The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, April 10, 1912, Image 3
8YNOP8IS.
Elam Harnlsh. known all through Alas
ka as "Burning Daylight." celebrate# hl?
?Hh birthday with a crowd of miners at
the Circle City Tlvoll. The dance leads
to heavy gambling. In which over HOO.OOO
to stoked. Harnlsh loses his money and
his mine but wins the mall contract. He
starts on his mall trip with dogs and
ledge, telling his friends that he will be
in the big Yukon gold strike at the start.
Burning Daylight makes a sensationally
rapid run across country with the mall,
appears at the Tlvoli and Is now ready
to join his friends In a dash to the new
fold fields. Deciding that gold will be
ound in the up-river district Harnlsh
buys two tons of flour, which he declares
will be worth Its weight In gold, but
when he arrives with his flour he finds
the big flat desolate. A comrade discov
ers gold and Daylight reaps a rich har
vest. He goes to Dawson, becomes the
most prominent figure In the Klondike
a onmhlnatton of capitalists
In a vast mining deal. He returns to
civilization, and. amid the bewildering
complications of high finance. Daylight
finds that he has been led to invest his
eleven millions in a manipulated scheme.
He goes to New York, and confronting
his disloyal partners with a revolver, he
threatens to kill them if his money is not
returned. They are cowed, return their
stealings and Harnish goes back to San
Francisco, where he meets his fate in I
Dede M ison. a pretty stenographer.
CHAPTER Xt.
Daylight was to the thick of hit
spectacular and intensely bitter fight
with the Coastwise Steam Navigation
Company, and the Hawaiian, Nlca
raguan, and Pacific-Mexican Steam
ship Company. He stirred up a big
. ger muss than he had anticipated,
and even he was astounded at the
wide ramifications of the struggle and
at the unexpected and Incongruous in
terests that were drawn into It. Every
newspaper in San Francisco turned
upon him. It was true, one or two of
thpm had first intimated that they
were open to subsidization, but Day
light's Judgment was that the situa
tion did not warrant such expenditure.
Up to this time the press had been
amusingly tolerant and good-naturedly
sensational about him, but now he was
to learn what virulent scurrilousness
an antagonized press was capable of.
Every episode of his life was resur
rected to serve as foundations for ma
licious fabrications. Daylight was
frankly amazed at the new Interpre
tation put upon all that he had ac
complished and the deeds he had
done. From an Alaskan hero he was
metamorphosed into an Alaskan
bully, liar, desperado, and all-around
"bad man." The whole affair sank to
the deeper deepe of rancor and savage
ness. The poor woman who had killed
kavcalf iroa rlrncrcrarl nut nf hor PTRVfl !
UVIOQU " uo Ui?OQVU VMV w? -V* o-"* "
and paraded on thousands of reams
of paper as a martyr and a victim to
Daylight's ferocious brutality.
He was like a big bear raiding a
bee-hive, and. regardless of the stings,
he obstinately persisted in pawing for
the honey. He gritted his teeth and
struck back. Beginning with a raid on
two steamship companies. It develop
ed into a pitched battle with a city,
state and continental coast line. Al
lied with him, on a splendid salary,
with princely pickings thrown in, was
a lawyer, Larry Hegan, a young Irish
man with a reputation to make, and
whose peculiar genius had been un
A Sudden Envy of This Young Fellow
Came Over Daylight.
recognized unui uayugm naa picKea
up with him. It was Hegan who guided
Daylight through the intricacies of
modern politics, labor organization,
and commercial and corporation law. i
It was Hegan, prolific of resource and
suggestion, who opened Daylight's
eyes to undreamed-of possibilities in
twentieth-century warfare: and it was
Daylight, rejecting, accepting, and
elaborating, who planned the cam
paigns and prosecuted them. With the
Pacific coast, from Puget Sound to
Panama, buzzing and humming, and
with San Francisco furiously about his
ears, the two big steamship companies
had all the appearance of winning. It
looked as if Burning Daylight was be
ing oeaten Biowiy to nis Knees. Ana
then he struck?at the steamship com
panies, at San Francisco, at the whole
Pacific coast.
