The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, January 22, 1908, Image 10
ZulBOB LAW UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
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[ Slate Judiciary Declare It Invalid.
f Columbia, January 16.?The judi?
ciaiy of the State, sitting en bane, has
declared unconstitutional the labor
p contract law. This is in effect the*
same decision rendered by Judge
Brawley, of the Federal Court, several
months ago, and puts an end to any
speculation as to the the validity of
the statute. The Court was divided
on the question before it. The maJority
opinion was written by Asso;
date Justice Woods and was concurred
dn by Chief Justice Pope, Circuit
fudges Watts, Gage, Wilson, Gray
and Memminger, as to the general
contents of the opinion, and by Judge
Dantzler as to the result. The miKswi
Tartinfrr nnininn vrna -annt.f^n hv A HKO
f : date Justice Jones, and was concurred
in by Circuit Judges Klugh,
Prince, and Hydrick.
'Associate Justice Gary filed a sepai
i rate diss&nt as follows: "I dissent
. -on the ground that constitutionality
> if Qie statute is not before the Court
on habeas corpus proceedings."
The case was argued to-day by Mr.
W. H.,Parker, of Charleston, representing
the Attorney General, and by
Herbert and Benet, of Columbia, as
attorneys for Jack Hollman, the old
negro who was arrested for violation
' of the labor contract law. The decision
of the Court will be published
in full later.
' Sonntor Baysar Offers
Now County Bill.
Senator Baysor, of Orangeburg, has
sbfiito prevent the difficulties in form*
new counties which have arisen
from the Calhoun County matter. It
is as follows:
"That hereafter in the formation
jmaorganization 01 any new wuuijr
in this State, when it is desired to in...
dude only a portion of any township
within the area of the proposed new
connty, such township shall .be intermeted
by only one straight line and
at least one of the voting places in
\ such township shall be included within
the area of the proposed new cQunty,
and all qualified electors within the
area of any proposed new county shall
.have the right of voting upon , the
f question of the formation of an organination
of any new county."
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Vaioa to Start Sank
at Sparta .burg.
Spartanburg, January 18.?Special:
The Fumes' Union of Spartanburg
County will organize a national bank
and erect a handsome bank building
in this city in the present year. Application
for & charter will be made
at once. *rne capital siock will oe
one hundred thousand dollars. All of
the stock in the bank will be owned
by the members of the Union.
President O. P. Goodwin, of the
.. State Farmers'j Union, delivered an .
address before the County Union to;
day and urged them to posh the work
o! organizing the bank as fast as possible.
The directors of the Union have
reported that a large amount of stock <
has been subscribed.
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Book 6b Saoe Question.
i Washington, Jan. 19.?Senator Till|
man is engaged now in writing a book
on the race question. This work is
undertaken at the request of D. Appleton
& Co., publishers, who have
been in correspondence for some time
with the senator about it. He will
spend much time during the coming
Bummer on this book.?The State.
Gsifltk-EalL
On the ninth of January quite a
pretty marriage occurred at Steadman,
the contracting parties being
Miss Jimmie Griffith" of Lexington
and Dr. Daniel L. Hall of Steadman.
The ceremony was performed by Rev.
J. H. Sanford at the home of Mr.
Perry Ijlall, brother of 'the groom.
. The lovely bride is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Griffith of this
place and the announcement of her
. .marriage calls forth many genuine
. felicitations from a large circle of admiring
friends. The groom is a popular
young dentist, and has a bright
, future before hhn. The happy couple
will reside at Steaaman ror Dae present.
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Spread the Disease.
The Washing of the clothing of a
girl suffering with typhoid fever in a
spring which supplied water for Bedford
City, Va? has resulted in an
epidemic of the disease. Many deaths
have been reported and the disease is
still spreading.
Sons of W. H. Sellers Shot.
While getting off with three five
gallon kegs of whiskey in Columbia
on Thursday, it is alleged that Constable
Farmer shot the fine horse of
W. H. Sellers, the well known blind
tiger of that city. Sellers was driv
ing the animal at the time it was
shot.
THE MEXICAN BORDER
How Both Sides of the Line Are
Watched and. Guarded.
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UNCLE SAM'S BRAVE RIDERS.
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The Work That Is Performed by These
Well Mounted, Well Armed and Courageous
Patrols?The Mexican Rurales
and Their Methods.
If business or recreation should take
you down to that long.line which forms
. the boundary between the United States
and Mexico, you may by chance meet
a well mounted rider, armed Tyith rifle
and pistols, pacing observantly along
some bypath or canyon. He is one of
the United States boundary riders appointed
by the treasury department to
patrol the border on the lookout for
smugglers, cattle runners and other
persons whose presence on the American
side is generally undesirable.
For this position the man selected
must possess courage, judgment and
no little physical endurance, for his
duties may call him forth at all hours
and seasons, and he may be responsible
for a stretch of border land many
miles in length.
