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v JSwaps and Jracts. ? "Corn at 32 cents a bushel Is equal to coal at $16 a ton," says Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, commenting on reports that some of the farmers of the west are burning corn j for fuel. "Corn at 20 cents- for fuel," he j 8aid,f\vtoi?ld be equivalent to fuel coal at flfl a ton. In districts where corn is very cheap now the coal is a rather poor grade and is selling at high prices." he continued. "Under such conditions it will pay both farmers ana people m iwuiiuj luvua tv? corn instead of coal. Undoubtedly large^tiuahtities of corn will be burned on western farms this winter unless the prices should materially advance." ? Gold holdings of the United States, the world's sole creditor nation mounted to a new high record last month, approximately $2,500,000,000. Statisticians estimate this to be S3, to 40 per cent, of the world's visible supply. Of this amount the twelve Federal Reserve Banks hold about $930,000,000, the bulk being in the-vaults of the local institution. Metal, pouring into this country ever since the close of the war,, has averaged $75,000,000 monthly. Sqme of the gold bears the stamp of nations born after the Euro- ! pean cataclysm and some of the minted metal is almost as rare and strange I to the average observer as an old time i Spanish doubloon. Part of the gold * .gent here by Germany to meet reparo- ! tion payments to the Allies was said i to be French coin (Louis d' Or) extracted by Germany from France as indemnity in 1870. / ? The New Orleans limited passenger train of the Illinois Central railroad was held up by armed robbers .south of Paxton, Illinois, last Monday night and looted of all registered mail and the contents of the safe. Which was blown open after the bandv.?,i tv>? iTirinwi' and fire- 1 J13 llllu ivivm ...v ? , men to disconnect the mail and baggage car and run them to a bridge ; cross a street farther south. The en- j ?ineer and firemen at first hesitated to comply with the demands of the robbers. who crept over the tender into the cab, but when pistols were thrust ' into their faces, the trainmen complied and escaped injury. In dynamit- t lng the safe the robbers set fire to the ' interior of the mail car. After the j bandits had fled in a waiting automo- | bile, the engine crew returned to the | rest of their train, cut out the flaming | mail car and proceeded to Champaign, i the next division point. The all-steel train left Chicago loacod with pas- 1 fengers at 6.30 Monday night, and pass- ' ing through Paxton at high speed, had ' gone some two miles when the fire- I I^nan saw masked men sliding down the] coal pile in the glare from the open . Jire box. He stepped back hurriedly, j ^dropping his shovel. The noise attracted the attention of the engineer, who took hi* eyes from the rails a moment to ascertain what was the matter. 2-?Kjibxvn casualties in Kentucky's , "election stood at 10 dead and seven ( Avounded, Tuesday night. Nine men Avero killed in two affrays in l!reathitt county; a man and a woman were wounded in Louinille and one man | -was killed and two others seriously wounded in Estill county. The first yi{ the killings occurred Monday fin Breathitt county when Sylvester Howard, Jr., was killed by Marl Pitts, j ^D'he second affray in Breathitt county j Occurred Tuesday when Cleveland ' Combs is said to have made efforts to Xserv^.^as election clerk in place of a man previously appointed. Combs, -his brother, Leslie. Ephern and George! a\llen arfrt John Roberts and George ?McIntpsh were killed outright and j olve other persons were wounded, two j ^of them. Asbery Combs and Tom Cen- ! ters. dying later. Tn Louisville, Pa- j Jrolman Bennett Gardner, in a quar- I Tell with Harry Boss, fired several J shots. One struck and seriously rwounded Ross and another struck Mrs. Lillian Collins, aged 64. The fourth affray was in Estill county where P. P. Wolflnbarger, Republican candidate fob sheriff, was seriouslVjAjw ounded by Llovd Winkler. Winlfler was shot and killed by Wolfinbarger's son. Jeff. Phant Richardson, a by-star.der, also was wounded. Another death was added late Tues(Liy.when.K. K. Spencer, a Democratic Hectlort' cierk was killed at Simpson precinct on Frozen Creek ii: Breathitt fwmnty ni< murderer has not been captured. ? New York November 8: Mayor i John F. Hylan. Democrat, was reelect- , ed today by the largest plurality ever, given a mayoralty candidate in this j city. The vote, with 2S9 districts out , " *' - !? citv missing was: j or xne ;.nr.> v,.^ ^.... _ Hylan (505,770: Horny S. Curran. Re- j publican. running on a coalition ticket. 296.0S2, and Jacob l'anken, Socialist, j Hylan's ratio of gain is maintained in the missing districts, his plurality will be about 413,000. Mayor HyWtn swept into office with him the : Democratic candidates for city comptroller, president of the board of j aldermen and the fire borough presi- 1 dencies. The ticket elected was as follows: Mayor, John F. Hylan. j Comptroller, Charles F? Craig. I'resi- j dent of board of aldermen. Murray Hulbert. President of borough of, Manhattan, Julius Miller. President | of borough of Brooklyn. Edward F. Reigelmann. President of borough of j Bronx, Henry Bruckler, President of j borough of Queens, Maurice E. Con- ; nolly. President of borough of Rich- j mond, Matthew J. Casill. Mayor Hy- j 1 an's plurality over John Purroy i Mitchell, fusion candidate in 1917, was ) 15S.4G6. President Harding carried I New York city by a plurality of 433.