It was not much of a blow at first.
A Christian Endeavor convention was
being held in San Francisco, a row
was started by Express Drivers' Union
No. 927 over the handling of a small
heap of baggage at Ferry Building. A
few heads were broken, a score of ar
rests made, and the baggage was de
livered. No one would have guessed
that behind tliis pettj wrangle was
the fine Irish hand of Hegan, made
potent by the Klondike gold of Burn
ing Daylight. It was an insignificant
*ffair at best?or so It seemed. But
the Teamsters' Union took up the
quarrel, backed by the whole Water
Front Federation. Step by step, the
strike became Involved. A refusal o
cooks and waiters to serve scab teair
sters or teamsters' employer
brought out the cooks and waiters
The butchers and meat cutters refuse*
to handle meat destined far unfal
restaurants. The combined Employ
era' Associations put up a solid froni
and found facing them the 40.000 01
ganlzed laborers of San Franclscc
The restaurant bakers and the baker
wncnn HrJvsra iitnirk follnw?d bv th'
milkers, milk drivers and chlckei
pickers. The building trades assertei
its position in unambiguous terms, am
all San Francisco was in turmoil.
But still, it was only San Francisco
Hegan's intrigues were masterly, an<
Daylight's campaign steadily devel
oped. The powerful fighting organ)
zatlon known as the Pacific Slope Ses
man's Union refused to work vesseli
the cargoes of which were to b<
handled by scab longshoremen ant
freight handlers. The union presente*
its ultimatum, and then called a strike
This had been Daylight's objective al
the time. Every incoming coastwls<
vessel was boarded by the union offl
clals and Its crew sent ashore. An<
with the seamen went the firemen, th<
engineers and the sea cooks an<
waiters. Daily the number of ldh
steamers increased. It was impossi
ble to get scab crews, for the men o
the Seamen's Union were flghteri
trained in the hard school of the sea
and when they went out it mean
blood and death to scabs. This phas<
of the strike spread up and down th
entire Pacific coast, until all the port
were filled with idle ships, and set
transportation was at a standstill. Th<
days and weeks dragged out, and tb<
strike held. The Coastwise Stean
Navigation Company and the Hawaii
an, Nicaraguan, and Paciflc-Mexicai
i Steamship Company were tied up com
pietely. The expenses of combatini
the strike were tremendous, and the:
were earning nothing, while dally th<
situation went from bad to worse, un
til "peace at any price" became th<
cry. And still there was no peace
until Daylight and bis allies played ou
their hand, raked In the winnings, an<
allowed a goodly portion of a contl
nentto resume business.
Daylight's coming to civilization ha<
not improved blm. True, he won
better clothes, had learned slights
better manners, and spoke better Eng
llsh. But he had hardened, and at tb<
expense of his old-time, whole-soule<
geniality. Even his human affiliation!
were descending. Playing a lone hand
contemptuous of most of the men wltl
whom he played, lacking In sympath]
or understanding of them, and certain
ly Independent of them, he found lit
tie In common with those to be en
countered, say at the Alta-Paciflc. Ij
point of fact, when the battle with th<
steamship companies was at its heigh
and his raid was Inflicting Incalcula
ble damage on all business interests
be had been asked to resign from tb<
Alta-Pactflc. The idea had been rath
er to his liking, and he had found nev
quarters in clubs like the Riverside
organized and practically malntainet
by the city bosses,
One week-end. feeling heavy and d<
pressed and tired of the city and it
ways, he obeyed the impulse of i
whim that was later to play an lmpor
tant part In his life. The desire ti
get out of the city for a whiff of coun
try air and for a change of scene wai
tne cause, xei. 10 n>mseu, ne maai
the excuse of going to Glen Ellen fo
the purpose of inspecting a brlckyal'i
which Holdsworthy had sold him. H<
spent the night In the little countr:
hotel, and on Sunday morning, astrld<
a saddle horse rented from the Glei
Ellen butcher, rode out of the village
The brickyard was close at hanif 01
the flat beside the Sonoma Creek.
