PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FIEND LYNCHED Tie Brat?! Assault oa a"\Jiey tT J Girl at Honea Path Avenged. j BRUTE HUNG AND. SHOT 0 ? Taken from Officers After Exciting Chase Through Several Counties, the Fiend was Taken to the Scene of His Crime, Hung and Riddled With Bullets. * A negro boy, ft bout seventeen years, old, committed a criminal as sault on a twelve year old white girl at Honea Path on Tuesday morning. The .brutal assault occur red- about half-past seven o'clock some three hundred yards from the limits of the town, where the little girl had gone to put a cow in a pasture. According to the little jgirl, she was attacked from the rear ,whi!e she ?was going to'a pasture with cows, the attack being made within three hun dred yards of the incorporated lim its of Honea Path, and after drag ging his little victim about seventy five yards into a patch of woods he accomplished his dasstardly purpose behind a dead log. The little girl emerged from the woods, attracted the attention of a passerby and gave the alarm. The neuro then passed through the town to a butcher shop where he worked. He v>3 found later at the shop by Constable Haynes, who took him before the girl, and after she had positively identified him, the ?constable, with two other citizens, hurried the negro to the jail at An derson In an automobile. The infur iated citizens were searching the woods during the Avhile and did not learn that the negro had. been ap prehended until he was on his way to the, jail. As soon as the dastardly outrage became known the people of Honea Path gathered and began a rigid search as above stated for the fiend. As soon as it was learned that the negro had been caught and taken to Anderson, a crowd left Honea Path for that place, bent on lynching the fiend if trey could get him in their hands. A dispatch from Anderson says ?:flT?re than" a hundred-heavily armed " men arrived there at eleven o'clock from Honea Path. Some came on trolley cars, others on the train, and the remainder in automobiles. Fif teen minutes before the .crowd ar rived at Anderson thenegro had been taken in a fast automobile and was speeding to the Greenville jail, thirty six miles away. The P.onea Path citizens followed in pursuit. They left Anderson in about ten automobiles The men with the prisoner arrived in Green ville at ten minutes to two o'clock. The car they left in was a fast one, but when it departei from Anderson it had no chains on the wheels. It had been raining all night and the roads were muddy, heavy and slip pery. dinarunae*aboi/?rivb..fielddflurfat,emo At 1.50 o'clock the Anderson au tomobile dashed through the streets of Greenville and up to the county jail door. At the jaii the sheriff had received a telephone message from Sheriff Xing, at Anderson to spirit ?the ne-7.ro off to Spartanburg. A change of automobiles was made at the jail and* the flight to Spartanburg taken up. Within ten minutes after the auto mobile .bearing the r.egro had depart ed, a big Anderson touring car, con taining Josh Ashley and four other men, steamed through Main street. "Citizen" Josh clutched a Winches ter rifle in his hands and eagerly in quired where the ne;i.ro had been taken. Upon being told that the par ty had proceeded to Spartanburg, the word of/command was given and the big auto dashed on up the street. Within five minutes another An derson car steamed into the city, closely followed by still another ma chine. The mud-tespattered occu pants, upon being readily informed by Greenville eitizchs which way the negro had been carried, applied the power to their machines and dashed on. At Greenville the pur suers divided, some going one road and some another. Tn the depths of a forest six miles north of Greenville, an armed mob of twenty-five men, headed by "Cit izen ' John Ashley, of Honea Path, a member of Anderson County's legis lative delegation overpowered Dep uty iSheriff Van 'R. .Martin, of Ander son County, and Sheriff J. Perry Poole, of Greenville County, and took the fiend from their custody. The trenibling n^gro was placed in the car in which Ashley and four other men rode and followed by a train of several automobiles from [ Anderson /and Greenville counties,! loaded with determined men and bristling with shotguns and rifles, the ringleaders turned in their fury and started toward Honea Path. Prom ises were made the sheriffs that the negro would be carried back to the scene of his crime and the "older heads" of the town consulted as to what should be done with him. The negro was carried to the iden tical spot where the crime was com mitted and from there was taken to the nearest telephone pole and swung up by one foot. Four hundred shots, as near as can be estimated were -BRYAN DARES TAFT COMMONER CHALLENGES . THE . ^"?RESIDENT TO PUBLISH M4 _,_ The Names of the Men on "Whose Re commendation He