Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, October 03, 1905, Image 2
Scraps and ,|art$.
? The discovery has been made by
the pension bureau that the man
who recently applied for a pension,
representing himself to be Boston
Corbett. the slayer of J. Wilkes
Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln.
Is an Imposter. The real name
of the applicant is John Corbett. His
home Is In San Antonio, Texas, and
It Is stated that he admitted his guilt
when he was confronted with the
evidence of his alleged duplicity. He
is now in jail at San Antonio, awaiting
the action of the Federal grand
Jury. It is stated by pension office
officials who conducted the investigation
of the case that John Corbett
learned the history of Boston Corbett
through the publicity given the matter
in the efforts made to find the
man and that he sought to turn his
knowledge into dollars by representing
that he was the soldier.
? A determined effort will be made
on the part of the American Federa"?
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lion OI LiBDur, says a vmv.agu UJU
patch, to bring about the unionization
of farmers of this country and
their affiliation with the American
Federation of Labor for mutual benefit
and protection. In Wisconsin and
Minnesota a number of farmers' unions
have been formed already and
according to the statement of the
officials of the Federation, the affiliation
of these farmers' unions with
the American Federation of Labor is
merely a question of time. The
leaders of the Federation are highly
enthusiastic over the prospect of an
alliance between the city wage workers,
the farm hands and the farmers.
It is expected that the western farmers
will be well represented at the
next meeting of the American Federation
of Labor, which will be held
in Pittsburg in November. It is not
expected that the plan of affiliation
will meet with any opposition from
the Federation.
? The murder of a tourist in the
Balsam mountains by an old mountain
trapper is reported in Asheville,
by W. B. Nelson, a lumberman, to
whom a deathbed confession of the
crime was made by the trapper's
son. The dying mountain lad stated
that the mountain climber was found
one morning by his father and himself,
caught In a bear trap on Balsam
mountain. He was mangled and in
agony. The mountaineers were afraid
that should he survive he would
make trouble for them. "We uns
didn't want him to law us." the dying
boy declared, "and so dad raised his
rifle and flred." The body was hid
In a cave, and since the mountaineer's
confession the skeleton has been unearthed.
The old mountain trapper
and his son left the state, but the
son returned a few days ago in a
dying condition to tell the story of
his crime. Mr. Nelson says that he
, will give the names at the right
time, but refuses to divulge them
now until the governor is asked to
pardon the old trapper.
? Baltimore Sun: The Medical Record
describes a case in which a man of
42 years was made totally blind by
drinking two ounces of wood alcohol.
After about four days he was totally
blind and at the same time suffered
from nausea and chilly extremities.
Six months of treatment resulted In
partial recovery of the sight, but the left
eye was ever after insensible to green.
As wood alcohol is in effect a dangerous
poison it is to be regretted that its
use is extending, being employed by
dispensers of cheap whisky and by
compounders of so-called medicines.
Grain alcohol is bad enough if used
constantly as a stimulant but wood
alcohol is 50 times worse. Bibulous
citizens cannot, therefore, be too careful
about the quality of their potations.
They should have an idea also of the
composition of the ready-made elixirs.
bitters and medicines they consume.
"Jamaica ginger" is sometimes
made with wood alcohol Instead of
grain alcohol, it is stated, so that it
needs to be bought. If used at all, from
a competent and reputable dealer. It Is
stated that the authorities at Washington
are beginning to analyze for
themselves the patent medicines on
the market, with a view to the collection
of the full revenue due on account
of their spirit content. The analyses
may prove useful to the public In more
ways than one.
? The president has not decided
whether to include New Orleans in
his southern trip, but otherwise the
program has been completed as follows:
Leave Washington at 8.30
o'clock October 18. First stop at
Richmond, where he will arrive at
12.30 p. m. Leave Richmond at 7
p. m. and arrive at Raleigh at 1 a.
m. on the 19th. Leave at 1 p. m.,
making short stops during the afternoon
at Durham, Greensboro. High
Point and Charlotte on his way to
Georgia. Arrive at Rosewell, Ga., 7
a. m. October 20th. This is the birthplace
of his mother. Leave for Atlanta
at 8.30 a. m. and reach the latter
city at 11 a. m., leaving at 7 p.
m. for Macon, Ga., where he will arrive
at 1 a. m., October 21st. The
president's train will switch from the
Southern to the Atlantic Coast Line
at Jesup, Ga.. which will be reached
at 5.30. He will go from there direct
to Jacksonville where he will arrive
at 10.30. He will spend the day
there and then go on to St. Augustine
at night and stay there twenty-four
hours. October 23rd he will visit
several cities In Alabama. The president
will spend two hours with
Booker Washington at Tuskegee and
make short stops at Birmingham
and Montgomery. The afternoon of
that day will be spent in Mobile.
This Is as far as the president's arrangements
extend. While on the
trip the president will visit three
state fairs?at Raleigh, October 19th;
Atlanta, 20th, and the 23rd at
Montgomery.
? New Orleans. September 29; Secretary
Hester's weekly cotton statement,
issued before the close of
business today, showed a decrease in
round figures In the movement of
cotton into sight for the seven days
of 138,000 bales under the seven
days ending September 29 last year and
an increase of 51.000 over the same
time year before last. The amount
brought Into sight for the week ending
this afternoon is stated at 386,114
bales, against 524,595 for the
seven days ending this date lust year,
and 335,296 year before last. This
brings the total of the new crop
movement Into sight for the 29 days
of the season to 1,230,032, against
1,284,889 last year, and 692,550 year
before last. The movement shows
receipts at all United States ports
since September 1 to be 921,365 bales,
against 997,926 last year; overland
across the Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac
rivers to northern mills and
Canada 16,448, against 13,585 last year;
interior stocks in excess of last year;
September 1 117.2)9. against 123,951
last year; southern mill takings
125,000, against 146,527 last- year.