Resolving to have his fun first, an
to look over the brickyard afterward
he rode up the hill, prospecting for :
way cross country to get to th
knolls. He left the country road a
the first gate he came to and canterei
through a hayfleld. The grain wa
waist-high on either side the wagoc
road, and he sniffed the warm aromi
of it with delighted nostrils. At th'
base of the knolls he encountered i
tumble-down stake-and-rlder fence.
vvr lv n.
Wall Street
Fancy Job of Trucking That Takei
the Minds of Financier*
Off Money.
Finance Is what engages it mostly
but Wall street can spare a momen
for other things that are interesting
as it is doing occasionally Just now t<
look on at some exhibitions of fane:
trucking.
The structural steel for the ne?
building going up on Wall and Nassai
streets is landed from lighters at *
South street wharf at the foot of Wal
street, so it is only a short haul fron
the wharf to the new building, thougl
it's a lively one. ?
Some of the supporting columns 01
pillars going into this building weigl
from 25 tons to 30 tons each, bu
they are handled easily. They bacl
one of those long and ponderoui
trucks with low, broad-rimmed, heavy
solid iron wheels down on the wharf
alongside the lighter, and then thi
lighter's steam derrick lifts off it:
deck one of those 30-ton pillars anc
lays it gently on the truck, doing thii
quickly and easily.
To haul this load they have hookec
to the team seven pairs of big horses
a team of 14 horses, all used to th<
business and all pulling ably.
All ready, the driver mounts to t
seat on the forward end of the blj
(Copyright. 1910, by the New York Herald
(Copyright, 1910, by the MacMIIlan C<
9 "It 8uro Beats Country Places and
muned
He tethered the horse a6d wan
dered on foot among the knolls. Their
tope were crowned with century-old
spruce trees, and their Bides clothed
with oaks and madronos and native
holly. But to the perfect redwoods be
longed the small but deep canyon that
threaded its way among the knolls.
9 Here be found no passage out for
j bis horse, and leading the animal, be
3 forced bis way up the hillside. Ou
the crest he came through an amazing
j thicket of velvet-trunked young ma
j dronos, and emerged on an open hlll
. side that led down into a tiny valley.
. The sunshine was at first dazzling in
. its brightness, and he paused kid
j rested, for he was panting from the
3 exertion. Not of old had he known
t shortness of breath such as this, and
muscles that bo easily tired at a stiff
, climb. A tiny stream rar down,the
j tiny valley through a tiny meadow
h 'that was carpeted knee-high with
y grass and blue and white nemophila.
, Crossing the stream. Daylight fol
j lowed a faint cattle trail over a low.
i un' J n wlno.n/nnHorf
rocity mil auu luiuugu ? *???w?.?.
forest of manzanita, and emerged
3 upon another tiny valley, down which
a filtered another spring-fed, meadow
.. bordered streamlet
a "It sure beats country places and
bungalows at Menlo Park," he com
8 muned aloud; "and If ever 1 get the
0 hankering for country life, It's me for
r this every time."
j An old wood-road led him to a clear
e lng, where a dozen acres of grapes
y grew on wine-red soil. A cow-path, more
e trees and thickets, and he dropped
a down a hillside to the southeast ex
>. posure. Here, poised above a big for
o ested canyon, and looking out upon
Sonoma Valley, was a small farm
d house. With its barn and outhouses
[, It snuggled into a nook In the hill
a side, which protected It from the west
e and north. It was the erosion from
t this hillside, he judged, that bad
d formed the little level stretch of vege
s table garden. The soil was rat ana
i- black, and there was water In plenty,
a for he saw several faucets running
e wide open. Forgotten was the brick
a yard. Nobody was at home, but Day
light dismounted and ranged the vege
Is Interested
*
pillar on the truck, which puts him
high in the air, and gathers up his
lines. There are three other men scat
tered along the team as leaders and
guides for the horses, and then with
t out flummery or ceremony they get
away, starting the great 'load easily.
