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.. ...... . ... v -. m lamtorg 2|eralii | >. ' ' ~ . i Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1910 One Dollar a Yut/Wl COUNTBV NEVS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, S. C., April 18.?The folks that went to Charleston last week say they enjoyed the trip all right enough, but some of them did not get any place but a chair to sleep In. They looked used up when they ? o&me home. ; ^ f * Mr. Henry Chitty, it is said, got tired of the sights and could not find a train leaving the city when he wanted to leave, so he walked as far as Walterboro before the train caught up with him. At that place he got on board of the Walterboro and Ehrhardt train and rode home. We all enjoyed the rain Sunday. Farmers will plant cotto^ this morn? L ing for all they are worth. - i ' ' * ' The town council intended building a town hall with a nice store under same. The building was to have been of brick, but the idea has been abandoned on account of two or three kicks in town. Mr. Frank H. Copeland will build soon on his lot, so the material will be used any way. * Mr. A. F. Henderson has purchased two lots and will build himself a ' dwelling on one of them this year. Five new buildings to go up in the near future, and others want lots to , build upon. c Three bales of cotton were sold here Saturday at 14 5-16, cents per , f pound. v n Judge Copeland sent Morse Faust lJ\ to the gang for six months. ? ^ On Friday evening, April 22nd, \J (Instant, the young folks will give a play, home talent, the proceeds of same to go to the base ball team of ,thte place. The play will be in the - Farmers' Mercantile hall, commenc, lag at 8.30 p. m. Admission 15c ' and 25c. P> JEE. Railroad Meeting at Olar. Olar, S. C., April 19.?A meeting of the citizens of the town of Olar | was called and a Business Men's i-! club organized with the following offlcers^'felected: C. F. Rizer, chairman; W. T. Cave, vice-chairman; * H. H. Kearse, secretary. The purpose of this meeting was to ' look into the proposed extension of \ the A. C. L. Railway from Ehrhardt to Barnwell via Olar, tapping their x own main line at that point and thus making a direct through line from ' Augusta to Charleston. A committee consisting of C. F. Rizer, W. T. Cave, and R. Morris was appointed to confer with the committee from Barnwell at an early / \ date, and they together with the committee frbm Ehrhardt to confer with the officials of the railway company at a meetiilg which will be held at Barnwell as soon as practicable. * \ The route from Ehrhardt to Barn, \ well via Olar is the only direct one, 1 and both the towns of Ehrhardt and Barnwell can rest assured that Olar . will not leave any stones unturned necessary to secure this proposed extension. H. H. KEARSE, Secretary. > Prone to Prejudice. *1 In a Southern county of Missouri some years ago, when the form of qnestioning was slightly different f; than now, much trouble was expertenced in getting a jury in- a murder trial, says the Kansas City Star. Finally .an old fellow answered every question satisfactorily; he } - had no prejudices, was not opposed to capital punishment ana was generally a valuable find. Then the prosecutor said solemnly: "Juror, look upon the prisoner; prisoner, look upon the juror." t The old man adjusted his spectacles and peered at the prisoner for a full half minute. Then, turning tc? the court, he said: "Judge, durn if I don't believe he's guilty." k Wisdom Anyway. * I was teaching a class of little girls, and one of thei^ had the tooth ache. Naturally for a time the conversa' tion turned to teeth. The little sufferer thought perhaps it was a wisdom tooth, but I explained that she r would not have one till she was 'grown. "Well, does every one have wisdom teeth?" "Yes, why?" "I * I thought maybe if you didn't go to school very much they wouldn't grow! "?The Delineator for Msy. ? r - THIRD FOR CHICKAMAUGA. j Other South Carolina Regiments will Enter Home Camps. ^ Columbia, April 18.?It is announced this afternoon that the 3d S regiment, South Carolina infantry, will go to Chickamauga this summer, to be there from July 15 through the 