- j 471 over James M. Cox in the presi- j dential election in 1920. Women voted in a municipal election here for the I first time this year. Of the total of 3.203,940 voters, 447,015 were women. ' unninKst vote for mayor was j I lie . lighter than that of 1917 when Morris Hill-iuit polled 1 11.973 votes. In the statewide contest for associate judge of the court of appeals, the vote, with 339 districts missing was: William S. Andrews, Republican incumbent, 3'J3.- ! 64S; Townsend Scudder, Democrat, tfcti,9f>2. Mayor Hylan carried all five ' boroughs, leading the ticket through- I out the city. ? A river of humanity, American ' men. women and children, Americans' by heritage, Americans by election, flowed ail day yesterday and far into1 the night past the bier of a dead sol- ! dier, a man l'rom the ranks of France, [ lying alone under the great dome of the capitol, at Washington. It flowed I as stropgly as the life blood of the na- 1 tion itself, a flow slow hut overwhelm- j trig as tne torrem ui in........ gathered to attest the valor of Ameri- ! ^t's dead in France. Front early day j tintil Ions: after darkness had shrouded the city the great stream surged up the eastern front of the rotunda,.four brea st, up the granite stairway, in through the huge doorway to pass solemnly, reverently by the casket and its live soldier guards, motionless as the statue of Lincoln and flrant at the far doorway which looked down on the moving spectacle. Out through that doorway the stream passed, down the lately corridor and its marble stair- [ way and down over the wide terraces! <lf the western front to scatter to th>homes of the city below. Each hour) saw thousands make the slow journey of honor to the dead. Each hour saw niw thousands pouring tip the wide driveways that circle the great build ing to refill the seemingly exhaust less reservoir from which the living stream sprang. That was the overshadowing ?ln?nnnf in ttm nf honors heaned upon this nameless soldier, this son of the peop'e come home to claim the! great reward his valiant heart had1 earned. And it was his own people, of j every nook of the nation, that silently' gave this reward, more precious than j any jeweled or garven token that governments of the world will place to- i day above the quiet breast of the, sleepe. To one side of the throng | that rolled ceaselessly by the ropes j that dyked the human flood and across the flag drapped casket a second un- J dying ceremonial of honors for the j dead went on. There great men, gath- i ered in Washington to deal with great affairs of the world, came humbly to i place their wreaths and roses at the i bier. There came comrades, limping' painfully from wounds that brought. them down in France, perhaps on the f same field where his life blood ebbod. There gray haired veterans of old wars ' moved to do honor to the young, j stricken comrade of the last great j struggle, there in ordered course came i the ambassadors and the ministers and the special envoys of emperors and | kings and presidents around the world. (The \lotfeviUc (Enquirer, i Entered at the Postofflce at York, as Mail Matter cf tin Scconi Class. \ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1921. Honest, earnest, straightforward In-j tegrity counts for as much as it did before tiie war. Almost everything else seems to be at a discount. There is but one tiling that will make a complete success of the disarmament conference and that one thing is a sincere effort on the part of all of them to cut out all selfishness. The opposition to Hylan made quite a bit of noise in the mayoralty campaign in New York; but it was forgotten by the noise of the overwhelming Hylan majority on the night of election day. The campaign for the most important public vacancy in the state?that of associate justice of the supreme court?goes on apace, and the vitally interested public dees not even know it. The question of Who makes the laws is not nearly so important as the question of who interprets them. The law i is an exact science when administered j in sincerity, wisdom and truth. Truth 1 cannot be anything but exact, obvious- | i.. ..?.i ?i.? n,it ho rtnvfhintr but i exact unless ii 1h administered with compromising- regard for truth. Gentlemen of the jury, it is up to you. If you really desire to do your duty it is next to impossible that you can make a Mistake. The defendant cannot deceive you and neither can his attorney. Of course you can find loopholes if you are looking for them. There r.evor was a timeAvhe.n a boy or a man could not find an excuse for anything if they wanted to. But excuses were lies then and they are lies now. No innocent man should be convicted, no justified man should he punished. But when the guilty escape punishment the just suffer in their stead. Gentlemen of the jury, it is up to you. An Orangeburg correspondent reports one "Bob" Ott as canvassing the members of the general assembly throughout the state in the interest of the candidacy of Governor Cooper for the supreme bench, and quotes Mr. Ott as saying that he had already seen most of the members and would see them all before the legislature convenes. There arc people in South Carolina who argue against the election of judges by popular vote as are executive and administrative officers. They say that it will never do to put the judiciary in politics; that Jt will result in undue favoritism to politicians and destroy all conception of even justice. But it never occurs to the unsophisticated that such arguments come mainly from the Bob Otts. The Bob tuts understand how under present conditions it is possible for one or two men to make a tour of the state, see the 124 mcmbiTS oft tin* house and the senator | from Oiirli county and pledge a major- | it y of them to a favorite candidate. 