PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKU5
W'-IM SAID
mnwu B.'ease DefenuL Actions
Bet?re a Large Crowd.
TELLS ABOUT FELDER
The Governor Describes His official
Career and Tells Why He Did Cer
tain Things.?He Discusses Many
Other Things, on All of Which He
Speaks Out Plainly.
The Spartanburg Herald says Gov.
Cole Blease addressed two im
mense and enthusiastic audiences or
cotton mill workers on Tuesday at
Cowpens and Drayton Mills in Spar
tanburg County. The following is a
report of th9 speeches as we find
them in the Spartanburg Herald:
Gov. Blease began his address in
a formal manner and then said that
he would talk about anything his
audience wanted and suggested that
somebody give him a text: Someone
shouted "Prohibition."
"If you can show me hhere there
is any prohibition in South Carolina,'
said Gov. Blease, "I'll talk about It"
He referred to prohibition again
later in his address He said he
had received requests from the au
thorities of various counties to send
State constables into these counties
to enforce the liquor laws. But, said
Blease, he told them that since they
had voted to be dry they could eir
force the liquor laws as best they
could.
The governor then switched from
one topic to another rather abruptly.
He told a story of a little boy whom
he had taken into the govampr's of
fice in the State house and Had tola
him that it was his office, as well
as that of Cole Blease, and followed
up the story by saying that the State
House and the governor's office were
the property of all the citizens.
"But by citizens," he saidj- "I mean
white men?not apes and baboons."
He then launched into a tirade
against .negroes. The Caucausion race
must dominate, he Daid, and if an
inferior race got In the way it must
he got out of the way in the most
convenient manner.
"And a little gunpowder and a few
huckshot," he said, "are often the
most effecMve remedy ".
Later he said that on a previous oc
casion he had made a statement
which had been taken to mean that
he favored lynching. He said he sa-w
no reason why he should not be per
fectly frank about it?that he did
approve of lynching. And the reason,
he said, why there had been no lynch
ihgs in South Carolina during the six
months in which he had been govern
or was because the negroes knew that
he would not call out the military to
protect, them from lynching if they
Insulted white women.
Negroes, he said, are so fond of
notoriety that often they are willing
to make a sacrifice and take a chance
of losing their lives In order to get
their names emblazoned In the news
papers. But they knew ,he said, that
while he was governor there was no
possible cance of their being saved
from an infuriated mob. Gov. Blease
said that if any women of his famiy
was Insulted by a negro all he would
ask was that the negro be caught;
he would do the rest himself.
Gov. Blease took up various of his
official acts which have been criticis
ed and defended them. The purpose
of revoking the commissions of the
notary public was to get rid of negro
notaries. He now makes It a rule,
he said, not to issue commissions to
notaries without the recommendation
of ia member of the legislative dele
gftion of the county in which they
live.
Regarding his veto of appropria
tion bills, he said that by so doing he
saved the State $67,000 He declared
the government of South Carolina
was the most extravagant of any
Stiate of the Union. He denounced
the extravagance of the State edu
cational institutions especially. Gov.
Blease declared that there were men
traveling in Ehrope and enjoying
themselves and at the same time
drawing salaries from the State as
members of the faculty of some of
the Stale educfetionaV i/nstitutions.
He said the excuse for permitting
them to travel in Europe was that
they were being trained to teach.
"But why the devil," he asked
"were they employed to teach if they
didn't know how already?"
He said he had respect for the ed
ucational institutions conducted by
the State, and yet they had given no
men to public office, whereas other
colleges in South Carolina, notably
Wofford College, had produced illus
trious men. He mentioned that Wof
ford had produced Senator E D.
Smith, with whom he had ridden to
Spartlanburg from Florence.
"And Henry Synder," he said, re
ferring to the president of Wofford
college, "has more sense and educa
tion than Dr. Mitchell has brains
enough to learn."
