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Ismail TVOLE SFNTINEL. XU _ -Lutered April 23, 1903 at Piokens, S. 0., as second claua natter, wider act of Cougros of Mtaroli , 1879 VOL. XXXVI PICKENS, SOUTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, TIARCH 9 1907 NO. 41 m .nTOnrnOPS ILL rn rnrN' ROAOF I -' -N -- -r U14UU10CU IMUDEM1 GO THROUGH TRAIN One Passenger Killed; Another Seriously Wounded. THV MAN SLAIN WAS A NEGRO There Was Only a Few Passengers on the Train and the Robbers Did Not Secure More Than $100. Posses Trailing 'Robbers. Pittsburg, Kansas, March . 5.-A Missouri Pacific passenger 'crain which left here MIonday was held up by two men in disguise, and Lou Jeff, a ne gro miner employed at Camp 31, of the Central Coal and Coke company, was killed because he protested, and W. L. Westiake, of Toledo, Ohio, who, with his wife an4 two children, had been visiting relatives in Kan aks, was shot through the hand by a stray ahot t'hat had been fired at the negro. There were few passen gors on the train, and the robbers se cured only a little over $100 cash, and a few watches. The men were disguised only with false mustaches and goatees. One tall man, weighing between 180 and 190 pounds, and the other was 160 pounds. Both were dark-com'plgxion ed, and wore dark slough hats and dark clothes. They boarded the train as it passed the Kansas City Southern shops. They commenced with the smoking car, and one walked ahekd with a 44-caliber revolver in each band and quietly asked the passen gers to "shell out" to the man be hind, who was olosely following. They were not far behind the train audi tor, and followed him into the wo men's coach. When ihey came to Jeff, in the wo men's coach, he pulled his revolver, and took a shot at the foremost rob-' zer, who shot twice at him. The first shot went wild and struck Westlake, but the second struck the negro in the head; and killed him instantily. They then quietly made the auditor stand and deliver, and hurriedly left the train as it entered the yards at Curnell. Westlake, the wounded, passenger, was taken to Liberal, at which Place his. hand was dressed by the local surgeon of the company. As soon as communication could be had with Agent. Donohoe, of this place, a switch -engine, with a posse of officers, was sent to Cornell, which Is only four miles from here. The country surrounding Pittsburg is 'thickly settled, and is dotted with scores of villages and mining camps. It is reported that the news that a miner was killed by the bandits has spread rapidly, and the miners are making diligent search in an attempt to capture and lynch the men. Off for Panama. New York, March 5.--'o the West Indies, the Spanish main and a two days' stop at Colon that the Panama canal work may be visited, the steam * hip Bluecher, of the Hamburg-Amer ican line, sailed Tuesday with her cabins filled. In the large p)arty are several members of coligress who take the trip to see the operations on the 1sthmus of Pana.ma. in the congres sional party are -Speaker Canon, Sen ator Charles Curtis, of Kansas, and Representatives Sherman, Littauer and Van Vechter Olcott, all of the state of New York; Tawney, of Min nesota; LoudenscM~ager, of New Jer sey, and McKinley, of Illinois. Depew Held by Coroner. Washington, March 5.--Senator Chauncey bl. Depew, one of the di rectors of t-he New York Central, held by the coronier's inques't which inquired into the wreck in the Bronx Feb. 16, when 23 persons were kill.. ed, went to NJew York Tuesday after.. noon to consult with counsel for the road, He said that he had not been aummoned to appear, buit he ould be guided by the ad*vice of counsel. 'Strike Was Postponed. New York, March 5.--(rhe strike of the Franiklin Association of Press Peeders -in all the shops of the Typo thetae did not go into effect Monday, as -planned, because of the arrival ot .lartin P. Higgins, of the Interns tional Association of PrInting Press amn. Higgin's had a conference&with the oficera ,pf t'he Typothetac and the strike was 'prostponed pending new aegotiations. STen Injured In Wreok. TPIvoli, N. Y ., March 5.-/Phe lim ited fast mail train from C,htcago for .New York was partly derailed while passing through Vivoll at 5:40 a. mn. fluesday an'd 'ten persons were injured , othlers sustaining slight 'bruises. Cook radtg ing car, suffered boken ldg anit tr e passengers andl O 1e nployees f the Pullman acal wo nds and minor To Prevent Kentucky Mountaineers from Killing Court Officers. Lexington, Ky. , Maich 5.-The trial of Judge Jam:ae HIargis, chargc'l with the assasination or Dr .13. 