Appointed Su preme Court v Judges. In editorial appearing in The Commoner this week Mr. 3ryan chal lenges President Taft to make public the written and verbal recommenda tions on which he appointed Justice White to the .position of chief justice over Justice Harlan and recommen dations, written and verbai, on which he appointed the juftticet. whom he bas placed on the supreme bench. The editorial says in part: "At Cherryville, Kan., the presi dent repeated the challenge he issued at Detroit to Mr. Bryan to produce an example of restraint ol trade that would not come within the scope of the supreme court decisions in the Standard Oil and Tobr.cco Trust cases. "He spoke of the criticism as iglib. It would be a reflection on tre presi dent's intelligence to assum* that he expects his remarks on the trust question to be taken seriously. "He knows that Mr. Bryan has only reiterated the criticisms contain ed in his dissenting opin on of Jus tice Harlan and in the report of the senate judiciary committee filed by 'Senator Nelson three years ago. "Justice Harlan and Senator Nel son pointed out that the amendment written into the law by ihe supreme iCOUTt practically nullified the crimi nal clause of the anti-trusi law.. Re plying on the authorities cited by Jus tice Harlan and Senator Nelson, Mr. Bryan has asserted snd asserts again that it will be found practically im possible to convict a trust magnate* in a criminal court. ?"Does the president believe a criminal conviction possibie? If so, why does he hesitate to prosecute the officials of (the Standard Oil and Tobacco companies? "Mr. Bryan challenges Mr. Taft to make public the written rind verbal recommendations upon which he ap pointed Justice Wlhlte to the position of chief justice over Justice Harlan and the recommendations, written and verbal, on which he appointed the justices whom he had placed on the supreme bench. Did he know how they stood on trust questions or was it purely accidental '.hat ail of his appointees took the trust side of the question?" FIGHTING IN PORTUGAL. Catholic Priests and Others Trying to Re-Enthrone the King. A cablegram from Lisbon, Portu gal, says Portugese Roya'ists, after their defeat at Vinhaes, where they lost fifty men, entreched themselves in the rough country and are await ing the arrival of anothor column under Capt. Couciere. It ds reported they have eight field pieces and four Maxim guns. A party of Monarchists "commanded by a priest attacked an express train carrying troops to the north near Monsanto. They placed an obstruc tion on the tracks which was discov ered by the engineer, who stopped his train when it was within fifty yards of the pile of stones and rail road ties. The troops responded and drove oc the Royalists. Priests are taking an active part in the organization of guerilla bands and are leading them in the combat with uplifted crucifixes. Monarchist flags are flying over churches at Cas tello Branco, and Santo Thryso. The government is finding difficulty in handling the cavalry and infantry In the mountainous districts. Traffic in Unripe Fruit. Gov. Blease referred to Commis sioner Watson a communication re ceived at his office from Florida ask in? that he co-o-pcrate with Florida officials in confiscating unripe fruit imported through the ports. Gov. Blease said he attached little impor tance to the matter, considering it incidental to the rivalry between the fruit companies. fired into his body. Winchester ri fles, magazine pistols, revolvers and shotguns bein;? the weapons of death used. Thus ended one of the most sensational man chases that section of the State has ever known. Three negro men were carried be fore tre little girl who lived with her stepmother. She identified the last nne, Willis Jackson, as the fiend who had attacked her. She said she was sure that neither of the first two was the brute, hut she readily recognized the third one, and the universal opinion is that the negro who committted the outrage was the one hung and shot to death at Honea Path Tuesday night, several hours after the commission of the awful crime. The little girl is in a critical con dition. She was badly bruised, ter rbly lacerated and was greatly shocked. 