Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, March 01, 1907, Image 2

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Scraps and jfarts. ? Charlotte, N. C., February 26: Dr. W. S. Davidson, thfe physician of this city who was tried In the superior court here last week on the charge of violating the Watts law in writing Illegal whisky prescription, was again hauled Into the recorder's court on yesterday morning, charged with again violating the Watts law by writing Illegal prescriptions for whisky. He was bound over to the superior court in the two cases, the bond being fixed at $200 In each case. Another case against the doctor on similar charges came up In the recorder's court this morning. The case, which was tried In the superior court last week, resulted In a mistrial, and was ordered for the next term of court. It developed then that he naa written nearly fourteen hundred whisky prescriptions from January 1st to February 18th, charging anywhere from 50 cents to 15 for each prescription and examination. ? The magnitude of John D. Rockefeller's fortune was developed in a recent inquiry. In reply to a question, Frederick T. Gates, Mr. Rockefeller's business representative said: "There have been a great many amusing misstatements on this subject. Several years ago Senator Hoar in the senate credited Mr. Rockefeller with a fortune of one thousand millions of dollars. Quite recently a statement has been made and published widely throughout the country that his annual Income exceeds $100,000,000. Now the facts are that Mr. Rockefeller has at various times, himself authorized a statement that his fortune cannot exceed $250,000,000 to $300,000,000. Furthermore his income instead of being $100,000,000 or anything like it, cannot In his most prosperous year have exceeded $15,000,000 to $20,000,000. "The public generally are under the Impression that he owns a majority of the Standard Oil stock. The facts are that Mr. Rockefeller's holdings of Standard Oil stock are about twenty per cent." ? Washington, Feb. 24: That the service of the army in the Philippines is not of the prosaic sort Is shown by a letter Just received by an army officer from a colleague stationed at Jolo. In part, he says: "A Jura men tado, thirsting for Christian blood, ran amuck in this town today and succeeded In almost severing the left arm of Packer McLaughlin with one swing of his bolo. McLaughlin was herd guard at the time and the attack was entirely unexpected. With his arm dangling at his side he escaped from the crazed Moro, Jumped on a mule and galloped to the Asturlas guardhouse, the Juramentado following a close second. One of the guards under command of Lieutenant Matthews, Second infantry, fired five Krag bullets into the pursuing Moro, but the latter refused to stop. The sixth shot broke the bolo blade at the hilt, but still the Juramentado rushed on. At this Juncture MuuiMun Tjjflh a shot frnm n revolver, hitting the Moro's heart. He fell at full length a few feet in front of Lash. One more step and swing and he would have had the soldier at his mercy. There were seven bullet ? holes In the dead Moro. McLaughlin will recover." ? We sold to England last year $175,000,000 worth of raw cotton, or about three-quarters of her total supply. With the 3,000,000, bales taken from us, and probably about another million bales obtained from other sources, England supplied her home demand and exported manufactured cotton goods of a value of $484,723,900. Compared with that our own little export sales of only $43,000,000 are decidedly paltry. Our sales of piece goods to China and Hong Kong were a little less than $17,000,000. British sales in these markets were $45,000,000. Our sales In Japan were $72,500, while British sales were $2.500,000. Our sales In South America were $3,500,000 and those of our competitor $38,000,000. In Cuba, where we have an arrangement drafted by an American expert in Cuban tariffs, intended to give us every advantage, England sold nearly three times as much as we did. Our total exports were 12,000,000 yards. England's total exports exceeded 6,000,000,000 yards. We sold a little less than $400,000 worth of yards. England sold more than $57,000,000 worth. England sold nearly $20,000,000 worth of thread for sewing. Our sales of that article were so small that the figures are not quoted. ? "There Is a fine, healthy young octopus which turns up every little while and has to be hunted," said Attorney General Bonaparte before the house committee on appropriations, a few days ago. The attorney general was asking for an additional appropriation for expenses of prosecuting anti-trust cases. He said that the department of justice had some twenty cases pending and as many as a dozen in contemplation in one stage or another. Cases are pending under the Sherman antitrust law against the following: Jacksonville, (Fla.) Wholesale Grocers' association; Armour & Co., beef trust, Chicago; %Metropolitan Meat company, Hawaii: Allen R. Robinson. Hawaii lumber trust; Terminal Railroad association. St. Louis; tobacco trust cases. New York; National Association of Retail Druggists (drug trust), Indiana: Virginia-Carolina Chemical company (fertilizer trust): F. A. Amsde Lumber company. Oklahoma; Chandler Ice and Cold Storage plant. Oklahoma; Alfred M. Floyd and others, (Oklahoma lumber trust); People's Ice and Fuel company; Demund Lumber company; Phoenix Wholesale Meat and Produce company. Arizona; T. B. Hogg and others, Oklahoma (lumber trust); American Ice company, Washington, D. C.: Standard Oil company, St. Louis. ? Who is the most beautiful woman in the United States? That is a question that has the center of the stage in Chicago and numerous eastern and western states. Chicago claims the distinction and a Chicago millionaire is backing up the claim with a wager of $50,000. The matter was started this way. A Chicago and an eastern millionaire were dining in a Windy City cafe. The easterner had a picture of his sister who is described as a very beautiful woman. He casually remarked that it was a pity that Chicago, with all its wealth and enterprise could not produce beautiful women. The Chicagoan remarked that his city had the most beautiful women in the country and wagered $50,000 that his eastern friend could not produce the photograph of any woman to equal in beauty to the photograph of a Chicago woman that he would produce. The wager was accepted and the contest is on. The Chicagoan spent $25,000 iu prizes and advertising to get the photograph of the most beautiful woman in his city. A jury of competent artists was to make the decision and over 6,000 photographs of the city's most beautiful ( women were submitted. The jury of artists finally decided that the palm belonged to Miss Delia Carson, a stenographer. twenty-four years old, who earns a salary of $12 a week. The eastern millionaire has not yet selected the photograph that he will put up against Miss Carson's, to win the $50,000 wager. ?ltf \|orkviUr (Snquirrr. YORKVILLE, S. C.i i FRIDAY, MARCH 1. 