Speaking of his tilt with the Su
preme Court over the appointment of
special judges, Gov. Blease said that
he did not intend to appoint special
judges when regular circuit judges
were sitting around in club rooms,
drinking cocktails and playing pin
ochle. And he added vehemently
that he could prove that this had
been the case.
Concerning his liberal use of the
pardoning power, he said that men
ought not to be punished too severe
r.
ly for crimes committed in the heat
of passion There was no excuse, he
said, for premeditated rohberies, but
when a man got into a quarrel and
drew a pistol and killed his antag
onist he ought not to be judged too
?severely.
r "There are good men in the pen
itentiary," he said, "men of good fam
ilies as yours or mine. And there
are a lot of. people in the penitentiary
who ought to be out, and a lot who
are out who ought to be in.
"I am going to do something very
soon," he continued, "which will
cause me to be severely criticised in
Spartanburg county. But gentlemen
have you ever considered what a ter
rible thing life imprisonment is?"
Gov. Blease said it had been in
sinuated that he sold pardons. In
answer to that charge, he said, he
desired to say that with the exception
of Brigman of Florence, who had only
had three more months to sorve any
way, there was not a man whom he
had released from the penitentiary
who had money enough to ouy a
nel suit of clothes after paying his
railroad fare home.
And, he added, a rich man went to
the penitentiary not long ago, and he
is going to stay there.
With regard to the charges of
bribery made against him by Col.
Thomas B. Felder, of Atlanta, Gov.
Blease said that if Tom*Felder would
produce a letter asking a bribe or
acknowledging the receipt of a .bribe,
and any three men familiar with
Blease's handwriting would say the
writing of the letter was his, he
would resign the governorship in 15
minutes.
On the other hand, he said, if he
could not prove that Felder had of
fered a bribe to 'a State official, he
would not only^consent to * esl?n the
governorship, but would move to the
Philippine Islands
Gov. Blease said he was not averse
to Felder's being given a change of
venue if there was any doubt as to his
being able to obtain justice in New
berry County.
Gov. Blease spoke at length about
standing by his friends. Ke said ns
loved his friends so much that 1 ?
wanted to be with them after death,
no matter where they were. He de
clared that his enemies need expect
nothing from him
.He had been fold, he said, that
this was not the proper spirit, and
that he should consider the example
of the Savior, who said of those who
persecuted Him: "Father, forgive
them, for they know not what they
do."
Gov. Blease said he had no for
giveness for his enemies because they
knew very well what they were do
ing.
He mentioned among his enemies
the newspapers. He said the engi
neer of a train could not stop his
train to pay attention to the curs that
ran out and .barked at the'rain. And
neither, he said, could he stop for
the snarling curs, the newspapers.
He said he would like to call them by
another termr but it would be un
parliamentary.
Chief among his newspaper ene
mies, he considers the Columbia State
and he said it was contro-led by Cu
bans and they were foeu to organ
ized government. One of their an
cestors he said was exiled from Cuba
I because he- was a foe to organized
government.
Gov. Blease also paid his respects
to The Spartanburg Herald He as
serted that this newspaper was own
ed by The Columbia State, ana tnat
the editor published nothing until
he had telephoned to Columbia and
had obtained permission.
The Herald, he said, published an
untrue story to the effect that the
girls of. Winthrop college ha?9 asked
that their diplomas be presented to
them by somebody else than Govern
or Blease. . This story was In'er
found to be untrue, he said, but the
Herald lacked the manhood to come
out and admit it was unf:rue.
He w<as warmly applaiMed and one
man shouted that he had stopped his
subscription to The Herald because
of its unfair attitude towards Gov^
ernor Blease. /'
Gov. Blease made slighting re
marks about Northerners several
times. He said that of 160 voters
in a Newberry cotton mill 154 voted
for him.
"The other six," he said, "were
the Yankee bossess "
While speaking of the penitentiary
he devoted sor.ie attention to the
hosiery mill, which he proposed to
abolish. He said that prisoners were
put to work in the hosiery mill who
knew nothing about making hosiery,
but who were required co do just as
much work as skilled operatives. They
had to work ten hours a day, he said,
and were kept standing the entire
time.
