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By STEOrt, SIIELOK & SCHKODEK. THOU CANST NOT THEN BK FALSE TO ANY MAN.'? WALHALLA, SOUTH CAKOLIXA. WEDNESDAY, JULY ll), 1010. Now Sortea No. ft?2-Volume BXVII_No. 2?. PR1 PE ANUI THE NATURAL Str engthening - S PRIMO PEANUT MEA I J IS 1 WITH SWEET AND NATURAL 1 - ANAL Protein.28% Eat . 8% . KIl.no. Carboliyclrates. Mudo from ground eohLpresse tl?? oil extracted, Eor Horses-Feed 4 pounds ii grain in daily ration. Save $20 ii Foi' Dalry Cows- Feed 4 to 0 | ponnds luiy, hulls or other rough a milk ?nd butter, besides eut t ing d For Hogs-To fatten rapidly ll Peanut Meal in 2 or li quarts V drink 2 or 51 times a day. Hogs v ?0 to 40 days. C. W. & J. E.] WALHAL] It Pay? to Buy for July i? 68 Years A Thc first organized for the right to vote w man's Rights Convenl THE demand for won grown by leaps a past few years. This ca most hopeless at first, is leading State issue. Per sary to carry on this refoi lier of persistency in regs cany with it ultimate sue BANK W: WESTMINE When You Think oj THE WE8TMI1 COLLIER SUNK OFF CHARLESTON Hector, Wi dh 142 Aboard, Disabled in Terrific Storm-All Saved. Charleston, July 14.-The largo naval collier Hector, carrying GO marines in addition to her crew of ?0 men and 12 officers, sank off Char elston late to-day. The tug Vigilant tried to go to the Hector's assistance. The steamer Alamo had been stand ing by the collier, having responded to her calls when tho collier was dis abled some 15 0 miles off hore in last night's hurricane. Capt. Hunt, of tho Vigilant, was nuable to got within less than throe miles of the Hector, and conditions were such that no wireless report could, be obtained from the Alamo. Destroyer in Trouble, From the steamer Aropahoe, which arrived here to-day, came tho report that a torpedo boat destroyer was being towed in by a tug. It was not known what damage had been done to the destroyer. The Arapahoo do scribed the destroyer as "No. 25." Tho Hector left Port Royal for Santo Domingo, carrying the marine recruits for United States forces in Santo Domingo and Cuba. She at tempted to put Into the port when the storm dlsnblod her, but, accord ing to Capt. Hunt, was unable to get further than to within about 9 V6 miles from tho Charleston lightship before she sank. Capt..Hunt said a part of the collier's superstructure remained above water. The Hector displaced 11,200 tons and was built at Sparrow's Point, Md., in 1908. WE ? SAME Goods F Al* MORE Goods F LBLUMENTHf STOCK FEED weet-Fattening MIE NATURAL STOCK FERD, LAVOK. .. P"d.r!?..$1.75 Y S I ? - Total Minimum - ... .Protein and Fat.30% .23% .10% d Peanuts-tho entire peanut less ii pince of 8 pounds corn or other ?er head in feed hill |>er year, pounds per day, witih 10 to 15 ge. You'll get moro and better .own the feed bill, nake thin slop by mixing 1 pound Cater, Give bogs nil they cnn rill be in line shape for market) in BAUKNIGHT, LA; S, C? Cash. >. 1016. Lgo To-day demand by women as made at the Wo tton. ian's right to vote has nd bounds within the use, which seemed al at the present time a sistency has been neces rm. In the same man ird to your saving will :cess. [TH US. rBR BANK Banking Think of VSTER BANK. All Were Saved. Charleston, July 16.-With the naval collier Hector broken in two in yesterday's storm and abandoned,' a radiogram brought word to the navy yard early this morning that all aboard were saved by the crew of the Marie and are being taken aboard the tug Wilmington and tho light house tender Cypres?. At daylight the Hector was a total wreck and she was abandoned at 12.4fi this morning. Tile chief engineer was seriously hurt, tho fireman painfully and the carpenter seriously injured when the collier Hector was wrecked. They have been landed at Charleston. Charleston Escapes Lightly. Charleston, July 16.