1 What is the motive of Hob Otts? Well, it might mean anything; hut anyhow it amounts to the select ion oT a justice of the supn me court by a. single individual instead of by the whole people. Would it make Mr. Cooper feel more kindly to Hob Otts?more kindly to the extent that he would favor Hob Otts 1 in his cases? Obviously it would not j he fair to charge that. but this is ; a fact: Every lawyer in the state knows right now that there are certain , other lawyers who are not especially noted for legal knowledge or force, who can get certain favors out of certain i 1 members of the supreme court to which ; . favors these lawyers arc not entitled, j 1 Everybody in the state knows that ev- < cry present member of the supreme 1 ' court has been selected along the lines , 1 which Hob Otts is now following. It Is a fact that at every judicial election ' for years, every candidate, either in [ , person or through liis friends, lias j ] maintained a regular political head- j ' quarters and worked for success just | J as do the candidates for the prcsiden- | | ey at a national c< nvention. The only i conspicuous ixis ption to this rule that 1 we know of in recent years since IS'iO, . at least, has l?een that of Judge It. \\". I < Memtninger. lie pas positively de- j ' i lined t<> d?? anything of the kind him- ' j self or allow his friends to do it for him, and although showing great strength every time he has been nominated, has invariably had his name withdrawn rather t^an participate in such a disgraceful scramble. If judges were elected by the people Judge Memminger would have been on the supreme bench long ago. He would have been chosen because of his ability, his courage, his integrity; but no such is ever going to be chosen by such cliques as now manipulate judicial elections, 011 the ground that the selection of judges is "a matter for lawyers," and not a matter for lay members of the general asscmuiy, or uiu common plo who are not supposed to have proper discriminative discretion in such cases. Work. There has never been a time that has been entirely free from complaint about difficult and discouraging conditions. * There is nothing more familiar than the talk of hard times, for this kind of talk comes from all kinds of people under all kinds of circumstances. Dut the hard times talk is coming1 from everybody. There are people who are too busy to indulge in such idle folly, and there are others who know that there is no sense in this kind of talk anyway. Although conditions are not as they should be, the fact of the matter is that we have been through mucli harder times than we are now experiencing in very recent years. The country is in the heyday of prosperity compared with what it experienced in 1907 and again in 1914. There is little or nothing to be said in favor of this deflation business except that despite all the hardship am injustice of it,, had it not been for something of that kind conditions at present would be worse than they are. The conditions of two years ago were impossible of continuance if, for no other reason, the country could not have stood it. The principal dissatisfaction of today prows out of the recollection of the speculative spree of two years ago. We want plenty of money without a thought of thp effect that too much money has on prices and production. And we are regretting the loss of the big profits 4'hich we thought we had? but which we real'y did not have. Thei^6 is only one reasonable solution of the present situation and that is to work and save. Work is the key to the whole problem?work and economy. Hut before anybody can begin getting anywhere he has to pay his debts. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? I.aurcns, November S: In the court | of common pleas in session here Judge Mclver this afternoon directed a verdict, in the case of Henrietta Stewart, widow of Joe Stewart, negro, who was lynched in this city in April 1920. Suit for the amount provided by law was brought by Stewart's widow as administratrix and the court directed a verdict for the full amount after a hearing of the case had been completed. Stewart was taken late at night from the city lockup and hanged to a river bridge. He had a difficulty j onrlior in the niclit with a party of | young while men. One or two of them received knife cuts in Ihe fight. ? Allendale, November 8: One of the most mysterious affairs ever occurring in this country came to light this morning when the fouith member of the family of Joe I^ee, a constable of Magistrate S. \V. Owens, living at lialdoc, a town about four miles from here, succumbed to a mysterious illness last night. Previous to the death I of the wife of Pee last night three of | the children of the family had died, all j within less than a week. The only j members of the family now alive are a j four months old baby and Pee him- I self. 1 A*e was, take n t<> the University | hospital at Augusta. On., this meaning upon aelvice of physicians who are | unable1 te> diagnose the case to their satisfaction. An ineiuest was held over the body of Mrs. Le*e this morning and the vital organs of the woman sent to the state laboratory for analysis. The peculiarity of the- affair lies in the fact that every member of the family has been .affect eel the same way. In adelition to this it is reported that all the live stock around the home of I.ee has been aflfecteel. Two boys have died. All the poultry is saiel to have died. . The facts, together with other circumstances, have brought out the eipinion in this section that the family has in some; way been peiisoned and the stomach of one