A lawyer, he said, might be put
to work alongside a skilled worker.
The lawyer would be gi**en the samt
task as the other man. If the lawyer
cause of his ignorance of the work,
j failed to complete his task, even
I though it was an impossibility, be
!cause of his ignorance of the work,
he was taken to the stocks, his arms
j placed in it, his clott:ng removed
to the waist, and the l?.?h applied
Gov. Blease, in the course of his
i speech, made several remarks about
(Spartanburg men, which pleased the
crowd.
When Congressman Joseph T.
Johnson came upon the rostrum he
jsaid that a United States Senator had
? told him that Mr. Johnson had more
sense than all the other South Car
llina congressmen put together, and
J this, he Said, confirmed his own judg
ment.
He said that his friend, Represen
tative H K. Osborne, who was also
on the rostrum, was coming his way,
and if Spartanburg county sent Mr.
ORANGEB
CWAR1M AT1AIK
GANG HOLDS UP AN:D BOLDLx
BEATS SENATOR BILBO.
Physician States Injured Man's Skull
Fractured, But Wound Not Neces
sarily Fatal.
State Senator Theodore Bilbc*, can
didate for Lieutenant governor of
Mississippi, was attacked and severe
ly beaten at Starkville, Miss., Thurs
day by J. J. Henry, claim agent of
the Mobile, Chicago & New Orleans
railroad, and former penitentiary
warden, the encounter coming as a di
ect sequel to a campaign speech de
livered by Senator Bilbo at Blue
Mountain, Miss., recently in which
Bilbo is credited with having vigor
ously assailed Mr. Henry, impeaching
his character.
The affray occurred aboard a rail
road train in which Mr. Bilbo was
proceeding from Columbus to Stur
gis, Miss., where he was to have
spoken Thursday afternoon. Ross A.
Collins, candidate for attorney genei
al, who was accompanying State Sen
ator Bilbo to Sturgis at the time of
bis encounter with J. J. Henry, has
given out the following statement:
"When the train reached Starkville
I was seated directly in front of Sen
ator Bilbo, in the smoking compart
ment, talking with Mr. Carruthers, of
West Point. Carruthers left the train
at Stakville and I was looking out of
the window at about half a dozen
people on the station platform when I
heard a loud, dull lick. I heard a
man groan and saw Senator Bilbo fall
at the blow from a pistol. Immediate
ly a man covered the cr0wd in the
smoking car with a pistol, and I un
derstand that another person stood
guard with him. Everbody was made
to vacate the car, and the two men
prevented any one entering while J. J.
Henry administered repeated blows
upon Senator Bilbo's head and body
with the bult of a pistol. Some peo
ple on the outside of the car thinking
Bilbo dead, begged Mr. Henry to stop
which,vhe did after having inflicted
probably 20 or 25 blows."
Henry was a witness before the
legislative investigation subsequent
to the charges of Senator Bilbo that
he had been paid a sum of money to
forsawe ex-Governor James K. Var
daman in the senatorir.l caucus of
last year, which elected United States
Senator Leroy Percy as the successor
to the late Senator McLaurin.
?Following the legislative inquiry a
court trial was had of a Percy sup
porter in the senatorial campaign,
and he was acquitted of the charges
of bribery prefered by Bilbo. Dur
ing the present political campaign
charges and countercharges between
several of the candidates have fol
lowed fast and partisan feeling has
reached a high tension.
Reports as to the extent of Bilbo's
injuries are conflicting. At first It
was said that his wounds were not
serious, but late this afternoon a des
patch from Ackerman, in the immedi
ate vicinity of Sturgis, quotes Dr.
Murphy, who was* called to attend
Bilbo, as saying that his skull is
fractured, but he is not necessarily
fatally hurt.
Osborne to the legislature for a cou
ple more terms he would probably be
on che Blease platform by then.