3 There's a broad, easy sweep from
r the wharf into the broad lower end of
Wall street and the outfit makes this,
f describing a great arc, and then It
J straightens out for the run up Wall
i street. It's an up grade all the way
1 from South street to Broadway, but
) the team takes it easily on a steady
l trot.
It's as good, if not better, than a
? pirrMicj nnrt nrlmRrilv interested
i though it is to finance. Wall street
t finds time to look when one of these
i great outfits sweeps by.?New York
3 Sun.
Customer's Opinion.
2 Seymour?What do you think of the
s novel that Beaner, the restaurant
i keeper, has written?
3 Ashley?It's too much like his sand
wiches?nothing between the covers. I
j 2 I
Knicker?Yes. my dear, I shall be
i glad to go with you; I long to Bee the
beauties of the country.
i Mrs. Knicker?We will stay in town.
I ?Judge.
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smpany.
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Bungalows at Menlo Park," He Corn
Aloud.
| table garden, eating strawberries and
i green peas. Inspecting the old adobe
Darn ana rusty piow ana narrow, ana
rolling and smoking cigarettes while
be watched the antics of several
broods of young chicks and the moth
er bens.
Nothing could satisfy his holiday spir
It now but the ascent of Sonoma Moun
tain. 4nd here on the cr?st, three
hours afterward, he emerged, tired and
sweaty, garments torn and face and
bands scratched, but with sparkling
eyes and an unwonted zestfulness of
expression. He felt the illicit, pleas
ure of a schoolfioy playing truant. The
big gaming table of San Francisco
seemed very far away. But there was
more than Illicit pleasure in his mood.
It was as though he were going
through a sort of cleansing bath. No
room here for rll the sordidness,
meanness and viciousness that filled
the dirty pool of city existence. He
was loath to depart, and It was not
for an hour that he was able to tear
himself away and take the descent of
the mountain. Working out a new
route Just for the fun of it, late after
noon was upon him when he arrived
-back -t the wooded knolls.
Daylight ca3t about for a trail, and
found one leading down the side
nnruictto tn h1n fMrcline the
base of the knoll, be picked up with
his horse and rode on to the farm- '
house. Smoke was rising from the 1
chimney, and he was quickly in con- i
versatlon with a nervous, slender
young man, who, he learned, was only ]
a tenant on the ranch. How large 1
was It? A matter of one hundred and i
eighty acres, though It seemed much
larger. This was because It was so
irregularly shaped. Yes, It Included <
the clay-pit and all the knolls, and its i
boundary that ran along the big can- <
yon was over a mile long. Oh, yes, j
he and his wife managed to scratch
a living without working too hard.
They didn't have to pay much rent.
Hillard, the owner, depended on the ,
income from the clay-iiit Hillard was ,
well off and had big ranches and vine- ,
yards down on the flat of the valley. 1
The brickyard paid ten cents a cubic <
yard for the clay. As for the rest of the
ranch, the land was good In patches,
where It was cleared, like the vege
table garden and the vineyard, but the
"You're not a farmer," Daylight
said.
The young man laughed and shook
his hear
"No; m a telegraph operator. But
the wife and I decided to take a two
years' vacation, and . . . here wo
are. But the time's about up. I'm
going back Into the office this fall
after I get the grapes off."
As Daylight listened, there camo to J
him a cudden envy of this young fel- 1
low living right in the midst of alJ (
this which Daylight had traveled *
through the last few hours.
"What in thunder are you going ,
back to the telegraph office for?" he j 1
demanded. . ! 1
The young man smiled with a cer
tain wlstfulness. i
"Because we can't get ahead here. j
. . ." (he hesitated an instant), I
"and because there are added ex- j
penses coming. The rent, small as it i <
. .
rest of it was too much
is, counts; anu uesiuea, i in uui snuiif,
enough to effectually farm the places , '
If I owned It. or If I were a real i 1
husky like you. I'd ask nothing better. . t
Nor would the wife." Again the wist- I
ful smile hovered on his face. "Yov? ! c
see, we're country born, and afte* S
[ bucking with cities for a few years* I
we kin-l of feel we like the country c
best. "We've planned to get ahead, s
though, and then some day we'll buy i
a patch of land and stay with it" 1
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
WAR AGIST TICK
AN ASSOCIATION IS FORMED IN
!