24th. This is the "low country" regi- t ment. The third is composed of four j companies from Charleston, two ^ from Georgetown, one each from Barnwell, Conway, Bamberg, Elloree, Walterboro, Orangeburg and Winns- 1 boro. The other two regiments, the 1 first from the Piedmont counties, * and the second, from the central por- 1 tion of the State, will go into camp c at or near such cities as offer the s best inducements, and as will be most accessible to the various companies ? composing the two organizations. c The two commands will likely go * into camp at different places and a week apart. * Adjutant General Boyd had re- ? quested the war department to send 1 all three regiments out of the State, but it is discovered that this State's, i allotment for the purpose is only ] $23,000, which will warrant send- j ing only one. Accordingly, Gen. 1 Boyd, Monday, wrote to the war de- ; partment, asking that only one regi- 1 J- 1 i ~e *1.nnH i UC OCIll UUl ui iuc oiaic auu i designated the 3d.v * i Editor Keys Passes Away. Greenville, April 3.?Mr. W. W. W. Keys, senior editor of the Baptist Courier, died early this morning at his home in this city, after an illness of about a week. The funeral will be held Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Keys was a native of Ander- { son, his father being one of the most J prominent citizens of that county. He 1 began his career as a printer in the office of the Intelligencer at Anderson ' and later moved to Greenville, about ! 30 years ago, to accept the position with the Baptist Courier, of which he became ^oint editor and proprietor. He remained in that work until his death. Mr. Keys is survived by^his wife, who was Miss Vashti Bufries of Anderson, and several children. One of 4 his sons, Mr. J. C. Keys, who is in ' government employ on the isthmus 1 of Panama, reached here several 1 days ago. His eldest son, Mr. Pur- 1 man Keys, whose home is in the 1 West, is expected to-day. ( Burglars Use Chloroform. i Burglars choloroformed 10 mem- i bers in a house in East Seventh street, New York city, early on Wed- J nesday morning, ransacked all the rooms of the four-story building and 1 escaped with more than $1,000 in * money and jewelry. When Samuel 1 K. Ellenbogen, a private detective, who lives in the house, arose in the > morning he told his wife that he was i ill. Mrs. Ellenbogen said that she 1 too, was ill. Then they found that their four children were barely con- I scious. It was not until they dis- i covered the robbery that they began i to suspect they had beeta chloro- ? formed. Later Samuel Kern and his fami- : ly, who lived on the floor above, were found still suffering from the < effects of the drug. Seeking Charleston Outlet. i i Greenville, April 17.?The Moun- < tain City is full of railroad and elec- j trie line talk these days, and a re- 1 cent rumor that the Louisville & 1 Nashville road was seeking an outlet 1 towards Charleston through Green- ; ville, over the Charleston & Western Carolina, has created considerable interest here. The rumor is persistent, but it can not be verified < in any quarter. < W. H. Patterson, of Atlanta, president of the Greenville & Knoxville road, has been here several days, with a party of Atlanta capitalists, going over the line, which now runs < 25 miles towards the Blue Ridge, and which is now being extended to Drake's inn, nine miles further. In < an interview he stated that while it was the ultimate purpose of his line to go through to the Tennessee coal fields, he could not say just when the road would be built across the mountains. The line was surveyed some years ago and much of the grading was done, and it may be possible that it is these rights of way that the Louis- i ville & Nashville people are working now. At any rate, it seems quite possible that before another year Greenville will have realized her long cherished hope of a road through the mountains. 5 1 Take a guess at the population of 1 Bamberg. ' Costs nothing. ! 1 '*> . / - ' ' - - -* ---v, ' T?<.'i.