Keowee courier. (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, September 10, 1913, Image 1
By STECK, SH IO M m & S( 11 KOKK R._WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, WIJDNES??Y, SEPT. IO, 1013. New Series No. 80S.-Volume LXIV.-No. 37.
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Westminster, S. C.,
P. P. SULLIVAN, - - Cashier.
WESTMINSTER LOCAL NEWS.
Cotton Beginning to Como On Mar
kee-Short Personal Items.
Westminster, Sept. 9.-Special:
Mrs. Hoyt Cartledge and babe, of
Atlanta, aro visiting Mr. and Mrs. J.
M. Hull this week.
Lose Zimmerman brought In a
fine 1914 model Overland touring
car from Spartanburg Tuesday. He
left Spartanburg at ll o'clock and
arrived hero at about 4.30 p. m.
L. C. Gaston and wife, of Jeffer
son, Texas, arrived last week to
spend some time here with relatives.
Miss Eleanor Knight, of Anderson.
ls visiting Mrs. C. E. Anderson, this
week.
'Dr. E. R. Gilbert, of Hickory, N.
C., has located here and Will prac
tice dentistry. He comes very highly
recommended.
Sida Perkins, of Atlanta, is visiting
his father, J. S. Perkins, near West
finster.
Mr. and Mrs. O. K. Ppore, of Bel
ton, are visiting Mrs. Poore's mother,
Mrs. C. E. Dickson.
L. A. Tannery, of Liberty, was
uong friends here last week.
'dr. and Mrs. Rutledge Zimmcr
. of Atlanta, visited homefolks
h. J last week.
. Dr. W. E. Wilkins preached seve
ral interesting sermons in tho Bap
tist church inst week.
W. L. England spent last Thurs
day and Friday in Atlanta on busi
ness.
I H. M. Hester loft to-day for
Greenville, Bickens and other points
on business.
Cotton has commenced selling on
this market. Several bale? were sold
here last week.
Make* Rope, Hangs HiniRelf.
I Plant City, Fla., Sept. 0.-Making
ti rope out of hi? blanket, P. May
dees, a traveling painter from At
ifcnta, huns himself In Jail here to
day. He was dead when found. He
was locked up for drunkenness.
POISONED BISCUITS FATAL.
Five I,ads Partlike of Fatal Kennt
Prepared for Hats.
New York, Sept. 8.-Stolen bis
cuits that had been dosed with poi
son, in preparation for scattering
them about tho warehouse of Butler
Brothers, Jersey City, to rid the
place of rats, caused tho death of a
boy yesterday. Another ls in a dan
gerous condition in St. Francis's Hos
pital, and the police expect that by
to-morrow other cases of possible
fatal illness may be reported, for
it ls known that several lads partook
of the poisoned biscuits.
Tile dead boy was Anthony Sto
boskl, 8 years old. The little fellow
had nothing to do with stealing the
biscuits, but he came on the other
lads when they were in a lot near
tho warehouse and was permitted to
share the feast.
Monday night when ho was taken
ill he told his parents of having
eaten the biscuits. Yesterday morn
ing the little fellow was in agony.
His father then ran to the city hall
and had the police send a physician
to lils home but by tin* time the doc
tor got there the child was dead.
The police began an investigation
and gained an important duo when
11-year-old Stanley Kavaloski was
taken to St. Francis's Hospital in a
condition thr-1 Indicated that he had
little chance for his life.
Stanley snid that he and some
other boys lind made their way into
Butler Brothers' warehouse, and
finding a box of biscuits on a window
sill, had taken them. They went to
a nearby lot, and he said that ho and
nt least five other boys partook freely
of tho biscuits. He said they had
tasted a little queer.
By tho Hmo he had told this much
his condition became so dangerous
mid his agony so groat that the po
lice had to abandon any further at
tempts to question him as to the
identity of his other companions.
THAW OAHU DIO VIOLO PM LNTS.
MLatteawan Fugitivo Regrets tho Ar
rest of Jerome.
Coaticook, Quebec, Sept. 7-Harry
K. Thaw regrets that William Trav
ers .1 ero me was arrested ju Coati
cook yesterday changed with gamb
ling, and denies that he or his law
yers instigated tho arrest; more
over. Thaw would have been glad to
furnish Jerome's $500 bond.
This was the statement made by
Thaw yesterday as given out by An
dre Rousseau, the hotel proprietor,
who serves the prisoner's meals.
Rousseau was ono of Jerome's bonds
men.
"Thaw thinks the Jerome arrest
was a good joke, but a mistake." said
Rousseau. "Ho assured me that if
by any chance I lost anything as
hon (Isman he would make it good."