Foreign exports since September 1
have been 482,230 bales, against
578,714 last year. The total of
American mills, north and south, and
Canada thus far for the season have
been 280,961, against 245,528 last
year. Since the close of the commercial
year stocks at American
ports and the 29 leading southern Interior
centres have increased 159,222
bales, against an increase for the
same period last year of 236,814.
Including amounts left over in stocks
at ports and interior towns from the
last crop and the number of bales
brought into sight thus far for the
new crop, the supply to date. Is
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l,t>Y4,D63 Daies, u(cain?i i.nv.ouo
the same period last year.
Ihf orhriltr (Inquirer.
YORKVILLE, S. C.t
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3. 1905.
Governor Glenn of North Carolina,
has Just returned from a trip through
New England. He says that from
what he saw during his absence, he is
satisfied that prohibition will prohibit,
and he hopes to s? e the day when the
liquor business wt. be stamped out of
North Carolina.
As the result of the strike against it
last week the Charlotte Observer has
arranged to send four young men to
the Mergenthaler Linotype works to
learn to operate the type setting machine.
When the young men come
back the Observer proposes to give
them steady employment at a scale of
wages to be agreed upon.
Count Stangiska of Russia, son of
a high official of the Siberian railroad
and a cousin of M. Witte. has come to
America to learn the railroad business.
He is now with the New York Central
road, having worked a week or two as
brakeman. He proposes to learn what
he can of all the different departments
of railroad work, practical and theoretical
up to the general management.
Senator Tillman's demand for an
investigation of what is behind the
Richland dlstlllei-y meets with our
most hearty approval. As to whether
the personnel of the real stockholders
of the Richland Distillery company
can be fully developed we are more
than doubtful; but we still have a very
strong suspicion that IX the senator
can get to the bottom of the matter, he
will uncover some people who have
been running with the hare and barking
with the hounds. That Richland
distillery proposition should be probed
to the very bottom.
According to "he general tenor of
the dispatches from Toklo, it Is be"
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ginning lO set-m apparent niai na??u> I
had better reasons for making peace
with Russia than were expected. The
story is that the war was costing a
great deal more than was expected
and that the government could not
have raised the money for more than
six months longer. In addition to this.
It had developed that the rice and
cereal crops of ihe empire were both
going to be very short, and altogether
the outlook seemed so blue as to make
it evident that the struggle would be
hopeless.
The Charlotte papers have about
won the strike that was declared
against them by the union printers last
week. The strike, as already reported
was for nine hours pay for eight hours
work. The papers had a pretty hard
time of It for several days to get out
In even fairly good shape; but they are
now beginning to look like their former
selves. Some of the strikers have
been taken back; but It is with the
understanding that from hence forward
the offices are to be run as open
shops. That is. the proprietors are to
control their own business and employ
union men and non-union men alike
as they see proper. Under the union
system the people who pay the bills
have but little to say as to who shall be
employed or how employes shall work.
Where the union has control, it is supreme.
Enforce the Law.
Nothing that has ever appeared in
this paper on the subject has been calculated
to inculcate the Impression that
we believed that the mere voting out
of the dispensary would put a stop
to the sale of liquor In Yorkvllle or|
throughout the county.
We thoroughly appreciate the fact
that so long as liquor Is in such strong
demand at the hands of liquor drink- |
ers, there will be liquor sellers to supply
that demand at whatever risk, and
unless there Is a determined and persistent
effort to enforce the law, the
sale of liquor by tigers will soon become
as common as it has ever been
by the dispensary.
While we were out of sympathy with
the rider that was put on the Brlce law
providing for the levy of one-half mill
I tax on counties that should vote out
dispensaries, because we considered
that rider to have been fixed merely for
[ the purpose of discouraging anti-dispensary
votes, we have no hesitation in
saying that we do not approve of the
policy that has been followed of removing
the constabulary from a county
with the closing of dispensary doors.
As we see it. it is as much the duty
of the state to enforce the laws against
the sale of liquor as it is to enforce any
other laws on the statute books. The
temptation to violate liquor laws is
greater than is the temptation to violate
other laws, for various reasons,
not the least of them being the element
of personal gain. But for the
state to say that it will not attempt
to enforce the liquor laws in counties,
which refuse to engage in the liquor
business seems to put the state in the
position of saying that It has no other
than a purely commercial interest in
the enforcement of any law.
This county pays about $3,500 annually
to magistrates and constables,
and these officials can do a great deal
in enforcing the liquor laws if they
will give the matter their attention;
but of course, unless they are properly
backed up by public sentiment, and
also the practical assistance of the
public, their efforts, no matter how
earnest, will prove entirely inadequate
to the task that may devolve upon
them.
: But whatever may have been the
motives of the people who succeeded
in getting the half-mill extra levy on
non-dispensary counties. or counties
that should vote out dispensaries, we
do not want to be understood as opposing
the levy of this tax should it
appear necessary or desirable. The enforcement
of the liquor laws may go
by default for a time, through the
negligence of officers who may be Inclined
to shirk their sworn duty
through lukewarmness or other reasons;
but this condition will only prove
temporary.
To turn this county over to the tigers
without let or hindrance would
soon bring about a condition that
would be absolutely intolerable, and a
condition that would enforce its own
remedy; but we hope and believe that
the good people of York county will
not allow that condition to develop.
If the magistrates and the" constables
cannot enforce the laws under conditions
as they now exist let us have
more constables?one or two If they can
do the work or ten or a dozen If so
many be necessary. If the. law can be
enforced without the haJf-mlll, let it
go at that: but otherwise put on the
half-mill?a mill?two-mills or whatever
may be necessary.
We can have prohibition If we want
It, and as matters stand now our only
alternative from prohibition Is but
little short of anarchy.
ROCK HILL AND VICINITY.
Building Operations?The Flower Show
?Carnival Company Will Not be Allowed
to Show This Fall?Death of
Doctor Lynn.
Correapomience of th? YorkvilU Enquirer.
Rock Hill, October 2.?Mr. Perry
Martin who lives near Tirzah church
had his shoulder dislocated and received
other painful hurts while bringing
a cow to town.