e?f the- victims was sent \Vedncselay te> the luboratory e?f, the state board e>f health for examin- ! *: fin*hnr h.'iS lit'O!! . IIIIIJII. I nc ......... . . requested to send to the sceno nil ex- i perl to examine rit 1 lie source the pos- I siliility of tile poisoning theory. This ! in all probability will be done and a correct diagnosis of the case be in hand in a few* days. One physician in attendance on the family went so far as to admit that the symptoms in all the cases were almost identical to those evident in arsenic poisoning. The theory of poisoning i; given further credence by the fact that 1ho I victims themselves th inly believed J that such is the ease and so further i and state that the poisoning is the re- [ suit of foul play and go so far as to j give the name of the alleged poisoner, j It seems that Lee or seme member of' his family had had a d fficulty with a j nearby neighbor and there was had! blood between them. Lee voluntarily | gave the name of the parson supposed ' to have committed the crhne alleged. | So far no action has been taken offi- j cially due to an utter lack of evidence, j Lee seems to think, and the peculiar j circumstances arising front the death j ttf the live stock about the place hears! ' " ? n ?*.. v.i* : 11 lis out in a way, irai urn hum. . which the snpi ly if water was taken.' had been poisoned. It is for the purpose of examining the water in the , well nisi to look into tie other peon-' liar circumstances su.Toundhwf the strange death of the victims, that the presence of an expert from the state hoard has bee n requested. White till | three of the physicians so far called; into the ease eliirr to the hypothesis hat acute malaria is the cause of the | lenths. there is an obvious doubt in dl their minds and a thought apparently that the poisoniiiK theory is not j iltofjether impossible. I've y effort will, of course, be made to clear tliel nyslery of the affr.ir uj?, ' LtOCAL AFFAIRS, NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Feinstein ?fc Krivis?Great smashing sale continues only seven more days. J. M. Stronp?Prices cut in half. Meech Stewart Post American Legion ?Misfc Lois Gregg Sccor coming November IS. McConnell's?Gigantic stock reducing sale. Susie H. Carroll, Admix, and Guardian?Notice to trespassers. Star Theatre, J. Q. Wray, Manager? George Walsh today and June Caprice tomorrow. Cash and Ctyry Company?Get acquainted with us. York Drug Store?Buy 'em anywhere. Sanitary Market, Lewis G. Ferguson proprietor?Fresh Spanish mackerel and oysters tomorrow. Plt'xieo Cash Garage, ShaFon?Automobile tires. Mackorell Drug Store?Promptness and accuracy. Dr. Shieder in charge of prescription department. Jim Lee Laundry?Proper cleaning. J. E. Stroup, Dictator?Notice to all Loyal Order of Moose. J. IL Johnson, President York County Cotton Association?A meeting to be held in the courthouse, Nov. 16. Women who are twenty-one years old and o'der are entitled to vote. Before they can vote, however, they must obtain registration certificates. Only a small percentage of the York county women who are entitled to register have yet obtained registration certificates. The general elections are to be held next year. It is quite possible that the vote of the women will cut an important figure. Many womeii who arc not now registered will see the time when they will greatly desire the right to vote. The registration books are open on the first Monday in, every month. The warrant upon which Mrs. ?Pink Iluggins was arrested last Tuesday was issued directly by Coroner McCork!e, regardless of the finding of the jury of inquest naming Albert Zimmerman alone as the probable murderer. Although realizing that the jury could not have gone any further with the evidence developed through due procedure, Coroner McCorkle was not uutitinr.il with that finding auvbvt?vi "-V.U..V- _ He knew tHVit the woman was morally guilty, to say the least of it, and he felt that something should be done. Offhand legal advice given at his request was that he had no authority to issue a warrfant for the woman; but this advice was not positive or definite. The lawyer told him that he was mer^y giving him an off-hand opinion, without claiming full knowledge of the law But the coroner was not satisfied, for believing that the woman might attempt to get away, he went ahead and issued the warrant anyway, and Sheriff Quinn served it. Then to guard against possible slip-up the coroner requested Chief Steele to make an affidavit ol information and belief on another warrant to be issued by Magistrate Black, if necessary. There might be some question about the regularity of Coroner McCorkle's warrant under the circumstances; byt anyhow he did the right thing. ' f \y REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Since the last publication of the record in The Yorkville Enquirer, real estate transfers have been indexed in the office of the county auditor as follows: Bullock's Creek?Haskell Carroll, ct al to Paul F. Ferguson, 203 3-4 acres, $3,600. Catawba?Sophia Friedheim to Sudio G. Foster, 1 lot, $1 and other considerations. Ebenezer?W. C. Caveny to Ruby C. Hill. 1 lot. $1 and other considerations. King's Mountain?R. A. Jackson to t a Rnrrett. l lot. $3,500 and other considerations. York?Annie Lee Moore to Jos G. Wardlaw clerk et al., 1 lot, $600. Mrs. Sarah C. Ashe to Church Of Good Shepherd, 1 lot $600. WITHIN THE TOWN ? Cotton broke a cent a pound on the publication of the ginners report yesterday. ? "Jes* Call me Jim," presented at the Star Theatre Wednesday night was especially, good. The fact is that the programme generally is good. ? Proprietor Jamison is