-At 7 o'clock to-night Charleston was assured that it had passed virtually unscathed through the fury of tho Caribbean hurricane which struck it last night. Only slight damage has been suffer ed in the city and surrounding coun try and the summer resort colonies in the vicinity escaped practically un troubled. The wind fell at 1 o'clock last night and to-day lt had not at tained a higher rate than 42 miles an hour. Only one life was lost, a negro being killed last night by a live wire. Sullivan's Island was not harmed by the heavy storm. The island was not covered by water at any time. Some damage was done to the trestle of the electric railway, connecting Hie island with the mainland, cutting off car service. The l8lo of Palms suffered only slight damage. ?ELL or Less Money ID or Same Money Bargain Store, Westminster, S. C. TUM COURT OM COMMON PLEAS. Session Closest nt 12.?0 O'clock Last Friday-Proceedings. When The Courier went lo press last Wednesday the trial of tho ease of W. A. Strother, plaintiff, vs. Otto Kaufmann and H. C. Kaufmann, de fendants, was In progress. This was an action brought, by the plaintiff to recover the sum Of $200 on a note, and the defendant flied a counter claim for amounts claimed as due on a contract. The jury returned a ver dict for the defendants (Kaufmanns) in the sum of $79.41. Wm. J. Stribling, plaintiff, vs. D. H. Rowland. Judgment entered (by default) in the sum of $2,598.3.r>. J. K. Manos, plaintiff, vs. Sylman Yarld Company, defendants. Case continued till next term of court, with leave to the defendants to Ale answer to the complaint. Mdw. Hamilton, in own right and as assignee of lt. H. lloyd, plaintiff, vs. Anna Fredericks et al., defend ants. Referred to Master to take testimony and report on amounts due on notes and mortgages described In complaint. (Order entered for sale of certain property on salesday in August, 19 Hi.) Plumer Graham, plaintiff, vs. Wes tern Union Telegraph Company, de fendant. Verdict: We find for the defendant. Hugh O. Prince, plaintiff, vs. County of Oconee. (Suit for $1,000 damages, actual and punitive, alleg ed to have been sustained by acci dent at Lay bridge. Mulo became frightened at county convict cab, and animal is alleged to have backed off bridge and run away, injuring plain tiff.) After being out for a day and a half the jury returned, announced inability to a'gree on a verdict, and Judge Prince ordered a mistrial in this case. Liveright-Greenwald Co., plaintiffs, vs. J. and J. S. Carter, defendants. Judgment entered (by default) In the sum of $271.84. Southern Moline Plow Company, plaintiffs, vs. J. & J. S. Carter, de fendants. (Two cases.) Judgment entered (by default) in one case for the sum of $673.11, in the other for $225. J. Allen Kelley, plaintiff, vs. W. B. and John M. Kelley, defendants. Re ferred to Master to take testimony and determine questions of law Scott & Williams, plaintiffs, vs. Westminster Knitting Mills, defend ants. Judgment entered (by de fault) In the sum of $722.10. Union Guano Co., plaintiffs, vs'. Mrs. Eliza Keith Townes Looper, de fendant. Order of reference passed to Master to report on Issues of law and facts for accounting. Anton Gerber made his final rep resentations in tho matter of becom ing n naturalized citizen of the Uni ted States of America. A certificate of citizenship was granted in accord ance, with the provisions of the Fede ral Department of Commerce and La bor. J. Allen Kelley, plaintiff, vs. W. B. Kelley. Suit for accounting in disso lution of partnership. (Appeal from Magistrate's Court.) Remanded to Magistrate for new trial. W. H. Hughs, plaintiff, vs. G. W. Corbett. (Suit for recovery of li quor seized by rural policeman.) This was an appeal case from Magistrate Hopkins's Court. Remanded for now trial. T. Walter Dickson, plaintiff, vs. Mrs. Mille J. Dickson, ns administra trix of the estate of S. T. Dickson, deceased, defendant. Trial by jury was waived. Referred to Master for determining issues of law involved and report on special matters. J. Ft, liarlo and M. L. Herndon, plaintiffs, vs. Riley Moore. (Fore closure.) Order of sale of certain property of defendant at salesday In