The walls of the cotton warehouse
located in the Hutchison grove are going
up rapidly. Owing to some defect
in the material on the ground for use
In the city hall building, operations
there have ceased for the present until
the architect can arrive. Work on the
U. S. postofflce is progressing rapidly.
Cards of Invitation to the marriage
of Miss Bessie Shurley of Ebenezerare
out. Miss Shurley who is the daughter
of Mr. John A. Shurley, a former
officer of this county, will be married
on the 11th of October to Mr. John
May Salters of Salters, S. C.
Messrs. John G. Anderson and J. M.
Cherry have purchased from Dr. W.
W. Fennell his dairy stock and equipments.
They will add this to the one
bought several weeks ago from Dr.
Carothers, make a number of improvements
In their barns and will run a
dairy and poultry farm at the Carothers
place on the northern edge of
the city.
The Ann White Chapter U. D. C. is
preparing to have a flower show and
bazaar about the first of November.
The S. D. Barron Chapter U. D. C.
through their hustling committee are
at work soliciting "ads." and gathering
data for the publication of a special
edition of the Record, which they will
take charge of for the time. They have
to get it out about the second week in
October.
I was told that two sons of Mr. Jim
Glascock, who lives near Edgmoor, one
day recently together picked one thousand
pounds of cotton.
Dr. W. W. Fennell has purchased the
stock of the other physicians interested
in the Rock Hill hospital. The other
physicians will continue to make use
of the hospital and treat their patients
there.
It has been decided by the city au
thorities not to allow the carnival company
to bring their shows here this
fall. The last one let loose a lot of
rattlesnakes on the town, the result of
which are occasionally coming to light
In the kilting of one of the originals or
their progeny. In many other ways
these carnivals are undesirable. The
young men who are going the rounds
frequently "tank up" a little where they
otherwise might not. Young girls are
thrown Into a certain Intimacy with
people, whom otherwise they would not
know, when the confetti throwing begins.
As a rule the shows themselves
are "bum" or at best not In the least
refined or eleva'lng. - Altogether, the
majority of Rock Hillians would no
doubt uphold the authorities in their
action In the matter.
Mr. John Wood of the Commercial
club has returned from Greenville
where he made an address before the
Board of Trade of that city. Mr. Wood
Is much pleased with his visit and with
the progressive spirit of the Greenville
organization.
The Civic club a ladles' organization,
held a meeting In the mayor's office and
are taking a stand In the matter of
cleaning up the city's premises. They
also expressed themselves as in favor
of installing a system of sewerage.
This latter topic is a live issue in Rock
Hill just now and the movement now
on will likely end in an election to say
whether it shall be done or not. There
is not a doubt that Rock Hill needs the
sewers.
Dr. Arthur Slmonton Lynn, one of
the most popular and promising young
physicians who has ever settled in
Rock Hill, died at the city hospital
Sunday morning at 5 o'clock of tuberculosis
of the bowels. He was thirtyone
years old and leaves a mother a
sister and a brother. He had practiced
here about three years before he was
stricken with this Illness, but his practice
was so large as to work him beyond
his strength and this was largely
the cause of his giving away. He
worked up to the day he left here to go
to Charlotte for treatment by a specialist?at
that time his acute trouble
being ulcer of the stomach. His body
was taken to the family burial ground
at Union church below Edgmoor. He
was a consistent member of the Presbyterian
church and a Mason of the
Royal Arch. A number of friends accompanied
the remains to the burial
nlace.
Want to Lynch Him.?There Is
great excitement throughout Texas
over a horrible crime that was committed
at Edna, last Thursday, and
over an impending lynching bee.
Mrs. A. J. Conditt and four children,
a daughter of 13, and three
boys from 6 to 10 years old, were
murdered in cold blood at their home.
The mother and da.ughter were assaulted
and their bodies brutally disfigured.
A baby about two years old was the
only one left alive. All of them seemed
to have been murdered with some
blunt instrument, their heads were
crushed and their throats cut with a
knife or razor. The girl and mother
were killed in the house, the boys
were killed about 100 yards away.
Mr. Conditt was away working in
the rice fields. A negro boy about 12
years old was plowing in a Held near
the house at the time of the killing
and heard the children screaming; he
saw a man running after the woman,
who was running around the house.
Being afraid to go to the house, he
ran to a neighbor's and told what he
had seen.
Posses have since been scouring the
country and the information yesterday
was that the murderer. Monk Gibson,
had been surrounded. The people
have announced It as their purpose
to burn the man at the stake. Governor
Lanham has sent two companies
of militia to the scene.
? A Dorchester jury in the case of
I A. T. Heed against the Southern railway,
has awarded a verdict for $40,000,
which Is $20,000 less than was
sued for. The action grows out of
the collision between train No. 15
from Charleston, and the freight at
Badham last April, when Engineer
iConlon and the firemen of the two
trains were killed. It Is understood
that the Southern railway compromised
the case of Engineer Conlon
by paying the widow $10,000.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTI8EMENT8.
C. E. Spencer, Esq.?Offers several
places for rent, with purchase options.
John T. Latham, R. F. D. 4?Wants
to employ respectable white woman
as housekeeper.
Jos. M. Whitesides, No. 2, Hickory?
Has two good mules for sale, 7 and
8 years of age.
Ed Miller, No. 1, Guthriesvllle?Offers
$10 reward for return of his son,
Ed Miller, who left his home Oct. 1.
H. A. D. Neely, Co. Treasurer?Gives
notice of the tax levies for State,
county and school purposes in the
various townships of the county for
the year 1905.
J. R. Lindsay?Is prepared to write
insurance on cotton stored either in
open yard or in outbuildlnjgs on
farms. Farmers can borrow money
on Insurance policies.
Southern Palmist?At the Sherrer
will tell you the story of your life
in love, business, marriage, etc.
H. H. Beard?Has Rem-Sho typewriter
for sale?a bargain. See It at
the Western Union office.
