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T PICKENS SENTINE:JOURNAL Entered April -3, 1903 at Pickens, S. C. ai second clas" Matter, under-act of Congress of March 3,1879 39th Year PICKENS. S. C., AUGUST 19, 1909. Number 13 State News I School patrons will be inter este(d to learn that the price of one of the adopted books on the South Carolina list has been lowered. Thmson's History of the United States will hereaf ter retail al 70 celts instead of 75 cents. Roseman H1anly, rol J, who lives on Mr. J. V. Y. Dickson's plac(,1 n eurkville, brought to The Etiqiini ()ilice hst Satur day, a iievY hatched chicken that had four 1(-s, four wings. twentv toes anl(d ()nly ole head. It was de:1.1. While tiyiln. to burn out somA spider wb.z il tIhe barn1 of Bloom iehti lrynt a weIlknownk Spar t:mhur li. V. i>). carrier, Wed nesda' ;fterm , the barn The llrse4 mtid X\Vw wen got tenl o!t in' t tO sve theil fr4pml thefl n .. 'I'he _Nav1a)k1l -Militia of Smith V'olina nt in o taining Atlondav at CarleSton, and will remaIn(Ili til the Ath. The !a va ; Mil!ii is < 'o"d of comp:mi'- fmm B ort, er -i m >, C -t and Mt. ensa nt. The v Beti d Georgetown companies went to Charlestonl bv launch. Ground was broken Monday moring for the erection of a handsome four-story building for the Peoples National bank and the Peoples Trnst company of Rock Hill. The building will be a modern one in every re spect, with all the up-to-date conveniences for an office build ing. J. A. Jones of Charlotte has the contract for the struct ure. Adjutlalt (eneral Boyd has returndto, Cunba from Charleston where he went to in spect the (oa,t Artillery which has been in training for the past se 7eral days. The adjutant general was very much pleased with the work of the men. The Coast Artillery of the state is comiposed of companies from Aiken aLnd Lancaster. A. C. Floe. a Lancaster coun tv farmer. was dragged to his death Mon day afterno,on by fall ing fromt a mzule and being tang led in the harness. He had just finished the days work. He1 was dragged from the field some1 dlistance to his home. His fain ily witnessedI the tragedy, but were4 po werless to aid him. His b,ody was brisied and his head1 Z. T. Do)iiker, who w~as arrest ed in Spartanburg by Constable Metcalf, was taken to Asheville by Constable Jones. Ducker was arrested in Asheville some time ago on the charge of de serting his family. He gave bonds for his appearance, but some time before the case was called he jumped his bond. He1 was located in Spartanburg and placed under arrest. Robert Hunt and Marshall Simmons became engaged in a difliculty last Thursdlay morn ing a 1 o'{k>ck near Pumpkin to wn in Pickens county. Rob ert Hunt stabbed Marshall Sim mions above the heart and cut him on the arm, besides biting him. D)r. J. M. Crenshaw' dress ed his wounids andl ne is dloing very well at tis writin'g. They were related and jealousy w~as the cause of the trouble.1 At the neetinig of stockhold- - ers Satur-d iy of the WV. D). Spear- I manI c~omp1iany of Easlev, a re-< m.-'?aniZati made1(1 J.- E. I big0(d I preiden~1t U'I( genera~Il mma ager, .1 Th is is a stork company witht ca:pital Of 810,000) and doing a gDr l imjllha tile b)usiness. 3\lr. SUI ::n leaves sooni for 1 his con a. htme a few miiles south lIt I--l'ey. wh-lre he will! I t.At for -a mionth or t wo. 3aragraphed. 7:0,0tiol of Souith C11101inal Mr. S. M. Jones of Chester made another bie deal *; cotton Saturday, when he sold to Mr. S. B. Latham, for the Manetta Mills, at Lando, 179 bales of cotton that he has stored at t Rock Hill. The cotton, which represents the crov on his Moore place, near Rock Hill, last year, weighed 81,072 pounds, and at I 12% cents netted Mr. Jones -9, 981.98. South Carolina has been ask ed to take part in the National Corn Exhibition,which will be held in Omaha from December 6 to 18. All states have been asked to participate. The premium list of the exposition amounts to $50,000. To the farmer exhibiting the best ear of corn a breakfast food manu facturer offers a $1,000 gold and silver trophy cup. The family reunion of the de- s sOen1dants of John and Peggy Pedon, the Peden-Alexander Morton-Morrow family, will be held on the 25th and 26th of this month at the Fairview church ( n Greenvile county. There will be some prominent speakers m the occasion and conveyances C fill be provided for persons a .roni the nearest point on the f ailroad, which is Fountain Inn. [nformation may be had by ap Lving to Mr. A. S. Peden at lountain Inn. L h The body of McIver Reynolds on of Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Rey ,olds of Spartanburg R. F.