1). Cox began on Tuesday at Jackson, Breathitt coun'ty, at a special term o'f court, to be presided ov-r by .Judge William Carnes. Judge Carnes will go to Jackson accompanied by a com pany of state guards from Lexington S and a portioa of the Frankfort battery, under command of Captain C. W. Longmire. In case of the anticipated court room fight, it is believed Judge Har gis, his attorney, W. A. Young, and Prosecuting Attorney A. Floyd byrd, may be killed. Attorney Byrd said he thought he would be killed if Ruch a tight occurred. The town of Jackson is full of mountaineers. e The trials of B3. Fulton French, b John Smith and John- Abner, clharged I with the assassination of James B. Marcum during the Breathitt feud U trouble, was set for Beattyville Mon- 1 tay, but it was continued until July. Will Prove Fin.anclal Failure. Havana, March 5.--The present sugar crop will prove a fnanclal fail are unless the price of sugar ad- ti rances. Although the weather "is rood and the abundance of cane has :nabled grinding to be carried on e vithout interruption the cost of pro- C luction is excessive. The cost of 8 abor is nearly double the average a or recent years. The Spanish ell- It rer is nearly at par and the railroad rates are very high. The planters !oruplain they are working exclusive ly for the 'benefit of the railroads w which are charging from 25 to 50 d cents for 'hauling a sack of sugar of c 325 pounds weight to port. It is I alleged that the principal railroad, r which recently increased its stock 50 c per cent did so to hide the high 'di- e vidends it is earning. These, it i is saidl, are almost due to the high r freight rates on sugar. - r Should Have Far Eastern Squadron a St. Petersburg, March 5.-,General 1 Ilatyunoff, formerly an officer in the i navy is trying to persuade the em- r peror that Russian should have a ' squadron in Far Eastern waters at 1 lie earliest possible moment, and is i recon,. sending that the project in the warships be built in the United States and not in Europe. The general de clares that the American ship build- h lug yards could turn out. in two years $ as many ships as European yards ( could in five years. Russia Is soon c to begin the construction of the bat- s tleshipa of 21,000 tons displacement i with a speed of 21 knots, turbine ma- f chinery and armament of ten 12-Inch t guns each. It is reported these t vessels will be laid down in St. Pe- c tersburg yards this spring, and it is c hoped to finish them in four years. t --- t New Commander Now in Charge. b Atlanta, arch 5.--General Winfleld p S. Edgerly, who succeeds General n William P. Duvall, as commander of the department of the gulf, is in the city, and has assumed command of the department. General Edgerly is a commanding looking macn of six feet, three inches in height, ad is a ioldier every inch of him. He conmes to Atlanta from Los Angeles, Calif.,t where he ha.a only .been a very short 0 time from the Philippines, where he made an enviable record for bravery. ~ General Duval.l has gone 'to Wash- C ington to ta.ke a position on the gen eral .staff, made vacant by the remov- r al of General Thomas %arry 'to the command of the troops now in Cub:a. Pistol Play in a Saloon. Na-shville, Tenn., March 5.-Jess White was killed and George Edwards mortally wounded by Cory Weakley, late Monday as the result of a brawl at the saloon of JTohn Bradley, on Third avenue north. White, it is a said, was an outsider and accidlental- ~ ly .got in line of a bullet in'tended t for Walter Oliver, one of the com batants. Weakley, whlo wa.s arrested, is the son of a prominent busines-s I man. Hius wife, Mollie Weakley, who was arreste'd, charged with disorderly ~ conduct. 12 Death Doesn't DIvIde Man and Wife. Pittsburg, Pa. , Marc'h 5.-Mr. Van Dusen, ohief assistant ge.neral passenger agent of the Penn sylvania lines west of Pittsburg, diled Monday of pneumonia. T,wo hours later his wife, Mrs. Sarah Van Dusen, ekplred in an adjoining room. Mr. Vandusen was bor.n in Cincinnati sixty-two years ago. ClassificatIon Committee Meets. Mobile, Ala., March 5.-.The Southern classi.fication commit'cec comp)osedl of all southern railroads, met here in annual1 session Tuesday at the Cawthon hotel with about 50 members p)resent. The commission wvill lie in session until Friday for the purpose of hearing Complainis 9Ns the present classi0ication of rates. POWDER EXPLOSION WRECKS MAGAZINE bout Thirty People Were In. jured, OME OF THEM PROBABLY FATAL lusiness Street of City Was Wrecked and Window Panes Were Brokeri for a Distance of Fifteen Miles from the Explosion. Pottsville, Pa., March 6.-'By aa xplosion of powder at the Richards slliery at Mt. Carmel Tuesday, the ladksmith shop, boiler house and irge powder magazine were blown p. About thirty persons were in ired-, some probably fatally. The business street of Mt. Carmnel 'as badly wrecked. Window panes in houses were brok. n for a distance of fifteen miles from ie place of the explosion. El Paso, Tex., March 5.