-kx j IN THE PALMETTO STATE 1 SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick i Reading?Paragraphs About * Xfati anH HanruininITS I"*"1 gwt Thirteen warrants were issued .in :he town of St Matthews in one day ast week for negroes charged with violation of the dispensary law. Last week Columbia had a campaign to raise $85,000 for a new Y. A. C. A building, and while it took lard work, the effort was successful. ^ little more than the necessary imount was raised by private subicription. Columbia is going some. Mr. R. I. Manning, of Sumter, has tanounced that he will not be a caniidate for governor this year, but he jives no reason for deciding not to mter the race. It has been supposed or some time that he would run igain this year, but he says he will lot run. The latest candidate for congress n the second district is Solicitor J. P. Byrnes, of Aiken. In the Journal and Review of this week it is stated that Mr. Byrnes has been interviewed and has stated positively that he will be a candidate in the primary this summer. Mr. Byrnes was elected solicitor two years ago and has two pears more to serve. , Murdered in Greenville. Warren Mason, a negro about Bfty-five years of age, was shot and instantly killed yesterday morning it seven-thirty o'clock on the South- ( arn railway near the little station of 1 Paris, by Ernest Gowans. The weapon used was a double-barreled breech-loading Bhotgun. Two loads bf bird shot were emptied into Mason's breast and fifteen or twenty of the little missiles entered the heart, tearing it almost to pieces. Gowans was accompanied by his rather. The^waited^for Mason as he ( was going toward the railway track , to join the work gang of the Southern, which keeps the track in or- . ier between Paris and Greenville.' , Mason saw that the Gowans had a shotgun and knowing that they were aot friendly toward* him, turned 1 and walked up the track to where mother negro workman joined the :rew every morhing. While standing there talking to one of his fellow workmen the two negroes came up, and after speaking a few words to Mason, Gowans fired two shots in , rapid succession. It is said that Mason and Gowans ko/i hflH onmo trmihlp Mnndftv nieht and that Gowans had threatened to kill Mason when he saw him again, it also came out that the two had some trouble over a year ago, and that Gowans has been continually picking at Mason since that time. Mason .bore the reputation of being a hard-wroking negro and tried'" to avoid trouble with the Gowans. It Is said that Gowans claimed that Mason shot at him on Monday night, bitting him in the jaw, and the bullet entering the cheek. A number of passengers on the early morning train from Charlotte witnessed the shooting^ so it is said. After killing Mason the two Gowans skipped out. The older Gowan was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Hunsinger, while Sheriff Poole l6cate<f Ernest Gowans in a patch of woods be*V?*v PKI/il, Onrlncrc rnflH and I t VY CCU tuv VllAVa ? VWM WMW the Spartanburg road. They are both in the county jail.?Greenville News. Missionary Meeting. Missionary program for Bethesda church, April 24th, 1910, at 10:30 o'clock. Song No. 715. Reading?Miss Wilh^mina Folk. Song No. 41. Missionary Motives, with son& by > children. Selection?Mrs. J. E. McMillan. 1 Giving Alphabet, by missionary class. Song No. 174. Reading?Miss Nettie Mitchell. Penny Song?Five little girls. Reading?Miss Llewellyn Zeigler. 1 Song No. 84. Bag of Wishes?Miss Maud Mathis Reading?Miss Deborah Zeigler. Song No. 172. Essay?Character building? Miss Gertrude Oxner. Song No. 576. Address?Rev. J, Earl? Freeman. Missionary collection. Miss Margaret Raney celebrated tier eighth birthday Tuesday by en- ' tertaining a number of her little friends from 4 to 6 in the afternoon. i ?Beaufort Ghrette. v PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION Appointments Announced by G emor Under Recent Act. Columbia, April 18.?Charlesl s not affected by the appointment he public service commission to-d F. E. McDonald, attorney at law, iVinnsboro; W. M. Riggs, act: resident of Clemson College, and Raysor, attorney at law, Drangeburg, constitute the put lervice commission, uppumieu Governor Ansel this afternoon un< he recent enactment of the Gene Assembly'. The chief power of the commiss s to "fix and' establish, in all clt >f this State, maximum