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T E PICKENS SENTINELJOURNAL Entered April 2", 1903 at Pickess, N. C. as second class matter. under act of Congress of IMarc 3, 1S79 39th e PICKENS. S. C, JULY, 2Z, 1909. Number 19 State News Gold has been discovered a Woodlawn Park, ne-.r Rock Hill John Owcn.,. conmmited suicid, at his- hom at Fort Mill by cut tilng his throat. John F. Sininon-s. a wel known citizeii of Orangeburn colinty, is dead La . hoMe. John and Jessie Clhalk,age 1( aid 12, vere drowned Sunda) ia Bush rk creek near Ches ter. ThIlwy swain until exausted line Boni 3rd, son of Sherif ifonrd, vas .1hot and -wounde( at the psenger siation a La w rni. b iyi Carry, a hote po rter. j (.n 1iZILson of Greenville a,e( 79, and l1t -S. lehtilda Linn, age( 70, w-ro married inl Greenville. T be \*)Il i had l beeln muarrie( thn-(.( tillits -;fo . There was a near-riot at negro church in Greenvillh countv Sunday. The sheriff arL deputies hurried to the churc int automobil-s and one of tht negroes was taken into custody, In e -othlite-1 Power CWHoMny's s uperlintenid. tit at ta &lli-, hadI one arm I 1imed a few thys ago by an explosion Of dvnamite He was taken to Dr. Fennell'1 hospital in RZock Hill, and at last reports it was said that le might lose an arm. The baptist minister, the Rev. -. A. .eiowell of Ninety-Six, who Was one f .no victis ol the automwbile accident at Bel ton four weus Vg, when twC liveee Snuliffed ot, isgetting along nicely. He had a leg and collar bone bi(ken besides heing considerably brisedI uip. The stockholders of the Pacolet C1m1panIjIYI have decided to in crease tiw capital stock of the company f roml -,2.000,00 to $3, t00,00) by issueing $1,000,000 of preferred stock. The proceeds of the sae of the preferrel stock will be used in paying for the * ~ construct ions~ of mill No. 5, and the new po wer house recently c'om pleted. As the rsult of a quarrel ove1 the divis;ion of the winning in a g'ame of cards at Deans Camp on the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio railway near Spartanburg Saturday nighmt, Babe Kirby and Jim Logan. bo,th teolored were sho: and perha ps fatally wound ed by Chris Simts, also colord whoi' mnade hi-s escape. The shootinug was repo'rted to Sheriff WVhit arid hie and his dep)uties spent Sunday and MIonday searching~ for Simis. Their efforts were fruitless. G reat preparations have been made for the comhing encamp ment of the r'eginment, or state trool0:s, which wvill be held in Greenville fro n the 27th of July. lasting through ten days. It is understood that all of the comn paie are holding school of in e.ion iI and prep)arinig for the enemopmefli 11 o5 that when the tinw < omes for the prmI( ii;al instPructionl in the' field t he ()I'er arid nlon-comi fs off icers cani inistruct their' men with intelligence. ,J. Alln S-m ith of A bheville is arran;:.ig for the organization of a .':'i00,000) cotton mill COm I) ; i r 11 n:i lIned subscrip probabir1 ba13litf a .5,003) spinle and i. '-lm miI for mlimu fact urin :oh. The Shand Ena giWn1ein comp 3)011 y, 'P Dima, of the Bani21. a im: ,'nrin comp11any s propo- i old im at11I Golrille,t 1) w il a ii itae t rLIL orin-. 5.0 u ad ei Paragraphed, ~iy :5.tium of S04it cvolina. t Allan Leard, a well known< izen of Chester, died in a hos tal in Columbia. Greenville citizens are <A,,in. invite President Taft to stop 0 in that city on his southern ti The cotton oil mill at Bish< ville has been sold to J. J. La ton for the sum of $30,000. Mathew Raysor, colored, wl, bathing in South Edisto riv was stricken with paralysis a died before assistance (oi reach him. Albert Hartley has been rested in Lexington on I charge of assault and batt I with intent to kill. He has b a fugitive from justice. Mrs. Nettie Foster of Uni was bitten by a spider seve days ago and the poison sprE so rapidly that it was feared would die. Her condition m desperate. A large crowd is exrected to in Easley, August 13, to witn, the laying of the corner stone the new graded school audito un. The ceremonies will be (( ducted by Grand Master J. Mitchie of the Grand Lodge the state, at 11 a. m. All me bers of the Masonic Fratern in this section are invited to present and take part ii the ex cises. Friends throughont Sor Carolina of Rev. R. A. Sub1L a well known Baptist minist will be interested to know tf he has fallen heir to a large f tune in the west through t death of one Solomon Suble It is understood the propei consists largely in land in t cities of Kansas City and Louis. The cstate is said to valued at many millions. A damage suit for i25,000-1 just been filed in office of t clerk of'the court of sumter cot ty against the Santee River C press Lumber company. T action is brought by