--Two xplosiois in the rock quarry of the hihuahua and Pacific railroad at andoval, Chihuahua, Monday, killed nd buried nine men and seriously ijured nine others. Dr. Wagner Testifies. New York, March 5.-Dr. Wagner as recalled when the Thaw trial pened Tuesday morning and his ross-exa.mination was resumed by istrict Attorney Jerome. Mr. Je ome asked Dr. Wagner if he could ite a brain storm in which the on et took place in ten minutes. The octor could not. "Does the calm ess and deliberation with which Mr. "haw walked down the aisle of the oof ga7.en and shot White indicate nything about his mental condition? s it unnatural for a person suffer ng from .brain-storm to act in this nanner?" asked the district attorney. I have already told you tiuat I can o't lay down any rule as to conduct n insanity," replied Dr. Vagner. Robbery of Sub-Treasury. Chicago, March 5.-A report here as it that $1,000,000 instead of only 175,000 hao been stolen from the nicago sul,-trea:ury, was denied by tub-Treasurer Boldenweck and the ecret service officials who are work ng on the case. Mr. Boldenweck ollowed his denial, however, with he statement that the examination of he four Washington experts, who ame to this place, and are now ounting the funds in the local sub reasury, may show a varia;ion from te amount made public-$173,000 ut he stated that it. was not antici ated that this variation, be is either tore or less, will be large. $2,000,000 Mortgage Filed. Sherman, Tex., March 5.-The exas Traction company, nowv con tructing inter--urban lines between herman and Dallas, has filed clhnt tI mortgage and deed of trust in the filce of the county clerk covering its ros'pe'ctive line bteween the two cit is namnod to the Old Colony Trust ompany, of Boston, Mass., for 'The mount of $2,000,000. Provision is inde in copy of the instrument filed 3r issuing $1,000,000 addcitional onds for payment of obligations of he Texas Trust company as they rc, and construction of the line and ar the pur[pose of building additional nes. Wrecked Passengers Landed. Yokohama, March 5.-The p)assen ers and crew of the wrecked steam hip Dakota, have heen landed from lie Japanese steamer Hakual. They ro in goud health and spIrits and xtol the conduct of the offlcers of 'The treat Northern Steamship company, /ho have dono everything possible or their comfort. They confirm tihe revious reports that the Dakota prob ab)ly will 'be a total loss. Governor of Porto Rico. Washington, March 5. --eginald' 'ost , of Blayport, 1,. 1. , and a former ssenmblymnan for that district, has ecn selected by the president as gov.. rnor of the island of Porto Rico to ucceedi Govcrnor Beckman Winthrop, /ho is to become assistant secretary f the treasury. Mr. Post is now ecretary of the insular government, ad is about 43 years of age. Fitzgerald Wanted in Mobile.. Boston, March 5.-Frank X. Fiitz atrick, a pronilnent resident of Cam ridge, was arrested by government letectives Mionday on a con'plaint romi Mobile, Ala,, that ho had con pired to violate the intertstato com nerce regulations by sending lottery nntte fronm one ,.a intoano-hc Reply to "Uncle Zeke " 1In lst week'' SENTINEL 1 noticed an article on the Pickens & Easle% Automoble Line, and as some of your resders .take it as a serious in tention on the part of some disgrun. tied people, I want my say on the subject. This is how it all cameo about, and all there is to it: A number of gen tht m -n were discussing the incon vCnience of the present schedule of the Pickens road, and the conversa tion drifted to automobiles and their possibilities, etc. Now, 'Uncle Zeke" on the lo"kout for something to say, saw an op ning, and as I suppose that is what he is paid foi, sharpened his pencil and dipp.d in for what there was In it. This little old world of ours is full of its triads and tribulations, and the traveling public come in for their share of it. And as human nature is human nature where'or it may be, of course we criticize whet the fur is rubbed the wrong way. These gen tlewen are not "knockers," but each and every one sticklera' for Pickens and Pickens institutiobe, and we kick against any insinuations to the con trary. 8.> much for that. Now, if you people were homeward bound and anxious to reach there, and arriving at Ensley find that the train had left you, "hot.est Injun"t would't, you feel like--well, just wishing the schedule was a little more to your liking. An automobile line woul I hardly find favor with tie SENmINL force, ts fiee pIFFe"s are a thiug of the past, and 've editor" would be pot to the alternative of walking hom<; and we could burdly expcct. a newsp aper man t.) a1ssi"t in 1ush ing a in hine up hill, 18 it Would require an outlay of libt r to 1 liCh ILey are C aistitutiot afy opposed. But walking home is no iew fxp(ri )e< with ihe craft. S6 is easy to talk, but, it takes t1:. to buy autos, and your liberal ai:sc'eeriipion is (d li d with thanks. Ca1p'. 