W. G. White and Others?Call all
subscribers to Clinton College.fund
to meet In the court house tomorrow
evening at 7.30 o'clock.
J. C. Wilborn, Atty.?Gives notice to
the debtors of Dr. T. B. Hough,
that he has instructions to close up
all accounts. See him at once.
Strauss-Smith Co.?Tells you that you
can dress well and economically If
you buy clothing for yourself and
your boys from It. Men's suits up
to $17.50 per suit.
Star Drug Store?Calls your attention
to its full line of toilet article?,
including soaps, toilet powders,
brushes, combs, toothbrushes and
"Kleanwell" sponges for the bath.
Foushee Cash Store?Has Just received
new up-to-date millinery. In
nobby shapes?various styles and
colors.
The Thomson Co.?Announces the
date of its coming millinery opening
to be the evening of October 12,
and continuing through Friday.
October 13th. Everybody invited.
Sam M. Grist, Special Agent?Tells of
the past accomplishments of the
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance
company and invites you to Judge
its future by its past records. He
says: "Look before you leap."
I. W. Johnson?Has a new line of
pipes for smokers of the weed. Also
has brushes and combs. Just received
kegs of Heinz's cucumber
and sweet mixed pickles.
D. E. Boney, Manager?Invites your
attention to the fact that the Farers'
Mutual Life Insurance company
has paid 323,258 in death benefits,
and furnishes home insurance
at cost. Second division is open.
York Drug Store?Has Landreth's
red and white Burmuda onion sets.
New crop,
(f the writer of the "Vision of Uxzlah
Farmer." will send his name, the vision
will be published, otherwise it wiil not.
Mr. B. N. Moore is of opinion tha'
barring last year's crop, which was extraordinary,
this year's crop is up to
a fair average.
Mr. W. R. Carroll has information
of a one-horse farmer who has already
ginned seven bales, all in September.
This circumstance is unusual.
Quite a large number of negroes
have left this section to work on. the
Great Catawba Falls railroad. The
exodus continues In that direction.
The spinning mills now have a satisfactory
margin between the raw material
and the manufactured product
and are making a very good profit
There is quite a satisfactory demand
at the stores for seed wheat, and the
indications are that whether the acreage
be up to the usual average or not
there will certainly be some wheat
sown this fall.
In
A local COlton Duyer rniiiuncu ...
the presence of the reporter a few days
ago that the southern mills were Just
about ready to go Into the market as
the recent break occurred, and since
! then they have been Inclined to be
timid.
The banks are paying out numbers
of bright new silver dollars that look
as If they are just from the mint. The
date however, is 1882. The dollars have
evidently been lying In the treasury
; all the while and are just getting into
circulation for the first time.
A meeting of the executive committee
of the York County Southern Cotton
association has been called to be
hold In Yorkville next Friday, October
6, to consider several matters,
among other things the best way to
raise the .3 cents per bale assessment.
The price of mulee has reached unusually
high figures, the highest in fact
that have ever been known, and some
of the farmers are beginning to argue
| that the situation seems to demand
I the abandonment of the mule and the
substitution of the horse In farm work.
Mr. S. J. Ferguson of Chester No 4,
brought to this office yesterday an old
copy of The Enquihe'r of August 25,
1867. The.paper was addressed to the
late J. H. Crawford, long since dead.
The first page of this particular issue
Is devoted to the proceedings In connection
with the impeachment of President
Andrew Johnson.
It has been demonstrated within the
past few years that this is a good apple
country if nurserymen will only be
judicious in the selection of the right
kind of trees. Trees should be put out
now within the next month or two, and
people who had not already made arrangements
to do some planting should
attend to the matter without more delay.
In the opinion of local cotton dealers
there is not a very strong disposition
on the part of producers to hold for 11
cents. As a general thing, especially
in the case of cotton producers who
have obligations at the stores, cotton
Is being marketed as rapidly as it can
be picked. Many of the larger planters
are holding for 11 cents and over;
but taken all in all the feeling that 10
cents Is a good price is quite pro
nounced. The yield this year Is smaller
than last year and not up to the expectations
of a month or six weeks
ago.
Mr. T. M. Whisonant was in Yorkville
yesterday on business. Speaking
of Mr. Poag's auction sale at Shelby
last Thursday, he said that the result
was fully up to expectations and that
everybody was pleased, practically
every purchaser of a piece of property
either selling out at a profit or refusing
an offer In advance of the price paid.
Mr. Whisonant went on to say that he
has had a number of offers for lots In
the Whisonant suburb, some of which
he could have probably accepted with
advantage; but he is not particular
about making any sales until the day
of the auction which will be commenced
about October 17.
WITHIN THE TOWN.
? Messrs. J. J. Keller & Co. have
raised the price of common labor to
$ 1 a day. Labor seems to be scarce
even at this price.
?The supervisors of registration were
on hand In the office of the sheriff yesterday;
but did little business during
the day.
? The coming auction sale of lots
In the suburb of Whisonant will be
taken as a pretty good index as to
what Yorkvllle people think of Yorkville
dirt.
? The statement that the county
board would meet today was the result
of an Inadvertent error made
In this office. The meeting Is to be
held tomorrow as usual.
? The September receipts of cotton
have been larger this year than during
any previous year within the recollection
of any of the local buyers.
During the month ending last Saturday
more than 2,000 bales were purchased
from wagons.
? There was another unusually
large crowd of people in Yorkvllle
last Saturday, the streets being pretty
well crowded all day, especially In the
afternoon. There was a good deal
of money in the crowd and trade was
good. During several hours the dispensary
was literally packed with
people, mostly negroes.
? The greater portion of the salesday
crowd yesterday was made up of horsetraders.
There was a pretty good
sprinkle of farmers and others on ordinary
business of various kinds; but
these were In a minority. The hitching
lots were full of traders during the
PTontpp nnrf of the dav and they did
considerable business. The police
made four arrests.
