are con- t\\ nectcd by trolley lines, and Yorkvillc will come in with the rest. Hut, of cr course, the power company is not going 0f to do all this work alone. The general it plan is to make a partnership of the ti< enterprise and ask the public to conic nu in with subscriptions of stock. Tile jlu power company would not feel war- j-p ranted in undertaking the whole work va alone, but prefers to have the local no public interested in exactly the same to proportion with itself." . Ho Asked as to whether the Southern to i iwer company would probably try to stru crease the rate U is asking for power belo i the expiration of the present con- turt acts, Mr. Lee smiled Rood naturedly. A: id remarked that the company has port lopted standard rates for power and the} selling to everybody on exactly the ther me basis. He was perfectly aware of title fear on the part of the public that and ere might be an attempt to squeeze and mebody: but he was rather amused also it than otherwise. Are we not men uthern people with you and of you. but id are we not asking for your assist- plai ice and support just like we propose coul give you our assistance and support? ami 'ell, we are not afraid of our fellow ly d tizens and our fellow citizens are not T raid of us." Mat Teh AT TARGET PRACTICE. for Detachments from the First regiment. ta'n ational Guard, are out at Sutton's te'ei irings. three miles west of York- *e'? foni lie, engaged in target practice on the ilendid 1,000 yard rille range at that ^Sf| ace. The detachments are from cominles O, H, L and K, from Cornwell, ick Hill, Yorkville and Fort Mill, res- ^ ctively and are composed as follows: ^ov Company G?Capt. T. S. McKeown. waH leut. \V. H. Ragsdale, Corporal A. A. W. ouglas. Privates H. M. McElduiY, E. cot Jackson, H. S. McKeown, VV. H. Mc rthur, F. R. Higgins, J. C. Tennant. Company H?Capt. L. McFadden, ml?' leut. C. C. Oates, Serpt. R. H. Clen- tiff mnlng. Corporal W. W. Baker, Pri- & tites I. Hollar, J. M. K. Giles, L. John- , n in, I. Wright, J. M. Dell. W. T. Barr, l4UA. Sullivan, J. A. Langley, W. T. the rand. witl Company K?Lieut. S. W. Parks.( >rgt. D. Vr. Epps, Corporals M. Earls, Ferguson, Privates B. Blankenship, taal ill Belk, Carl Jones, Will Boyd. Henry obei indie. ers Company L?Lieut. Bert F. Smith. ;rgt. J. M. White. Corporals R. B. Al- unv in, Foy Dickson, Sam Adams, Pri- ing ttes Chas. Carroll, Ben Falls, R. G. pari randon, J. M. Robinson, Sam Watson. . The detachments are in command of ajor W. B. Moore and Capt. M. C. tr,)l '111is. with sis staff, consisting of J. X. live Farrell, E. M. Dickson and D. M. j,ad awkins, has charge of the quarteraster department. 0,1 The soldiers are quartered in tents, ous tched along the creek bank, doing elr own cooking for the most part, anc' id putting in their days In hard work ^le, the range. t"e The main business in hand is the in- out ruction of the details in all matters 'or (rtaining to the proper care and hand- of * ig of their rifles, and especially to c'd? ach them the highest development of ?' ientifie theories in connection with reP' ng range shooting, how to hold a ant* lie properly, how to aim it. how to f"r ake allowance for wind from what- A 'er direction or of whatever velocity. c^a id the proper manner of pulling the ^ore igger after perfect aim has been at- ' ined. f"eThe actual target work consists of cou ing at ranges of from 200 yards up 1,000 yards. At 200 yards, the point ank range, the practice is to shoot off ind from a standing position, while yy0 om 300 yards the practice is to kneel g sit and at all the other ranges up to roa< )00 yards, the shooter fires from a re- ^as ining position. The possible score is fifty points out Wel ten shots at each range, although reat ch shooter Is allowed two extra pre- 0|o, ninery snots ior me purpose < n.im- r g an Idea as to the windage. witl Another important system of practice *YUS insists in beginning at the 1,000 yard lzg" le, firing, advancing on the target and the ing at each 100 yards. This however, tog* t h H usually done by platoons, and as the nge has only two targets, it is not Hor aeticable for more than two men to C ork in this way at the same time. noo: The present details will continue at tju e practice through the week and will f;or obably break camp tomorrow morn- s"n g. They will be followed by other delis later on, and the plan is to send 15.3 n of the