Mr. Jerome was not here to hear
Thaw's expressions of good will. Ile
went to Norton Mills. Vt., Friday
soon after he was released on hail
and took train for Montreal to pre
pare for the court hattie when Thaw
is brought before the King's bench,
on a writ of habeas corpus, Septem
ber I nth.
To-day aro*.KS Thaw's third Sun
day In C-.iada. Since Wednesday
evening inst he has been but nine
miles i rom the Vermont border, but
figuratively speaking, lie was, in view
of the procedure yet to come, per
haps further from Matteawan than
at any time since lils escape.
Magistrate Indigiiantv.
Jerome was bitterly denounced hy
Justice of the Peace Janies McKee in
his court room to-day. Tho gray
bearded magistrate was vfy indig
nant when Jerome's counsel spear
ed and asked an adjournment of his
gambling case.
"I want to say," cried McKee,
banging the table with Iiis fist, "that
we intend to prosecute Mr. Jerome to
the full extent of the law. He can't
come here and play his card games
before our children. This may be a
suburb town, but wo intend to en
force GU. laws. Our relations with
the American bar are cordial, but
justice must be meted out in this
case. I suggest that Jerome's bail
be forfeited."
"That would only hit two of our
citizens who went on it," said Mr..
Hanson, the prosecutor, in regard to>
forfeiting Jerome's bail.
The justice then "allowed" that he
would let the bail stand. Ile put
over the case until September 1 1.
There was a crowd of about sixty
idlers in the court room to listen to
the magistrate's tirade. They stamp
ed .their feet, and applauded vocifer
ously.
Delay Of Two Years Possible.
Ottawa, Canada, Sept. 6.-The
justice and Immigration departments
nf the Canadian government fear that
under the recent habeas corpus writ
Thaw's counsel may he able to test
the constitutionality of tho immigra
tion law, and that it may lie a year
or two before the ttnal decision la
given that will determine whether
Thaw is to be sent, back or allowed
to proceed through Canada to some
foreign destination.
Jerome "Honorably Discharged."
Coaticook, Quebec, Sept. 8.-Wil
liam T. Jerome was acquitted to
night of the charge of having gam
bled on Thursday laBt on the station
property of tho Grand Trunk Rail
way here, while waiting for the im
migration authorities to pass on the
case of Harry K. Thaw. In discharg
ing bim the court apologized for the
humiliation to which he had been
subjected.
The hearing before Magistrate
Henry Mulvena, or Sherbrooke, last
ed less than an hour. It began at
7.35 o'clock and at 8.20 the court
said: "filr, you are honorably dis
charged."
Jerome Thanks Court.
When acquitted. Mr. Jerome
thanked the court, spoke flatteringly
of his reception in Canada and added
that ho did not attribute bis arrest
and brief imprisonment last week to
the thinking people of the Dominion.
He took a late train from Coaticook
to-night in order to be In New York
Tuesday and will return to Montreal
for the arguments on the latest Thaw
habeas corpus writ, to be held be
fore the King's Hench at Montreal
September 15 th.
Conley May (Jet LighO Sentence.
Atlanta. Ga.. Sept. 6.- Jim Con
ley, the negro witness whose testi
mony convicted Loo Frank, may es
cape with a light sentence instead of
the three years given to an accessory,
according to lawyers who discussed
the grand jury's probable action to
day. Conley admitted having helped
Frank dispose of the body of Mary
Phagan, but be did not atv any time
"harbor or conceal" Frank, though
he did for a time conceal tho fact
that he knew of the crime, and this
may permit him to escape with a
misdemeanor sentence and one year's
confrnement.
Woman Killed by Flat Car.
Dublin, Ga., Sept. S. -Mrs. G. N.
Rowers, wife of an engineer nt a local
cotton mill, was run down and In
stantly killed by a flat car pushed
by a switch engine on a crossing
here to-day. Dow the woman got
caught where she did Is a mytery,
ns there ls a clear view both ways
there. Her neck was broken and
death resulted Instantly.
JAP OFFICIAL ASSASSINATED.
Sequel to ReiH>rte<l Massacre ami in
sult tri Japanese Fing.
Tokio, Sept. 0. - Montlaro Abe,
director of tho political bureau of the
Japanese foreign office, died to-day,
a victim of unidentified assassins.
Excitement is intense here, as it is
a sequel to the reported massacre of
Japanese and an insult to the Japa
nese flag at Nanking.
There is irresponsible clamor for
drastic action against China, similar
lo the recent noise anainst America.