Blease had a kind word for the
State detectives, John F. Miller and
Robert E. Miller, and said that Dan
Miles was the best supervisor in
South Carolina.
Gov. Blease spoke at some length
of his fight for the governorship,
which he said had been the crowding
ambition of his life He said that
when his father had been on his
deathbed he had called him Cole and
toid him that he wanted him to be
Governor of his state, and that all
his life and that every dollar he had
/made had been devoted to attain the
governorship.
He said he was content with the
Governorship, but conditions might
! arise which would make him a candi
date for United States Senator.
There has been talk of impeaching
him, he said. But if the legislature,
at its next session, should impeach
him, he asserted, he would make a
tour of the State which would result
in his going to the senate as the suc
cessor of Benjamin TC. Tfllman.
In coucluding his speech Govern
or Blease said there were six empty
bedrooms in his manshlon at Colum
jbia and though they were poorly fur
|nished, he invited any of his audience
jwho visited the capital to come to
: the mansion and stop there.
He declared that he owed his suc
I cess in politics largely to the cot
| ton mill men Gov. Blease was suc
ceeded on the rostrum by Congress
i man Johnson, who gave a short gen
jeral talk on representative govern
ment.
Steam Shovel Fatal
By the overturning of a steam
shovel on the New Orleans, Mobile
ond Chicago Railroad at Orchard,
Ala., Wednesday evening, Engineer
W. H. Doolittle and a negro named
Lee Bonna were killed, and Ike Cot
rell and a nervo named Wales were
badly hurt The accident was due
to an overload.
Gave Life for Dog.
In the vain effort to save the life
of his dog C. L Grant, of Danville,
Va., was struck by a Southern Rail
way train Wednesday night and died
an hour later at a hospital. Grant
had cleared the tracks but had gone
back for the dog.
?RG, S. C, SATURDAY, JUL
FEDER SPMKS
He Says Criminals Rale Sooth Carolina,
Referiog lo Blease.
READS A FEW LETTERS
The Atlanta Attorney Gives Some In
teresting Dope at Dublin, Ga., on
Last Tuesday^?In the Letter He
Read Citizens of this State Roast
ed Governor Blease^
A dispatch from Dublin, Ga., says
the barbecue and good roads rally
held there on the .Fourth, was a big
success. A large crowd was present,
and all throughly enjoyed the address
of Hon. Thomas B. Felder, of At
lanta, a former Dublinite.
Mr. Felder was greeted enthusias
tically by the large crowd. Quite a
number fram a distance came in au
tomobiles to be present at the barbe
cue, Macon sending a good delega
tion The barbecue was held under
the auspices of the Dublin chamber
of commerce, and was the first pub
lic function by that body.
"I am unable to restrain a natural
Impulse to refer to an episode in my
life of recent occurence, which has
brought me into unpleasant notoriety.
If in doing so I trench upon the pro
prieties of the occasion, I plead in ex
cuse and extenuation the fact that I
crave above all things the continued
confiedence and friendship of the peo
ple of Laurens county. It is not my
purpose to tax audiences with the full
details of this episode, but I mere
ly desire to briefly advert to it that
you may understand that I shall in
the end receive"from you the welcome
plaudit, 'Well done, thou good and
faithful servant.'
"About four years ago I was em
ployed by the state of South Caroli
na to assist her splendid attorney
general in the Herculean task of
cleaning out her Augean stables of
their filth and corruption, I feel that
I can in modesty say that the task
was not only honorably and credita
bly performed, but the services met
with the approval of the best people
of that state, resulting in the restitu
tion to the treasury of that graft
soaked and graft ridden people ap
proximately, half million dollars, and
in the indictment by the grand juries
of the several counties thereof of
more than a score of thieves and
plunderers
"In the last gubernatorial election
he criminal element of that swte suc
ceeded in electing one of their num
ber to the governorship. I am in
possession of evidence, written and
oral, which in my judgment, would
not only justify, but demand his Im
peachment. If I could read in this
presence the hundreds of letters from
the good but graft-ridden people of
that once glorious commonwealth in
which their greatest acknowledge
ments are tendered and their prayer
ful God-speeds are wished me in the
great work at hand in ridding them
of this moral and political leper, his
confederates and allies, I am sure I
would receive from this andienet
shouts of approval as would make the
welkin ring I will detain you long
enough to read you extracts from but
a few of these letters:"
Colonel Felder then read the fol
lowing extracts from letters:
"The offense which you have com
mitted, which is grevious to the sight
of our present governor, is the great
success you have attained in expos
ing him and his friends in crime."
