The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, September 14, 1911, Image 1

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* .-1 „ SKST t > -v at '■'iS' .■? iM I •-. -t ■w i W'/ te: .'i%r 1 * iTTTr BARNWELL. S. tX. THURSDA' Wk IER 14.1011 WAS PA® 'V frilis Tbl He S«w B iWit CU «b1 Thu Shttl His WHt. IF-' DESCRIBES THE SCENE mi K-jiwr COMMISSION WILL OIVB PVBUC NEWS VERY BOON. That Will Be of FewIMe Interest to Mr. T. B. Felder, So DectarM Mr. Domlnkk, Kxtraordnai lly Sensational Torn In the Noted Virginia Murder Trial of a Veiy Rich Man far Killing Hl» Jfourg Wife on a Lonely Road - Late at Night, ^th all the evidence closed which nm entirely of a cihcumstantlal character In the famous murder trial Cheeterfield, Va .'bf H. C. Beattie. Ir., for the murder of his young and nnd beautiful wife a few months ago on a road some miles from Rich* ud, all calculations were upset in to when the case wmiid end by Spec- Proseeutor Wendenburg’s an nouncement ua Tiinisday that he ask the court to re-open the case admit the testimony of a man Who claims to have been an eye wit- tragedy. MA^Wcudenburg received the In- formanbn which may change the whole aspect of the case in a recent mall. Th% writer, who until a few days after the murder of Mrs. Beat- tie was a farm hand employed on a place near the scene of the crime, said that he actually saw young Beat- tie kill hj.§ wife—saw him knock her from th# automobile with the butt n and shoot h^r as she Ible on the ground. He {tat Beattie had threatened he found that he had wit- «\ deed and the following him a suit of clothes and h which to get away, he kept quiet at first be- cauMS'he was afraid, the man says does not want Beattie to es- ishment and is willing to ■ The Chesterfield farmer men- In the letter acknowledged an by the name used by the was employed by him until a after Che murder, and fur lared it was a fact that the d was chasing a runaway the night of the murder. Is Ills story the Tng* for a cow when the man and woman in .on the (Midlothian me time after 10 o’clock, the accused husband says and his wife wera out the Midlothian turnpike, aid up by a man, who d killed his wife who his side in the front utomobile. This story; and Beattie was ar^ n trial for murdering tate had made out a against him, based ircumstantial evl- omes In this new part: le woods on. the the Midlothian k out from Rlch- |t. As 1 walked “At the naxt meeting of the com mission there will probably be some thing to give Out of particular in terest to Mr. Thos. B. Felder,” said Mr. Fred H. Dominick, following a meeting of the dispensary windlikg-up commission, held in Columbia Tues day at about noon. Only three members of the commis sion were present, Messrs. J. V. Wal lace, chairman; Fred H. Dominick and E. M. Thompson. The commis sion held another session Tuesday night and then adjourned until the r.ext meeting, which it Is stated will probably be in the next two or three weeks. When Interviewed regarding the work of the commission the three members were in ‘Mr. Dominick’s room at the Columbia Hotel. “We are. still at work on the voucher mat ter," -said Mr. Wallace. “There ^s very little to give out at present. We have been delayed by the slck- pcsa of our accountant or we would have been further advanced in our work than we are. “However, there will probably be something of Interest to the public to give out at our next meeting la a few weeks from now—something of particular interest to Mr. Thomas B. Felder,” said Mr. Dominick. Some interesting figures as to money got ten by him, particularly some that was overpaid, a portion of which he now has on hand and which runt In to a good many thousand dollars. After a pause Mr. Dominick add ed; “According t> the partial re ports of our acountant the amoantq paid for attorneys’ fees by the form er dlspeneary commission exceeds the amount collected from the graft ac count by about $ 15,000 In round numbers. There will be something doing at our next..meeting,” he con cluded after a few seconds. OFFICE A PERSONAL ASSET. i— tha rldl the shot' was seat seat of was not beE rested and his wife. T very strong altogether on 7 ; dence, and not witness, who saj “l was In th<r rght hand side turnpike as you mond and 1 saw a closer to the road I saw an automo- ble