rates 2 tharges for the supply of water, 1 >r electricity furnished by any p ion, firm or corporation to the labitants thereof, such rates to easonable and just." The commission is to act ui :omplaint of twenty or more citiz* ;o the mayor or council of a city t! :he rates for public utilities are ligh. If the commission finds ates unreasonable or unjust it is jorrect the same, the action to evocable by the vCircuit Court. The penalty for refusal to acc :he rate named by the commiss subjects a firm to a fine of $25 flOO for each offence. The cc missioners receive $10 per day, wl actually employed, and necessary ?enses. The expenses are borne ;he losing party. The commission ire. to select which one of their ni 3er serves for two years, which four, and which for six years, t * * J * 1-i. .i. ^ <S ,0 d? aeienninea uy lot ai me u meeting. The following cities Jxenrpted from the provisions of ict: Charleston, Marion, Spartanbu Sumter Union and Conway. Boyd and Brock at Outs. Warm interest is being manifes in the coming race for Adjutant g eral on account of the break betw Gen. J. C. Boyd and his assist* Colonel T. W. Brock, who have ser together for four years. Following the announcement of candidacy of Colonel Brock, acc< panied by the announcement of retirement of General Boyd a w ago, General Boyd heartily end< Ing the candidacy of his assistant i retiring in his favor. Genral B< to-day announced his re-entry i the race, taking back all l&nd things he said about Cole Brock and claiming that the ter deceived him and induced 1 to retire under false representatic General Boyd's opinion of Cole Brock is intimated in an advert ment which he has prepared for p lication. Colonel Brock is absent an inspection tour, but it is kne that he is loaded with a large batt of explosives for his cliief, and atmosphere is expected to becc sulphuric in the immediate futui In the meantime Colonel Henrj Thompson, who retired recently fi the colonelcy of the Second regime has decided to enter the race for jutant general. He has scores friends in eyery section of the SI and will be warmly supported. And it is expected that there 1 be still other entries since the ca of the ins is so badly disrupted internal strife. , Capt. P. K. McCu adjutant of the first regiment, been spoken of as likely to becom candidate, but he has written Cole Brock that he has no such intent and that he will support Cole Brock.?Columbia Record. POSTMASTER SUICIDES. Act Followed Report of Inspector Deland, Fla. David B. Hargraves, assistant p< master at Deland, Fla., suicided 1 day afternoon by shooting himi through the head, dying almost stantly. Hargraves' act followed investigation of the office by a p< office inspector, who reported t he was short in his accounts. At time of the investigation Postmaf Allen was in attendance upon postmasters' Convention at Ocj The dead man leaves a wife and f children. Blew Up His Family. At Neguanee, Mich., Frank Ha inan, a miner, aged 31, placed a si of dynamite Saturday under the ' in which his wife and three-yeardaughter were sleeping, and anot stick under the couch, where he si with his five-year-old bpy. When dynamite was exploded, the m woman and boy were blown to ato The little girl had seemingly a n aculous escape, being found pra cally unhurt on the floor of room. ' TO RESCUE COTTON BEARS. ov- ^ WASHINGTON VIEW OP ADMINISTRATION'S ACTION. fon ' 0f Smith to Unburden Himself of Lively Cc ay. Talk on Cotton Generally and cn of Bears in Particular. ^ ing aj T- Washington, April 19.?The cotton ?f prosecution in New York by the fed- e' >lic eral department of justice is looked by upon here by the Southern represen- *r *er tatives and senators with consider- S ral abie interest. ^ Some of them are disposed to think ai ion that it is but the unusual manifesta- pi ies tion of favoritism by the government M md to the New York financiers and spec- n* ?as ulators. v er~ The truth about the situation is ai in- that the southern cotton men, wheth- w be er mill operators or brokers, have for ^ one time in their lives got these New )?n York speculators where the?not ^ 5ns wool, but cotton?is short. M hat The cotton manufacturers, especi- ** too