- D.1 ,vas identified by the boy's par nts at Hendersonville. Young Revnolds had started on a visit o his uncle at Wavnesville. C \ear Hendersonville he was s )eaten nearly to death by thugs c md continued walking toward Jendersonville in a dazed con- k lition. He was struck by a si rain and killed and his parents u vent there to view the body. t( Mr. W. R. Stephens of near 7ewry, killed a monster rattler b saturday, 31st of July at his s >arn door. The snake measur- p ~d 4 feet and 10 inches and the *g ;kin measured 8 inches around. fIr. Stephens lives between two >atches of woods and the snake vas passing across to the op >Osite field. Mr. Stephens shot C he reptile's head ot' with his ' >reechloader. It had nine rat les and a button. The directors of the Newberryv mills have let the contract for Ir >uilding the new hundred and wventy-five thousand dollar ad lition to the mill. The success ul biddler was the Gallivan Building company of Greenville. Phe addition will be at the a outhern end and will be a wing C ~0 by 180 feet along O'Neal e treet, corresponding to the n1 ving at the northen end. It vill be three stories high; part b )f it four stories, counting the b >asement. Mr. C. C. Davis got (1 he contract for building the b fourteen new cottages. A very interesting fact about n he police department of Rock S Fill is that it has been self sup- d orting for a number of years. g Astatement of cash receiuts b~ tnd disbursement of the city f< ronm December 9, 1907, to Dec 'mber :31, 1908, twelve months t md 21 days, prepared by the \merican Audit company hows that during the period a -overed the fines from the po ice docket amounted to $h, [01.85, and that the disburse nents in this department, in -lud ing salaries. un iforms, C 10rse' keep, dieting prisoners, 0 anitor, incidentals, and in fact hi -ery expense connected wit~ I he denartment, was $3,670.82, f chich gave the city a surplus of h 731.0;3, after paying all ex- y yenses of this department. b~ [he records shows that the po- r ice department has not cost the v ir nvthing for several years.1d The residence of T. A. Alex mder near Gaffney was de ;troved by fire with a loss of 2, )00. Several Spartanburg citizens iave been arrested and fined for: -iolating the federal cattle quar tntine laws. J. E. Morris. express agent at. lantuc, has been arrested on he charge of being short in his ecunts with the company. L. C. Boyle, a well knowncit zen of Suimmerville, is (lead at lis hoie. The Seneca town council has tolopted a new liquor ordinance. .t is much more rigid then the >ld one. even thotusand bottles of beer mnd sixty gallons of whiskey l vere seized in Columbia last t veek. Mi. J. A. I lemingwav has re :ived his appointienit as treas irer of Georgetowncmiuty froil toy. Ansel. Frank Miles, col )red, was 1 hot and killed iii Edgefield I ountv bv his nephew, a boy bott 16 vears of age. The state concstables stationed n Charleston seized 2,376 bottles C f beer (during- Saturday andt aturdav night. The Lancaster county clerk of f ourt reports that liens to the mount of .9471,000 have been led in his office this year. f Mr W. R. Snipes killed a big ittle snake near the Log bridge h i Oconee county last week. It 0 ad ten rattles and a button. si Mary Manning, colored, was b aot and killed at Gaffnev by ack Edwards. also colored. dwards has been arrested. Sam Sing has been arrested in s 'harleston on the charge- of a muggling Chinamen in the v )untrv. t The children of Ihe Odd Fel lws Home are vn joyingla we-k' 0 :av at Caesars Head. They ar nder the care of the superin mndent and Mrs Vaughn. s A commission has been issued i y the secretary of state to the toneboro Sawed Stone corn- V any of Stoneboro. Capital C [0,000. t Rev. A A. James, a Presby trian minister of Jonesvilles nioni county, marriedl his 670th uple a few days ago. He has ade 1,340 persons happy-for while at least. A comission has been issuedd the Sea island Cotton Oil >mpan y of Charleston county. he capital of the company is 20,000. The p)etitioners!are E. .Eve, T1. T. HL vdef and John ivers. ( iRev. W. I. Herbert preached special prohibition sermon in harleston Sunday in which he a riticised the city council for i ot attacking the blind tigers. The farmers around Blacks- a urg have found small black b ugs in their cotton field that are i estroying c'ottonl boils. The t: ug resembles the boll weevil. n Clyde Lewis, a young white 0 ian was arrestedl at Glendale, partanb)urg county, on Thurs- t: a on the charge