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4 * The Lancaster News t LEDGER 1852 REVIEW 1878 ENTERPRISE 1891 V<k. I. NO. tOt. SEMI-WEEKLY LANCASTER. S. C., SEPTEMBER 26. 1906. PRICE?FIVE CENTS PER COPV ~ ' i 1 - The Road Question. Now that the Folitical Campaign is Over, Surveyor Belk Reopens Campaign for Better Highways in Lancaster County?Thinks Good Roads Can be Had Under Present Law and Without Special Tax. Mr. Editor : The road question is a perplexing one just now. ^ The election is over and a super visor has been nominated and practically elected tor a term oi two years ; but whether he will take a special interest in our roads and try to give us improved highways, or whether he will follow the sume old policy of the past many years, we do not know. It is to be hoped that- a few years of rest from I lie oflice will make him a new supervisor and that he will enter the oflice this winter with the strength of a young man and the fixed purpose in his heart of giving the good people of our county better roads. k' Wft L' n/kit* ?vnU?n tmj supeivisor can give us belter roads if he wanls to and is willing to do his duty and to see that each overseer does his part. It is but fair that every sec tion of our roads should be work ed. It is the law that every hand subject to road duty shall work so many days or pay a fixed price. It is discouraging to the hands of any section who have worked their load well to have to travel over roads that are not touched from year to year. It is the law that every sec tion of our roads shall be work. ed, and I don't see how any su pervisor can claim to do his do fcy who does not see thai this law is carried out and that each and every section of hands either work their allotted days er pay a full commutation hex. We want to encourago all those interested in our roads to do their dutv and ask all their neighbors to fall into line with us and help get better roads. We should have better roads and we can have them it wt^ will just u put forth a little eflort. '* */ Our grand jury has c?me out 11 our side ami boldly declared itself in lavor of better roads and we beli. ve our circuit judcos will help us to ? ii we but a k t ?- ? - ' ' ?... m, i"i wan urn) i is a road law if it is not carried out ? The | law thai each supervisor shall ' keep a complete list of all the) overseers and that each overseer! shall report to the supervisor ( annually ttie exact number o! days worked by his bauds, has be?Mi sadly neglected. 1 wi^h Mr. gandner would band us in a complete list (as irsi required by law) and have it published in a December or January p p i, giving name ol every overseer and the days he has worked during 1906. 1 give this to the grand jury as a suggestion ii it is carried out this year and next year then 1007 will find us with very much better roads. This method would leave no doubt as to who worked and to who dul not and our circuit judges could put a small fine of five or ten dollars on each one who tailed to do his duty, as is done at other places, and that would help to dig down our hills and improve our road?. We hope our present supervisor will put in his full time this fall and help us all lie can to start a sweeping good road move ment that will not end till all our roads are putin a good,pass- ' able condition. I think some people rather silly wanting us to sit down and wait 'till a road tax is levied * and collected before we start to work on our roads. Don't they know that a lot of 'smart alex*' will step in and get a heap ot this money (it we work by tax) that will never do the roads a cent of good? And ttiat we will have to pay the tax and then hire back to get our money back, and what is the difference? 1 think we had belter work our own roads that we are interested in, and if we have to pay a tax ( let it go to our hills and rough ( places that we can't easily work, J Four to eight days' woik a year will soon give us a good . road?one that we will he proud of if we work it without a lax. Six da>s' work a year has given Union Co., N. C. what is known throughout the South as a "Fine 1 Road", and 1 take it as a slur on our good roads too without a tax. Let us work up to the law we now have and if we find that it is necessary, then improve ? it. j T. M. Hoik. 1 1 P. S.?Since writing the above article, 1 see in today'a paper (hat Mr. Gardner has requested j of all overseers a list of their | work?rmubor o' days?put on their fceotion ot road this year. That looks like business, and 1 thiiiK all those who haven't j d worked much had better get a busy, it lie nvans to carry out tMie law. I hope too that every overseer will respond promptly lo his request. T. M H. Cotton off to Japan. I Oklahoma City, Sept. 23.? 