For example, between San Diego, on
the Pacific coast of California, and
Yuma, in Arizona, there is but one
boundary rider to patrol a line of over
150 miles, ana mis is m pu.it wci
a sparsely settled mountainous region
and partly through the waste of the
Colorado desert
As opposite him, on the other side of
the line, the Mexican government maintains
from fifteen to twenty rurales
for the same work, it is a good illustration
of the trust reposed in a single
American citizen by his government
It is probable there is no other man
in the United States whom it would
be harder to find at a given moment
than the boundary rider of the San
Diego-Yuma district
He may be down on the Colorado
desert, watching near some water
holes for a venturesome band of cattle
. runners, or in some canyon of the mountains
on the lookout for a wagon load
of prohibited immigrant Chinamen;
but, wherever he is, one may be fairly
sure it is notwhdre the transgressor of
the customs laws expect him to be.
That he must possess both judgment
and courage the following incident,
which took place during the career of
the former boundary rider in this district
will aptly Illustrate:
v For some time a band of cattle runners
had been working^ successfully
back and forth over the line In spite of
the boundary rider's vigilance. They
seemed to be able to divine his. movements,
so that while he was watching
a trail through the mountains they
were rushing a bunch of-qattle over
the desert
But at last he managed to surprise
the band and, rifle in hand, drove two
of them into Campo. , .
# Then, however, arose the question as
to the method of taking them down to
the coast He hired a double seated
vehicle, the only one in the place.
But at once another question presented
itself. How was he to seat his
. prisoners, for either they must be
placed together on the front or the
back seafc or separated, both seemingly
a hazardous choice?
He finally decided to separate them,
and so, with one on the front seat with
him and the other behind, he started
forthe coast.
The two cattle runners managed to
communicate with each other by signs
and at a rough part of the road made
the boundary rider, in turn, their
prisoner, heedless to say, they then
made the best of their opportunity to
escape over the border, but as they felli
into the hands of the unsympathetic
rurales they would have been better
off if they had submitted to the law of
their own country.
This brings one of the somewhat different
methods pursued by the Mexican
government in guarding their side
of the border. From a cursory inspection
of the line one might suppose that
the Mexican side is not guarded- at all.
You may cross the line ten times at
different places and never set eyes on
a rurale, but it is well known that you
have done so nevertheless, and on the
eleventh excursion you are likely to
find yourself surrounded by a picturesque
group, who will carry you off to
jail if your explanation is not satisfactory.
As a rule, the rurales patrol back
and forth in detachments at a distance
of from ten to fifteen miles from the
actual border. Many a headlong dash
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lor tne American siae nas uwu mauc
by perfectly law abiding citizens, with
the rurales at their heels, because they
have been heedless in obtaining a permission
to cross the border.
True, an American citizen may cross
the border at will, as far as he himself
is concerned, but as he is almost certain
to carry some article liable to duty
it is upon that charge that he may be
arrested.?Michael White in Youth's
Companion.
Rural Claims.
Through the influence of the daily
press cities and their needs have come
to absorb such an amount of daily
attention that the importance of the
country and its inhabitants to the welfare
of the nation is largely overlooked;
hence the call to do everything that
can be done to enlarge, to refine, to
purify and to strengthen the life of
our country people. And one means
to this end which has not hitherto
Wn nspd as much as it miffht have
been is the cultivation in the school
and in the home of the habit of reading
good books.?Bishop of Hereford
in Nineteenth Century.
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I|F Mean Bigger ||r Profits J?J|
1/7 Big profits from ccttcn, tobacco, ar.d Vfy such garden crops as *
?7 corn, tomatoes, cabtage, lettuce, bei?> \ and all other vegeta- Vc^
?/ bles and fruits depend upon their aniform * and rapid growth. Big- -y?&y.
i/ gsr crops and quicker and larger growth are positively assured through
i high fertilization with /?//s . ^
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' I Vligsflia waroiiua ?m
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That Virginia-Carolina Fertilizers are far snoerior to any other fertilizers Is /jSs ^ ?
proved by the experience of Mr. L>. M. Grikih, D. D. S. of Plant City, Fla., v?-2
who says: "I was tracking on a small scale, and decided I would try a few W
sacks ot ycur fertilizer, as it was cheap and said to be good. I put it tinder
some tomatoes by the side of some other high grade fertilizer which % >
? cos Line $15 a ton more, and in the same proportion per acre. I don:t $ Vi/
think I exaggerate in the hast in saying* that the yield where I used \ s/
?j Virginia-Carolina Fertilizers was three tivies that of where I used tjgi ta
51, the other brand of so-called high-grade fertilizer." /M$\ W r
id;. Mar.y valuable pointers on track farming \vri iten by government V/
6hh and private authorities, will be found in our new Farmers' Year /M ^\ If
Bock or Almanac. Got a copy at your fertilizer dealers', or / |.\ 3 4
i ( write to oar nearest sales olnce. It is Free. *
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