? ^orkville has at least gotten a
good advertisement out of her efforts
to secure the Presbyterian college.
She has impressed upon the
people of the state the fact that she
Is very much alive to the advantages
to be had from a first class college
within her borders, and also that she
is willing to pay a liberal price for
such advantages. However, college
or no college the town is still coming.
? Citizens are discussing the question
as to how the town government
Is to make up for the dispensary
revenues. Some suggest an increase
of the tax levy, others advocate a
special license Tax and some think
than an industrious police force
might get a pretty good revenue out
of the blind tigers, which will become
more active upon the closing of the
doors of the dispensary. The whole
subject is entitled to serious consideration.
AFTER THE POWER COMPANY.
Suits against the Catawba Power
company for damages to the amount of
$40,490 were filed with Clerk of the
Court Tate last Saturday, the papers
having been served by Sheriff Brown
during the day.
The plaintiffs in the various suits,
five in number, are farmers living up
on Catawba river, who allege that their
lands have sustained serious damage
on account of the back water from the
dam of the power company. Here are
the names of the plaintiffs with the
(amount of damages claimed by each:
J. R. Wallace $ 2,490
D. C. Boyd 3,500
W. W. Auten 8,000
D. M. Johnson 12,500
Samuel S. Smith 14,000
Total $40,490
Messrs. Flnley & Jennings represent
I the plaintiffs in the various cases and
from the allegations in the various
complaints it looks as if there is to be
some pretty warm work when the
cases come to trial.
COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL.
As the result of the failure of Yorkvllle
to secure the location of the Pres
byterian college, people who promoted
that enterprise have been casting
about for some other practicable plan
to make use of the King's Mountain
Military school property, which was
the basis of the Yorkville offer and
several suggestions have been offered.
One suggestion is to the effect that the
subscribers be requested to subscribe a
part or all of. the amounts that they
were willing to give to the college, and
offer the school property along with
a cash bonus to Bethel Presbytery,
provided that organization will undertake
the maintenance of a first-class
high school.
Still another suggestion Is that the
property be donated to York county
under similar conditions with the understanding
that the county maintain
such a school as a part of a still further
developed public system. This
idea contemplates the support of the
proposed school from the general fund
and from tuition. It is proposed that
each school district in the county be
entitled to a limited number of scholarships,
in accordance with some equitable
schedule to be agreed upon and
that other students be charged tuition
on a reasonable basis.
These suggestions, however, are
merely in the nature of individual expressions.
There has been no organized
movement in regard to the matter
and there is no certainty that there
will be anything further about the
matter.
ABOUT PEOPLE.
Miss Mary Dobson left yesterday fo
enter Wlnthrop college.
Mr. H. Grler Love of Sharon, is
with Messrs. J. M. Heath & Co.
Mr. R. J. Herndon, Jr., left Monday
for the S. C. M. A. at Charleston.
Cadet Captain John R. Dickson left
last Friday to re-enter the C. S. M.
A., at Charleston.
Miss Mary Williams of Winthrop
college, spent Sunday in Yorkville
with Mr. L. R. Williams's family.
Mrs. John D. McConnell of McConnellsville,
returned home yesterday
after spending several days with Mr.
John S. Jones' family.
Miss Agalice Le Sassier left this
morning for her home In New Orleans,
after a visit of several weeks to
her sister, Mrs. Wm. B. McCaw.
Mr. E. T. Ponder has moved his
family to Yorkville from Catawba
Junction last week, and is occupying
the J. B. Bell residence on Lincolnton
street.
Mr. J. Gettys Edwards closed his
school at Hermitage, Ark., on September
8, and Is now In the medical department
of the University of Nashville.
Tenn.
The condition of Capt. E. A. Crawford
which was quite critical on Friday
and Saturday has since been showing
signs of Improvement. There Is
now reason to hope that the captain
will be able to be up again within a
few days.
Rock Hill Herald. Sept. 30: Mr. W.
S. Lesslle and daughter, Miss Mary,
went to Steele Creek, N. C., yesterday
to attend the funeral of Mrs. Lesslle's
sister, Mrs. Frank Gallant, who died
Thursday evening. Mrs. Lesslle was
with her sister when she died.
Mr. John F. Youngblood, who has
been with Mr. W. H. Herndon for several
years past and who has the reputation
of being a first-class salesman,
goes with the Thomson Company after
today. His brother, Mr. Ches
Youngblood takes his old position at
Mr. Herndon's.
Says a Washington dispatch of October
2: Past Assistant Surgeon J.
M. Moore, United States navy, of Rock
Hill, has been detached by the department
from the naval recruiting rendezvous
at Chicago, and has been ordered
home to await orders. The
friends of Surgeon Moore In South
Carolina will be glad to welcome him
home again during his leave of absence.
AFTER THE MOON8HINER8.
A party of officers. Including Constables
Jenkins of Rock Hill, Hay of
Spartanburg, Wright of Chester, and
Deputy Sheriff Quinn of York, accompanied
by Mr. Hey wood Moore of Rock
Hill, went into the battleground section
of the county last Friday night In
search of moonshine distillers, and although
they made no arrests they
were successful In destroying quite a
quantity of beer and capturing some
30 or 40 gallons of whisky.
The raid was the result of Information
that had been coming to Constable
Jenkins during several weeks. He
had pointers as to several stills that
were In operation In the vicinity, and
his Information Included exact locations
so far as this Information could
be Imparted by means of description.
He also had the names of the parties
who were alleged to be operating the
stills, and quite a number of other Important
details that were calculated to
be of service In a raid.
The party left Yorkvllle Friday night
and so timed Its movements as to get
in the vicinity of the stills at an early
hour Saturday morning; but with the
first signs of life In the neighborhood
there was evidence of a general alarm.
A man they met approaching on muleback,
turned back at the first sight of
them and foiled all efforts at pursuit.
He lost nimseir in Dy-pams inruugu
the woods and was seen no more. It
was Impossible even to follow his
trail.