aiiy those in the South, have bden n' the handicapped in their business for a ^ t0 number of years now by the fact that be the Chinese purchasers are governed ** in their prices by the quotations on ^ eP* the New York cotton exchange. \l ion These quotations have been from t? 50 to 29,0 points below the figures at ?m- which the actual cotton could be tc ill? bought in the South. This is why the ? ex" cotton manfaclurers, notably Lewis bJ w. Parker, president of the American w - - . ... . TV eia Spinners' association, nave Deen urg- ? im" ing the anti-option legislation pro- p< for posed in congress. iz ;his The New York speculators have trst been bears this year. They have sold c< are cotton in large contracts for May dethe livery. As Mr. Hayne says, he and ** other Southern buyers are simply de- c< ir&? manding the cotton, not for specula- ^ tion but to supply the demands of the le mills. But these fellows in New 11 York cannot get the cotton at the 11 te(j figure at which they sold. ^ en They must do something to bring ** the price down, and so the Washing- 0 cell mt ton government being always ready w ved to help out their friends and allies b in Wall street is as usual called upon 0 th to help in a bear raid, and as usual responds. ' ' r< tbe The prosecutions by the depart- Y eek ment of justice at once brought down n )rg_ the price of cotton a few points, but oi and ^hen tbe real coadition of affairs was : oyd realized, it went right up again. This c< nt0 is the way it is viewed by those who tl the have kept abreast of the situation. )nej Of course, the results of the pros- * lat_ ecution in the actual decision of the aim courts are looked upon with interest, C but that feature of it is not much dis- F >n8. >nel CUBsed- . v ige_ Mr. Hayne says that those who J ub_ have bought cotton for futur#deliv- J ery have not cornered the cotton, but g uu (wn if there has been any corner it has a been by the men who promised to de- P the Utbt it. v )me A number of the South Carolina L ,e members were to-day discussing the a 'r ij, matter, nearly all of them being. S om farmers* Senator Smith expects to Jnt deliver himself of a speech on the b a(j^ subject in the senate to-morrow when si the high cost of living question comes f< ate up. He says he is going to turn him- P self loose and make a speech such as ti he has been making on the stump. _ * *" p 1 Enters Judgment for One Million. by jjy The dispensary commission in ex- a hag ecutive session yesterday entered fi a judgment against all of the whiskey c] inel firms who had been notified to ap- ^ ion pear' t^ie exception of Grabfel- a inel der ^ ^?* and Rosskam? Gerstley & F Co., to the extent of $1,000,000.00. si The largest judgment entered was against the Richland Distilling com- P pany of this city, for $672,550. This y ' a* company owns property in Richland P county, which is valued at from $50,- tl 000 to $75,000, as estimated by Dr. A 3St" W. J. Murray, the chairman of the w ^ri" commission. This property has been seized by the commission. h in"* It is the purpose of the attorneys w 4116 for the commission to exhaust this cl amount and to institute suits in the w bat supreme court of the United States the against the Richland Distilling com- B ,ter pany and the stockholders for the re- li tb? mainder. The attorneys for the com^a mission said that no suits would be a: our instituted in the federal courts, as the h State had no right to sue in that jurisdiction. A state, under the provi- tl sions of the constitution, can bring | S iar suit against another state or an indi- tl ict vidual of another state only in the bed United States supreme court. tl old It became known yesterday that B. ^er L. Abney of this city and W. F. Ste- S ept venson of Cheraw would share equalthe ly with the Atlanta firm of lawyers an' in the fees to be paid in bringing a| ms' these suits.?The State. a air- a: cti- We had a touch of winter this p the week, and overcoats and fires were p] comfortable. M * ' ALARMS MILL MEN. i ttack on Cotton Bulls Causes Some Misgivings. Atlanta, Ga., April 18.?Southern vj.ji >tton mill operators are alarmed . : rer the action instituted in New ork by the federal \ authorities Vyig jainst the leaders of the bull camtign and profess to see in it a covert Sj fort on Vhe part of certain New"' \~J|| ork cotton brokers to get relief om contracts with mills. They asrt that the government unwitting- ,/vNc is co-operating with the bears in lother and what they fear, will ? ove a more disastrous "raid." any mill men in this section toght wwed congressmen and 26 sen:ors appealing to them to institute: ; i investigation with a view to univering ^the "conspiracy" which ley declare appears to exist. Puller E. Callaway, of La Grange, a., president of mills at Conyer and:' anchester, Ga., and treasurer of tree large mills at La Grange, [ght gave to the Associated Prew ie following statement: JH "1* am an officer of several mills ta have bought cotton on the New'.'% ork exchange at a lower price than:; can be bought in the South. itend to tak# up and manufacttuni^.^^8 tis cotton this summer. It occw;C^j^j > me that unaouDteaiy Attorney eneral Wickersham was unfitting- ' -y7^ ' Inspired by bears who have sold ^ hat they do not own, thereby de-% V ressing the cotton market at the oxvnse of the farmers and demoral- ^ ing the market for cotton gooaa&'?gM "A great many mills have brought'! fef|| jtton on the New York cotton ex- ' lange cheaper than it is selling le South and intend demanding the - M 5tton. The bears hope by this tck to scare the mills out of this- *^J| igitimate trade aud further de- A | loralize the cotton and cotton goods tarkets. In my opinion this attack Vv 7^ ill prove a boomerang for the bears, /'% s it only accentuates the shortness ^ f the last cotton crop and betrays le predicament they are in through aving sold something they did mot "I can not believe that the more ^sponsible members of the ^ ork cotton exchange are behind this ^BMB lovement as it questioned the risM^^aB f mills to buy contracts on the cottop . ,<7 schange with the expectation of reviving the cotton, thereby denying . 7: le exchange reason for existence.'' ||j|j|| Bonaparte Drops Case. Washington, April 18.?How camA; '^p. i harles J. Bonaparte butting into the'^^^ ink Franklin case anyhow? \ * '? The X attorneys for Franklin are ^ acob Moorer, of Orangeburg, and !<j|| ohn Adams, of Manning, both ne- ? Jv ro lawyers. They are up here how, ^7^ rriving * to-day to argue their eal to the Supreme Court of t^v''?||' nited States. Attorney GeneniiJ^H -yon and D. S. Henderson, of Aiken,;. :-7|||| re here to represent the State outh Carolina. Franklin was convicted in Orangeurg for murder, having shot a con- >7 table, who bed come to arrest him 51^ or violating a contract The 'su- ; ^ reme court of South Carolina sue-; ?jr||j lined the lower court and appeal 7^^ ras made to the United States Snreme Court. About two weeks ago the former . ttorney general, Mr. Bonaparte, ifWrn led a brief in behalf of Franklin, barging that the South Carolina law ras unconstitutional, being in effect v ^ law sanctioning peonage,. and that ,%j|j 'ranklin had a right to kill the con- " table in self-defense. L-Afe83BB But Franklin did not engage Bon^ ^ ->rj arte. Who did? The negro lawera intimate that they do not pr?-/.,^3 ose to let Mr. Bonaparte comeintaiq|ffi le case for it is theirs. John *: .dams, one of them, stated severfU ^ eeks ago at Manning that some aristocratic Philadelphia negroes" r/ij ad employed Bonaparte and that it : as without consulting them or the lient or anybody else, and that it || as plain ordinary case of butt-in. - y It has been suggested that if Mr. onaparte would let the South Caro- ; |J| na negro lawyers In on the fee these aristocratic Philadelphia negroes" ' ?$f re to pay him, then they might let im in on the case. Mr. Bonaparte did not show up at *:''M le court room to-day, and the ne- . roes said he had nothing to do with le case, so far as they knew. But his brief is field and is before le court Meantime Messrs. Lyon ad Henderson, attorneys for the * ^ tate, are supremely amused. w j Mr. J. T. O'Neal, the real estate ; gent, is now preparing a list of farm ad timber for the Northern markets, ad parties wishing to place their roperties with him for said, will lease advise him not later than lay 1st. ,