busy getting in shape for the opening of his bakery, lie is receiving much encouragement from the local public. ? There would have been Armistice day services in all the churches except for the fact that there is to be a more general service at the York county fair in Jtock Hill. ? With the batiks, post office and telegraph office observing holiday hours and most of the business people at the fair there is a pretty general suspension of business today. ? There is a pretty general suspension of business today. Kven the drug store closed at 10 o'clock this morning and w.ill re-open this afternoon at I o'clock. ? The Nicholls building, occupied by the Kirkpatriek-l'.elk Company on the corner of Congress and Liberty streets is undergoing considerable repairs to the roof, etc., under the direction of Contractor W. L. Wallace, ? A'ith the approach of Thanksgiving Day, quantities of unmailahle post cards which will have to be destroyed ?... . ... ..._ ... , 1 Will llfKill U> urnvi' *1 l lin: IW. V., ....... office, Postmaster ,M. E. Nichols states. Post cards decorated in tinsel must ho enclosed in an envelope, to he sent through the mails, under a ruling of the postofflce department. This ruling has hcen in force for many years. Postmaster Nichols says, but iienplc presist in mailing the cards in large quantities. Tinsel is said to be detrimental to the health of t ho persons handling the cards and therefore the cards are forbidden to pass through the mail. CHESTER BOARD UPHELD Decision of the Chester hoard of commissioners in the case of \V. L. Abernathy et >1. vs. Samuel M. Wolfe, et nl? that arose out of a special election in Chester when it was proposed to annex part of Chester to York county was confirmed by the supreme court in an opinion handed down Wednesday. The following regarding the ease, is from the Columbia State of yesterday: Payment of all taxes due and collectible, including poll tax, within the dates specified by law or between October 15 and December 31 is a prerequisite to voting in any election in South Carolina within six months thereafter, tho state supreme court I In.lil vislcrihiv in linnilinir down a do cision in the Chester county annexa- i tion case. The case, listed by the court as W.: L. Abernathy ct al. vs. Samuel M. Wolfe, et al., arose out of a special' election held in Chester when it was) i proposed that a part of Chester coun- | : ty annex to York. The election carI ried, but the Chester county board I of canvassers declared the result to j I . .. - - 'i, , ,r~ ; De nun ana voiu mxausu ji wicib taau j their ballots when they had not paid J their poll and other taxes before De- j cember 31 as required by law. The' election was held January 11, 1921, | and the board of canvassers met Jan- , unry 18. The original vote was 147 for annexation and 66 against, but 97 1 of those were declared illegal. Following the null and void decree of the county board of canvassers, an appeal was taken by proponents of the annexation scheme to the state ! board of canvassers, headed by Attorney General Wolfe. The state board^ j affirnpul the action of the lower board | and the propon--nts appealed to Judge | Ernest Moore. Judge Moore heard ! the case carefully, and then upheld i the action of the state board. The I proponents then appealed to the su| preme court from the decision of | Judge Moore. The supreme court says ti.o decree (of Judge Moore was cdrrect and for the reasons assigned by the circuit j judge affirms the lower court's opinI ion. Judge Moore declared the election null and void largely on former It supreme court decisions which, it is I said, have held that the payment of | poll taxes and other taxes are prej Requisites to voting at any election, [ whether general or special, within six months after December 31. Justice Watts wrote the opinion and | the entire court, Chief Justice Gray and Associate Justice Fraser and J Cothran, concurred. ABOUT PEOPLE i Mrs. C. C. Owens, of Harnwell is visiting her father, Mr. M. E. Plexico in Yorlwille. Mrs.MV. 11". Tlerr.don, of Yorkville, is visltinjr relatives and friends in Union. Mr. O. Stowe, of Gastonia visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. II. Stowe on Clover No. 2 last week. Mr. G. C. McFarland and Mrs. Edgar Farls of Clover No. 3, spent Tuesday with Mrs. C. C. Davis in Gastonia. i J. A. Westbrook, a citizen of the Mount Holly section of Catawba township is reported critically ill at his 11U1UC. Mr. an<J Mrs. Will Jenkins nn<l children of Clover. No. 3 spent Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. J. C. McMurray on . Filbert No. 1. ; Miss Hula Moore Bogan of Yorkville recently had her tonsils removed at the Fennell Infirmary, Hock Hill. She is netting along nicely. Mrs. C. \V% McGee represented the First Baptist church of Yorkville at the state convention of the Baptist W. M. U. societies In Spartanburg this week. J H. If. Hawkins, Mr. Craig Hawkins | and Miss Pauline Hawkins of Tirzah I were week-end visitors of Mr. and I Mrs. G. C. McFarland on Clover No. 3. ; Rev. O. A. Jeffcoat of Ninety-six, S. ! C. visited Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Correll in Yorkville this week. Rev. Jeffcoat I was at one time pastor of Trinity t Methodist church in Yorkville. J. S. Brice,. Esq., continues to improve with his long illness at his ' home in Yorkville. He went to his ! dining table yesterday for the first time in three months; hut of course had to he assisted, fie ate the dinner, however with more relish than usual. I.Mrs. Brice is still at the Fennell Infirmary where she is nursing her son Robert, who is getting along so nicely that it is expected he can be brought home within a day or two. Mr. Brice said yc#erday that if the weather is I good he hopes to ride out with Mrs. i Brice about Monday. , Tne following dispatch from Clemson College will he of interest in this section, Mr. Gettys being a son of Mr. W. E. Gettys of Tirzah: "Old Man Jinx" still pursues the Clemson Tiger, and Mr. Jinx presented the Tiger with several most unwelcome blows in the clash with Georgia Tech last Satur m/?.f L.ni.