'Sre displayed an cnusual amount of nerve, hovever, in look ing at the three negroes .brought be fore her for identification. The fath er of the lass is engaged in the lum ber business in Southwest Georgia, and was away from homn at the time. The mother of the little girl is dead, having been accidentally shot by her husband some years ago. ORANGEBU AS HE SEES IT Commissioner Watson Says ike Far mers Host Bold Cotton. HOW IT APPEARS TO HIM Tells of His Observations on a Trip . .Through the South, and Gives it I . .as His Opinion that the Farmers [ Are staking a Mistake to Sell Their Cotton Now. "I dor.'t hesitate to say that the man who is now taking his cotton to market is the most gigantic fool that the world has any record of, and, speaking in all seriousness, there ought to be some law that would pun ish him for deliberately robbing his wife and children from what they are: entitled by the law of supply and de-1 mand." This statement was made- recently by E. J. Watson, commissioner of ag riculture of South Carolina and pres ident of the permanent cotton con gress of ;:he South, in discussing the situation in reference to the market ing of cotton. He is of the opinion that the cotton caterpillar is a bless ing in disguise. "To me, as president of the South ern Cotton congress," said Mr. Wat son, "in the last week, while cotton has been falling in price to the vicin ity of nine cents, have come many and varied communications bearing; upon the situation. On top of it all has come the appearance of the cot ton boll worm, commonly known as the cotton caterplilar, and mistaken ly described as the "army worm." This last I regard as a blessing in disguise. Why the farmers of the State should become panic stricken over the appearance of the worm at this stage of the game, when he can not possibly cause a loss of over $50, 000 for the entire State in his work upon late planted cotton, while two such counties as Orangeburg and Xewberry can cause a greater loss by their farmers taking their cotton to | market at this time, is something' that it i:> hard to understand from the standpoint of business. "I regard the appearance of the cotton worm as a blessing, in that iij shows how quickly the farmer will respond ;o a present moment danger] when it ?ippe'ars'upon his own door ster>. Multiply the cotton boll worm thousands of times and set him upon the doorstep of the average farmer and perhaps you will see a realization of what it means to play into the' hands of the bears, upon perfectly natural lines, and give away $25 per bale on cotton by taking it to market at present. I don't hesitate to say that the man who is now taking his cotton to market is the most gigantic: fool that the world has any record of, and, speaking in all seriousness, there ought to be some law that would punish him for deliberately robbing; his wife and children from what they, are entitled to by the law of supply: and demand. It is indeed a pitiable j spectacle that a lot of ignorant and; frightened farmers are making of1 themselves and their country by rush-j in? their cotton to market. "The hears in New Pork, most of i them Southern men, I am sorry to say, who are traitors for money, to f their country, and I mean the nation J at large, have simply done what in-: telligent men would do. They have, taken advantage of the fact that the' crop has opened all over the belt! three weeks earlier than ever known and they had good sense enough to put their buyers in the field and show to the world larger receipts at inter ior points and ports than have ever been krown before. Watch them reach the harvest on the spots just obtained in this way. And you can't blame them. Any man would have done the same thing. "They know full well that the world demands at present 10,000,000 bales of cotton, and they have sim ply collected the premium on ignor ance that the Southern producer has up to this time ever been ready and willing ?-0 pay. The truth of the I matter is that the average farmer doesn't give a continental about the economic side of his crop. Me don't even know what becomes of it when he sells it to a cotton buyer at an av erage of two grade less than it really is, and the pity of it all he doesn't care. He believes any lie that is sent: out from any old cotton firm, and ij don't hesitate to say it, from even: the United States government, as wit nessed by recent reports, and doesn't give the snap of his Inger aDout the business end of the proposition. "I picked up the New York Ameri can of Sunday and looked at Ranlett's [summary of the cotton situation. The head lines told the story, saying 'sell ing by the South alone responsible for decline in the last few months.' Mr. Ranlett, very properly, charges the South itself with being alone respon sible for the decline in price in the last few month, and the Southern producer ought to hang his head in shame at the cowardice he has dis played in rushing his cotton to mar ket. "Over in Montgomery, the other day, several thousand men?Southern men?interested in cotton assembled to take action looking to an intelli gent marketing of the crop. At that time it was not even partially appar ent that cotton would open three weeks earlier than it has ever been known to do, a.nd that the situation RG. S. C, THURSDAY, OCTC that exists today would develop in spite of any retractive movement, no matter how intelligent or forceful it might be. A wise policy was decided upon and it was determined to apply Southern brain to the financing of the distressed