Mess Grahanm & Sturkie, of the 1o< bar and the plaintiff is Antho: Paterson, a negro. The deft dant company operates a lar saw mill plant.in the lower pt of the county. and on or aba the 8th day November, last ye Paterson was helping to lo some cars on a side track Swvansea and while he was sisting in his work he was jured. One of the skids leadi from the ground to the top the cars is alleged to have brn en, c'ausing a large piece of ti b)er to fall on the left hand the plaintiff, injuring it to t extent that the hand had to amputated. Patterson n~ otherwise injured at the sai timie, it is claimed. On Friday, July 23, 1909, t mill known as the Reedy Ril Manufacturing c'ompany, nx sold together with all the pn erty owne?d by the mill. T sale was conducted by James Maxwvell, receiver for the et cern. and the sale was held u n< and by virtue of a decretal On' of Judge Charles D. Drntzl dated July 7 1909. The sale to p'ace at the court house Greenville at noon. The pr< erty of the mill consists of tract of, land, containing abt 596acres, eet ennhu the mill buildin ; an I machinE toge.ther with the wvare how~ and the machinecry, wvhichi c'ludes5 12,000 spindlles and 371 inch looms, 15:3 being Dral looms. Besides this there is t Sioek in process, supplies, sta of m1 erchandise. eleven mun and six wagons. All the pre2 ('r"y (of the mill was sold1 w the exception of the manufa 1,1 'd 2000 nd wilxaS~ Io g and others, the purchase pr' Chickens too Scarce t Mr. W. C. Armstrong, of thi Fairdeal section, had a pole ca killing on his place a few day ago. Of late he has been miss ing chickens and he beleived tha it was the work of pole cats. H f searched an old vacant house o1 his place and was rewarded b, s finding a pair of old with thre, s young ones. He at once set t, work and within a few minute had killed the whole layout Frying chickens are too scarce t feed to pole cats. Preachers wil agree with you on this one point Anderson Intelligencer. Two Corm Crops. Mr. E. Duncan Henderson, o: Smoaks, claims to be the chami ion early corn raiser of this see i tion, and early it is that he get a his corn matured and gathered e Already this year he has plantei a field of corn that is maturei and has been gathered. Alse s the same ground has been plant ed in the same corn again, an if anything like favorable sea sons prevail he will have anothei crop just as good as the first This is raising two crops on thi same ground in a year and is in creasing the yield many fold. Branchvil!e Journal. Snake Exterminator. Mr. W. J. Creighton, a wel known farmer of the Lesslii t community, takes a seat abovi 1 that Lancaster man who pulle< y two six-foot snakes out of thi bellows in his blacksmith shop, t few weeks ago. Mr. Creightoi . reports that he killed a blacl < snake, known as the chickei f snake, on his place a few day: 1 ago that measured six feet an< 3 eleven inches, and by stretchinf it a little (the snake, not thi story), it might have went seve foot. In addition to killing thi! monster snake, Mr. Creighton a few days ago ploughed up an< destroyed twenty-seven snak eggs on his place. Mr. Creigh ton is starting a good record as snake exterminator.-Rock Hil Herald. I A German Farmer. The Clinton Chroniclc tells o a German farmer who came ti South Carolina a few years ag< e and bought ten acres of land nea: one of the towns in the Piedmon section for the purpose of "farm in." As he proceeded with his ~ work tihe neighbors looked oi with astonishment and aske< r"how on earth do you propos< to make a living on ten acres. The Dutchman replied, "I ar not sure that I can manage tha much as it is more than I havy ever attempted. but I will sell of five acres if necessary, and I an sure t.hat I can make a living o1 e five." From last accounts th S"farm" was prospering.-Floi y ence Times. f Good For Memminger - Good for Judge Memmninger Swho dismissed a jury panel i: I York, which acquitted of carry 'ing concealed weapons two de a fendants who themselves ad -mitted on the stand that the: r had pistols. Unless the juror 'perform their sworn duties thl I court becomes a farce, and n1 Sjudge wishes to be a performe~ e in a farce.-Spartanburg Jour t Inal. Too Many Office Holders 1 The death rate in Greenvill sought to be low when there ar Stwenty active members on th sboard of hea.t i. Which bring rto mind the fact that Greenvill -has more officeholders per capita one would conclude, than an: other town its size in the world SIt is little wonder that occasional I ly they get in each other's wal I and have difficulty in decidin; sjust where the line runs betweer ttheir respective spheres. W have almost reached t.he poin where all we would have to di at election times would be fo Ieverybody to vote for everybod: Ielse.