of stealing 3 3 from an old lady who had ( en employed in the mill therek >r 30 years. ii The Y. M. C. A. building for b2 ue Olympia and Granby mills, t dlumibia, will be opened this 3 eek, having been completed d thoroughly f urnished under s 2e direction of the President, lI [r. Lewis W. 1/arker. Mirs. W. H. Lee of Battle reek, Oconed': cou ntv, driopped ut of a wagon dead while on 0 er way to Clayton, (ba.. from E ~attle Creek last Saturday c iorning. Death was dune to;g eart failure. Mrs. Lee wxas 45 8 ears of age. She is survived a y her husband and three child- x n. H er mother and little son p rere with her at the time of her o e-th. Governer M. R. Patterson, of Penessee, has accepted an invit ttion to deliver an address at the inveiling of the Kings Mount tin monument on October 7. rudge Samuel W. McFall of 3oston, will also be a speaker ipon the occasion. Three construction gangs of he Southern Power company vill reach Greenville. The work >f erecting towers toward Spar anburg is about completed, as )nly six more will have to be !rected before the wires will be eady to be strung. A report on the work done at he South Carolina Industrlal )chool which is located at Flor nce has been filed with Gov. nsel. The school was opened ast November. There are wenty three boys in the school. Phe disbursements for the last ix months was $4,303.83. What has been pronounced Vell developed cases of smallpox vere founi to be the cause of the lIness in the family of a negro esiding on Lincoln street, oppo ite the jail in Columbia Thurs ry. The patients were removed o the pest house, which is sit [ated several miles from the ity. An interesting decision by the tate supreme court this week as on a case which came up rom Laurens, a suit against outhern Cotton Oil company ar the drowning of a small boy amed Luther Franks, who lost is life in the alleged reservior f the company. The company acured a non-suit in the court, ut this was reversed. The many friends of Presid ig Elder R. E. Stackhouse of ie Rock Hill district, will be >rrv to learn that. he is quite tek at his home in Rock Hill rith acute appendicitis. He was aken sick Saturday morning :hich made the fourth attack f this terrible affliction he has ad this year. The board of regents for the -ate hospital for the insane met i Columbia Thursday and ractically completed their re ort to the special legislative ommittee, appointed to investi ate the affairs of the institu on. The board will call attention >the lack of money and urge a ?paration of negro quarters omn the white patients. News has been received at Vare Shoals of the decision ren ered by Referee Edward McIver If Cheraw in the suit brought y J. 0. C. Fleming. N. B. Dial t al, against Benjamin D. Rei al and the Ware Shoals Manu icturing company et al. The 'feree decided in favor of the efendants on every point. During the reunion excercises t Union church, Laurens coun yr, last Saturday a difficulty >ok place near the church rounds between Will Hamilton nd Abe Coats. It is said that th parties were drinking. Dur 1g the melee Hamilton was shot le ball striking him in the 10uth, knocking out several f his teeth. The many friends throughout re state of the Rev. Alex R. [itchell, rector of Christ church, freenville, will be pleased to now that word was received 1 the city yesterday that he ad landed safely at Queens >wn and was quite wvell. Mr. itchell sailed from Philadelohia aturday, July 31, on the steam aip Haperford of the American ne. Since the first of July State uperinitendent of Education wearingenl has dlistributedl .4, 3 to the weak school of the state leven applications were re elvedl today. The amounts iven to the schools range from 100 to 810. T he last legislature rpropriated $2),003 for aid to 'eak schools. There is a large art of this fund yet available, which will be given out during he f all. A. C. Sinclair a well known and aged citizen of BennettsvillE is dead at his home. The city council of Yorkyille, has decided to pave the principal streets of the town. Two new carriers will be add ed to the force at the Spartan burg post office on September 16. Bascomb Hannah, a negro ac cidentally shot and killed him self yesterday, while handling a pistol. Lawrence P. Jones of West minister died last Wednesday. aged, 27. He leaves a wife and one child. Postmaster Floyd of Spartan burg has secured a free mail da livery service for the residents of Beaumont and Saxon miil vil lage. William R. Ables died at his home near Oakway, Oconee county. August 4, of appendi citis, aged 27 