best shots developed to yQr larleston, where there will be another q toot for the purpose of determining che e best shots to represent the state at P'?3 ,mp Perry. gj " as I COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. a pi ?r>? i The case of A. S. Hand vs. the Oaer v wba Power company resulted in a wjic istrial. sch< This was the first case taken up in Yor e court of common pleas on Monday. rie hearing: of the testimony took up CotI of Monday and Tuesday, and after M gument and the charge by the court. e case went to the jury at about 4 bro, flock Wednesday afternoon. The jury whc mained out all the afternoon and gh?, and coming into court yesterday wj|? orning with a report that it had been the table to agree and that there was no goo< issibility of an agreement, the court * i ? * . i co,? dered a mistrial. M,. The case was a hard fought one from frie art to finish. There was a long ary of witnesses on both sides, and able e c< lunsei contested every point with Nev ;ill and ability. Messrs. Thos. F. Mc(iw and J. H. Marion represented the . aintfff. and Messrs. Osborne and Cox the the tinn of Osborne, Lucas & Cox. the id J. K. McDonald and C. K. Spencer "nK st re presented the defendant power com- bull my. on The issue is the damage to the water r'ut >wer at Hand's mill on Allison creek. se,cT add leged to have been caused by the par| ick water from the dam of the Ca- wer wba Power company, for which dam- c.?"( fe the plaintiff claims compensa>11 in the sum of 512.000. thre The water power involved is that jyjr hich was formerly known as Wright's q ill. Power was developed there pre- pori ous to the American Revolution for S. I ill's Iron works, and there has been mill on this site ever since. The old- j,,. | people of the present generation re- by ember the mill as "Wright's." The xt owner was William Sams, then j^'"1 din Duff, then it went back to the p,,,. right estate, and was bought by Mr. Che 5. Wright, who sold it to Mrs. W. L. lexieo, who sold it to Mr. Hand in f()H( 06. Che ,... Mrs Air. nanci paid hm m< ul spent $1,100 in betterments. The conri year after he got possession, *'pUI'. iwever. the creek below the mill be- m. ] in to till up with sand, and in a P,)rl iort time the power was ruined. For " ro years or more the power has been so|d ad, and the big pile of sand below the 1111 is such as to discourage any hope at a mill will ever be operated there (,~j fain. togr The plaintiff set ii|> and backed tile whil aim with a lot of strong testimony, at the filling up of the creek with sand j*?/1 j due to the back water from the Ca- this wba dam. The defendant answered No. 1th the claim that it is two and three- bass larter miles from tile Hand dam to the ,.nKj ick water of the river and in that tie stance there is a fall of more than I Mos - I in ci enty feet, on the strength or tins me 1)i( fendant held that tile tilling up of the p|az eek was caused by tin- washing down <>f > sand from above, instead of tin* depos- vest: from eddy water caused by obstruc- j.pVJ1 ms below. Against this the plaintiff sure nintained that the bed of the creek i?ut :d been raised all tin- way from tin- *"|1'j1 ,'er, that where there had been eulti- fhou table, fertile corn bottoms, there are llagi w meadows on which it is dangerous "1<* t he venture with a horse, and where tlte khIs that come down the creek used terri >ass swiftly by, now they are obcted and deposit their sand just w the mill dam and around the line wheel. fter their discharge the jurors reed that within a short time after r entered the jury room, eleven <f n agreed that the plaintiff was en-1 d to a verdict: but one held out insisted that he would never agree, so it stood all night. The eleven practically agreed that the proper sure of the damages was $1,000: as the first proposition that toe ntiff was entitled to the verdict Id not be reached unanimously, the, >unt of the verdict was not deflnitelecided. he nex? case taken up was that of korell Bros. vs. tile Western I'nion 'graph company. This was a suit damages alleged to have been sused by the alleged negligence of the graph company in the delivery of a gram. The jury found for the delant. John R. and G. W. S. Halt. s? for the plaintiff; John Gary ns and Thos. P. McDow. Esqs., for mdant. he last case taken up was that of i ns vs. the Tavora Cotton mill. This i a suit in behalf of the children of P. Downs, electrician