-Greenville Piedlmont. The Retail IH ardware as.)Ocia tion of South Carolina will mee at the Isle of Palms, August 10 George Stanley, a well-to-d< - farnier of Hampton, and a bride 1it- groo of a week, committed sui pi- cide by lowing off the top o his hiead with a shot-gun. " Constable Broom, who ha -er been raiding blind tigers ii iP- Hampton, was threatened wit] >p- violence by sympathizers of th w-Itigers. At the request of citi zens of Ii aipton county; GoN ile Ansel recenthIy sent him into tha territory as a special officer t, 'work up,i evidence on blind tiger id Joe Aidrews of No. 624 Kini strect, Charleston, doing busi ness under the name of th Carc lina Progress anl Conmissioi hose, has been arrested on ; ~ warrant sworn out by Postoffic enl Inspector Smith, charging fraud ulent use of the mails. Ar Onl drews is an Italian. He i ral charged - with soliciting and rE ad ceivilg consignments of frui he and vegetables and not makin as returns. He denies that h meant to defraud his creditor be an(d correspondents, amon ss whom are several parties in O of angelurig and other places i1 ri- South Cal-olint and adjoinin Chief Constable Batema1 made a blig seizure of contra bAnd liquor Wednesday nigh ty at the Atlantic Beach hotel oi be Sullivan's Island, capturin; more than 1,000 bottles of ex port. beer and '0-odd half pin th bottles of whiskey. The con tt stables went a)out their tas] Lr quickly and succeded in one o at the largest seizures that has beei )r- made about Charleston in som he time. The beer was of a mak( tt- not handled throngh the Char t ]eston dispnsaries, s) that th he original arrival wzas contrabani it. showin that the watch on th< be arrival of contraband liquor i, not as it should be. as The large barn belonging t< he Mr. Arch McMaham. of Pied n- mont was burned Sunday morn v- in( at 1 o'clock. It contained . he large crop of oats with a grea (s.leal of other provener. man ~al farming to ohs and a great man: )y other valuable things. In th n- sheds on eac'h side of the barr ~e wer'e a carriage. two buggies ani rt I wo valuable miilch cows all c ut which were b)urned. One thous ar and dollars would not cover the ad loss, which falls very heavil' at oa Mr. McMahan. The caus is- o~ the fire is unknown and wa: n- tr o far gone wvhen found t< ig (check it. Tfhe neighb)ors gath ofi ered and worked bravely to savy k- the other buildings. There wa The Misses Hlolt, wvho liv he near Fair F'orest, Spartanbur; be county, were painfully stung b: as bees. A small (calf was tiedl ou 1to graze. Near where the cal was nibblling grass were a nm he her of bee hives. The calf be er camn. entan4h d in the ropean as in trying to extricate itself, over ~- tur'ned one of the b)ee 'xs an, we in a jiffy a thousand asses be H. gan to buzz and popped thei mn- stingers into the calf's side [yr The calf hleatedl andl yelled an< lern the young~ ladies hurried to th *, calf's assistance. When th ok bees saw the girls they qui in Istin ring the calf and1 dir'ecte ptheir at:enti on to the youn a ladies, an.1 in a twinkling of al uteve they were covered by bet. s,anl stunii on their face. neel ry andi limibs. TPhe young ladic esuffered a great deal but thei n. injurie.- will not result se'riously yer A Big Tomato he Mr. J. IH. Inman is exhibitin (ripe tomiatoes raised in his owl It garden and wveighin. seventeel Ulces. On" of these tomatoe ih is oeibi o i n oie tce Dring's New t.ile PlI The best In the world. Quick Automobile Trip a An automobile trip from t Greenville to Union, a distance s of 65 miles, was made yesterday in less than four hours. The t car, a thirty-horse power Cadil e lac, was driven by Eugene a Smith, a boy about thirteen F years of age. and a brother of Mr. e Claude Smith, of Ottaray Mills. D There was not a single "hitch" s in the trip although made over some of the roughest of Green o ville, Spartanburg and Union . county roads.. This young boy has quite an enviable record as an automobile driver, as he has taken several prizes in races. hill climbing contests. etc., when much older and more exrerienc ed drivers were in the race. Messrs. T. M. Marchant and sClaude Smith, of this city, ac companied him on this trip. j Union Progrees. Selling Cocaine. - On what seems to be reliable j information it is learned that the - law as to the sale of cocaine is r being openly and flagrantly vio lated in the Hollow Creek sec tion of this county. It is stat . ed that negroes are sent forth - through the land retailing the deadly drug, and the effect up on the farm hands has become something awful. One negro 1 is said to have had in possesion a as much as $12.00 worth at one a time. I The matter has been reported Jto the officers of the law and drastic measures will be used to 1 run the criminals down. This e is one of the most serious viola i tions of law, and the guilty par ties will be punished severely, if I they are caught.