1 The lirst ot the /?rniuir?m?n???t - _ , W ^ I 0,000 bales ot this year's cotton 1 from Oklahoma siuried yesterday i ! for Japan. Several cotton buy ' I era have been in Oklahoma two months gettinu consignments tor ^ I the Orient. a A subscriber v\ rites to ask how if to pronounce tlie name of MrJ. Jonah K tllanlaoauole, who h is '1 just been elected as delegate to i congress from Hawaii. We really i camnot tell. \Ve have never tried ; a to pronounce it. It our friend jo wi I set it to music, though, we i will try to sing it tor him. ? An- I derson Mail. iq Race War in Atlanta. h !C Assaults upon White Wo- a I C men by Black Brutes Provoke White Citizens to Kill li Scores of Negroes?As a cj Many as Five Women ? Assaulted Saturday After- 1 noon?Troops Called Out ' to Restore Order. t a c Atlanta, September 22.?Four ^ ittempts at assaults on white a ivomen by negroes svithin or near ^ the limits of the oily to-day, wrought white citizens here to a high pitch of excitement tonight. The assaults of today followed r two others of a similoT' _ KUbUlC p within t lie week, and at least half i dozen others within the last two u months and brought a climax to- x light. At midnight, Governor Terrell issued an order calling t lut eight companies of the 5th ^ nfantry at d one battery of light (] irtillery. This order was not j issued until three negroes had v been killed and fifteen taken to n .lie hospital, five of whom will ^ lie. These include only those # Jases which the police have otfi. lial knowledge of. The local t iiewspaper men claim the num- a ler of dead is larger. t The mob began its work early . 11 the evening, pulling negroes ^ turn sireei cars and beating; them ^ with c ubs, bricks and stones.? ^ Segro men and women, riding to ^ iheir homes after the work ot the I lay were ruthlessly torn from the y tars or attacked on the streets, [n a few cases negroes retaliated j( luring the early part of the nightjut alter 10 o'clock they were . icarce in public places. The fire lepartment was called out to dis ^ >erse the mob on Decatur street, * i street most frequented he nerroes and for a time seemed to x iold the crowd at b*y. Tue p> ice reserves were called out an 1 o vill hold the fort until the troops tan be mobilized. Tlie mob seem- .. id to lack leadership and this v loubtless has prevented greater ( laughter. ^ Seven assaults upon white wo nen have been ratde in or near ^ Vtlanta this week. Five were lommitted this afternoon. , i\ Airs. F. Arnold, in the western . iait ot the city, was attacked in I j, lie yard, behind her home, at 7 j li 'clock, and w-c jxal by scream h tig for help. The negro escaped. 1 V negro has been arrested and) irouglit to police headquarters. ? Mrs. ('liafnri, living near theI loldiers' Home, was attacked in | similar manner this afternoon, j g i p/Ksse is searching the woods ; u or her assailant. | h Atlanta. Sept.. 22?(I a. m ) a 'he militia i-eeni.s to he very flow n n mobilizing At present there ! s littl ' exci'ement in the centre t if the oily. Fighting is reported d n Peters street., near the Term \ I) n il st d.ion. From Hie Associate 1 d Tess oflice shots are heaTd Ire h [iiently. The Constitution is C uithority for the statement tint itteen negroes have been killed. )ne negro is lying dead legs than i block from Hie Associated Press t dlice, on Forsyth street. The disturbance here to-night iaR taken the form of an active nd bitter race war. The incilents of the day, which were ;iven in numerous extras by j he local papers early this even- i ng, added immensely to thejj isual Saturday night crowds on \ he streets. A uegro walking f long Whitehall street, the prin- t ipal shopping section, was at- ( acked about 7 o'elock, beaten i nd escaped with but few clothes. ( 'he news of the attack spread I apidly an i within a few mo- t nents