" 'Have you read with interest the
proceedings in the controversy be
tween yourself and our vagabond
governor* * * *I want to say
with Hub Evans, Blease and Fred
Dominick right in Xewberry, and in
control of things there they could
convict most 'anybody they wanted to
by picking a jury and the plunder
bund of South Carolina, knowing that
you are the man will go to any extent
in perjury and forgery to convict
ou, and Blease is making every effort
to discre'dit you in this state and thus
attempt to weaken the evidence you
nroduce against him by declaring
upon the ignorant rabble that he had
you prosecuted for attempted bribery
* * Governor Blease's requisi
tion is heartily approved by every
decent law-abiding citizen of South
Carolina."
"Permit me to say that while I do
'not approve of all you have said and
jdone in this matter, yet it is impos
jsible to escape the conviction that you
I now hold .'n your hands very largely
the State rf South Carolina for the
next few years at least. It is to be
presumed that you fully appreciate
the gravity of the responsibility,
which by reason of circumstances
rests upon you at this time. There
may not be with you the motive to j
act that would move a citizen of this
state, but many are hoping that you
will justify the confidence placed in
you by our people.
"In conclusion permit me to say
[that if the reprobate who occupies j
the governor's chair can be induced
to accept your challenge (which the
good people of South Carolina feel
sure you will never be able to do),
to sue you for libel, it will give me
pleasure to furnish you a list of 500
of the most prominent citizens resid
ing in every portion of South Caro
lina who will cheerfully swear that
they know the general character of
Blease, that his character is bad and
from a knowledge of his character
they would not believe him on oath."
Y 8, 1911.
THIS SfACE LMDS
VALUABLE AGRICULTURAL STA
TISTICS PUBLISHED.
Value of Crops In South Carolina Per
Square .Mile Reached Second of all
the State*.
Some interesting statistics on the
agricultural situation in South Caro
lina have been prepared by Commis
sioner Watson from the recent federal
census. As has been announced this
State jumped from 21 to 13 points in
rank in agriculture.
The value of the agricultural pro
ducts of the State increased by 28.4
per cent, in one year. The value of
the crops in 1910 was $140,000,000,
which was an Increase over 1909 of
$31,000,000; an increase over 1906
of $62,288,000 and an increase of
$88,685,000 over 1910, all of which
shows that the value of the crops has
increased over 100 per cent, du-ing
te past decade.
With reference to the value of the
crops per square mile South Carolina
ranked second of all the states with
34,518. Other States in comparison:
Illinois, $5,122; Georgia, $3,743;
Texas, $1,369
'All other Southern states show the
value of crops per square mile to
be less than $3,000.
The cotton crop of the South ac
coding oceo802EN.Plah-AGIVxzfiff..
cording to the statistics gleaned for
1910 went on the market for $963,
180,000. The crop of 1909 was
worth $812,000,000 and for 190S,
$ 81,23 0,000. It will be seen that
the cotton crop of 1910 was worth
$1,1,000,000 more than 1908. There
are in the South 440,000,000 acres
of land available for cotton and only
one out of 12 acres is planted Of
the cotton crop 19 per cent was con
sumed in the United States; 49 per
cent was exported and 35 per cent re
mained in this country up to Feb
ruary, 1911.