|.Mia wore those tO "Red" Gettys and Grady Wade. "Rod"^ Gettys, the veteran of the Tiger linei and one of the gamest and best centers in the south, has probably played his last game for Clemson. In the Tech game one of is leg muscles was torn and ho can not possibly get in any of the remaining games. As this is "Red's" last year, he evidently played his last game Saturday. The following from the Greenville Piedmont of Wednesday will be of interest here, Mr. Plexioo being the son of Mr. M. E. Plexico of Yorkville: .1. I* Jr., owned and driven by Robert Ji. I I'lexieo of St. Matthews, S. negoj tir.tecba mile on the half-mile truck at the fair grounds yesterday 2.11 1-4 as the best time in the free-for-all and won three out of five heats and was acclaimed the winner of the $400 purse. Rags Direct won. the third and fourth heats and these two horses went into the final heat for the money. J. It. Jr.. trailed until the home itretch and then nosed ahead for an exciting J finish. Rollins Rerun, owned by il. T. Mceks and driven yesterday by I'lexieo won two successive heats and the money in the 2.30 trot or puce, county owned class, for a purse of $100. Rollins Raron's time was 2.35 and 2.34. Referring to the recent meeting conducted by Rev. Dr. J. L. Dates, in the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church of Bessemer, the Bessemer correspondent of the Gastonla Gazette sent that paper the following: "Dr. Oates is a great preacher and his many friends in this v; .inity who will always go to hear him when the op1 portunit.v presents itself. Dr. Hurrill, pastor of llie Pi*>sbyterian church and | Rev. J. A. Peeler of the Methodist j i church, were present Sabbath night., j with representatives from their J churches to hyir Dr. Oates* line discussion on the Armament question, j ! Special prayers for the country's ruler i ' wore offered l>y Revs. J. J. Ilarrill, A. | T. Lindsay and H. It. Caldwel': Dnr- i | ing Dr. Gates' stay here ho was tho j guest of Air. and Mrs. T. It. E. Gates. 1 Rev. and Mrs. It. It. Caldwell, Mr. and j I Mrs. M. 1'. Shelley, Mr. and Mrs. Will i I Grmaiul and Mrs. Rachel White." I . THE HUGGINS MURDER. A?? to whether Pink Huggins was } ki'led by Albert Zimmerman or by his wife has not been definitely establish [ ed; but it is morally certain that the I killing was done by one of them and J that one is as guilty as the other, j It is an unusually ugly ease, with the reproach bearing equally on all three j parties to it. Albert Zimmerman and j Mrs. Hoggins have been criminally ini tiinute over a period of several years, J*' -* ' l..._ ...L,,L,., /.?' 1 T11 trrr i n *S Willi ill" mil niiumiuni: "i I who had boon sharing the price of his wife's shame. Hut the woman is as 1 guilty as ihe man, for it wa# she who I first became infatuated with Zimmer-1 , l man, of whom she thought more than j i she did her liusband. These are facts based upon the vol-I < I untary testimony of close relatives and j: ; letters from Hugging to Zimmerman, j 1 and Zimmerman to Muggins. And on j ' known past eonduet of Mrs. HugKins. il and different declarations she has been! 1 known to make from time to time. It < Is a matter of common knowledge that! Hoggins has sent his wife to other! towns to meet Zimmerman; that Zimmerman has been to the Huggins homo 1 frequently, and that on the occasion of | such visits Huggins would take the children to the picture show or elsewhere, leaving Zimmerman in the hous^ with his wife, or remain at home with the children and allow Zimmer man and his wife to go orr togetner. ai the jail last Tuesday Bud Watson, a brotirer-in-law of Mrs. Huggins, pinned her down to a number of accusing facts and circumstances, and among other questions asked this: "Did you not, when your last child was born, tell Huggins that you hoped it would have blue eyes and black hair like Zimmerman?" She did not deny it. In speculating about the killing during Monday and Tuesday, people who were more or less acquainted with all three of the principals and their relations, advanced different theories as to the killing. Some advanced the theory that after the conversation between Zimmerman and Huggins in the store, testified to by the little boy, Huggit^ went home and was killed as he was sitting by the fire pulling off his shoes; that he was carried from the house and thrown into the ditch by the roadside; that this theory was borne out by the fact that when found one shoe was partly unlaced. CThose holding to this theory are divided in opinion as to whether the shooting'was done by Zimmerman or Mrs. Huggins. Others have suggested that after leaving the store Zimmerman met Mrs. Huggins in the woods by the roadside, and when Pink Huggins came there they shot him. But the most common theory seems to be that the shooting occurred at the spot where the body fell; after a struggle between Huggins and Zimmerman. The statement that the automatic pistol with which the shooting was done, was the property of Huggins, is probably incorrect. People acquainted with the parties say they never knew Huggins to own a pistol and did not think he had one. Others say that Zimmerman owned an automatic pistol of this description and they