of the Tavora ton mill, who was killed by coming ontact with a live wire at the cotton on December 10, 1908. The plainwas represented by Messrs. Dunlap lunlap. and the amount claimed was 000. The effort was to show that deceased had not been provided !i the proper appliances for the purof his hazardous occupation, and t his death was the result of his dlence to the orders of his employThe killing resulted while Mr. rns and other employes were huntfor the cause of a sudden and apently unexplalnable suspension of trie energy. While looking for the lble, Mr. Downs put his hand on a wire that would have been dead he not neglected to pull a switch' the outside. Death was instantaneThe testimony showed that while lerintendent Ramseur, Mr. Downs others were looking for the trouMr. W. B. Wylie. then president of mill ordered everybody to remain of the power house, while he sent Mr. J. G. Barnwell, superintendent he Yorkvllle electric plant. The ac nt occurred Just before the arrival Mr. Barnwell. The defendant was resented by Messrs. C. E. Spencer S. E. McFadden. The Jury found the defendant. 11' the other jurors had been dlsrged previous to going into the going case and at the conclusion :his case court was adjourned sine Judge DeVore went through the ntry to Rock Hill last night, to take train for his home in Edgefield. LOCAL LACONICS, rk on the Chester Road. ince beginning work on the Chester 1 some weeks ago, the chalngang covered about a mile from the corite limits of the town down to the npleton place. The work is being I done and the improvement, ally noticeable, is very great. er's School Building. he Clover people are going right on ti their new school building. There i some little division on the quesi of issuing bonds, some good citis differing with the majority: but understanding is that all are now ?ther and everybody is pulling for town. nicide In Fort Mill. harles Watson, colored of Fort Mill, committed to Jail yesterday aftern, charged with the killing of Will man, another negro, a few miles n Fort Mill Wednesday night. WatdoeS not deny the killing, but says t he and his son did It, because of man's alleged wrong to Watson's ,fear-old daughter. kville vs. Chester. hester Reporter, Thursday: The ster High school baseball team will r Yorkville on the local diamond orrow afternoon. Last Saturday ster was defeated at Yorkville, but ho locals went into the eame with itched-up lineup they feel confident t the tide of victory will set the othray this time. Mr. James H. Glenn, is teaching in the Yorkvllle Graded x>ls, will do the twirling for the kville boys, while Mr. Briggs will h for Chester. ton Seed Bread. [r. J. F. A. Smith of Yorkvllle No. 1, at The Enquirer office on Wednes, a specimen of cotton seed flour, jght over to him by his son, Robert, ? is working for the Southern Cotton company in Charlotte. The flour i duly mixed, half and half with 'a* flour and made into biscuit in usual manner, and the product was d and palatable bread that was up :he standard in every thing except ir. which is that of the ginger cake. Smith s. 's he had a number of nds at his home Sunday to eat of bread and all pronounced it to be silent. v Auditorium For Rock Hill, ock Hill Record: Messrs. Barber Sykes have awarded to J. J. Kol& Co., contractors, a contract for erection of a $13,000 building on rear of the Barber lot, the buliciof course to front on Hampton et. As previously announced, this ding will have three store rooms the ground floor, with an audlton and a number of offices on the ind floor, and when completed will very much to the looks of that ; of the city. Messrs. Keller & Co. e also a few days ago awarded a tract at Greenwood for the erecof a J 12.000 apartment house at place to be built of brick, with e stories and a basement. James Porter Dead. hester Reporter, April 28: Mr. Jas. ter died at the home of his son. Mr. il. Porter, on Academy street at 9 >ck this morning, after a week's >ss, aged 88 years. The funeral will held at Bethesda church tomorrow Revs. S. R. Hope and S. J. Cart;e. Mr. Porter was a native of York tity. but spent the greater part of life near Lowryville in this codnty. the past five years he had lived in ster. On May 5. 