The motive In tho assassination of
Director Abe may have originated in
resentment of tho policy of tho for
eign office in either or both of these
matters. In both cases foreign office
olliciale urged and adhered to a policy
of cafihness.
Japanese Call for Action Now.
Tokio, Sept. 7.-Tho assassination
of MOrtlaro Abe bas inflamed the
masses, and to-day a dramatic chap
ter in Hie history ol i lie new Japan
was written.
Fifteen thousand persons gathered
in mass meeting in the llibiya Park,
calling; for military action against
dina/;.Most of them marched to the
foreign1 office and clamored for ad
mission. They demanded tho dis
patch of trooiKs to China to avenge
tho killing of Japanese at Nanking,
or failing this tho resignation of the
minister of foreign affairs Baron No
bu?kl Maklno.
Speakers denounced tho emptiness
of Japanese diplomacy in connection
with tho California land question and
Chinaiahd insisted that tho Insult
to the* Japanese Hag at Nanking
should Se wiped out. The manifes
tation! was clearly an explosion of
popular resentment against the min
is ttry ttl its treatment of tho Califor
nia ann Chinese questions.
Profitiug by Hie lesson or riots that
followed the conclusion of peace be
t weeojgRuseia and Japan, the govern
i'ie?>tSfc"-od the risk of violence to
day by reruning to allow a single sol
dier or policeman at the scene. The
liiunitwItantB, many of them students,
were Orderly for a time.
SudJSfcnly the. cry to march on the
f?rei?j*v i>l?co was raised, and there
wa? ? ?'.ft.uer:}! :;{amped.e, many per
sons barely G?ciiplng being crushed
to death. The crowds surged through
the streets and reached the foreign
office to find that tho high iron gates
were locked.
Scores pounded on tho gates and
called for them to be opened. The
under officials refused. A delegation
was appointed, the members of which
climbed the ga.'es and then ensued a
long parley.
Meanwhile tho crowd was cheerful
but demonstrative. lt showered
'compliments on a beautiful geisha
girl struggling by in a rickshaw, but |
angrily stoned a photographer seek
ing to take snapshots of the chief
delegate, who having returned
mounted the portals to report pro
gress. Perched unsteadily on the
pickets he made a fantastic picture,
and in a harsh harrangue declared
the committee demanded either the
dispatch of troops . r tho retirement
of the foreign minister.
"We told the officials," ho shouted,
"that the voice of tho people speaks
and the agitation will never end un
til our demands are granted."
The extraordinary situation con
tinued for five hours, the delegates
emerging prodigally to pacify the
crowd. Finally, when the discussion
ended, they_reported that Baron Ma
kino had promised to receive them
September 15th. This was greeted
with howls of derision, and a thou
sand marched to the foreign minis
ter's residence three miles distant.
Police prevented their near approach.
Locals from Bounty I and.
Bounty Land, Sept. 8.-Special:
There has been a good deal of sick
ness in the community during the
past week. Masters Albert Smith
and (irady Rankin are still ill, but
better.
The pupils from this section who
matriculated In tho Seneca High
School this morning were: Misses
Irene and l/.ell Stone, Lura Perritt,
Susan Hoyle and Bussell Fennell.
Mr. Pennell arrived yesterday from
Anderson and will spend the winter
With his aunt, Mrs. 1). A. Perritt.
The Bounty Land school, with their
teacher, C. M. Byrd, picnicked Satur
day at Clemson instead of Friday,
which seemed rather an unfavorable
day. Tho day was greatly enjoyed
hy all.
Misses lone Powell, of Piedmont,
and Zora Merritt, of Ensley, were
guests inst week of the Misses Smith.
Miss Ethel McDnnlol left Saturday
for her home in Laurens after a
week's visit at the Smith home.
Miss Annie Mc.Mahan mid O. II.
Doyle left this morning for R. H.
Powell's, whence Miss Mc.Mahan will
visit the schools at Toxaway and Pu
laski.
Miss Myrtle Barton, of Anderson,
sjient several days last week at J. R.
Holland's.
Misses Agnes Ellison, Sallie Davis,
Carrio Smith, Ethel McDaniel and
Susan Doyle, Oscar Doyle, Julius
Shnnklln and Lowell Smith picnicked
at th? tunnel Wednesday. They were
Joined at Walhalla by Mrs. Lucy Bur
rlss and "Miss Fannie I shell. The
party are indebted to Miss Carrie
Smith for the day's enjoyment, the
treat being in honor of Miss Ethel
McDaniel, of Laurens.
704,00? BALES AHE GINNED.
First Cotton (?inning Report of Sen
son Issued Monday.