are satisfied that "this pistol was his. rnu^..M n rvc>A<l /Inn 1 nf 1 Hurts 1IUU ucrn a v/v-?v-i uuti v*. ing around the body when Sheriff Quinn arrived on the scene; but from the marks on the ground and in the ditchbank he thought he could see evidences of struggle. There were some marks which seemed to indicate where the dead man's feet had dug into the ground around. The dead man's watch was lying within a few yards and the pistol was by his side. Also in his dying struggles the dead mart had vomited and the vomit was under his face. While that last circumstance does not prove that the killing was done fhere, it seems to leave no reasonable doubt that it was here that death occurred. The .25-calibro automatic pistol, with which the shooting was done, carries seven cartridges. Several people have testified that they heard three shots at about 11.30 o'clock Sunday night, and a distressed exclamation, "Oh, Lordy!" or some thing like that. There were two bullet holes in the murdered man'3 body?one in the shoulder and the other in the heart. There were three undischarged cartridges In the pistcfl? one in the chamber and the other two in the magazine. Somebody picked up another undischarged cartridge on the road between the small bridge and the spot at whioh the body was found, and gave it to Sheriff Quinn. So far as is known none of the ejected shells have been found, though a careful search has been made around the spot on which the body lay. During the early investigation around the body, also there was found a small black button. A small boy remarked it first; but Sheriff Quinn saw it before the boy picked it up off the feround. A careful examination of the dead man's clothing failed to show any place for-the button or any buttons identical with this one. Keenly alive, however, to the possible subsequent importance of the seemingly most insignificant clue, Sheriff Quinn slipped the button into his vest pocket. On receiving a telephone message on Tuesday afternoon from the Sheriff of Cleveland county at Shelby, that Zimmerjnan had been arrested, Sheriff Quinn got into his Ford immediately and started for Shelbjf, taking with him Chief Stee'e and Constable Johnson. He was back in Yorkville with his prisoner at 7.30. Zimmerman made no objection to coming back without a requisition; but he was not disposed to talk. "When did you leave York?" asked the sheriff. ' "Yesterday morning," replied Zimmerman, and then he amended with, ''I left Kock Hill yesterday morning." He showed a decided limp in his right leg, which he said was the result of a sprained ankle. The sheriff asked: "When did that happen?" "Yesterday," he replied. "How did you do it?" the sheriff Asked. , Zimmerman by this time had caught himself, and claiming that the sheriff was trying to "cross him up," said he did not care to talk, that he would make a statement at the proper time. "All right," said the sheriff. "You do not have to talk." In the meantime Sheriff QuinVhad been making a careful inspection of Zimmerman's clothing and llnding the top button of his vest missing, he took from his pocket the button that had been picked up from near the spot where the body of Huggins lay. It was the identical missing button. Zimmerman did not do^ any ihore talking. Pink Huggins and his witte are "step" brother and sister, the children of Mr. and Mrs. John Ferguson of the Cannon mill. John Ferguson is the father of Mrs. Huggins and Mrs. Ferguson is the mother of Pink Huggins. They were brought together by the marriage of their parents, one of whom had lost a previous wife and the other a previous husband. The marriage of the children had come about through l-* > I.... Ilumino WIJS ilSMIl'milUll, Iliihhi her ape as 3o. Her husband's age is given at 3'J, and Albert Zimmerman is about 24. There are three of the Iluggins children, the oldest about 12. These.children are now with their grandparents. "i was expecting it," Mrs. Huggins quietly said to Sheriff Quir.n last Tuesday when he informed her that lie had a warrant for her arrest. She had very little-else to say except in her fencing with Bud Watson, her brotherin-law. just before she whs locked up. At first she would not eat, claiming that she did not want anything and she kept that up till yesterday morning, when she commenced eating lik'? the other prisoners. She is not talking however, and is unable to communicate \yith Zimmerman except by talking loud enough to be heard by the other prisoners. LOCAL LACONICS Broad River Bonds. I'lio supreme court n.-is approyt a tiejudgment of the lower court in the rase of \V. S. Wi'kerson, John S. Rainty and J. X. Quinn as highway eointnissioners of Jiroad Hiver township, York county, respondents, vs. the Planters' bank of Sharon, appellant, fills aetipn validated bonds of the i township, which were contested by tliej janlc. Judge Watts also wrote thlsj ipinion, and for the reasons assigned by Judge Haync F. Rice, the court upholds the circuit court. The opinion was unanimous. Cjunty Commissioners. The county board, of commissioners held its regular monthly meeting on last Wednesday and devotad the day to the auditing and paying M accounts. There was no business outW the usual routine. All the members of the board, including Supervisor Brown and Commissioners Kirkpatrick and Lumpkin were present. Aid for West Road. At a meeting of the state highway i commission in Columbia last Thursday the sum of $10,000 was allotted | for the Western York road leading I from Yorkville to the Cherokee county line. Col. T. B. Spratt, chairman of the Fort Mill Township Highway commission and W. B. Meacham also of Fort Mill appeared before the