FLORENCE COUNTY FOR ERAt>
ICATION OF PEST.
EFFORTS BEGIN AT ONCE
A M I\A? 111 O- ETmami rUm.
nil uiopcbivr f? III WW a i will vmm
ton and By United State* Govern
k
ment?Thirteen Counties to Be 0t
gani2ed in This Work.
Florence.?There was a very fair at
tendance of farmers at the court bouse
when the meeting to organize a tick
eradication association was formally
perfected by the election of Walter
Gregg of Mars Bluff, president; Dr. T.
C. Johnson vice president, and U. A.
Vincent secretary. The first dipping
vat will be concentrated at once on
the plantation of Herbert Corrle, near
Mara Bluff, for the greatest interest in
the matter la shown in that neighbor
hood, and the rest of the county will
be expected to learn lrom those folk.
An Inspector will be sent from Clem
??on tin* by the United States govern
ment and the farmers who have in
fected pastures will be shown how to
get rid of the ticks. In some instances
complaints are made of the ticks on
horses and mules. Florence will go
into the matter with the intention of
making it what it should be.
There are 13 counties now to be or
ganized in this work, and it is hoped
that within the next >ear these coun
ties will be free to ship cattle to all
parts of the United States. These
counties are Florence, Darlington,
Marlboro, Chesterfield, Fairfield, Edge
field, Newberry, Saluda and other
counties on that border, which will
make half of the state free from ticks
if the work is thoroughly done.
r
South Carolina New Enterprises.
Columbia.?The secretary of state
has issued a charter to the People's
pharmacy of Sumtfer. with a capital
stock of $1,500. The officers are: G.
W. Birnle, president; T. J. Williams,
vice president and. R. G. Biraie, secre
tary and treasurer. A commission has
been issued to .the Branchvlile Casket
Manufacturing .and Casket company of
Branchville with a capital stock, of $3,
000. The officers are: W. M. Warren,
president, and Preston Ott, secretary
and treasurer. A commission lias been
issued to the Fidelity Realty corpora
tion of Charleston, with a capital stock
Dl |2n|UUU. me yeuuuucm ai c m. ?
Saint-Amand and H. D. Workman.
#' 'W ^ A .. . . > ,
Dispose of Dispensary Fund.
Columbia.?Checks aggregating ap
proximately $100,000 were mailed out
by R. H. Jennings, the -state treasurer
to the various counties of the state.
Sending out the- checks finally dis
poses of the entire dispenaaray fund
which was collected through the ef
forts of the Ansel commission. Over
350,000 children enrolled In the pub
lic schools of the state will be bene
fited by the fund. Each county in the
state will reeclve 28 cents for each
jhild enrolled.
Fix Date of Union County Fair.
Union.?The Union County Fair this
rear will be held on Wednesday,
rbursday and Friday, October 24th
ind 25th. This was decided on at the
mnual meeting of the Union County
Pair Association, at which time Hon
L. J. Browning, was re-elected presl
ient; A. B. Brannon, vice-president,
ind Mr. L. J. Hames, treasurer, sue
needing Mr. R. P. Harry, who declined
re-election, while Mr. B. F. Alston, Jr.
:he wide awake secretary, will con
:inue to All that position.
i
Town Election Held at Eartover.
Eastover.?As a result of a town
?l?ct!on the following were elected for
:he ensuing year: E. C. Touchberry,
ntendant; W. M. Hunt, H. ^V. King,
T. P. Lowry, J. H. McLeod, wardens.
VIr. Touchberry held the office of in
;endent for two terms when the town
ivas first incorporated.
Spartanburg.?At a meeting It wa&
lecided to launch the campaign to
aiso $160,000 for the endowment of
Converse college and the building of a
lew home for the Y. M. C. A. on May 7.
Canvassert Working Faithfully.