Washington. Sept. 8.- Cotton from
the growth of ll? 1 Ii ginned prior to
September ! amounted to 794,006
bales; tho census bureau announced
to-day in the first ginning report of
the season. Hound bales eonnted as
half bales. 'Phis is as compared with
7 :(<).'.?:!."> bales last year to September
1st, and 77 1.75)7 bales In HMO.
Hound bab's Included in this report
numbered 7,584, compared with 7,
434 Tor last year.
Sea island bales included 430, com
pared with 232 last year.
Following is the record of gin
nings by States to September 1st:
Alabama . 44,620
Arkansas. 2.200
Florida. 2,9 5 5
Georgia . 72,6!
Louisiana . 7,566
Mississippi. 2,02'
North Carolina . 188
Oklahoma. 4,943
South Carolina . 7,2
Tennessee .
Texas.649,694
All others . 4
Sensations in Cotton.
New York. Sept. 8.-Tho cotton
market had a sensationally active
opening to-day with first, prices 1 1
points above Saturday's. There
seemed to be a general rush to re
place cotton which had been sold out
on tho break of last week. This big
buying was attributed to the Wash
ington news, indicating thai the cot
ton tax bill had been amended to
take effect on September 1. 1914.
Humors that the Senate would re
consider the amendment to cotton
tax bill and might just make lt ope
rative as soon as it should become a
law unsettled the market during the
late forenoon, while there also was
some selling on reports of good rain
in sections over Sunday. The Wash
ington rumors were soon denied,
however, and prices almost immedi
ately advanced ag"in, selling 50 to
54 points abovo Saturday's closing
figures in the early afternoon. The
talk around the ring as well as the
action of Hie markets suggested
much conlt.ence In high priced cot
ton this season should there he no in
terfering legislation and the trade
rseemed; to pay. little .attention to
either weather news or record-break
ing census figures on tho amount of
cotton ginned to September 1.
HOT SPRINGS NTe.DS ll ELI*.
Stricken City Will Accept Assistance j
from "(?onerous Public."
Hot Springs, Ark., Sept. G.-Hot
Springs, fire swept, six million dol- |
lars of its property destroyed and 2,- j
5 00 of its people homeless, to-day ls- j
sued tho following:
"While we don't wish to bo placed
in the attitude of asking for outside
assistaitHie cry of suffering hu
manity suggests tito propriety of :
early accepting any assistance that '
may he offered by a generous public.
Tho destitution is acute. Ordinarily
we could take care of our local citi
zens in a disaster of this kind, but
there are hundreds of citizens from i
other States thrown on our bounty." |
The appeal was authorized by a '
committee comprising city officials i
and citizens. The city was exhaust
ed in fighting the conflagration, but,
nevertheless, devoted the day to re
lief measures for the homeless. Three
thousand dollars , subscribed at a
mass meeting, was devoted to pleas
ing needs.
Two companies of State troops, one
from Conway and the other from
Beebe, to-night are en route to Hot
Springs, on order of Governor Hays,
to aid in policing the place. There
has been no tension, but city offi
cials, believing the presence of the
militia would be helpful in handling
tile situation, asked for troops.
lints from Keowee Section.
Keowee, Sept. 8.-Special: The
people of this secHon are enjoying
the pretty weather and are pulling
fodder, making sorghum, visiting in
?tie mountains, etc.
The many friends of Mrs. J, H.
Von Holland are sorry to know that
sho has been very ill for some tim'
but she ls slowly improving no ,
and they hope for her early recovery.
Miss loella VonHolland, of Spar
tnnburg, is visiting her niece, Miss
Blanche Cox.
George Kelley, of Central, is a fre
quent caller in this section.
Misses Lula Brown, of Anderson,
and Beulah Knox spent several days
last week with their cousin, Miss
Alice Whit mire, of Whitewater. They
enjoyed several excursions into the
mountains, 'liss Whltmire returned
with them on her way to Anderson
for a stay of several weeks with Miss
Brown.
Misses Maggie and Margie Emer
son, of the Pleasant Ridge section,
were guests of their aunt. Miss Van
nie Emerson, recently.
M ra, A. R. Knox has been visiting
her daughter, Mrs. D. E. Brown, and
son, J. M. Knox, of Anderson, for
several days, and was accompanied
home by her granddaughter, Miss
Lula Brown.
Tho people of this section have
been attending a "holiness meeting"
at Dug Hollow the past two weeks.
We think there has been much good
done through this meeting. Rev. and
Mrs. Whitten, of North Carolina,
were tho leader?. They made many
[friends in the Keowee section.
DOMMITTEE MEETING TO-NIGHT.
Good Roads Committee Called to
Moot at Pitchfork's Hall.