years. Walter Duke, colored, who shot John Minick at Saluda, S. C. four years ago, has been arrest ed in Florida. A commission has been issued by the secretary of state to the Home Building and Loan asso ciation of Cheraw. The Capital is $100.000. The petitioners are J. W. Malloy. R. T. Caston, G. W. Duvall, all of Cheraw. The corner stone of the new graded school building at Easley was laid August, 13th. Jas. L. Michie of Darlington, S. C., who is the grand master of the state conducted the services. Other prominent Masons of the state were present. The dead body of Curien Sloan' colored, was found near the public road one mile north of Seneca, early Wednesday morning, Sloan was seen late Tuesday afternoon near Seneca. It is not known whether his death is due to natural causes or some foul play. 'I here will be an educational mass meeting at Six Mile, in Pickens county, on Saturday, August, 21st. The railroad sta tion for Six Mile is Norris, on the Southern. J. R. Earle, of Wahalla, has been named as one of the speakers for this occa sion. Mr. F, J. Crider, of St. Math ews, a Clemson graduate of 1909 who for the past year has been in charge of the college horticul tural grounds, has left to take up work~ at the University of Minnesota. Simeon Gowan, aged 75 years died at his home at Inman Wed nesday afternoon. He had been in ill health for some time, and his death was not unexpected. The deceased was a well known farmer of the upper section of Spartanburg county and was a ood and substantial citizen. A petition is being gotten up asking the Abbeville supervisor to put a bridge across Chicasaw n the road between Mr-. Joe Nanc's and Due West as speed ily as possible. The citizenls are interested in this matter and hope that the bridge will be put down at once. Grover Henderson, a young man who lives in the Ezeils sec tion of Cherokee countI v. has been committed to ja il by Ma gis trate Scruggs, of Morgan tmyn ship, chargedI withI attem pted criminal assault upon a young married woman in the upper part of the county. The Union Progress says that a trolley line connecting Union with several of the most import ant upcountry cities in this state is understood to be an enterprise which may materialize at an early date. Details as to the proposed line are very meagre but it seems that there are good reasons for believing that Union may soon be connected by elec tric line with Glenn Springs, Spartanburg, Greenville and other places. Attorney General Lyon has secured a dismissal of the pe tition of Saluda county to com pel the superintendent of the penitentiary to return certain conYicts of that county. A commission has been issued to the Travellers Rest Telephone company of Traveller's Rest, in Greenville county. Capital $500. The petitoners of the com pany are J. H. Roe, Rex'Land ford and J. R. Anderson. Mr. John A. McLaurin, a prominent citizen of Bethune. died suddenly at his home Sat urday night, being stricken with paralysis as he sat down to the supper table. He was a Confed crate veteran, and was about 65 years of age. The handsome new winter home of Hamilton Carharrt, the well known overall manufacture is nearing completion. The Carharrt home is located on the west side of Catawba river near the site of the old Dinking ferry, three miles from Fort Mill. At the meeting of the Beaver dam Baptist association, the fol lowing officers were elected for the ensuing year; Moderator, Rev. A. P. Meritt; treasurer, Jas. Seaborn and Earle held their respective offices last year, and Rev. J. H. Stone is the retiring moderator. President Taft has signed the permit for the Georgia-Carolina Power company to build the dam across Saluda river at Ste vens' creek. The power com pany intends to develop 10,000 horse power and will bring the same to Augusta, Edgefield, Aiken and other counties. Rev. Mr. Eddy of Florida, is spending the summer in Wal halla. He is a member of the Florida Methodist conference, having been transferred from the South Carolina conference some years ago. Owing to poor health since his residence to Flor - ida, Mr. Eddy will ask in the near future for a transfer back to the South Carolina conference A mule kicked Robt. R. Pitts, of Westminister Tuesday morn ing breaking both the lower jaw and the cheek bone. He was leading the animal when the bridle rein broke, causing it to run off. As Mr. Pitts attempted to catch the mule it kicked with both hind feet and he was hit by one. The lower jaw was broken in the center of the chin. Last Thursday, Mr. Chas. W. McCravy, who recently resign ed the