Concening the value per bale of
cotton the following comparison
is given: Value per bale, 1910, $87,
15; value per bale, 1904, $50.37;
value per bale, 1898, $30.22.
It is pointed out that the sum of
$604 was received for 20 bales of
cotton in 1898 while the farmer re
ceived $1,743 for the same number In
1910.
In South Carolina there were in
1910 175,180 farms or an increase
of 13 per cent over the proceeding
decade. The value of the lands and
buildings increased by 16.2 per cent;
implements and machinery 112 per
cent; landa 169 per cent; Increase in
labor bill 76 per cent
These statistics show that there
were 20,825 farms added. There
are 64,227 owners, or an increase of
$4,810, and of these farms 14,987 are
mortgaged. The tenants number 11,
097. The increase in the number of
tenants during the decade was 16,
113, and ..he same in proceeding de
cade, 26/100.
PREDICTS DEMOCRATIC VICTORY
Well Known Tennessean Says Re
publicans Will Lose.
It is the belief of Benton McMil
lan, of Tennessee, for twenty years a
leader among the Democrats in con
gress that the party will sweep the
nation next year and bake possession
of every branch of the federal gov
ernment. Mr. McMillan has been in
Washington the past week, and he
has conferred with Democratic lead
ers in both the senate and house.
"I wan an elector of the Tilden
ticket," said Governor McMillan Mon
day, "and I have participated in ev
ery campaign from then' 'till now,
but the party has not been in bet
ter shape for a great many years.
The situation today is the reverse of
what it has been in past presidential
contests.
"In the past the Republican party
has been united and the Democratic
party divided. Today we are united
and the Republicans divided hope
lessly so. The division are not lo
j cal, but general. The more advanced
and enlightened Republicans have
come to realize that in the language
of President Taft, at Providence, the
'Chinese wall' has to come down."
SUFFER IX CHICAGO.
The Awful Heat Drives Folks from
Their Crowded Homes
The poor people of the large cities,
who live in the crowded tenements,
suffer greatly from the heat. A Chi
cago dif.patch says thousands of peo
ple spent Monday night in the parks
or on the sidewalks in an effort to
get relief from the intense heat. At
midnight the thermometer was hov
ering close to 90 and during the
night i'-. did not get below 85. In
the crowded West Side district early
Tuesday the sidewalks were lined
with people who found it impossible
indoors. Twenty-two permits to
bury bf.bies were issued Monday ana
the. health authorities predict that
the number will be largely increas
ed if the heat continues.
Xot So Sane After All.
Revised figures on the number of
deaths and injured in the United
States indicate the celebration of
1911 cost 38 lives and 1,117 were
injured, (as compared with 44 killed
and 2,485 injured last year, and 62
killed and 3,345 injured in 1909.
Fireworks claimed 18 victims; fire
arms 12; gunpowder 5, and toy pis
tols 3.
HUNDREDS SUCCUMB
THE HOT WAVE PLAYED HAVOC
WITH THE PEOPLE.
It Caused Over Five Hundred Deaths
in Four Days in the North and
West.
The loss of more than 500 lives is
to be credited to the general heat
wave of Jury 1 to 5, 1911. The torrid
period will be memorable in weather
annals for Its wide extent, its lou*,
duration, its record-breaking temper
atures in many places and the long
list of fatalities which it has caused
The news dispatches which cities
from the North Atlantic seaboard
west to the Plains States have ex
changed during those four days, ac
count, according to a review Wednes
day night for the death of 431 per
sons.
Incomplete as the record is from
the failure at many points to report
specifically the number of deaths, it
is as sericus as shown, as remer
bered for many years if not a record.
The number of prostrations is still
more difficult to compute, but it ap
| pears that thousands have been seri
ously overcome by the boat in the
great cities.
Scores of Deaths Reported.
At New York, although the fore
caster's prediction of "not quite so
warm" was literally true Wednesday,
the maximum temperature was only
1 degree of Tuesday's extreme heat.