cotton. The latter, how ever, could not be done all in the twinkling of an eye, arad the opening, occurred earlier than anybody could expect. Every man there knew that there was a certain proportion of dis tressed cotton that would either have to go to market or be financed. This cotton has about all gone to the mar ket, and the effect of it has been re flected in the phenomenal drop in price; that drop on its face seems alarming, but It is not frightening those who are handling, to the best of their ability, the situation. I don't know whether Mr. Barrett is going to be able to secure the French-English loan or not, but I do know that if every man in the South, who can at this moment possibly hold a bale of cotton, even his own house, or front yard, will do so proper price for cot ton is as certain to be obtained as the sun shines, for as I have said, the world demand at tifls moment is for, 16,000,000 bales, and nothing stands between an honest price, regulated by the law of supply and demand, but dense ignorance on the part of the producer coupled with the shrewdness of the bear gambler in Wall street and New Orleans. In its late analysis the whole thing is noth ing more or less than a holdim;?. prop osition. "And speaking of holding T wish to say that I have just, been through the country, across the Slates of Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina, and 1 believe, honestly, that the.plain farmer has been awakening to the situation. All the way from Virgin ia to Edgefield county in this State, I passed only six farm "wagons loaded with cotton gofng to market. We found some gigantic fools on public squares willing to rob their own flesh and blood, but this condition was rare. All along the road from Salis burg, N. C, via Charlotte, Lancaster, Kershaw and Camden, while not more than 3Q|.,per cent, of the cotton had been picked, I found farmer after farmer stacking up his cotton in his front yard. From 10 to 25 bales was an average. I found also that these men were using the piazzas of their homes, and in a score of instances one or two rooms of their residences for the storage of picked but as yet uilson headquarters are to be op ened this week at 42 Broadway, New York, with Mr. Goltra in general charge, and with a group of wealthy Princeton men looking after the im portant buisness of raising money to manage the preconvention plan. This is the substance of the story brought back by politioians who were present at the National Convention Congress at Kansas City. Mr. Byran spoke there,, spending most of a day and night. Durimj his stop in Kan sas City he confored with many Democratic leaders. In substance, he said fo all of them, according to all accounts: "It iis not my desire to discourage any man's ambitions: I am certainly not going to be put in the position of appearing to attempt dictation. You gentlemen go right ahead with your plans and ambitions. But Wilson is the man who is going to be nominat ed. It's .just as good as fixed." That Mr. Bryan is. for W.lsuti in stead of Champ Clark is regarded as the most important development. The differences between the Nebraskan and the Speaker are commonly re ferred hack to the Underwood-Bryan incident, and to umbrage Mr. Bryan is alleged to have taken because Mr. Clark did not stand for the Bryan ideas in connection with the wool and steel schedules. At any rate, the de fection of Bryan from Clark is ac cepted as very well established. The recent death of Col. Mose Wet more, the St. Louis tobacco million aire and friend of Bryan, opened the way to the selection of a new national commltteeman from that State. The most difficult part of the pres ent story to accept is that Goltra is to be made the new Missouri eom mitleeman. He is frankly a Wilson man, and his selection would be in ef fect a repudiation of both Folk and Clark. Champ Clark is not in position to oppose Folk's dispositions, because be was chairman of the convention which endorsed Folk for Missouri's Presidential choice. STANDS BY HIS PARDONS. Gov. Blense Says He Has Xo Apolo gies to Make For Them. The Spartanburg correspondent of The News and Courier says Gov. I'.lease in speaking of the pardons that he had granted, said that he had no apologies to make in that respect, fc>r when he looked into it and found, i'i his judgment, the pr.rty w."s worthy of being pardoned he would turn them loose. He also told of an inter esting case of a little girl who wanted him to free her brother from the Re formatory to help provide a living for her mother, who was an invalid. Gov. Hler.se said rather than to have turn ed that girl down he would have re signed from the Governor's chair. He stated that he was not through par doning convicts yet: that there were many others in the Penitentiary that he intended to free. Soldier Shoots a Xegro. Daniel Simpson. 