the appearance of a negro ; vas the signal for a riot. The ( iegroes scattered from the streets, < ;oing to their homes by back t illeys or flocked to Decatur ] treet, the home of the tougher < iegro element. Soon street earn | vere attacked and negroes going ] o their homes, were taken irom ( he cars and beateu, stamped i ipon and in several cases fatal- ( y hurt. The barber shops 1 t'here negroes were employed, < lext became objects of attack. ' negro barber shop across the t treet was the object of attack, i ,nd in less time than it takes o tell it, the shop was wrecked ,nd the negroes were beaten, one o death, the other, the prOprieor, escaped by aid of the police. )n Peters street, near the terninal railroad station, a hard ight took place. This wan tarted by a negro shooting at he crowd below from a second tory window. A brick hit him ^ ,nd he fell back and died in a 4 bw moments. One negro, w'10 /as found with a pistol in his and, was beaten to death on lie Forsyth street viaduct, in he centre of the city and a block 1 rom the Associated Press ollice. t At the present hour, 1.30 A. t I , the down town streets are c uiet. Occasionally a member t f the local militia passes and ( r jeered and hooted by the mob. i 'lie possibility of retaliation by he negroes is among t lie serious < hinge discussed in the streets nd newspaper offices to night. Report * are being received rom the outskirts of the town < I rioting, and negroes being M illed and driven from their ! mines Rumors have it that at 1 east 2.r? to 30 or more negroes ' lave beem killed here tonight, ( mi ii is impossible at his time ( o con li rin those reports. i Removed to Kershaw, Carolina Citizen: It is with a> t reat deal of regret that we an-!' lounce that Mrs. Mary V. Kv&ns as given up her residence here ,nd move I to Kershaw. This jpvo it not made because Mrs. ] iVaiws likes Kershaw any more! han she likes Jefferson (she L oesn't like it as much) but it is j ecause slio will be nearer her j fl'i 'l.'ers. Mrs. Brasing'on of ienshaw and Mrs. Brasingtoii of Inmden. !, I 1_ . . More Trouble in Atlana Dfflcers Ambushed, One Ored and Four Wounded.?* Several of the Partr -afc' Attacking Negroes KiLed Atlanta, Ga , Sept. 24.?T k? eport* of slaughter in variew Darts of Atlanta since th<j satvent down, after the ino6t o*w ul investigation possible at tlitv ime, have resolved themseln?*lown to one tight between mmber of county policemen leputies and an unknown ?!*? - ier of negroep. In the fight, wltiads ook place in South Atlanta, ibout three miles from the renter and in the vicinity >tf Jlark University, a ueiero inatrution, CJounty Policeman Jaw**L. Heard was killed, four otSw officers were wounded and tfcwrf policemen were missing at Usa reports. The number of negro** lead is not. known, possibly * tiever will be known, but iflicers in the darkness claim tt lave counted from six to 15 de-swl ir dying negroes on the grouni.. The excitement ot the fight xrk' he darkness of the night maA* he counting uncertain. An Enthusiastic Bryanitc. Yorkville Enquirer: Messrc3. E. Spencer and Thomas 9!'. McDow, went over to Charlatan ruesday evening to Ikar Bryra. Mr. McDow went on to Coluar^ jia. He lias all along beeor Bryanite and comes back r*c.Y:> mthusia^tic than ever. Removed to Camden. Mr. D. E. IJinson and 1awir lave returned to Camden to fx ??*> heir home here again, mucr ,he delight of their many len friends. They will occx.tr' he Mathis cottage on the cer;?r>t Main street and LaFaye^i ivenue.?Camden Chronicle 17/ e Crauford Cab?O/fo w Klected and Com m it tut:* A'm?pointed. The Cranford Club had jailed meeting last Wedaieeetf' it the residence of Mrg. Geo. ^?V? Williams, to arrange f<n sj*i egular tall and winter mooting The following otlieers were ehflv d lor the ensuing year; Mr*. ieo. W. Williams, j>resi ! ?? ? Mrs J. II. Foster, vice-preside.*/;; \lis> llatlie Taylor, so ere;, wry iiul treasurer. The following committee oar. books was appointed : Mr?.. .J.? l\ Thoraasion, Mrs. \V. .;l_ Reed, Mrs. Geo. W. WiUitmu Programme committee: M s. i., ITarry Foster, Miss IlaHh ?yvlor, Miss Hlnnehc Moore. The fix* J regular mee.'-:>? vf? the cluh will lie lieKl CM ??u, lit the home ol Mrs. Geo. VT!-* iams. Dr. J. K l'aiii k spenJ a )r two in Kershaw this we<L.