Several hours afterward the officers
met two men on mules which, It was
evident from the gears they wore, had
been used In drawing a wagon. The
men had no information to give out.
The officers proceeded In the general
direction from which the mule riders
had come, and at length stumbled upon
the site of quite an extensive distillery
plant. There were twelve large mash
boxes all of them containing mash in
different stages of development, the
whole, together with the beer ready for
use amounted to more than one thousand
gallons.
But the still was gone. The Information
was that It was a big fellow
with a capacity of eighty or elghty-flve
gallons. There were evidences that It
had been moved within a few hours
before; but the trail could Jse followed
only a short distance through the
woods to a fence. Beyond the fence
there were no further indications as
to which way the big copper kettle had
been carried.
There are numerous old gold workings
In the vicinity. In fact the woods
are full of holes, some going down to
a depth of fifty or seventy-five feet,
perhaps more. The mouths of several
of these old mines were examined,
and In the case of one there were ladders
to the bottom. Deputy Sheriff
Quinn and Constable Hay undertook
to go to the bottom of this shaft but
after getting down 25 or 30 feet they
decided that the air was too foul to
warrant further risk.
Searching about through the woods,
the officers came upon a five gallon
keg, covered with brush on the side
of the road. It had been full of whisky
and still contained about a quart.
Near by was a trench that had been
made by gold miners In connection
with their woricings, ana mere were
evidences that there had been somebody
in it recently. The officers investigated
further and proceeding along
the trench for a few yards came upon
a small barrel of whisky. It also had
been partly covered with brush and
leaves. The contents Included some
thirty gallons or more.
Constable Jenkins had provided himself
with several search warrants, and
one of them had been procured with
reference to the home of Alec Boheler,
who had been especially reported In
connection with the moonshlnlng. Boheler
was not at home but his wife was
and she made strenuous objection to
the entrance of the officers Into her
home. They paid no attention, however,
and found along with a number
of measuring pots, funnels, etc., a Jug
containing three gallons of whisky.
The whisky was also seized.
According to the officers who were
connected with the raid there Is a considerable
amount of whisky being made
In the neighborhood, and the distillers
have a preponderating Influence over
the people of the neighborhood. The
people are not Inclined to give out any
more information than they can possibly
help, fearing Injury to their property
or personal violence at the hands
of the moonshiners.
LOCAL LACONICS.
Five Murder Cases.
There are five murder cases pending
for trial at the approaching term
of the court of general sessions, and
It Is fully another month before the
court convenes.
Fines For Broad River.
Magistrate R. L. A. Smith, of Broad
River township, today made his settlement
with Treasurer Neely for the
quarter ending September 30. He paid
over flnes to the amount of $94.40.
Our Rock Hill Correspondent.
Dr. W. A. Pressly has kindly consented
to act as the correspondent of
The Enquirer In Rock Hill, and all
items of news reported to him will be
duly appreciated by him and by The
Enquirer.
Bureau Report 71.2.
The bureau report as to September
cotton was published this morning,
and the figures were 71.2. This was
rather better than the speculators
seemed to be calculating on and October
contracts fell from 10.19 to 9.90
In a few minutes.
Death at Lockhart.
News was received here yesterday of
the death of Mr. Albert Robinson,
which occurred at Lockhart on Sunday.
The deceased was formerly a citizen
of Bullock's Creek township, and
was a son or Mr. w. a. j. iwdhibuh
and a brother of J. J. J. Robinson of
the Hickory Grove neighborhood.
The Brice Law Election
The county commissioners of election.
R. M. Wallace chairman, P. M.
Burrls and W. B. Wilson, Jr., met In
the clerk's office today and canvassed
the vote cast In the Brlce law election
last Tuesday. The result was as
already reported, a total of 856 votes,
of which 131 were for the dispensary
and 725 against the dispensary.
Water la Low.
Catawba river Is said to be lower
right now than has been known previously
during several years. Ordinarily
the water runs over the dam of the
Catawba Power company In a stiff
stream: but at this time It lacks several
feet of filling the dam to the top.
The sides of the river show wide
strips of mud which, up until recently
were covered with water.
| Auction Sale.
In the case of Ralph N. Adams,
plaintiff vs. Robert E. Adams, et al.,
defendants, Clerk of the Court Tate on
yesterday sold a tract of 112 acres in
King's Mountain township, bounded by
King's Mountain road, and lands of
McMackln, Falls and others. Bid off
by W. B. Wilson, attorney for $18 an
acre. After the sale Mr. Wilson was
offered $20 an acre.
Right of Way Cases.
On the petition of the Catawba Power
company, Judge Gage has signed orders
providing for condemnation proceedings
in the case of several rights
of way over which the Power company
desires to build Its lines to Clover
and Yorkvllle. The orders apply to
rights of way over lands of the following:
W. W. Auten, A. A. Barron, T. H.
Simril, David W. Barron, et al. Eliza
J. Barron, et al., S. W. Barron, L. T.
Wood. . The olerk of the court will empanel
juries and the various cases will
be adjusted as soon as possible.
Shot Near Pineville.
Charlotte News, Oct. 2. Ephralm
Withers a negro man, died at the Good
Samaritan hospital Sunday morning
at 2 o'clock, the result of being shot
in the leg. The particulars of the
shooting are not known except that
he was shot near Pineville Friday
night, the bullet taking effect In his
right leg below the knee. He did not
receive proper medical attention and
before a physician was Anally procured
he had lost a considerable amount
of blood. He was brought to the hos
- ? * s a ji.j
pltal here Saturday morning ?.iiu mcu
Sunday morning at 2 o'clock.
Will Collect 5 Cent* a Bale..
The Bethany Southern Cotton association
has decided to collect from its
members an assessment of 5 cents on
each baje of cotton raised this year.