Greenville.?The reports which were
sent in from the Rock Hill plan can
vassers to D. B. Trailer, county chair
nan, show that the canvassers have
seen working faithfully and that thr
'armers, in most instances, are in
sympathy with the proposed reduction
n the amount of cotton planted, xne
eports have come from practically all
sections of the county and indicate a
eduction ranging from 18 to 40 per
:ent. The best report was sent in by
VIr. A. B. Black of Chick Springs town
ihip.
Rhame Refuses to Give Up Office.
Columbia.?"The Governor's act In
ittempting to remove me from office
s purely arbitrary, and his statement
;hat the condition of the bank was not
jublished Is false. I shall disregard
lis order and shall hold the office until ,
jrdered by the Court to relinquish," is ,
;he statement which was issued by ,
state Bank Examiner B. J. Rrames
vhen he received the copy of Governoi
3lea?es's proclamation removing him .
'rom the office of state bank examiner ]
rhis means that Mr. Rhame will re
'use to surrender his office. ,
April 20 is to Be Field Day. ,
Lancaster.?The Lancaster county
ield day exercises to consist chiefly ol 1
ithletic and literary contests oy rep
esentative pupils from each school In (
he county will be observed April 20
'reparations have ben made for a gen
eral educational rally on this occasion. ,
Several prominent educators, notably ,
'rof. Tate, inspector of rural schoolf ,
?f South Carolina, are scheduled to ]
peak on this date, and it is thought ]
hat a large crowd will be present tc ,
isten to these speeches.
FROM THE PALMETTO STATE
Short Paragraphs of State News That '
Has Been Gotten ^Together With
Care by the Editor.
Washington.?President Taft named
John R. Tolbert, Jr., as postmaster at (
Abbeville.
Greenville.?One hundred building
permits, representing $89,112 were is
sued from the city engineer's office
during the first quarter of the present |
year, while 105 permits were issued
'
during the same period last year, rep
resenting $110,810, a difference of five
permits and $21,689 in favor of 1911.
Orangeburg.?The annual meeting
of the Edisto Savings tank, of Orange
burg, was held at the banking rooms
of the bank, and th^ election of offl
cers were entered into. The report of
President B. H. Moss was very gratl- 1
fying and showed that the bank had *
experienced the most prosperous year 1
1
in Jts history.
Columbia.?The governor has grant- *
ed a parole to Morgan Smith, who was
convicted in Hampton county in 1906
on the charge of murder and sentenc
ed to life imprisonment in the itate
penitentiary upon a recommendation
of mercy. Since assuming office the
governor has extended clemency in
345 cases.
Chester.?A none-suit was entered -
in the case of Chester county for
$8,180 against the S. A. L. railway for
the obstruction of Pinckney street by
the defendant's overhead bridge. The
court held that the obstruction com
plained of-" waa'not such as was con
templated'by section 1375 o? the civil
code, under which the action was
brought.
Columbia.?Invitations to the recep
tion to be given the state officers, U.
D. C.; and the degelates from the var
ious chapters to the uneviling will bfe
issued at the capitol. Mrs: Reed Ston
ey and Mrs. Cornelia Hlmore Davidson
will compose a committee of two to
register the names of all delegates
and officers of the U. D. C., and to give
them the invitations. ; j
Columbia.?The supreme court in a <
decision by Associate Justice "ftydrick i
reversed the Abbeville county court j
and ordered a new trial in the case i
of J. H. Ferguson, who was convicted t
on the charge of manslaughter for kill- 1
ing his father, John Ferguson. The <
young man claimed self-defense and i
said that he accidentally shot his fath- \
ar, who was abusing his mother.
.. Barnwell. ? "Long Henry" Moody,
town marshal of Olar, shot and killed .
loh.i McDaniel, 25 years old, of Fair- (
fax in a pistol duel at Olar. Marshal {
Moody rfecelv^d serious wounds, one .
bullet taking effect in his abdomen,
wbll^ another passed through one of j
his lungs and broke an arm. McDan
iel, who Is a native of Georgia, has j
been living in this state several years. ^
Orangeburg.?The dairy special that '
is being operated through this state by <
:he Southern Railway company, visit- ^
sd this city and many persons visited 1
the demonstrations at the car and a t
big audience' greeted R. H. Mason at <
:he court house when he lectured on 1
'The Sanitary Production of Milk."