standing almost in the middle of the road facing towarjE Richmond, and there were two people In K—s man and a woman. They were both sitting in the front seat. * “They were quarreling. I could "Bear'Them talking loud, so 1 did not show myself, but waited behind a tree about ten feet from the edge of the 7 road in the thick pine woods to hear what they said. “The woman was pleading with the man. She was saying that she wanted her love back again, andjp>e did not • want the man to be cruerto her. The man answered roughly. “At one time Iheard him say, I’m “At one time I heard him say, ‘I’m this.' Then I heanythe_woman say, ‘How are you gol man said sdmehtit man said somethir !you how I’m goii to end it?’ The could not hear I could not hear to end It.’ He got out om the machine and walked acrosssKW ^opposite side ol the road from ‘EM fe I was and then after he had there a minute he came back something In his hand. I couldjfllt s ee what it was in the dark. Tm&Di nan was standing in the m&ct^^H front of the lert hand seat mt part of the au- tomobile wmm the man came back. Both hadj ling in the front seat beforeHp:Wen * of the roadm t away to the side “Just wbSHB man came back I heard the Bream once. Then the man w^HmK standing in the road swung ph&d In his hand and hit the t on theVrlght side of the face. MEa laU front the ma- chine to the load and shi did not make a sound* For a minuf^H Htean stiod look- •mg at her aBd « pT heardjhim say. 'Damn you, youl ■P dead yet. I’ll fix you.’ Tnen VOL Jpgp will a gun, which was what R Idtadhlt mr vith, and he shot her w iCT|fch* 1« in ths read by the fronj sMMsof tli auto- mobte. 1 did not] where le shot I CHEAP COTTON IS DISASTROUS TO THE COUNTRY. msmi GOES FOR 10 M: V AMMAN ID MAKE EM START ■ ; t'; DURING OCTOBER. CoMBifi, A FrsfriMivt SttdW, §p» High Prices Essential to the Growing of the Staple ns Other Crops Are Just As Profitable. J ? 'J lu . • In an Interview on the cotton sit uation, RlchaiM H-. Edmunds, Editor of the Manufacturers Record, la quot ed by the Boston Transcript as saying that “a permanently high price for cotton is eeentially to the best inter ests if not to the* very life of the cot ton manufacturers who are andioua to see lower prices by reason of the probability of a larger crop this year would Inevitably drive cotton grow ers to other pursuits, and the smaller yield next year, with consequent ab normal high prices, would bring back all the evils from which the In dustry has suffered during the last few years ia Which it has had to con tend with the high coat of raw ma- terial and low price of finished goods. * _ , “The world must adjust itself to paying a higher price for cotton Notaries Pabhc Must be Friends of the Governor. Governor Blease seems to regard public oAcs aa a personal asset.. He recently Vrota the following tetter to Hon. a W. Sullivan, Senator from Andersoq county: State of South Caroline, Executive Chamber, Colombia, Sept. 2. 1911. Hon G. W. Sullivan, Wllllamston, 8. C. Dear sir: I have received an appli cation from James Walter Kelly of Pelzer, S. C., requesting that I ap point him a Notary Public. I notice that you signed the same. 1 have just had to revoke the com missions of two men at Pelxer, and unless you can personally certify that Mr. Kelly is a friend of mine I can not and will not commission him; and in this, I wish you would make a thorough examination, so as to make no mistake when you give your cer tificate. Very respectfully. Cole L. Blease, * Governor. — — =—— FIFTY KILLED IN FIGHT. Home More Fighting Going on Over Among the Mexicans. A battle Is reported to have occur red between federal troops under General Morales and a force com manded by General Zapata, near Chlnamoca, M&rales, in Mexico. News reached the department of the inter ior that fifty Zapatista were killed. Zapata is said to have been seen to fall from his horse. Gen. L. Zapata, who was formerly an adherent of Francisco I. Madero, is reported to have gathered several hundred men at Chtimmoch ( ln vlofitlon of an agreement with IMadero to disband his men. FARMERH FIX COTTON PRICE. I saw hit ' la the bite and I The man hla^ fe's Fourteen Ceuta Until November uadi Then Fifteen Cents. This year's cotton crop will be sold for 14 cents during September and October, 15 cents after that. This was the agreement reached Tuesday night by the cotton growers of the South attending the National Far mers union meeting at Shawnee, Ok lahoma. Little of the proceedings of the union was .made public, although the price the farmere ask for-their cotton,, good roads, parcels post and dabbling in cotton futures were dis cussed by the convention. ,f.