This decision was arrived at as the result
of a meeting held at Bethany last
Saturday afternoon. The matter of
paying the 3 cents assessment asked
for by the general association was under
consideration, and it was agreed
that It would be Just as well to make
the assessment 5 cents, the 2 cents extra
being retained for the benefit of
the township organization. It was decided
that a canvass of the township
be made for the purpose of collecting
the assessment and Messrs. J. M. Pursley
and W. B. Black were duly appointed
to make the canvass.
THROUGH THE COUNTY.
Gleanings of Interest to Dwellers
Along the Rural Routes.
Clover No. 2.
Cotton is opening with remarkable
rapidity and some of the farmers along
this route are well-nigh through with
their picking:. The yield l* ramer
lighter than last year but In some
cases crops are good. Mr. S. J. Clinton
has a fine patch that will yield
three bales to two acres.
Hickory No. 2?
Mr. Joseph M. Whltesides has rented
his home place to Mr. Jeff D. Whitesides
for next year and wiH move to
Hickory Grove. Just what he will do
at the Grove he has not fully decided?
but he will try and occupy himself in
some way. Mr. Whltesides has a lot
of personal property of various kinds
that he will probably sell off at auction
some time soon. He expects to
get to Hickory Grove about December
1st.
Yorkville No. 6.
The people on No. 6 have been
very busy for the past week or ten
days mowing and hauling in their
pea vines.
Messrs. Gordon Bros, have a fine
lot of peavine hay.
Mr. T. J. Nichols has had his dwelling
repainted the past week.
Mr. D. E. Jackson has had chills
for the past week, but is now able tq
be out again.
Mrs. D. G. Stanton has been sick for
the past week and is not Improving.
Miss Emma Ford is able to be out
again after having chills and malaria.
Yorkville No. 1.
Mr. P. B. McAfee has returned from
a pleasure trip through several North
Carolina counties.
Mr. T. J. Thomasson is one of the
most successful sweet potato raisers on
this route. He does not go in as heavlty
for acreage perhaps as some; but
he certainly gets there in the matter of
yield. He has about half an acre of
what he calls the Haytl, or 40 day potato,
and the yield is tremendous. A
day or two ago he took out some specimens
that weighed six pounds each
and were 23 inches in circumference.
"I don't use these for market though,"
Mr. Thomasson explained, "but almost
entirely for the hogs, especially since
they have grown so large." For eating
and for market Mr. Thomasson
grows a yam which is certainly a most
desirable potato. The large potatoes
are grown on a light sandy soil.
MERE-MENTION.
Cracksmen blew open the safe of a
store in Trussville, Ala., Friday, and
escaped with 3500 in cash and other
valuables A bomb filled with
dynamite and inflammable oil was
thrown into a crowded tenement
house in New York city Friday, and
twenty or more persons were injured,
several fatally, by the explosion and
resulting fire Edgar T. Pemberton,
the dramatist, died In Worcestershire,
England, Friday, aged 56
years Four persons were burned
to death and twelve were injured
in a hotel fire In New York city Saturday.
The property loss was 35 000....
The battleship Mississippi was launched
at the Cramp shipyards, Philadelphia,
Saturday. Senator Money of
Mississippi, represented that state,
and Miss Mabel Money christened the
ship President Harper of the
University of Chicago, is hopelessly
ill in that city.....Two freight trains
on the Atlanta and Birmingham railroad,
collide;} at Taylors Station. Ga.. j
Friday, killing an engineer and a
brakeman Bengals at Calcutta,
India, have taken an oath to boycott
British goods, as a protest against the
partition of the province of Bengal.
John Temple Graves, the Georgia
journalist and lecturer, has announced
himself a candidate for the
United States senate, to succeed SenTlannn
U'hnw form MDireS in
March. 1907 A Rock Island,
Illinois, woman, in a fit of temporary
Insanity killed her seven children
with an axe, Saturday, and
placing their bodies on a bed saturated
them with oil and set fire to
them, throwing herself into the
flames. She was burned to death....
The plant of the Red "C" Oil company
at Hlghlandtown, Md., was destroyed
by Are Saturday, with a property
loss of $300,000 John Andrews.
known as "Jim, the Penman,"
a notorious forger, has been captured
at Lisbon, O. He is wanted in
Texas for forging a note for $500.
Portrait op Generai, Robert E.
Lee.?The fact that too frequently it
transpires in American history that no
accurate and authentic portrait of her
great men is faithfully preserved has
caused a number of the devoted admirers
of General Robert E. Lee to interest
themselves to cause a perfect picture
of the great general to be made
and to be preserved for all future history.
This work, after a lapse of forty
years, is now under way by the John
A. Lowell Bank Note company of Boston,
who are using for this purpose the
exact photograph made at General
Lee's residence in Richmond a few
days after the surrender, which picture
has always been considered by the Lee
family and friends as the most perfect
likeness ever taken of the general at
that period.
The work, when finished will be of
the highest art of steel engraving, so
that it will thus be preserved for all
future time.?Washington Post.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Brlce law elections are being held
In Lancaster, Florence and Horry today.
The expectation is that the dispensary
will be voted out in Lancaster ^
and Florence; but in the case of Horry
there is more doubt.
? A movement has been started to
secure a Brlce law election in Richland
county. There is a feeling that
the dispensary may easily be voted
out of Columbia, and good Judges of
the situation say that If the election
is held the prohibitionists will win.
? John M. Ashley, J. R. Moore,
John Moore. J, P. Moors, William
Moore, Hugh Bowen and 9am Slgby,
arrested recently on the charge of
murder in connection with the lynching
of the negro. Allen Pendleton,
mar Honea Path, on Sept 17, have
been released on bonds of $7,000
each.
? The unconscious body of a young
white man was found by the side of
the Southern railroad track Just outside
of the town of Union last Sunday ^
morning. In his pocket there were
found some business cards indicating
that his name was L.' M. Travltt. There
was no odor or other evidence of whisky
and the cause of his unfortunate
condition is a mystery. Some people
think he may have fallen from a train \
and others that he may have been
sand-bagged.