Mr. Mason Is one of the special repres
sntatives from the United States gov
ernment. I
Anderson.?Henry Pressley, a neg
ro, who shot and killed Tom Rice, an
5tber negro, about two weeks ago on
the public road in the Holland's store
*orMnn was sentenced by Judge
Price to serve ten years. The jury re
turned a verdict of mapslaughter.
Judge Prince has dismissed! all jurors '
drawn to serve at the special term of
Driminal court, and is now engaged in 1
bearing appeal cases from the magis
trates' and police courts. *
i i
Lexington.?By a vote of 11 to 0, the
residents of school district No. 7, (
voted to repeal the special tax levy of j
;wo mills, which has bee^ in effect (
for two years. Only about one half i
Df the qualified electors went to the j
polls, it is said. This was the second I
eelction held on the same question, it (
being alleged that the ballot box was t
'stuffed" at the first election, and it ]
nroo rlanloraH that t'.a election Was t
illegal. f
Anderaon.?For attempting criminal
assault on the wife of a prominent far
mer of Dean Station, this county, Feb
ruary 26, last, William Reed, a negro, j
must die in the electric chair at the c
state penitentiary in Columbia, July t
12, next. r
Barnwell.?Georgiana Phenix, a col- j
Dred woman about 62 years old, was f
killed at Ashleigh, a station on the c
Southern railway, a few miles north of j
here, by a north-bound passenger train. v
The coroner's jury found that the de- v
ceaBed had come to her death by be- j,
ing struck and knocked from the track p
by a Southern railway trafh. ^
Chester.?In the town election held
at Blackstock, Chester county, these
officials were elected: Intendant, L.
E. Sigraon; wardens, J. D. Mobley, J. t
E. Craig, E. M. Kennedy and S. D. 8
Stephenson. t,
Winnsboro.?Jim Hall, is held here j,
on a charge of shooting Jonn jonnson
and William Moore on the plantation
of Col. John G. Mobley. Moore, who
was shot in the stomach and serious
ly injured, was taken to Columbia
where he is at the Rhodes hispital.
Ho is in a'critical condition. John
son's wound is in the leg and is nol
considered serious.
Bethune.?L. W. West, postmastei i
at this place, received notice froir j
Washington, D. C., that there will be
placed here a postal savings bank in
the very near future*
Florence.?At a meeting of the Flor
ence County Medical association the
delegates to the state association were
Instructed to invite the state associa
tion to Florence for its next annual
meeting. Two meetings of the state
medical association have been held in
Florence and the visiting doctors were
tind enough to say that they spept a
most delightful week litre ana would
ae glad to return.
tlHE
CURRENT 13 FAST EATING AWAVv
EARTHWORK AND WIDENING
BREACH*
FARMERS ARE MAROONED
' V
Frail Structures Are Being Washed
Away in the Rush of Water Like
Chaff Before the Wind?Many Peo
ple Are Homeless*
?
Memphis, Tenn?With on& mala
' ' 1 - ' figm
evee gone, water lapping the crest of
he embankments at half a dozen
' -v '
joints and several breaks believed to
je only the questions of hours, MaJ.
-lark s. Smith, United States engineer
llrectlng the fight against the water's >
encroachment, described the Missis- '
ilppi river flood situation as grave. The
Reel root Lake levee, west of Hickman,
ivy., yas the first of the main embank
nents to.gp., Flood water* are sweep
ng over a wide area.
.
Golden Lake, 60 miles north of Mem- #3
?hls, and the levee on the Arkansas ' $
tide 8 miles below this city, are re
garded as in imminent danger. At both '
joints, sandbags have been plied on
:he surface of ^he revetments to- a
lelght of 1 1-2 j feet and (he water is
ir ashing over. At Mound City, Ark.,
ind at Holleybush alaa~. the---levees
hreaten to cave.
A dispatch was reecived at the office
>f the Tennessee levee board from
[Jnlted States Senator Clark of Arkan
ias, stating that the War Department
las been Instructed to devote $40,000
)f an emergency fund toward aiding ;
u the fight between Cape Girardeau, r
VIo., and the month of the Wttipiffrer.