‘......v• vvv~-ic-*. ,» :u « ' 11 and if I told qn him he would have me killed somehow. He said nobody Hie Airship HE GIVES BIS REASONS — r” Thao the 'X would belive my story if I appeared in court against him anyway, and l had better get out He said be would give ms oome jnoney sad a suit of clothes if I would to »wmy. • * “I told the man I would go away. Then bd told ma to come to store Ue next day and tberd woat| be some money for me. 1 went the next day and be got some, money an|j bought a suit of clothes. I stayed In South Richmond for two days then, but i was to scared and got so days I took the a higher price for goods. The sooner it is done the better It will be for al) interests and especially for the manufacturers. The time has passed when Southern far mers were compelled to raise cotton In former years they were forced by necessity to raise cotton, and cotton alone. Conditions have changed. Un leas prices be high, that is, high aa compered with former years, they can make more money doing other things. There is no moral obligation to the world to compel them to raise cotton, though many people seem to think so. - f i If New England could turn Its cot ton mills Into shoe factories and dou ble the profits on the investment, and pay better wages to the laborers, no body would say that New England must continue to make cotton goods because the world needs cotton goods. Now the Southern farmer can do a dozen thlngi more profitably than to raise an<? sell cotton at a low price, and even 10 and 11 cents a pound may now be counted as a low price. He can do things that he could not have done a few years ago. Industrial development is affording employment for thousands who raise cotton. Urban growth is drawing tens of thousands from the country to city activities. City growth and dustrial development combined are aking it possible for thousands to ^ ‘'od farming and truck growing to supply the home needs. "In the last ten years Industrial development In the South increased largely over one hundred per cent, while its population Increased only about sixteen per cent. Thus, indus trial activity gained six or seven times as rapidly as population. The extension of railroad facilities to ail parts of the South, and the ever in creasing demand in the North and West for early fruits and vegetables make it possible for a very large num ber of Southern farmers to make money in meeting these requirements than in raising cotton, even at four teen or fifteen cents a pound. The south is now annually shipping to the North and West of fruits and vegetables over 9100,000,000 worth. “The development of transporta tion facilities throughout the South is making the extension of this In dustry possible In sections which" were formerly compelled to raise cot ton. Under such conditions. Abe world might as well face the situa tion frankly and fully and under stand its meaning. It is much safer for manufactures to squarely face this, condition than to blindly imag ine that we can again go back to low priced cotton over a long term of years. Last year the South’s cotton crop, the seed included, was worth 1393,000,000. If the South, by rais ing a small crop can sell ft for such a figure, it Is certainly not going to raise two or three billion bales more and sell it at two or three hundred million dollars less. , "Nearly three quarters of a cen tury ago a report made to the British Parliament advised the spinners of England to do all In their power to keep cotton at a low price, because, said this report, the farmers of Amer- ca would undertake to so Increase heir production when prices were low as to get as much money in the aarrogate as when prices were high. The English spinners have always gone on the principle that by forc ing the price* down they would in crease the aupply. Three-quarters a century past and even up to a few yean ago that was the case. It is not ao any longer. Conditions