The exhausting effects of the hot
wave were manifested in a record
tally of heat prostrations. Thy day's
list of deaths from heat in the metro
politan district was thirty-six up to
midnight^
A Boston dispatch says another day
f excessive heat wilted New Englana
ers Wednesday. More than forty
deaths were reported in New England
Wednesday, although the tempera
ture was slightly lower than Tuesday,
half a dozen degrees being reporteu,
There were fifteen deaths due direct
ly to the heat within the limits of
Boston during the day.
Heat killed thirty-two persons, in
cluding twelve babies, and prostrated
dozens fn Chicago Wednesday, the
fifth day of the present heat wave.
The temperature was recorded ".t
101.5 in the weather bureau at 2 30
Wednesday afternoon, equalling the
high point registered Tuesday, while
at the street level, and the mercury
climbed to 108 degrees.
A dispatch from Cleveland, Ohio,
says a light breeze Wednesday morn
ing caused the mercury to drop sev
eral degrees, after it had reached
96 degrees in the weather .bureau
and 102 at the street level. The
deaths of eleven babies were attrib
uted to the heat.
At Baltimore three deaths from the
heat and twenty-eight prostrations
were recorded Wednesday The max
imum official temperature was 97
degrees -t 4 P. M.
At Philadelphia, Pa., twenty-nine
deaths from heat were reported Wed
nesday making a total of forty-one
since the heat wave hegun.
At Albany, N. Y , the official mer
cury climbed to 98 at 3 o'clock Wed
nesday and four deaths were report
ed.
DIED FROM A MOLE.
Made Its Appearance on the Arm Al
most One Year Ago.
Augustus W. Mot.t, of New York,
president of the Mott Iron Works,
of which his grandfather was the
founder and veil known as a yachts
man, is dead at his home as the
result of the development of an dis
dinary pigmented mole into malig
nant growth. The mole which was
on IMr. (.Mutt's right arm showed the
; first signs of Irritation less than a
j year apo. It developed rapidly intc
j what is known as a molane sarcoma,
j Medical science has no cure for this
j disease. Mr Mott was not yet 50
[years old. Until the development ol
I the malignant growth he had always
enjoyed good health. This form ol
disease Is '-ery rare.
BLEASE SEES JOE BATES.
IThe Governor Visits the Condemned
Man in Jail.
I While in Spartanburg Tuesday
'night Governor Blease visi'ed in the
'county jail .ice Battt. the former
j Spartanburg police officer, under
i sentence to hang on July 12. The
[governor has recently been ufked to
'commute Bates' sentence to life im
. prlsonment ami the lin'.icf is here
he will do so Dates had 'o-cn sen
tenced to hang on three different oc
casions, but each time ois attorney^
have succeeded in having the sentence
stayed. A commission appointed re
cently to pass upon Dates' sanity
I reported that Bates was not insane.
He shot and killed a >^ung woman
|.because she left him and f,et marri
ed.
Will Start a Feud.
With the killing of Leslie Lynn at
Sayre, Ala., Tuesday by his father-in
law Alec Brewis, it fs believed that
one of the most serious feuds ever
engendered in the mountains of Ala
bama has been precipitated. Four
families are involved, including about
20 grown men, all of whom reside
in and around the section known as
Cat mountain
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TWO CENTS PER COPY.
USED HB^KMFE
A Co King ?lEraj in Neu berry Coootj
That Hay Result Fatally.
TEILS STORY OF FIGHT
Griffin Williams Cuts Andrew Daven
port at Old Town in Newberry
County.?According to the Story
Williams Was Attacked.and Forced
to Defend Himself.
A dispatch from Wards says Mr
Griffin Williams, of Newberry, who
so seriously and perhaps ?atally cut
Andrew" Davenport, a white man, at
Old Town Tuesday went to Saluda
Wednesday morning and placed him
self in the custody of Sheriff Sample,
awaiting the results of the trouble.