? Anderson special of October 2 to
Columbia S'.ate: A fire which started
on the second floor of the Townsend
building this morning caused a loss
estimated at $26,000 or $30,000. The
Acme Drug company, which occupied
the adjoining building was the greatest
sufferer. The firm carried a stock
valued at $44,000, and about two-thirds
of this was practically destroyed by
Are a id damage from water. The
origin of the flre Is unknown. It
started in the room used for plunder
and so far as is known^no one has
been in It for some time. The other
losses are: Savoy cafe, $1,000; Mrs.
Deanes' art studio $600; Snipes' pHo- -s
tograph gallery $260. All these losses
are partially covered by insurance.
The office of the Anderson Oil and
Phosphate company was In the burned
building but the papers were saved
without serious damage.
? Chester special of October 2 to
the Columbia State: Chester Is ahead
of Columbia. While the capital city
has had several "hold-ups" of late
in the night time, Chester had one
Saturday afternoon .n broad daylight.
A negro came to town, sold a bale
of cotton, and on returning to his
wagon preparatory to starting on the
trip to his home, two strange ne- ^
groes stepped up to him, placed a
gun at his head and demanded his
money, and he at once proceeded to
"deliver," the amount taken from him
being $61. The robbers mads their
escape and have not been caught.
On Saturday night the residence of
Mr. Louis Samuels was entered in
the absence of. the family and robbed T"""t
of the contents of a trunk filled with
table linen. Besides linen, a num- ^
ber of articles -of wearing apparel and
other things were carried off. There
is as yet no clue to the perpetrators
of the bold theft, which must have VI
been committed at a comparatively
early hour, as the family returned
home before 11 o'clock. -
? Greenville special of October I to
Columbia State: The Wsat End dispensary
Is now something that must
be referred to as having onoe existed
In West End. but was closed on the
ight of September 30 on acoount of
the desire of the dispenser, Mr. M. 8.
Scruggs, to retire from the business "
In Which he has proven himself capeble
and strictly conscientious In all
his dealings with the state and the
members of the board of control. The
dispensary virtually closed Saturday
night as far as sales .were. concerned,
and today Mr. Scruggs and an Inspector
were busy aH day taking,
stock, It being anticipated that this
task would be finished Tuesday. Mr.
Scruggs spoke freely of the matter
today, but was not quite reads.to discuss
the matter further untfl he Is
entirely out of the business which will
probably be within the next 43 hours.
Mr. Scruggs has maintained a straight
record In all hja dealings, while keeper
of the dispensary In West End. and
his friends are congratulating him upon
the record which he is leaving behind.
? Says a Charleston special of October
2 to the Columbia State: The
police authorities of the state are said
to be on the lookout for a gang ot
yeggmen who have made their way
In this direction and are now scouting
among the smaller towns of South
Carolina, laying their plana for blowing
safes of. banks or postofflces.
Several suspicious characters have been
arrested at different places and at Clinton,
it Is said that the man arrested
had in his possession a diagram of
Has Wotlnn of tha
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bank and streets marked. The blowing
of the safe of the Heath Springs
bank a few months ago Is the last
affair of the kind which has taken
place, for which Fisher and O'Day 4
are now in the tolls of the law at
Lancaster, both men having the reputation
of being dangerous men. It Is
said that with the regularity with
which the yeggmen have been operating
In Charleston for several years,
It Is now about time for another safe
to be cracked and the appearance of
the suspicious characters at several
places has added to the belief that
a gang is preparing to operate. During
the past three years the Federal
court has sent to the Atlanta prison
13 yeggs and - Rudolph Rabens, who
conducts a store on upper King street,
is now under sentence of three years,
the sentence having been held up
pending his appeal before the circuit
court of appeals at Richmond. He
was convicted' of harboring and assisting
the gang when they used
Charleston as their base for the robbery
of the Latta postoffice. His
case will be heard by the higher oourt this
month.
? Spartanburg special of October 1
to News and Courier: The Law and .4*
Order league has been organised and
they are now -ready to begin active
work. The aim of the members Is to
bring a moral Influence to bear on
evil doers and persuade them to
adopt a better standard of life and
conduct. There are some professional
gamblers here. They are sober,
well dressed and well-behaved men.
They are In no sense disturbers of the
peace. Some of them are genial,
kind-hearted, companionable men. ^
Then there are gradations In the
business, going downward to the fellows
that will play any sort of a game
If they can win. They are disreputable
men even among their own set.
The most difficult Job will be to reform
the business men, who now and then
fool with the pasteboard and attend
"chicken conventions" and lead a sort
of double life. You would not call
them gamblers, but their Influence on
the boys Is much greater than that
of actual gamblers. There is where
the best work of the league will come
In. Then the houses of 111 fame here
are run with the lid off. The women
are open and defiant in their course.
They are not the greatest sinners, for
the men who support them and con*
tribute to their ruin are worse than
the weak, fallen women, to ae&i
with such men and reform them Is a
work of great difficulty. The impression
of the unlawful sale of whisky
and the cocaine habit will demand attentlon.
If the league will go about w
their work of rdform In a gentle, but
positive manner, and treat these violators
of law, as brethren, and not
outcasts, they may accomplish some
good. ,
Business Careers Pat Beet.?One
of the striking manifestations of the
times is the tendency of young men to
seek opportunity In the world of business
rather than in the professions.
Fifty years ago every well-to-do father
of six sons made one of them a
preacher, one of them a physician, one
of them a lawyer and one a politician
or a soldier. Only the black sheep, the
harum-scarum and the unstudious were
sent Into counting houses and factories.
Today behold the change. The
flower of America's young manhood is
at work not in the hospitals or the
courts, but In Iron foundries and
slaughter houses. The younger Armours
slay the protesting swine. The ^
professions, beginning by being over-crowded,
have become unprofitable,
and soon they may be sadly neglected.
The law does not offer such prizes aa
the canned goods trade or coppersmelting.
The ministry is not comparable,
in point of profit with frenzied
finance or the mall order business.
?Baltimore Herald.
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