have ab solutely changed. Economic devel opment baa made It poSlble for ths South to tarn its attention to othsr crops and to othar activities which yield a. far largsr profit than cotton, unless cotton command# what manu facturers regard aa a high price. “If during the last few year* the cotton manufacturers of this country had given more attention to educat ing the public to paying a higher price for cotton goods. Instead of spending their time, as they have dona, is aaektng to put down ths pries of tha raw material, the Situa tion would hava bean far more fav orable to them. Persistently claim- lag as ns . . of the raw material wera too high, convinced the buyers that cot- ^ goods ought to decline in price, therefore the price of the flu- article continued low, white For Opposing the President. Who, He Bays Is Not in Bmypathy With the Progressive Element of the Re publican Party, But Is a Supporter / of the Standpatters. Senator A. B. Cummins in a sign ed statement given out at Chicago on Wednesday declares hia opposition to the nomination of President Taft. Af ter a diacusslon of the main issues in the Taft administration, which are presented chronologically, the Iowa senator aummarlzee his opposition in ip these terms: ."My general conclusion is, there for*, that In every struggle which-has taken place since Mr. Taft became president upon vital thinga hit allies BJOdLauilPortera have bee* th tors and members of the house who are known from one border of th* country to the other aa reactionaries, or stand-patters, and not progres sives. “If the voters of the Republican party believe that th* old leadership should be perpetuated they can find no better nominee than Mr. Taft. I don’t believe it ought to be continu ed, and therefore, without any per sonal disparagement of the president, I am hoping that a progressive Re publican will be nominated and sleet ed next year." First In the bill of particulars la the Payne-Aldrich tariff law, and of which Mr. Cummings says: “Mr. Taft's associates in the mak lag of this tariff law, which he de clared to be the best ever passed, wereiMr. Aldrich and his followers in the senate: Mr. Payne, Mr. Dalaell, Mr. Cannon and their followers in the house. It seems to me I am Jus tified in the conclusion that he did not take ’the progressive view’ with respect to this measure. “It’s hard for me to think of th* Canadian bill as progressive, bellev ing as I do that its passage was the result of an understanding between the president and the eminent reac tionaries—Penrose of Pennsylvania, and Lodge of Massacheaetts—that 't through the senate if all other tariff Snis'Y&dVkvmg ties should be vetoed." Arrival at Atlantic City, N. J.. last week of tkc huge silk envelope, that la to form the sustaining power of a big dirigible IB a daring attempt to croaa the Atlantic Ocean with Mel- van Vanlman at the helm, baa again given the aeaslde resort the airship bug." The balloon Is 2«t feet long, 20 feet longer than the one In which Wellman storied for Europe and which was lost before be hiVd trav eled many miles. It has p groat lifting power of 19,000 pounds. It is made of 2,209 pieces of tough fabric. The gas bag is of tba cigar shape with an extreme diameter of Fr Affected by reading tha per poem. "They’ve Hanged Bill Jones," by Frank L Stanton of th* Atlanta Constitution, Gov. West, of Oregon Tuesday saved case P. Webb from tbo gallows by commuting Ate sentence to life Imprisonement. The Governor himself aays the poem Mov ed him to exercise clemency although Webb's daughter,'eighteen years eld, one fSimm mlmmateaet wldH dtina fom item pleaded with the Governor for months to give her father’# life’ Aid baa strivea ln every way ,to save him. ■The announcement that Webb would not be banged wa* Including I 920.999.99 Vanlman expects to sail some Urns before th* middle of October, hat th* enact date sad the course to be taken arw problematical, depending entirely on weather coadlttoas. path of the big Hying machine Will be In a general way that taken by tha steamships but the buffeting of the adverse winds and storms may cause e change at any Hate daring the flight. Tha game little Englishman speaks of Gte-trijFaiia Httte “voyage” and doei not seem to reaHs* Its magni tude and th* poeslbillttee should