-Lexington - Dispatch. Farmers and Futures 3 Those farmers who have sold their cotton for next fall delivery are in bad luck. People have been known to sell their cotton - for future delivery, but as a rule they get left. The principal ob 1 ject of the exchange manipula tors in buying cotton for future delivery is to get enough in hand to control the balance. The f spot price for October and No > vember is generally a little in > advance of what the bulk of the r October and November futures t have been bought for.-York - ville Enquirer. a Acres of Tomatoes. 3 T. W. Clemons, who lives on e Duncan R. F. D. No. 1. came to 'town yesterday with -i Iwo-horse a load of tomatoes. Mr. Clecm t mons cultivates the tomato ex s tensively. He has one field of f five acres bearing now, and 1 another field of three acres of a later vines, whicha will be com e ing on when the first cr1Op) is -over. Mr. Clemimons knows his business when it C'omes to rais ing the prince of gard'on fruits He started (ou1t track farmiing onl ,a sulall scale,' by t1uCQessCrwn ed his laborW5, imd it was not -long before the lndlo)rd raised the rent add he wasi fred to - Imove on Is own land. He soon Swas ab)le to build a home, and s toda': he is a free man. Mr. e Clemmon's is able to give the 0 truck~er a few pointers.--SPar Big Nest Of TurtVe Eggs Mr. DeWitt House. who has been sp nding a iew days on ethe isle of Pahns fannd a turtle ~e t yesterId-ty wih 1 15 egs in eit, fresh laid. He has been en s.oying a rare treat at his house e today.-Florence Times. Late Sfrawberries .Mr. A. H. Merrit. Sr., of upper - Fort Mill, brought to this office i Saturday a bunch of ripe straw Sberries picked from a field near i his home by his granddaughter, e little Miss Eunice C'apps. The ti berries, a half-dozen or more, > were full-sized and were ubout r as late in tne season as any we Shave ever heard of.-Fort Mill Times. Spartanburg Lad Drowned. Mrs. W. H. Frierson received a telegram from Spartanburg today saying that her nephew, Ogilvie Frierson, a son of Mr. and Mrs. E. 0. Frierson of Spar tanburg, was drowned together with Miss Mary Freeland, while out rowing on the little Miami river, at Towerbill, near Cincin nati, Ohio, yesterday afternoon. The parents of the lad have gone to Cincinnati from Spartanburg and the body will be brought back there for interment. A party of young people had gone up the river boating and in this boat there were four, the others besides young Frierson and Miss Freeland being Rich ard Haddox, aged 14, and Ruth Peale, aged 14, both of Wyom ing, 0. The Haddox and Frier son boys were rowing. Miss Freeland wanted to row and took the place of one of the boys. Slowly the boat drifted into a swift part of the river, which ran over a dam. The boys grab bed hold of the oars in an at tempt to save the party, but this was impossible, and it went over the dam. As the boat shot out over the dam the girls shrieked and cried for help. Af ter it fell into the awful pool, Ruth Peale and the Haddox boy swam sturdily for the shore. Miss Freeland could not swim, and the Frierson boy, who swam to her, was caught in a sort of whirlpool with her and both went down, never to rise. The Frierson boy was visiting his aunt, Mrs. May Peale )f Wyoming. Young Frierson was a bright and interesting boy and his death is a heavy blow to the parents. Eighteen months ago he spent some time in Greece, having gone there with one of his Greek friends of Spartan burg, and was on a visit to his grandmother in Cincinnati when he was drowned. He is a cousin of Messrs. Eddie and Robert Frierson of this city. His father Mr E. 0. Frierson, formerly liv ed in Anderson, and his many friends and relatives here are dis tressed over his bereavement. Anderson Mail. Highland Moccasin On Hen's Nest Mrs. Sallie Brown, of Indian Hill Township went out into her yard not long since to look after her hens. On a nest she saw what she took to be a strange looking hen-Mrs. Brown does not see well, without her glasses -and attempting to "shoo" the hen off. The supposed hen did not like the "shooing" process and began to peck at Mrs. Brown. She went into the house and called her daughter out to run the strange hen off the nest and when the daugter arrived on the scene instead of a hen on the nest she found an immense hi<gbland moccasin coiled and ready for the business. The wonder is the snake did not strike Mrs. Brown when she was trying to make it get out of the nest. The snake was on the lookout for a young chicken for dinner, but was dispatched before h( had made his meal.