1851. he was marto Miss Klizabeth McLean of RichI county, who survives him with the wing children: Roht. M. Porter, ster: Mrs. Mary J. Porter, Chester: . \V. T. Allen. Oklahoma; Mrs. J. 3lckett, Fort Mill: Mrs. J. R. BryChestcr; Mrs. R. X. Grant. Smith's nout: G. B. Porter. Lowryville; S. Porter, Chester; F. N. and W. L. ter. Hope. Ark. The deceased was icmber of comnany F. Sixth South rdina regiment, and made a splendid ler. Gaffney Ledger: Mr. D. Audley 1. Blacksburg's enterprising phoapher. was in the city a short le Monday. While here he told a ger man of a very narrow escape northbound passenger train No. lad Sunday afternoon over a mile side of Rlacksburg. It seems that 11. the southbound train, which os that point a short time before 12, had dropped some fire from its ne as it was crossing a small tresnear the home of Mr. Walker s. just beyond Broad river, and msequence thereof the erossties on little bridge were soon 011 fire. The e attracted the attention of some Jr. Moss's children who upon inigation found the woodwork in es and burning briskly. They carwater to tlie point in buckets and ceded in extinguishing the fire. not before it had destroyed the re bridge. While some were en d in putting out the tire, one igiitful one ran down the track and fed No. 12. which was then due at point, and owing to the fact that bridge was near a curve in the k. tiiis act probably prevented a hie wreck and saved many lives. THE CONFEDERATE VETERANS. Gen. Geo. W. Gordon Commander, and Next Re-Union at Little Rock. The annual re-union of the United Confederate veterans, in Mobile, Ala., came to a close on Thursday with the usual monster parade that included more than 15,000 old soldiers from all parts of the country, and on Thursday night there was a general scattering "f the delegates and visitors to their respective homes. The elections took place on Wednesday. The selection of Little Rock had been freely predicted and though the Arkansas city lacked a majority on the first ballot she was so far In the lead that a vote to make the selection unanimous carried with a roar. The vote stood: Little Rock 1,470; Chattanooga 640; Oklahoma City 17; Houston 0. When Texas was reached, the veterans saw how things were going and threw their strength to Arkansas. The endorsement of New Orleans as the meeting place for 1915, was contained In a resolution favorably reported and adopted. It recites that New Orleans proposes to hold a Panama canal exposition in 1915 and that the Crescent City had asked the veterans to endorse the exposition and attend It in April, 1915. The programme for election of officers was carried out to the letter. Gen. Geo. W. Gordon of Memphis, commander of the department of Tennessee, was chosen commander-in-chief, succeeding Gen. Clement A. Evans of Atlanta, who declined re-election. Gen. Evans was elected past commander-inchief and Gen. W. L. Cabell, commander of the Trans-Mississippi division, was elected past commander-in-chief. The most stirring incident of the reunion was the greeting to Miss Lucy White Hayes, granddaughter of President Davis, In the convention hall on Tuesday. The incident Is described In an Associated Press dispatch as follows: "A slender, black-clad, frightened girl'stood on a raised platform today and while six thousand Confederate veterans cheered and while the bands played "Dixie." a score or more graybearded Confederate general officers passed in review before her and with uncovered heads, kissed her hand. The young girl was Miss Lucy White Hayes, granddaughter of the only president of the Confederacy. The incident was the climax of the first day's session of the United Confederate veteri ans. The big tent, which'is said to seat comfortably six thousand people, was packed to its topmost tier of . its. The sides had been raised and the throngs outside had passed in. When the new "Daughter of the Confederacy" was being presented to the convention. the old veterans went mad. The band was pls/ing "Dixie"?three of them were?but the combined brasses could not drown out the cheers. The veterans surged forward, but the ropes stopped them. Then, one by one. the stately general officers on the stage moved in review before the frightened, trembling girl and each kissed her hand as he passed. Miss Hayes* eyes filled with tears and she seemed overcome with emotion, as she passed back to her seat, on the arm of her maid of honor, Miss Ella Mitchell. Miss Hayes is the "sponsor for the Southern Confederacy" In the reunion and takes rank over all other sponsors and