he successfully accomplish the deed he and Walter Wellman tried test Octo ber. Not that bo ts not confident and anxious to make n get sway, for bo continually pussies himself over th* smallest details to mak* sure that everything Is in shipshape. H* eats, sleeps and drinks aeronautics. He said this week: “I'm sure It can bo done if con dition* are only what I wahL W* win take every precaution My trip with Wellman baa helped me to guard against th* greatest dangers. My ship will be larger, that Is long er, but not so wide as was the Amer ica. The engines will he twice ns powerful as thebe. *a the America, of driving u» at wonderful speed. With the now shaped envelope, and a faster engine we will be ready to take advantage of favorable coadl tlons and ma)(* great headway and when thinga are against os will have Urn power to put up a better flight "No there will be no eqalllbrator on my jaicr. t of the Warden of the State peu- ttary. Webb was convicted of killing W\ A Johnson, whoa# body found la A trunk la th* Union day the time for his < Ticta in tho marched Into tho stain dining room and Webb was ordered to stand at the head of the long central tahte Whoa commutation of his wss proclaimed discipline Cd, cheers for Gov. West« the wall* and reverberated down the corridors. Although Webb, the prisoner*, maj, have ka hie life was saved* he affected. v HI »222,C ROAD IMPROVEMENT --“♦“•S' \ Improvement operated by the South Th* spooial Train" being era Railway, th* A' Railroad and affiliated Uhe* in co operation with th* United flee of public roods, will Its tear of Booth Carolina and gia September 4. It will tlcally a month In Booth making exhibitions at the Southern Railway, teas her 2tth will enter vtalt points alone tho A 191 I have diacov- After damning the peace trestle# with faint praise. Senator Cummins takes up the woolen and the free list bills, of which he says: “I haven’t heard of any progres sive rejoicing over the vetoes which killed them. They were both pre pared with the greatest care and In the full light of advanced informa tion, and both amply justifled by th# standard of protection. “I predict that these bills gave the president the only chanee he will nave to sign acts of congress reduc ing the Inlqultlous duties of the Payne-Aldrlch law, but preserving the system of protection. In waiting for his tariff report he lost an op portunity which DemocraU will not give him again." Passing to a consideration of the interstate commerce -law,- the Iowan declares that If the bill had passed as insisted upon by the president “the work of marly a quarter of a century would ftave been awept away and we would have taken a step baclr- v/urd In the regulation of our rall- v. ays. L Many parts of the committee bill were so bad that they found no de fenders and such efforts as were made to defend the administration bill were ted by Mr. Aldrich and Mr. Elkina." ^ IMt. Cummins further avers that President Taft is ’out of harmony with those Tfho were recognized be fore his advent into office aa the beet exponents of the conservation pol icy.” And taking utf the Canadian reci procity bill he says: “It la. a false pretense from beginning to end,” and “will not reduce 9ble cost of living or enlarge our markets for manufactur es In Canada."* the vessel on aa even keel. By use of this the weight of tbo airship will be lessened when we got within dan gerous proximity of the water and increeeed should we start to soar to undersired heights." • DANCED SEVEN HOURS. ... . -ia- ~ r '*" 1 ' Men ami Girl Friend Test Their Em durance oa Floor. At St. Paul, Minn., after dancing for seven hour*, A. F. Scott, a bar ber, took bis lady partner to a re freshment stand at Dreamland, in that city, Tuesday night and toppled over dead aa be was about to drink a glass of soda water. Miss Mamie Webb, Scott’s partner, stood -by his side as he toppled to the floor. It promised to try out each other’s en durance. They started to dancing as soon as the pavilion opened at six o’clock and kept at It const natty save for the 30 seconds’ wait of the orchestra until one o’clock, a. m., when Scott exhausted, decided to give up the struggle. The pair walked over to the refreshment stand, or dered eoda, and aa Scott was about to raise the glass to hte Ups he foil la