-Abbeville Press and Banner. Killed Snake At Church During the children's day ex ercises last Sunday at Holstor Creek church, four miles abov4 IInman, a large rattle snake, nearly four feet long, and fiv4 rattles was killed a few yards fomm the church house, by some alert young men.-Spartanburg (Herald. ______ A Big Yield 01 Oats IMr. J. J. Littlejohn, of Jones ville, who besides a progressivt mill man, is also a wide awak4 and extensive farmer, yesterda: told a Progress representativ< that this season he had raised oi eleven acres of land 554 bushel of oats. On one acre Mr. Little john harvested seventy bushe] and seventy-eight dozen bur d11es.-.Tnion Progr-es The Crop Is Reduced We don't believe the York' county cotton crop is going to b3 nearly up to last year. People who are pretty well informed as to such matters, advise us that they have never known so many crops to be thrown out.-York ville Enquirer. Cows Commit Suicide J. G. Moore, of Osborne, lost two fine cows last week. He owns a large pasture on White's creek and it surrounds Mr. Bon sal's ballast pit. The cows went into one of the shanties, and in walking around and smelling, in some way pushed against the door and closed it. They stayed in the shanty till they starved. Rock Hill Herald. When Eggs Were Cheap Can you believe that during the fifties eggs sold for a cent and quarter a dozen? Mr. M. B. Massey told us yesterday that in 1856 his father bought 40 doz en eggs for 50 cents. Today eggs are selling on this market at 20 cents a dozen. Today the 140 dozen would bring $8, instead 'of a half a dollar. Corn at that time was selling for 50 cents a bushel, cotton about that time i bringing 3 cents a pound.-Rock Hill Herald. Crop Is Late And Poor. From reports recieved at the office of The Lantern, the cropsj; are over six weeks behind. Us-, ually "layingby" has been com pleted by this time every year, but this season is fully six weeks late. It is believed that it will be along in the middle of August before the cotton crop as a whole is laid by. While the crops have suffered much from heavy rains it is pretty good considering everything. The present price of cotton and the prospect of the market holding up in the fall has put the farmers of Chester county in a cheerful mood. shorter crop with a high price will place the county in a splen did condition financially. Not only cotton, but corn and othe crops arelate.--Chester Lantern. RAILROAD AROUND A VOLCANO. Stretch of Track That Will Cost Much Money to Build. The stretch of road that runs from Tuxpan in the state of Jalisco to Col ma, Mexico, Is one of the most expen sive pieces of railroad building in America. It will cost more than $3, 000,000 gold to build this forty-three miles of road. The unreliable antics of the Colfma volcano had to be taken into consideration in selecting the route. Jets of steam are constantly belched forth from its crater and eruptions of violent character occur periodically. The steam is condensed when it strikes the cold atmosphere above the crater and in the form of water it seeks the sea by means a.f numerous deep gorges. In time of eruption streams of lava are ejected from the seething cauldron within the mountain and this molten mass follows the courses marked out by the waterways and pours down upon the. more level land far below. The gorges, or barrancas, as they are called in Mexico. are 300 to 600 feet in depth and 100 to 2,000 feet across. It has been a stupendous task to get the necessary machinery, such as steam shovels, into the almost im- - penetrable region. All machinery had to be knocked down and carried along narrow mountain trails upon the backs of burros. Frequently when impass able barrancas were reached the leads had to be let down to the bot torn of the gorges bj means of ropes, and carried across to the other side by Mexican laborers, and then hoisted to the trail on the other side, to re sums the journey upon the backs of the patient burros.-w. D. Hornaday in Moody's Magazine. New Cars Were Lost. -- Several years ago the Lehigh Valley road invested in a bunch of new box cars of a certain pattern and in the shipment there was a shortage of three cars. They could not be traced. Seven months after the shipment one -of these cars was discovered in Chi. cago and had made two trips to Francisco. It was a year before Ssecond car was rounded up, we'w rwhile months later it was -dlso that the third missing car had Ssmashed in kindling in a wreck. It is a wonder to the ordinary ob server that these knight errant box cars ever get back home. Someof the -can are gone for months, and It has s been charged that,in times of shortage . many of the roads are not particular about sending cars back hon,a