commission in the interest of getting Federal aid for the construction of an 18foot wide hard surfaced road from the Catawba river bridge to Fort Mill, the other end of the road to the North Carolina line to be of top soil or. sand clay. No decision was reached regaiding the project. Barn Burned. y i A barn belonging to E. P. Whisonant, pn the King's Mountain road, I about four miles north of Yorkville and near King's Mountain Chapel, was destroyed by fire last night about 12 o'clock, together with two horses, a quantity of corn, hay and other roughness and some farm tools. The origin of the Are is unknown. Mr. Whisonant's house was burned A few weeks ago and he was trying to rebuild. His wagon came in with a load of lumber yesterday afternoon and it escaped \ the flumes only because it had been left on tho outside. The Are was Arst discovered by Joseph Walker, qglored blacksmith, who lives near by, hut he was able to do but little, and only a few i>coplc could l)o attracted to the scene. A representative of The Yorkville Enquirer coming from the York County Fair saw the blaze from White Hill colored church and continued on from there to Investigate. mere-Mention. "Big Tim" MurpHy, notorious politician of Chicago was convicted on two counts Wednesday of plotting the $360,900 mail robhery at Dearborn station in Chicago last May, The maximum penalty Is $10,000 fine and two years imprisonment in eacn case. The Democrr/Ji of Maryland regained control of tho legislature as the result of last Tuesday's election, At the Lord Mayor's banquet in London Wednesday IJoyd George referred to the Washington disarmament conference as "like a-/ rainbow." The north Virginia concessional district went Democratic last Tuecday for the first time in twenty .years _.By a three to one majority tne voters of Ohio have adopted a constitutional amendment under which the state will issue $25,000,000 worth of bonds out of which Ohio veterans of the World war are to bo paid' $10 a month for each month served up to $250.'?~ Tho Japanese delegates to the disarmament conference insist that Japan is willing to cut down her navul programme proviJed ethers do likewise and she is assured of the proper protection of her rights In tho election of last Tuesday the. Democrats of Kentucky rega'ned theucglslature lost to the Republicans two years ago. ..Virginia Democrats carried last Tuesday's election by sweeping majorities. Associate Press dispatches ; report a serious breech in house Republican ranks over the acceptance of the senate's* maximum surtax vote of 50 per cent. The Democrats of course nro doing what they can to widen the breech. , ? Cotton ginned prior to November 1 amounted to 6.646,136 running bales, including 111,150 round bales 11,775 bales of American-Egyptian ar.d 1,696 bales of sea island, the census bureau J announced Wednesday. Last year/to November 1, there had been ginned 7,508,633 bales including 159;058 rouncl bales, 23,028 bales of American-Egyptian and 540 bales of seaIsland. Ginning by states to November 1, this year follow: Alabama 512,858; Arizona, 13,640; Arkansas 624,668; California 7,263 r Florida 9,471; Georgia 736,900; Louisiana, 236,964; Mississippi 642,513; Missouri, 55,202; North Carolina 581,974; Oklahoma 136,512; South Carolina 622,076; Tennessee, 223,305; Texas, 1,927,730; Virginia 10,632; all other states 5,129. The average gross weight of bales this year was announced as 502.5 pounds, compared with 511.2 pounds last year. The census bureau's report on cotton ginned prior to November 1, as announced today showed a total of 109,136 bales more than the Department of Agriculture's preliminary forecast of production issued October 3. The Census bureau reported 6,646,136 bales had been ginned to November 1, while the department of agriculture's forecast of this year's crop was 6,537,000. A final estimate of production will be issued by the department of agriculture in December.j ? Dr. David L. Rryson, well known physician of Mt. Carmel, McCormick county was acquitted of a charge cf violation of the anti-narcotic act in Federal court in Greenwood 'Tuesday. * ? > ? Sheriff J. Hay Fant of Union county was accidentally shot and seriously wounded in the abdomen near Union Wednesday while trying to arrest Tom Browning a negro.* Browning it appears was resisting and the | sheriff wan trying to strike the negro I *UA K/vo.l MrVinn tho WOI TVM1 WAS UVl'l HIV iiraw ?* uvii n.w .. discharged. The siherilT has a slight chance for recovery, it is said. Hard Winter Very Probable.?The ; weather prophets are predicting a | hard, cold winter this year, and the ; following information would indicate that there is something to the prediction. ' "Migratory bird? that usually wait until late September to seek the warmer climes started south in large numbers in August. The fish in northern New York state that a year ago were disporting themselves near the surface I have a'ready sought the deep water. In the zoological parks the bears have been yawning for weeks, showing that 1 * " - 1 1 *?* 1 1? 11 ?- - iViAli. 1A*> IV iney ieoi mat me mnu iui men winter s'tep is close at hand. "From Montana comes word that the birds went south in early August, the beavers have already built their dams and the Indians predict a long, bitter winter. . "The trappers in Canadian forests have reported to the government that rur-bearing animals arc covered with heavier coats than for many years, and the guides in the Adirondacks state that the birds that stay in the north during the winter have a thicker covering of feathers. In tho corn belt it has been noted that the shucks are thicker than usual."?Kxchange. a