a swoon. He was dead when by standers started to assist him to bis feet. .. ORDERS RIOTERS BEHEADED. Drastic Measures Being Taken In One Chinese Province. The disaffection In Mongolia, where the princes and religious tusda are uniting against the Chinese develop ment schetoes, seems now to be trac eable to th* Tlblans. Th* princes, it is said, have appealed to Tibet for protection. Regarding tho situation in Ssiechuan province, where the peo ple have risen against the railroad projects, Sheng-Hauusa-Huai, who Is the strong man In the Peking Gov eminent, orders^ a score of decent tatlona of the ringteaders of th* riots. ■ » o V ymi Killed by Running at a hi auto, whteh struck n Glenn Elkin was kilted’aid othar members of the party were of them do, that trice* iously Injured at Lexington, Ky. Wednesday. - Jrie* The “Road Ii way to further the tor wagon road* South and at tha fhme Um* to practical Informattah to farmers and road oflielate as to building of roads and their repair. The schedule tor tbo South Carolina and Georgia potato ao far as arranged t* aa fol- owal Sept 4, Monday—Blacksburg, 10 s. m ; Gaffney? 2 p. m. Sept 6./Tuesday—Spartanburg, 10 m. 7 Sept. / 4, Wednesday—Greenville, 9:20 a. m.; Easley, 2 p. m. Bepf. 7, Thursday—Calhoun, 10 a. m„ Walhalla, 2:20 p. m. Sept. S, Friday—Seneca, 9:20 a. ALV Pendleton, 2 p. m. Sept. 9, Batarday—Anderson, 19 a. « ; JtelfoiL „ FAMINE HORROR IN CHINA . . Red Ooes AM for Will Be Asked. The enormity and horror of the famine mlteation confronting China, caused by the Taag-Tse Xiang River flood, was officially reported to the State department at Wash American Consul General S the question of ttn- oss aid is under con- itegtoa by Wilder, At Shanghai, i dering "Red slderatlon. TWentire territory between Han kow. and Shanghai, a distance of about six hundred miles, has bean overflowed. Cities snd towaaare un der water, many dwellings being ah- tirely submerged. Conditions among to are distressing, and n threatens them. the lid* of the Yang-Tee soon subsides it is bslievnd that dttions will bsooms far worse. 7 ~ ♦♦♦ / Old Mao WOI Uve. 1 Jtmmto Walker, s Shawns# Indian I {eaf9 old, will live despite the - that he lent n leg in a * at Tutoe, Okie., on Monday night, sceordmg' to n statement of his phynfctens. Walker chief of his dan. 7 K Th# speculators who war* credited with being responsible for thee* high er prices did not create theoc condi tion* They only took advantagt | tho attention." ' jgSpsi ! Th* driven ashore at the; Edteto River, is th*' in n wa. iu the spirit of fun that they hsAj— Bept. Hr ‘Monday—Abbeville, 10, * m.; Greenwood > p. m. Sept. 12, Tuesday—Newberry, 10 a m.; Prosperity, 2 p. m. ' 7:: .. v ,\ Sept. 13, Wednesday—Union, 10*. m.; Columbia, 2:20 p. m. Sept. 14. Thursday—Winhsboro, 10 a. m. Sept. 15, Friday—Cb#*t*r f _10 a, m. ~7V'‘ - Sept. 10, Saturday—Rock Hill, 19 * m.; York villa, 2 p.m. Sept. 1», iMOnday—Lancaster IP a. m.; Camden, 2 p. m. Sopt 10, Tuesday—Sumter, 1:29 i. m. ' 7 Sept. 20, Wednesday—Orangeburg 9:30 4. m.; Bt. Matthew* 2 p. m. Sept 21, Thursday—-Bamberg, i 30 a. m.; Denmark, 2 p. m. Sept. 22, Friday—Berate*!!, IS m.; Allendale, 2 p. m. Sept. 23, Saturday—Bt. 9:30 a. m.; Summerville, 2 p. m. Sept. 25, Monday—Charleston, 10 am. Sept. 20, Aiken, 10 * m.; Edge- field, 2:20 p. m. Sept. 27, Wednesday—Batesbnrr, 10:20 n. m. ^ Sept. 28, Thursday—Lexington, 10 year Itats*" m souri. Obtain on*, Oalifon was 794.006 Atlantic Btat South Carol Kentucky. 1 224,000, r? ows in ■•opt. 20. Friday—Hephxlbah, Oa., 0rt0 a. m.; Wrens, Ip. m.; GUbson, 4 p. m. Sept. 20, Saturday—Senders*!He, Oa., f:4o a. m.; Warthsn, I p. Mitchell, 4 p. m. Free •bowing the roads and how to bufli keep them in repair at ■ary cost will be < by two road building sxpsrto of th* United Staton department of ag riculture, Messrs L. C. Boykin H. & Fairbanks, assisted by s resent*tire at the land and trial department of tho Railway. Tftf eoaehen of th* ato flltod wUfe lUuelrnted with roar. J J Arkansas. Florida. 01 Georgia, 1, year. year. ^ m last yeair. (North Can last year. South Caro 184 last year. amen :**" " -.1 ■pg* i Texas, '2,21 (MSaL Total «rop 10,610 last r *rii e tmunm ton of aH him tee, *gVt> He pate th American cott an tier and n i.iss.otr la the Sontl nsumption ! year and 190, amm was