November, 1916. John Hughs, plaintiff, vs. Jas. C. Shockley, defendant. (Appeal from Magistrate's Court.) Remanded for new trial. Thos. B, Alexander, plaintiff, vs. Joe Bi Brown and J. S. Carter, de fendants. Order of reference, judg ment of foreclosure and sale of prop erty on salesday in November, 1916. Thos. M. Alexander, plaintiff, vs. Ml bert Cobb and J. S. Carter, de fendants. Order of reference, judg ment of foreclosure and sale of prop erty on salesday In November, 1916. American Agricultural and Chemi cal Co., plaintiffs, vs, John and Jesse S. Carter, defendants. Judgment en tered (by def fault) in the sum of $1,133.13. B. R. Moss, plaintiff, vs. Owen Reid et al., defendants. Order of reference, foreclosure and sale of property on salesday in November, 1916. J. P. Allison ot al., plaintiffs, vs. W. M. S. Cowan et al., trustees of School District No. 46 (Flat Shoals), defendants. Order for rule of survey issued. A. P. Crisp, plaintiff, vs. J. N. Fitz gerald, defendant. Order issued to correct error in judgment previously rendered. Original Judgment was en torod for the sum of $57.31; judg ment corrected for the sum of $73.40. Reunion of Orr's Regiment. Tho 44th annual reunion of Orr's Regiment ot Rifles will bo held at Seneca on Tuesday and Wednesday, August 15th and 16th, 1916. ' Program will be published later. W. T. McGill, for Committee. (All papers in Oconee, Anderson, Pickons and Abbeville counties will please copy.) KI (J UTK ION MEN MAY HE !A>ST. Floods Worst Ever Known on Ou ttiwbn mid Broad Rivers. Charlotte, July 16.-Eighteen men -14 construction officials and em ployees of tho Southern railway, and four linemen of tho Western Union Telegraph Company-are missing to night and aro oither drowned or ma rooned In trees on the Catawba river, about 12 miles from Charlotte. The river is rising rapidly. The men were swept Into the river late to-day when the Southern railway's malu Hue bridge wns washed away. The known missing are: H. P, Griffin, road su pervisor; Jos. A. Killian, resident en gineer; S. Barbee, section fore man, Charlotte; lt. O. Thompson, section foreman, Belmont; W. L. Fortune, section foreman King's Mountain; G. C. Kale, H. C. Gully, C. W. Kluttz, derrick men, and J. N. Gor8on, car Inspector, Charlotte; A. B. Blackwell, Western Union line crew boss, and three linemen; five negro laborers. What aro said to be the worst floods ever known in the Catawba and Broad rivers to-day had dono damage that will run into the hun dreds of thousands of dollars In the territory within a radius of BO miles north and west or Charlotte. The bridge workers under Jos. A. Killian went down with the Southern's main line bridge at Belmont, just out or Charlotte, late to-day. Five or six or the men are reported to have been caught in the tops ol" trees and res cued. Just above the Southern bridge, the Piedmont and Northern interur ban bridge was washed away. Far ther up the river, near Mooresvllle and Statesvllle, two highway bridges went out, while at Catawba the Southern's bridge on the Salisbury A8bevllle line was washed away. At Mondo, below Catawba, tho West Mondo cotton mill ot 5,000 spindles ls under water, and the East Mondo mill, across the river, is al most submerged, while a cotton ware house with 4 00 bales of cotton has been washed away. Still farther up the Catawba, the Lilladaun and Ais baugh mills are under water The damage to the mills is laid to a Waterspot in Alexander county, which ettfMfcd a section of the earth embankment of tho Lookout Shoals Power Company to give away to-day, adding 15 foet of water to the al ready more than 20-foot tide in the Catawba. That volume of water also caused the last two or three of the bridges to go. Near Winston-Salem, the town of Rondo was cut off from the outside world lor several hours until a tele graph operator, driven ont of hi? of fice, carried his instruments to a high hill and cut in on a telegraph wire. Trains cannot be gotten to North Wilkosboro and will not be operated west of Donnagha to-morrow, be cause or the tide on the Yadkin river, which is 8% reet higher than known in 43 years. A Southern rail way train, supposed to have left North Wilkesboro yesterday after noon, has not been heard from, while ono that started from Winston-Salem to that town has had to stop at Elk in. Residents of Jonesville and adjacent towns nre moving to high lands. Four Saved, Hopes for Others. Charlotte, N. C., July 17.