'T'aylor will probably issue you "n an1i1ual pass 1by the cr' testie route. Now, if I ki ow anything about Uncle Zeke," I take, it for granted that he has knok1;(d at oud the woi Id a bit, and l e n soe of life's vicil.itudll a, and I wish to ask him, "hoenst;:I1 jun," if whe. be wrote Ihat- a ticle he was 'iv:ng in the past? If the thoughts of the luxurious com fol is of automobile tr.vel hact stirred up memories of dn"s when "walking home" and a "dow ny couch of straw" would have been a hav. n of rest in comaparison with the gree n sward of mother y-arth, or theI soft side of a plank, n ith the lue domce of heaven. as a coveting? Wi e to "rise with Lthe lai k" was a eeessity, and the "wh)ispwriing of the brer zes in the Steeses" and1( thle "joy onls niotes of the song bird as they were n afted toward heaveni's yates" aroused him to a re. alizaltion of the fact that a "burnt bisiuit" was a serious consideration and the onue thing needful for pres (ei t bappiness? WVheu days of p)rosperity aie with us, and visions of automobiles flit across the mind we can afford to lindh at Th'e days whein we weie hard up for w'ant of food andl fire; Wheucn we usedl to tie our shoes up with little bitseof wire. We never killed the little hugs that crawled upon the wvall, For we said the woald( is wide enough there's room enough f(or all. There is room for all, so get on boardl, brothers, get on board Tlii.: GAs WAc;ox. Oliver Is .Not Through Yet. New Orleaais, March 5.--W. 3. 01.. iver, whose bid for the Panama ca nal -was rejected Monday in accepting an invitation .to attend a -meeting of southern governors and congressmen here on March *25 to discuss the ca nial sit4ation, wired: "Am not through with this thing, and am1 wvith you." W&ts Head of Soldiers' Home. Dayga, 0., March 5.--Colonel J. . Thdf 9, governor of the central branch, lonal soldiers' home, died Tuesday r9ing at the home near this city 11e had be cnnecte<l with this . since its incp tion in, tlk. e sixties. Court of General Sessions. The couat of general sessioni 'net Monday at the usual time, vith the jurors, witnesses and all ho court officials on hand and --Pady for busiiiees. Judge Gary ,as very -rief in his remarks to he grand jury, complimenting Pickens county on the good be. havior of her citizens, shown by the usual ;abeence of crimes of a very serious nature. The grand jury was handed a batch of indict ments and the court settled down to business. The first case on the docket was against Andy Carr, charged with assault and battery. No bill was returned in this case. Hattie Williams, who was tried on the charge of housebreaking and lar3eny, was found guilty and given a sentence of twelve months in the penitentiary. Charlie Williams, on the "harge of practicing medicine without a licensn, was giyen three months on the gang, to make up his mind to get a license or permit from the State Medical Board' J J iogers, who was under in. dictnient for disposing of crop un der lion, convinced the court that he was not guilty. J L Galloway, charged with as sault and battery with intent to kill, managed to get the indict. ment thrown out. Henry King, charged with biga my, could not prove to the satis, faction of the court and jurors, that the charge was not true, so the judge told him to take two years and a half on the gang, and work out of his head the idea that poly gamy prevails in South Cnrolina. Thad Brown, charged with biga my, was given six months to be. mntti his desire for more house. keepers than the law allows him, or pny a fine of $100. Charlie Bridges, charged with higamy, could not show the court any reason why the indictment should b quashed, so was handed out three years in the penitentiary Ho will have plenty of timo to marvel over the quotation from the Bible that it is not meet for man to be alone. Green Terrell, charged with vio lation of the dispensary law, proved to the court's satisfaction that he was not guilty of the charge. Will Hodges, charged with biga. my, said he preferred three yeari on publio works to being loose and having to support so many wives--a wise decision. John Hant, charged with violat ing the dispensray law, could not prove his claim of innocence, se he was sentenced to a fine of $300, or serve one year on the county chain gang, or go to the penitenti ary for a like period of time. Thle case of Herbert Watkins and Thomas Watkins, charged with assault and battery, was continued. This enided the crirminal business and the civil docket was gone into, and court was adjourned sine die Friday. We append the p)resont.ment of the grand jury, which is as fol lows: PRESENTMENT OF GRAND JURY. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA County of Pickenis, Spring term of court, 1907. We, the O rand Jury, beg leave to make this, our final presentment at this term of court: ,We have passed upon all the bills handed us by the Solicitor; and rendered returns thereon, as our best judgment dlirecled. We sent a committee of our body to the poor farm and repot t that ihey found the inmates well cared for and thiey seemed to be well contented 'with thoil treatment and condition, .We recommend that some now build iWgs be added for the comfort and eon venience of the inmates, and some of the lilanidated ne now th be.'rmove, aand the best material in them be used in the construction of such new buildings. We also recommend that ac small por tion of the form, conmprising not more than one-fourth of an acre, adjoining lands of A. M. Morris, be sold for not less than ten dollars, also another small portion containing containing about two acres adjoining lands of iampton Lewis and Brooks Adame be sold at not less than the rate of fifty dollars an acre, neither of the above strips or pieces of land being at all profitable or necessary to the county farm or for oth er county purposes. Thia recommend. ation is made on the condition that the purchaser is to pay for all neeessary pa pers in the transaction. We find no supplies on hand at the poor house except about fifteen bushels of corn and a very small quantity of ba. con. A committee of our body also visited the jail and reported that the prisoners are well cared for and that some repairs are now being made. We have appoint ed a committee to examine the various offices of the court house and to report at our next meeting on the condition of the offloes respectively. We recommend that a committee of this body congistiug of the foreman, Matthew Hendricks, 0. T. Martin and T. D. Harris be appointed and the same has accordingly been appointed toco-op orate with the county board of commis sioners in having an extension of about thirty feet added to the south end of the court house of the same height and width of the present building, and that this addition be divided into four rooms and two basement roois additional and corridors on similar plans of the present building, except in the plans prosisions be made on the first floor for the neces sary closets and water works for the ac comodation of court officials and attend., ants. We recommend that the supervisor and commissioners take steps immodi ately to have the court house grounds cleared of all lumber and other material of liko character, and that tie use of said grounds for privata purposes or for public hitching grounds be at once dis contin ned. We present M ansWi Hemphill and Sal lie Meice. alias Slalliotic emphill, for liv ing in adultery or n.riscegenation, as the solicitor may s"e pro,per to proceed against them, and give\ as witnehas against them W. E. (;allo by ofjffes' man), N. C.. 13. C. llobinson, T. C. Robinson, Jr., W, T, Bates, Matthew Orr (eol). WVilliami Meice, Gr'lloway. N, o, and .J, 1), Chappell, We also present Tom chapman, a no gro, and Mary Ward, a white woman for miscegenation, and give as wtitnesses, Irvin Hendricks, W. c. Bramlott, John Hendricks, Frank Smith and William Hendricks. We tender our thanks to the court,tbe solicitor and the court officials for courtesies shown na and ask to be dig chaerged from further attendance at this term of court. Rtespectfully submitted, Matthew Hendricks, Foreman. He Was Satisfied. Ni.''re's gentlemen are still founa in the highlands as well as the lowlands of Carolina. Illus trating this statement Col. Robert W. Hunt, the genial division paa senger agent of the Southern rail road, tells a good story: "In western South Carolina on a Southern train recently near Green ville two well-.dressed, ardent lov era, evidently a newly-mnarried couplo,-amused the other passen gers with thoir cooing. After a while the fair young bride leaned back in her chair and went to Bleep. Her companion took advantage of the lull in affectionmal demonstra,.. tions and went into the smoker to enjoy a cigar. While he was gone a long, lean, grizzly specirnen of humanity camne in and sat down in the vacant chair beside the sleep,. lng beauty. Presently the young woman, half asleep, turned and laid her head lovingly on the shoulder of the stranger and put her: arms around liis neck. The lank stranger seemned surprised at this familiar- ' ity, but made no effort to escape. Presently the young woman awoke and, opening her eyes, she saw her mistake. With flushed cheek she stam merdd an apology. '3u needn't apologize ter me' said istranger, 'I 4on't keer. "-C villeMountineer