maids." SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Greenville. April 28: In the United States court this afternoon, Joshua W. A ..U1a.. i?n n n /i/imIHa/1 <?f nho rcro Wttfl UHJ umcu ui li a v. uaiui q\ of peonage. The jury returned the verdict after thirty minutes deliberation. This is the second trial of the case, the first resulting in a mistrial one year ago. ? Columbia, April 27: The state of South Carolina has borrowed $200,000 in running expenses for the year. The money was secured in New York and through the Palmetto Bank of this city. The interest is 4 per cent, which ig considered low. The rate last year was 3 per cent. It is estimated that the state will have to borrow $600,000 before the end of the year. ? All agencies working for agriculture in South Carolina will meet at Clemson college on May 9, when the work in this state will be discussed in detail. Dr. S. A. Knapp, head of the United States office of farm demonstration work of the department of agriculture, will deliver an address to the students and visitors on May 9. Dr. Knapp is known as the "grand old man of agriculture," and during the past several years has done much for the south. ? Columbia, April 26: W. H. Glbbes was chosen mayor or uoiumma in m?r Democratic primary today over Dr. Fort Sumter Earle by a majority of 114 votes, while Robert W. Shand was elected commissioner on the first ballot. The remaining twenty candidates to fill the other three vacancies on the commission will contest again in a second primary. In the primary today Gibbes received 882 votes and Earle 768. These were the only two applicants for the position. Mr. Gibbes is at present county auditor, while Dr. Earle is a member of council and mayor pro tern. Inten?e interest was excited in the mayoralty contest. ? Charleston, April 27: The 14th annual session of the state convention of King's Daughters met at St. Andrews Lutheran church in this city at 11 o'clock today, there being in attendance the largest delegation in the history of the organization. The opening session was marked by an excellent address of welcome by Miss Elizabeth Horlbeck. response by Mrs. David H. Laird, and the annual report of the state secretary, Miss Etta Trott of Mt. Pleasant. The officers present toaay were miss caia G. Trott, state secretary; Mrs. H. K. Aiken of Laurens, assistant state secretary; Miss E. J. Ladd of Summerville, recording secretary, and Miss Lula Lee of Charleston, treasurer; Mrs. J. B. Johnson of Rock Hill; Mrs. W. P. Cornell of Charleston; Mrs. J. R. Hananan of Charleston, and Mrs. I. J. Mickel of Edisto Island, members of the executive committee. ? Columbia, April 27: The matter of weight will be stringently enforced under the pure commercial food stuff's act. The size of the packages as required under the act is 25, 50, 75, 100, 125, 150, 175 and 200 pounds. The following excerpt from a letter received from a well known feed house Illustrates this point: "We want to congratulate you and the state of South Carolina on enacting a law that embodies in it such a wide protection to the consumer. Particularly is this true in your making a part of the law noaipra X'ational associa tion rules for the grading of grain. If you would go a little bit further and compel every shipper of sacked grain to brand on every bag the amount of grain contained therein you would confer another great favor upon the consumer. Merely as a matter of information we are enclosing a card, one of which we put in every bag of corn i?? niant iimi if all the states who have to import grain would require the weight to be branded on the sack It would make it mighty hard for the short weight crook to reap the harvest he has been reaping for years." ? Columbia State: The effective date of the firemen's pension act, which was passed at the last session of the general assembly, was discussed at a conference yesterday between Attorney General Lvon, A. T. Smythe. representing several of the fire insurance companies; Geo. F. Von Kolnitz, representing the city of Charleston; Chief W. J. May of the Columbia fire department and Insurance Commissioner McMas ter. Al me cunciusiou <>i mc ence Attorney General Lyon announced! that he would give an opinion in the | case within the next few days. Tile question under consideration .was j I whether the act went into effect 60 days after its approval. It is also asked whether the tax of 1 per cent of the