-Rescu ers to-day brought In Engineer Jos. Killian and three other employees of the Southern raliway who had boen lodged in trees in the Catawba river a milo 'below where tho railroad bridges wont down with them. Searching parties are seeking the other men who were on the bridges when it went. down. lt was hoped the other eleven rail way employees swept away yesterday with a bridge would he saved later in the day. A tree holding some of the men was swept down early to-day and the men carried away. Four employees of the Western Union Tel egraph Company are also reported lost. The river is falling slowly. Reports from every section con t i lined to add to tho property dam age. The Sou ?hern railway bridge near Rock Hill was swept away. De struction of this eu ts off all traffic southward over th? Southern lines. Trains a^e being detoured over the Seaboard Air Lino by way of Monroe, out reports state thai a bridge on that line is in danger and probably will be condemned. Worst. In History-Receding. Raleigh, N. C., July 17.-Flood waters which Bwopt. parts of North Carolina. South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and Wost Virginia yester day, taking a toll of at least nine lives, rendered hundreds of persons homeless and doing property damage variously' estimated at from ton to fifteen millions, wore receding to-day. Tho worst conditions obtained in Western North Carolina, where the flood was described ns tho most dis astrous in the history of that section. In South Carolina. Tho rivers doing the greatest flood damage are in the eastern part of the State. In York, Union, Spartanburg and Chesterfield counties many of the highway bridges have been washed away, crops badly damaged on low lands and upland badly washed. In Florence on Saturday ten inches of rain fell In ten hours. Railway traffle is badly crippled. The Atlan tic Coast Line railway has been the greatest financial sufferer. In Charleston and Berkeley county there was a general down-pour of rain. " At Georgetown there was a considerable storm of cyclonic pro portions. Much damage was dono to shipping. At Myrtle Hench the hotels were badly damaged by wind and rain. lt is feared that when tho crest of the Pied mont waters roaches Colum bia that the city will bo overflowed. In Oeoneo County. The rains high np tn the mountnins .Saturday and Sunday have again put Seneca, Tugaloo, Chattooga and Kco wee on tho rampage. Tugaloo was higher Sunday and Monday than it was during tho freshet last week. Seneca was about four feet higher than last Tuesday. Keoweo was up considerably, as was also Chattooga. In tho Jocassee section, at. the in tersection of liastatoe and Whitewa ter the flood was higher than since 1110(5. Croat holes were washed In the bottoms and crops ruined. Tho high water here ls presumed to have been caused by tho heavy rains on Saturday In the upper part of Dick ens county and North Carolina. The tide brought tn by Horso Pasture river was very high. This ls thc stream that converges with the river from Lake Toxaway, North Carolina, which was reported here Sunday as having given way under the torrlblo rains and high waters. This, how ever, ls lntnct, and this great body of water remains In hounds. Heavy rains fell ill the eastern part of the county Sunday afternoon. At Walhlla the heaviest rains for the week fell Sunday morning. Another Oeoneo Homicide. -Will Lattiniore was killed by Will dalton at Lynch's railroad camp, near Richland, last Friday night. The killing was done with a .2.2 calibre revolver. The cause is said to have been