From whit can be learned Williams
tried hard to avoid trouble with Dav
enport at Old Town, where a Fourth,
of July barbe.ue was served. Old
Town is just across the Saluda River
in Newberry County; both men are
Kewborriana.
It appears that several days ago
WiiliainB, who was working as a con
stable in Saluda County, seized some
whiskey found In the possession of
Cary McCarthy, near Denny's. Last
week, so the story goes, while Wil
liams was at Silver Street, In New
berry-County, Davenport approached
him and stated that he, Williams, had
gotten one of hie, Davenport's kins
rien in trouble over in Saluda County,
referring to the seizure of Cary Mc
Carthy's liquor, and he tried to in
volve Williams in a difficulty about
it.
It is said that Davenport cursed
Williams on that occasion and said
some pretty tough things on him.
It is likewise stated that William?
kept his head and although urged by
some of his friends to resent what
Davenport said, made the statement
that inasmuch as he was an offcier
ho would not ailow himself to be
drawn into a difficulty Tuesday at
Old Town, Davenport again approch
ed Williams and rebuked-Mm for tak
ing McCarthy's liquor and saying tha*
inasmuch as one of his kinsmen had
been gotten into trouble, Williams
would have to get him into trouble.
1 The story goes that Williams trieft
1 to avoid any difficulty and quietly
walked away, going to Chapman's
store. It seems that 'Davenport fdl
, lowed him, and after some words at
? tacked him. In the tussif both men
? went out of the store door in the
I little plar-za at the front, here the
; fight was continued ah one of Wil
! Ham's legs got fastened between some
? slats nailed around as banisters, and
swaying backward fell and Davenport
i fell over him and out on the ground.
! While in this position, it is sard,
? that Davenport collared Williams and
' the latter reached for his knife and
gashed him across the muscle of the
I left arm and across the heart. As soon
? as he was cut Davenport, It seems,
! loosened his grip on Wiilliams and
running a short distance fell; he bled
? profusely, and It was 'thought he
? would bleed to death before medical'
- aid could be had.
A telephone message from Newber
ry stated that he was not dead, but
was in a critical condition Williams
came across Saluda River after the
trouble and spent Tuesday night in
' Saluda County. Wednesday morning
on hearing the Davenport was dead
he came to Saluda and delivered hiru
, self intc- the hand of Sheriff Sample
, and Is now occupying a room at the
i Herlong Hotel.'
Williams is a brother-in-law to
s Governor 'Blease, and until a few
days ago was operating in Saluda
? County as a special constable. Upon
; being advised by the supervisor that
! a constable was not needed in the
? ounty both Williams and R. L. Werts
? who was also a constable, were dis
. missed by Governor Blease. In case
! Davenport should die Williams will
1 at once surrender himself to Sheriff
! E.uford at Newberry.
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A DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT
Mr. Luther Hutchinson Meets Death
From Scalding Steam.
Luther E. Hutchinson, an employe
of the Dargan Lumber company's
planing mill at ?ffingham was fatally
scalded by the bursting of a throttle
early Friday morning, dying tha$
j night. The funeral, which was in
jcarge of the Woodmen of te World,
was he'd Saturday in the Presbyter
ian church Rev. M. B. McLaughlin
j conducting the services. Mr. Hutch
inson is; survived by his wife and two
children, Mrs. J. P. Moore arid Her
ibert X. Hutchinson. He is also sur
vived by his father and three broth
ers.
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Peculiar Accident.
Policeman Horris, of the YorkvilJe
force, was seriously wounded in a bi
cycle-motorcycle collision Wednesday
afternoon, and fears arc entertained
for his life. It seems that Harris
was riding a bicycle attached b/ a
rope to a motorcycle ridden by a Mr.
Fink, c-f that place. Just outside of
Yorkvi.le a tire of the motorcycle
burst c.nd threw Harris who was in
the ref .r on the bicycle, broking' his
collar-bone and causing the discharge
of his pistol, the ball entering nea*
the upper edge of the hip, and1 in
flicting a serious and perhaps fatal,
wound.