gross premiums collected by fire insurance companies in towns to benefit under the act begins 60 days after approval, or 60 days after the municipalities submit proof of $1,000 worth of improvements, or whether the tax is collected at all this year. The question of the constitutionality of the act was raised before Gov. Ansel apnroveo me act, but ne did not consider the objections of the attorneys for the tire insurance companies. It is thought that a case will be brought to test the constitutionality of the act. ? The Columbia correspondent of the Greenville News forecasts the coming political campaign as follows: Whether it be a prohibition platform, local option or independent, the next administration in South Carolina from the viewpoint of the governor's office is going to be one of business. It is the demand of the people and the cry comes from all sections of the state. The railroad company, the city and state have offered rewards aggregating $1,800 for the arreHt of Motorman Brown's murderer During the year 1909 approximately 60,000 American farmers went across the border to become citizens of Canada. During the same period, 53,000 Canadian farmers moved to the United States A baggage car on a Southern railway train was destroyed by Are at Bynums, Ala., Tuesday morning. The Are was started by a candle coming in contact with moving picture films The trial of F. Augustus Heinz, on charges of violations of the national banking laws, was begun in New York on Tuesday. The case against Heinz Is very slm.,ar to the one in which Chas. W. Morse was convicted and sentenced to fifteen years In prison General Estenoz, a negro, and twenty-two of his followers were indicted at Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, charged with inciting rebellion and anti-white violence A Chicago street car company has put a special car in service on its lines to be used for funerals exclusively A Brockton, Mass., woman who died re cently, is believed by her physician to have been a victim of arsenic poison, which she absorbed into her system from sleeping on a hair mattress. Another woman who also used the hair mattress, is critically ill Charles Moran, one of the most noted confidence men In the world, was arrested in Chicago on Tuesday. Moran is said by postofflce inspectors to have cleaned up nearly a million dollars by "get- * rich-quick" schemes Two white men were shot to death in a three cornered fight at Adamsville, Ala., Monday A terrific wind storm wrecked a circus tent at Jersey City, N. J., Tuesday morning. One man was killed, another fatally injured and a score hurt. Fifty-two cages of animals were turned over and almost totally wrecked As a result of a mutiny of the prisoners in the Colorado state prison at Canon City, Monday night, two con- ( victs were shot to death, three fatally shot and several others more or less wounded. None of the convicts managed to get away By the arrest of nine men, seven of whom are brothers, in Alabama and Texas last Friday, New York wholesalers have put an end to a gigantic swindle and fraud, which has been practiced on them during the past year or more. The gang conducted a chain of stores. It would order goods tr> r>na store, auicklv transfer tne ship ment to another and another, claim they were lost and the wholesalers lost the amount of their bills Two persons were killed and three others were more or less injured jn automobile accidents in New York on Tuesday William J. Kelliher, the Boston confidence man, arrested in connection with the swindling of Geo. W. Coleman, the defaulting teller of a Cambridge, Mass., bank, has been released on a bond of $25,000 New York Republicans are expressing fears of losing New York to the Democrats in the fall elections, without the assistance of Mr. Hughes, recently appointed to tne Federal supreme court bench....The lower house of the Massachusetts legislature has passed a resolution demanding that congress call a constitutional convention to amend the Federal constitution, so as to provide for the election of United States senators by a direct vote of the people. The resolution was of the people. The resolution was passed by a vote of 109 to 98. Twenty-eight utotou hovo nnsHpfi similar resolutions. The "Hall of Peace" was dictated at Washington, Tuesday by representatives of twenty-one North and South American republics. Its principal purpose is the