Jealousy. Crafton is a native of Greenwood, but had not lived in that town in six years. He has been engaged in railroad work in Virginia. Lattlmore was also from Virginia. Grafton was arrested at the Seneca depot after he had pur chased a ticket for Virginia, nnd is now in the Oconee Jail. An inquest was held by Magistrate J. N. Hop kins. lt was found that thc ball entered Lattimore's neck from the front and ranged through and down the back n Bhort distance, where it was cut out by Dr. Heller. Lattl more lived only 15 minutes after be ing shot. This is the second rail road cam)) killing' for Oeoneo within a week. The one preceding this took place at Madison, and the murderer seems to have made good his escape. The police at Mount. Airy, (Ja , tele graphed Sheriff Davis last Wednesday that they had Will Walker, who was wanted for this killing. Tho Sheriff went lo Moimi Airy, but found that the negro was not Hie o:<e he wanted and he ls still looking for Walker. Quin'. Conference and Md. Campaign. The third quarterly conferoice of tho Walhalla Circuit will be hold at Double Springs on Saturday, Jr.ly 20. At tho same time and place un edu cational rally will be held Tho fol lowing prominent educei>rs will be present lo deliver addresses: Dr. J. G. Clink8cal08, Wofford College; Dr. W. C. Kirkland, editor Southern Christian Advocate, and Rev. F. H. Shuler, representing ICuiory Univer sity, Atlanta, Ga. . The public is most cordially invit ed to be present. Dinner will be served In the grove near tao church. Let every official on the circuit an swer roll call. Rev. T. C. O'Dell will preside. H. A. Whitten, Pastor. Kills Sherill' mid Guides. Opelousas, La., July 17.-Marlon L. Swords, sheriff of St. Landy par ish, and two negro guides, were shot, and killed last night in a light with Molaire Carrier, according to reports from Justice, 10 miles from here. Carrier escaped. A posso is hunting him. Swords started af!er Carrier, after he heard Hie latter had been terror izing tho people of Mallet section and had shot three men, defying the au thorities to arrest him. As ho ap proached Carrier's hiding place the latter opened lire, killing the three. A deputy with Swords escaped. Hine Ridge School Opened. Walhalla, R. F. 1). No. 1, July 18. -Special: Blue Ridge Graded School opened last Monday, July 17th, with Miss Mary Killen Wilson, of Walhalla, as principal, Miss Dunwoody, of Cen tral, and Miss Dritt, of McCormick, are tho associate teachers. Not in the history of the school bas more Interest been shown in tho school and its work. Judging from the unusu ally large attendance of parents at this opening, and the big enrollment of pupils, Blue Ridge is going to ac complish a record-breaking work this term. CANDIDATES? TAKE NOTICE 1 All candidates for office In Oeoneo county will please re member that they must pay their assessments and hie pledges with the County Chairman, (and also one with the Clerk of Court), by noon on July 31st, 1916. Both pledges may be ob tained from either the County Chairman or Clerk of Court. Up to date about twenty have filed their r ledges. JAS. M. MOSS, "..County Chairman. FRHNCH BROAD WAS RAGING. i ive l? VON Known 1 JONI-Millions of Propertly DllllUlgC. Asheville, N. .C., July 16.-Taking ft toll Of tlvo human lives, with a property loss estimated from $6, 000,000 to $10,000,000, and with hundreds of people rendered home less hy the destruction of moro than 100 houses, tho worst Hood in tho history of tho State swept tho rlvor section of Asheville nod tho 'French Broad Valloy oarly this morning, and at 8 o'clock to-night tho waters of the Swanannoa and French Broad rivers were 15 feet above their banks, although belloved to bo recoding. Bo ports from towns In the French Brond Valley, covering a territory from thc I.ako Toxaway section to Mot Springs, near the Tennessee line, put the property losses at nearly $10, 000,000. Known Deed. The dead, so far as known, aro Capt. J. C. Lipo, Nellie Lipo, an un married daughter; Mrs. Leo