Vrmy supplies and tents are t^So to be -;
jent to the aid of the flood suffers.
Pitiful cases of destitution have been
elieved in various parts of the wide ,
itretch of country embraced In the
:entral section of the valley. Hick
zfan, Ky., houses aboiit 3,500 refugees,
partly In tents, vazr& these include
inmo 9. (y\l\ rvr nihVa cmnlATU r\f fan.
? ??r J . mx
ories, living in 900 or more house*
loodedln Hickman several days ago. 1':$
Columbus, Ky., New Madrid, Mo., Do
ena, Mo., these are thb towns serious
y affected by the invading waters.
Outlaws Are Begging Food.
HillBvlfle, Va.?According to Sug
Smith, who lives over Mount Airy way i
oward the Carolina line, Sidna Allen
md Wesley Edwards, the two court
191130 assassins, came to his cabin
md begged for food. Allen came to
lis door, he said, and Edwards stood ^
juard: Allen declared neither; had %
:aken food that day. They got none
toiii Smith and took to the mountains. v
rhe mountaineer feared , to tell the .0.
letectivea until midnight and It was r
nomine when a nosse took -uo the
:rial. Sheriff Haynee of Mount Airy
x)ok the bloodhounds but they refus
id to scent the trail and the posse
*ent off onStnith's directions: .
Are Ordered to Arrest Haywood.
Passaic, N. J.?Deputy sheriffs on
juard at the Forstmann & Huffman
jtlk mill in'Garfield, where a serious
rattle was waged between the strikers
md the authorities, declared -th&tQjij
:hey had been served with orders
'rom Sheriff Robert Conklin to arrest
William D. Haywood, leader of the
industrial Workers of the World, if he
ippeared in Garfield. Haywood has
jeen here lately as one of the strike
jrganizers and the deputies said he /.
aras charged with Inciting to riot %
Number of Americans Stranded.
Washington.?There are 21T Ameri- Vt'ij
stranded, some of them in abso- ' ^
utc want, in Vera Crus, in the east ,-j
joast of Mexico; in Mezatian on the $
vest coast and in ManzanHlo, In the -
ntenor or me siaie 01 jannuo, mo
Vraerican Red Cross here despatch
ed $1,500 to the American consuls in
hose places to aid in their relief. The
led Cross says it probably will be
lecessary to issue a national appeal
or aid.
Would Favor Philippine Sugar.
Washington.?General Clarence R.
Cdwards, chief of the insular bureau,
>f the war department, urged before
he senate finance committee the re
noval of the 300,000 ton limit on Phil
ppine sugar which the tariff law now
lermits to come Into this country free
if duty. All tariff restrictions upon
'hilippine sugar, paid General Ed
wards, is a discouragement to the de
pfllnnmAnf r\t 011001* nlonfincr in tho
CIV ^XUCUl VI BU0UI
Blands. Two members of the Porto
lican free sugar bill now pending in
he senate also were heard.
Slayer of Seventeen To B? Tried.
Lafayette, La?The trial of Clemen
ine Barnabet, negress, self-confessed
layer of 17 members of her race, ii
o be set for the noar future, accord
ig to parish officials. The grand jury"
eturned six indictments against her,
ne for each of the six members ot
r. Randall's family. Officers work
lg clews believed to lead to Clem
ntines's associates- in crime and
lembers of the Sacrifice sect, return
d empty handed. They asserted
liey are on the right track and devet
pments are momentarily expected.
Pay Last Honor To Bob Taylor.
Knoxville, Tenn.?Beneath a tower
lg embankment of floral tributes of
>ve and affection, symbolic of the
eautiful nature and sunshine of
hich he was a living exponent, all
lat is mortal of the late Senator Rob
t Love Taylor now rests in old Gray
jmtery In this city. Following the
iturn of the funeral train to this
ty from its pilgrimage to Nashville,
here the dead statesman lay In the
gialatlve halls for several days,
isequles were held. '
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