20 years old. a negro driver, was fatally shot in the abdomen by Sergt. Hardsow, guard in charge of the ?,Mi!l Creek post" on Fort Monroe. It is said that the ne gro insulted several women and drew a revolver on Ser:f. Hardsaw when the latter attempted to arrest him. Blew Up Four Men. Four Men were killed and six in jured by a dynamite explosion sinty feet under ground in a shaft under Central Park, in New York, where they were working on an acqueduct for the water system. Ten Killed in Cave-In. Ten persons were killed and others injured by a cave-in at a Canadian Northwestern construction camp near Colwood, Southeast of Vancouver, PiMCrUSGS A BUBBLE CURRENT EVENTS SET RIGHT BY NEWBERRY OBSERVER. Showes That a Majority of the Farms in South Carolina are Owned by "White People. ? We have seen it stated in several newspapers that a. majority of the farms in South Carolina were owned by negroes, and that they were still buying land in large quantities. We could not understand how this could be true and intended to hunt the matter p, but the Newberry Observer has fore stalled us by getting the facts much better than we could have done. Here is what the Observer says on the matter: "Current Events"?described in its title as "a condensed newspaper, weekly, for use in public and private schools"?published at Spring-field, Mass., and Chicago, 111., contains some very startling information for the boys and girls of this great coun try. "Current Events" has been in existence for 11 years and, accord ing to its own statement, "has a lar ger circulation than any other school paper in the world"; and in an ex cellent school journal, though it does blunder sometimes, as in this in i stance, when it says, in its issue of Sept. 29: "Negroes are. buying] many farms throughout the South and especially in South Carolina. From 1900 to 1010 the farms owned by negroes in creased by 11,295. There are now 176,1 SO farms in that state. More than half of them , or 96,696, are owned by the colored people." This big blunder is no doubt occa sioned by mistaking the meaning of "farms operated'" as reported in the census. The Observer has not seen the agri cultral censu for 1910 but has the census of 1900; from which we take the following statistices as to> per cent of "farms operated" by whites and colored in the Sothern states at that time: White. Colored. Vir-.'.ina.J3 27 North Carolina .... 76 24 South Carolina. 45 55 Georgia.63 37 Florida.67 33 Alabama. 58 32 Mississippi. 42 58 Louisana.50 50 Arkansas.74 26 Texas.SI 19 The census of 1900 also says that of the 155,355 farms in the Southern states 69,954 are "operated by whites and S5.401 are "operated" by color ed that is 45 per cent by whites and 55 by colored. It is qui.e likely that I he figures of the 1910 census do not differ greatly from those of 1900. The editor of "Current Events" has carelessly fallen into the error of confusing 'operated' with owned." We notice in the census of 1900 that only 24 per cent of the farms "owned" 'by them; which would ' operated" by colored farmers were mean somewhere about 13 per cent of the wtole number of farms. Another fact stated in the census must be taken into consideration; namely, that of the farms "operated" by whites and negroes respectively, those "operated" by whites averaged 161 acres, while those "operated" by colored averaged only 51 acres. So that, making the proper calculations, we find that colored people "owned" about four per cent of the land in South Carolina in 1900; and they pro bably own about the same per cent now; possibly a little more. We do not say this to depreciate the achievements of the colored race, for many uf them have done well in accumulatin;.': property .biyndsutry ra accumulating property by indulstry and economy. Mut a newspaper pub lished for "use in public and private schools" and having "a larger circu lation than any other school paper in the world", ought to be better in-1 formed than to publish such "facts" as those embraced in the above clip ping. FOUR MEN WERE KILLED. Dynamite Exploded Sixty Feet Umie the Ground by Drill. Four men were killed and six In? I jured Monday by an enplosion of dy namite sixty feet under ground in a| shaft under Central Park, where they were working on the acqueduct for the Catskill water system. The dead men were all Italian laborers. .Michael Kearney, fore men of the gang, and John Waco, aj workman, may die. Kearney and John W. Marlin, the nij;ht supcrin-l tendent of the work, were arrested on charges of criminal negligence. ! The shaft where the explosion oc-j curred is being drilled and blasted through solid rock and is about 161 feet in diameter. A drill in charge of one of the men struck the explo sive and immediately tons of rock shot into the air, crushing the men. Found Killed in Saloon. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Kraft, propri etors of a road house seven miles from Detroit, were murdered in their saloon Saturday night, and the police are searching for Charles Fuller, a former employe. A daughter of the murdered couple claims Fuller shot at her and missed and then killed her parents. The tragedy followed a quarrel between the girl and Fuller. TWO CENTS PER COPY. HIT AT OLD BEN Got. Blease Doubts (be Trothfolofss of Senator TilfmaD's -*- 1 LETTER TO BOSE CREWS Governor Blease Says He Believes . .Senator Tillman Was in a Combi? nation With Richards to Bring Out Chief Justice Jones for Gover nor in the Next Election. The ?partanfcurg Herald says sur rounded by a constantly argumented throni? of admirers at the Argyle hotel Friday night, Governor Cole L. Blease freely expressed his views on different subjects to a reporter for the Herald and disclosed something of his plans. He made it plain that notwithstand ing Senator B. R. Tillman s denial, he believed there was truth in the story published by W. T. Crew3, edi tor of the Greenwood News-Scimitar, to the effect that Senator Tillman and Maj. John G. Richards, Jr., had plotted to bring out Cheif Justice Ira, B. Jones, of the supreme court, as a candidate to defeat him for gov ernor. He said he believed the program had been to elect Maj. Richards lieu tenant governor. Then, if Senator Tillman was compelled for any rea son to give up his seat in the Senate, Justice Jones would take his place and Maj. Richards would step into step in-?.c--U. .. . etaoi shrdluu the governor's chair. Expects to Beat Jones. "I am going to bo reelected," said Governor Blease, when asked if he would say anything concerning poli tices. "I will beat Jones by a bigger majority than the one ,by which I de feated Featherstone, and if Tillman's man Richards is a candidate I will beat them both." Another interesting statement of ?the governor was that he intended to remedy conditions at the hosiery mill of the State penitentiary throuijh leg islation to be enacted by the general assembly at its approaching session. Bris.ling up at the suggestion that the legislature might not be amend able to his wishes, he said: "They better had. That's all I have to say". Continuing, Governor Blease said "that little grand jury" in Richland county, which found the hoisery mill, to be sanitary, had set itself against fome of the best physicians in the State. He memtioned physicians who lie said, declared the hoisery mill was a disease breeder, and said he was marshalling his facts for submission to the legislature. It was foolish the governor said, for laymen to set themselves against experts. For instance, he said, the floors and walls and ceiling of the Ar gyle hotel seemed to be clean and sanitary. But suppose, he suggested that expert physicians should say that the walls and ceiling were in fested with disease germs; would a reasonable layman attempt to contra dict them? This, he sad, was the case with the hosiery mill. Speaking of legislation which he would commend 'to the general asem bly, Governor Blease said he would try to obtain the passage of a law establishing two cents a mile as a flat rate for passenger transportation on the steam railroads of the State. This, he said, would obviate the mile age nuisance and made it possible for poor people to 'travel short dis tances as cheaply as wealthy people. Under the law he proposes, he said, a passenger who was traveling ten miles could buy a ticket for 20(eents, or give the conductor I1) cents or give the conductor ten miles of mileage, r.s was most convenient. If the rail people did net trust, their conductors, re asserted, they ought to discharge them and get men whom they could trust; and if he were a conductor and his employers did not trust him he would quit his position. The governor said he would also recommend to the legislature all the measures he recommended before which were not passed. Fiend Will He Lynched. A dispatch from Coatesville, Fa., says another lynching is threatened in that county as a result of a brutal attack made upon a student at the Coatesville school by an unknown negro. The populace has not been wrought to such a fever of excite ment since the lynching of Zack Walker on Snday, August 13. The flend will be lynched if caught. Deadly Hot Supper Begin. Walter Cobb, colored, lies at the point, of death as the result of four pistol shot wounds received at the hands of ono Jim Howland, also col ored. The shooting occurred Satur day night some two or three miles south of Aiken, and followed a, dis pute which had arisen at a hot sup per at the home of Howland. Ship and Crew Lost^ The sinking of an' unidentified British barkentine said to have hail ed from Bridgeton, N. S., off the en tance to the Bay of Fundy, on "Sep tember 30, with all on board,was re ported by Capt, Goodwin, of the fish ing schooner Good. Luck. The crew of the barkentine UP generally thirty oj) more men. 1