Tho good roads committee of the
town of Walhalla ls hereby called to
meet to-night (Wednesday) at 8
o'clock at. Pitch ford's Hall. 1/et
every member ho present promptly
at the hour stated- 8 o'clock. Mat
ters of importance will be consid
eren. W. M. Brown, Chairman.
Anderson Will Im Her Part.
Mayor W. M. Brown has received
the following letter from tho Ander
son Chamber of Commerce:
"Replying to your favor ol' the
6th, we note thal Anderson has boen
assessed $500, and beg to advise that
we shall make every effort to secure
this money.
"Wo certainly I rust that all the
interested towns will do their part."'
THE RAPT1STS START TO WORK.
Planning Now to Halse $10,000 foi
Long Creek School.
Seneca, Sept. 7. A joint meeting
of the xeCUtlve, laymen and Cong
Creek School committees of the
Beaverdam Baptist Association met
at Seneca Baptist church t;>-day at
3.30 o'clock and was called to order
by Brother P. P. Sullivan, chairman
of the executive committee. Brother
T. M. Elrod was asked to act as sec
retary. The meeting was opened by
prayer, which was led by Bro. J. W.
Shelor.
The chairman then stated that the
object of calling a joint meeting of
the three committees together was to
discuss the school which the Beaver
dam Association proposes to b;:itd ill
this association, to ho located at
Long Creek, and to deviso ways and
means for raising funds for this pur
pose. The chairman made a brief re
view of the preliminary work that
had been dono. He stated that a
beautiful location for the school liad
been decided upon, and that 50 acres
of land had been donated by citizens
at Hong Creek and that 50 acres
more could bo obtained adjoining at
a reasonable pi ice. Ile then read let
ters from Bro. A. E. Brown, superin
tendent mountain school department
of the Home Mission Board; Bro.
Arch C. Croe, soc.netarv department
of enlisTrrntfrra tfie 1
Home Mission Board, and'Bro'. W. T.
Uerleux, corresponding secretary or
the State Mission Board, which let
ters showed that arrangements had
been made securing the services of
Bro. J. D. Crane for the purpose of
leading the campaign for subscrip
tions for the school in this associa
tion during the month of October. It
was thought that Bro. Crane waa
most adaptable for leading In this
campaign, as he was born and raised
in the mountains and had attended
one of these mountain schools, and
later had had charge of a mountain
school ol this kind, and was now em
ployed jointly by the State and Home
Mission Boards, doing miraion work
In the mountain sections of ti.is State.
Brothers W. M. Brown and I?Tank
H. Shirley made reports of a meeting
of the citizens of Iiong Creek on Sep
tember 1st to discuss the school.
They stated that this meeting was
very harmonious and Hint tho local
interest and enthusiasm was very ap
parent. A resolution was passed at
this meeting that the people living in
the immediate section of Long Creek
would raise $1,500 for the school.
After several good talks were made
by Bros. J. W. Siieior, J. B. Harris.
? W. M. Brown, J. E. Hopkins. M. A.
?Wood, W. H. Cole, Rev. C. S. Black
burn and others, a resolution wa?
adopted that the amount needed for
this work would he $10,000, and
that this amount he the aim of tho
committee In making the campaign
in this association. It was tho sense
of the meeting that this amotrnt could
probably he easier raised by giving
three-payment terms; first payment
term in the fall of IOU; second in
the fall of 1014, and last payment in
the fall of 1915, and this was
adopted,
Another resolution was adopted
asking the committee in charge of
the laymen of tho association tosend
out laymen to the various churches
the association to make talks and
?plain the purpose and plans of tb?
.-ong Creek school. Bio. J. B. Har
ris, chairman of the laymen commit
tee, pledged 'he support of tho lay
men in this work.
A motion was carried asking that
the minutes of this meeting be print
ed ns an appendix In tho minutes of
the association.
After prayer by Rev. C. S. Black
burn the meeting ad iou med.
P. P, Sullivan,
Chairman of Meeting.
T. M. Elrod. Secretary.
Estimate Damage Five Million.
Charlotte, N. C.. Sept. 6.-Conser
vative estimates place the damage
from the storm that swept Eastern
North Carolina Wednesday at $5,
000,000. So far as known only two
lives were lost.
Reports from many points tell of
great damage. Train service be
tween Norfolk and Washington will
he resumed to-morrow. Goose Creek
Island, which ls an exposed point, has
not yet been heard from, but It la
believed residents of the island ara
safe. Washington Is recovering fast
and In a few days will have cleaned
[away the wreckage and ?tartar? to
rebuilding. The greatest damage
I was to growing crops. . _