M ul po land, a married daughter, all of whom were drowned in the French Broad at Biltmore willie efforts were being made to rescue thom from their Hooded homo near tho river bank. Two others, Bonnie Troxlor, a White laborer, and Luther 'Frazer, a negro, were drowned this evening whilo at tempting to carry food to marooned guests at the denn Rock Motol. At noon to-day tho water had roached the second floor of the hotel, driving; all guests to tho third and fourth doors. The Southern pnssengor rali way station, opposite the Glenn Rock Motel, had eight foet of water in lt. All train service In and out of tho city has been suspended. Cause of (lie Floods. An estimated rainfall of from sis to eight inches throughout the French Broad Valley during tho last week was the primary causo of the floods, which reachod their highest point shortly aftor daylight this morning. These conditions woro fur ther aggravated when the dams hold ing hack tho waters of Lake Osceola at Henderson ville and Karniga Lake, at Karniga, wero carried away, the tides thus liberated swooping down through tho French Broad Valley, through Mendel Bon county, past Asheville, and into the adjoining county of Madison. Communication with the latter section by either tele phone or telegraph has not yet been established, hilt it in feared that the entire town of Marshall has hoon wiped off the map. Homeless Children. Hundreds of children from tho cot ton mill section of the city, whose homes wero swept away early this morning, crowded tho City Mall this afternoon. Hastily formed relief committees are making every ar rangement for the sheltering and feeding of tho city's homeless. Killmore Under Water. The town of Blltmore, laid out 26 years ago by tho late George Vander bilt, ls almost entirely under water, ranging in depth from three to five feet, and ls completely cut off from, the city of Ashoville by a raging tor ront of water, tho Swanannoa, which at some points ls now a mile wide. lt was here the first loss of Ufo so far reported was recorded, when Capt. Lipo and two daughters wore drowned In an effort to escape by boat from their homo, which wu? swept from its foundations by the rapidly rising waters. Threo wo men, who reached tho tree tops from tho second floor of their house across the road from tho Ll pe home, were rescued this afternoon by boatmen. Appalling Property Ixiss. The property loss of lumber and industrial plants throughout tho sec tion will reach an appalling total. Wood-working plants nlong tho French Broad wero washed away, thousands of dollars' worth of lum ber being dashed against tho abut ments of concrete and steel bridges which span the French Broad at thia point. ICarly this morning a two-story house was swept down the river with two mon on its roof frantically waving to onlookers and calling for helli. As they passed the Blltmore road the mon leaped from tho house? and were picked up by boats. Two minutes later the house was smashed to pieces against the concrete plors of Blltmore bridge, itself entirely un der water. Southern Heaviest Ijoser. Tho Southern Railway is the heav iest sufferer of nny corporation in this section. Tho tunnels at Old Fort are blocked with a mass of wreckage carried down by tho fiood, and slides from Saluda Mountain aro still coming. Tho railway officials hero can give no doflnito Information as to when traffic in and out of the city will be resumed. Tf flood condi tions improve kt is thought that trains will bo In ?peration by Tues day or Wednesday. I Charleston Policeman Killed. Charleston, July 16.-Policeman Jas. J. Duffy waa shot and killed early thia morning. Soventeen white and negro men have been arrested in supposed connection with the case. The namo of the alleged slayer has not been discussed, though tho sus pect has been apprehended. Tho cause of the shooting ls unknown. Policeman "Duffy ls survived by at widow and two children. A thorough investigation 1? .under way 'by tho police department and the coroner.