development of trade between the United States and the republics of Central and South America.... Mrs. Pearl Armstrong was convicted at Jefferson, Ind., Tuesday, on the charge I of murdering her husband by strychnine, carbolic acid and calomel poisoning New York physicians and health officers have come to the conclusion that Pasteurized milk is not so good for babies as the raw product, when produced under proper sanitary conditions Bjornstjerne Bjornson, a noted Norwegian poet, novelist and dramatist and advocate of universal peace, died in Paris on Tuesday night at the age of 78 Edward P. Weston, the veteran pedestrian, is expected to complete his walk from Los Angeles, Cal., to New York, 3,409 miles today, after seventy-five days of walking. Weston estimated that he could make the trip in ninety days As the result of the recent freeze, thousands of cotton farmers of Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama, will abandon a cotton crop for this year and will plant their cotton lands to corn and other food and forage crops. .Passengers arriving at New Orleans from Costa Rloan ports, declare that hundreds of lives were lost during the recent earthquake in that country. Thousands of houses were shaken down Five negro children were burned to death at Good Hope, Ga., Tuesday night. . .. Mbert Wolter, convicted in New York on last Friday of the murdpr of Ruth Wheeler, has been sentenced to be electrocuted during the "'cov of June 6. Wolter has expressed the ?-ish to be allowed to marry Kate Mueller, his sweetheart, whose testimony did much to fasten his crime on him. . . .Advices received at Constantinople during the past two or three days, are to the effect that in a battle between Turkish troops and rebel Albanians that has been in progress for three days on the plains of Kossovo, more than 10,000 soldiers have been left dead and wounded on the held. "Kill and spare none." '? the order given to the Turkish soldiers. Replant In Corn.?"Every planter whose cotton has been injured, should replant in corn and not attempt to grow a second stand of cotton." said Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture T. O. Hudson, according to an Atlanta dispatch of Wednesday. Mr. Hudson was discusing the effect of this week's cold wave on the cotton crop, at least 50 per cent of which has been ruined. "Cotton never grows well where it has been killed by the cold," added Mr. Hudson. Mr. Hudson Is inclined to take an optimistic view of the situation in the south. "What the planters have lost in quantity will be counterbalanced by the increased price of cotton, which its scarcity will cause, and the south will suffer little financially by the cold wave," he says. During the coming campaign the least discussed problem is going to be the whisky bottle. Issues are going to be raised that* will completely overshadow the whisky wrangle which has pervaded South Carolina politics for the past fifteen years. There are lots of Prohibitionists in this state. There are only six counties and the last legislature refused to pass a state-wide measure so the assumption is that the large number of Prohibitionists, and for a matter of fact those that are not Prohibitionists are going to demand that the problems more serious be discussed by the candidates during the coming summer. The people want to hear a man express himself on the live Issues of the day in South Carolina. Every man knows the whisky situation from a to z and an explanation by the candidates will not be necessary. MERE-MENTION. A gang of negroes, disguised as white men, were rounded up in New Orleans on Tuesday, after a week's operations as highwaymen, holding up street cars in the suburbs A meteor fell In northern Mexico on Monday night, burst Into four pieces and caused a disastrous foVest Are The British sealing steamer Aurora, with a crew of 187 men on board, is reported as being lost at sea from St. Johns, N. S. The vessel has been missing since April 1st. James Affleck, was killed at Columbus, Ga., Monday night by Will Carmack, in a dispute over a piece of cheese The New York Herald and Atlanta Journal are making arrangements for another New York to Atlanta automobile run during the coming summer A number of negroes have been arrested in Atlanta on suspicion of being members of the gang which held up the street car conductor and / mntnrmnn In that eitv Sntiirdnv nisrht.