office of auditor, received re-appointment to the office of local census taker for Laurens county. This office includes the gathering of cotton ginnery statistics, and is awarded by the government. Mr. McCravy held this position prior to his election as auditor. Souh Carolina's first bale of 1909 crop was sold in Barnwel, Saturday to Molair and Parter, by Mr. R. H. Lutz. The bale weighed 455 pounds, and grades good middling. Mr. Lutz sold to Molair and Porter, the first hale for 1908. The bale was soldto F. W. Wagener & Co., of Charleston, S. C.. State Superintendent of Edu c'ation Swe'aringen has returned to Columbia, from a trip throng the up-country. While away he attended several educational rallies, and the meeting of the board of commissioners of the Cedar Springs Institute of which he is a graduate. Ed Thomas a young colo,red boy, was arrested at Spartan b)urg on the charge of assault and b)attery with intent to.k.ill, striking J. H. Cooper, another c'olored boy, in the head with a rock, fracturing the skull. The wounded boy was taken to the hospital and a large portion of his skull was taken out. Pieces of the bone were found embed ded in the brain, and very little hope is entertained for the boy's ' The White Slave Trafflic. Dear Mr. Watson: Your letter of the 31st ult. to Hon. Clifford G. Roe, assistant State's attor ney,after a regretted delay is re feredto this committee for reply. We return the letter attached to yours and regret to say that conditions are bad in this and other cities and that cases are of daily occurrence in the police courts of Chicago which show that white women are livine. with black men and that there is at least a basis of truth in what "John Franklin" states. You are aware of what we are endeavoring to do and will be interested to know that con considerable progress has been made during the past three months. We found that almost no state had statutes directly ap plicable to white slavery and laws have been secured in Illi nois, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Pennsylvania, Colorado and Twa. We have assurance that legislation will be enacted in other states as soon as the legislatures convene. We have an inquiry from a member of the Georgia legisla ture, but perhaps you will take up the matter in that state to as sist the agitation and bring about the enactment of laws such as were framed for Illinois. You probably will have recom mendations to make, but the form of three Illinois bills and of the pandering act of 1908 are found to be very practical laws for the purpose. Your assist ance will be greatly appreciated and we hope you will keep in touch with us. Respectfully, Clyde A. Mann, For the Committee. Ed. Note: The letter referred to is that of John Franklin, the negro who declared that negro men could buy white women in Chicago at from $25 to $50 a piece. Mr Watson forwarded a copy of the Franklin letter to the Chicago"Committee on L eg islation" of the organization which is working for thesup pression of this frightful slave trade. We earnestly commend to the prayerful attention of the fan atics on Foreign Missions that passage of the committee's letter which admits that there is a basis of truth in what John Franklin said. Once again-what did John Franklin state? He declared that he had paid $50 for a white wife, and that he had the pick of twenty-five. He said that "any,negro can buy white women in my city for $50," and spoke of it as a regu lar thing. Franklin said that he had had three white wives in his time and "it is no trouble to get one" Said John Franklin, "White women is the cheapest flesh on earth." And when Mr. Watson sends Franklin's letter to the com mittee which is trying to break up this damnable slave-trade, asking whether there is any truth in the negro's statement, the committee answers that there is. Yet, a certain class of preachers are assailing Mr. Watson sav agely-calling him all sorts of hard names-because he con tends.that it is a mistake to send money into beathandom to res cue yellow and brown and black people from vile conditions, when we ourselves are cursed by such a national disgrace as tgle hideous traffic in white slaves! -Tom Watson's Jeffersonian. A commission has been issued to the Clyburn Merchantile company of Clio. Capital $5, 000. The compsny will do a general mnerchantile business. Over twelve hundred girls have asked to enter Winthrop College this year. Of that num ber seven hundred can be accom madated, while the remainder, five hundred have to go to other college, or' stsay at home.