1907. Governor Ansel desires it to be understood that sheriffs, mayors and magistrates will he held resDonslble for the enforcement of the dispensary , law. Immediately after signing the 1 new law he sent copies of It to the 1 officials mentioned and wrote them a , letter telling them what was expected, i < The widow of Stonewall Jackson has ' been nlaced on the pension rolls of the government at Washington, because her husband fought In the Mexican war. The way begins to open for the adoption of Col. McClure's plan for placing all the old Confederate soldiers on the pension lists.?News and Courier. There is no doubt about the fact that while the north fought for the Union, the south fought for the constitution and the people who were fighting for the constitution were really fighting for their country. Aftkh receiving the report of the committee that had been working on the matter for several weeks, the general assembly of Texas on last Wednesday voted on the question of exonoratiog Senator Bailey from the charges of bribery and corruption against him. The vote stood 70 ayes against 40 nays in favor of complete exonoration. There is no use trying to deny the fact that the facts and circumstances developed against Senator Bailey were of a very damaging nature and the probability is that if the investigation had been strictly judicial i rather than largely political the vote i of twelve men on a verdict would have J shown up rather differently, as com- s J. ?Willi* tool I parea wuu me vuics ui j/unnv?. . friends and foes. The people of South Carolina, we think are to be congratulated on the outcome of the prosecution in the bond theft cases. There was reason to fear that as the result of the long prevailing disposition to condone such offenses, especially where the state or the public is the victim and the offender is surrounded by influential and sympathetic friends, the whole affair would be whitewashed over. Of course we cannot tell what either Zimmerman or Gibson thought, but we have an Idea that in the first place they did not think that they would ever be caught and that in the second place if they were caught, there would be found ( some means by which they would es- | cape the consequences. South Caro- , lina has suffered tremendously from , this feeling in the past and still suf- , fers. There are thousands pf people < in more or less high position, who are ] quick to try to condone such offenses 1 as are here under consideration; and ( who cannot be depended upon to per- ? form the unpleasant duties in connec- ] tion with the punishment of such of- ] fences. Many a criminal of the stand- 1 ing of Zimmerman and Gibson has i been allowed to frankly acknowledge i his error, or more properly speaking l crime, explained that he committed it I in a moment of inadvertence or by mis- t take, and permitted to escape the con- I sequences. Crime should be punished uiiuci any anu cxn \-n tuiuotauuta, ? matter whether- the offenders be high 1 or low, popular or unpopular. No right ' thinking citizen can afford to condone or apologize for even the appearance of crime in any man, no matter what might be his standing. We would not havs been surprised if this poor fellow Gibson had been acquitted. Many a man has been allowed to go free under more damaging testimony. Possibly there may have been behind it all some consideration of which the public has no knowledge; but upon the face of the proceedings as they appear in the newspapers, we think the Richland jury has done its duty, and all South Carolina has a right to believe that the proper and just enforcement of the law is looking to a higher place in the estimation of the people. ZIMMERMAN CONFESSES. Bond Thief Tells How He Committed His Crime. Daniel Zimmerman took the stand in Columbia last Tuesday in the trial of T. J. Gibson, and confessed fully i and freely how he had abstracted from the state treasurer's office the bonds of the state. It was a pitiful scene. The witness said he was over sixty-six 1 years old and the defendant is over seventy-six. Standing each of them on the brink of eternity, Zimmerman stood upon the witness stand and confessed his sins, accusing the still older marj of being his tempter. Mr. Zimmerman, on question from the prosecuting attorney, recounted the transactions and seemed to be : holding nothing back. When Zimmerman was offered as a witness, the counsel for Gibson, Mr. Andrew Crawford, objected on the ground that he had within less than twenty-four hours pleaded guilty to the charge of forgery and conspiracy. Judge Crawford was asked by Judge Prince to produce his authorities and he did so, reading from Greenleaf, on evidence and from a decision of the late Chief Justice Mclver, to show that such a plea would bar a witness as incompetent. The judge overruled the objection, saying that the rule is that a witness who has been convicted or pleaded guilty is competent until sentence has been passed upon him, and sentence has not been yet passed on Zimmerman. The plea of guilty might affect the witness's credibility, but not his competency to testify. Mr. Zimmerman in response to Mr. Thurmond's questions told of his entering the treasurer's office during the administration of Dr. Bates, continuing therein during the administration of Dr. Timmerman and for one year under Capt. Jennings. He went over the books to show how the bonds were recorded when sent back for cancellation or for exchange for state stock certificates. He referred to the bond book and pointed out where bonds Xos. 744 and 745 had been received in 1S95 and recorded in the book. Then, In 1901. May. bonds Nos. 959 and 1,445 were sent in. but the books showed again that Nos. 744 and 745 were received. Frankly the witness owned up to this forged entry in his own handwriting. He said there were other entries of the same sort, how many he did not remember. ' Mr. Zimmerman, in the course of hi: testimony, said that in order that th? abstraction of the bonds should notb< detected he advised Gibson to pur chase coupons, which Gibson turne< over to him, and which he kept fo sometime, then turned them over t< Gibson, who cashed them through thi banks. In this way the coupons wer held out, and the failure to balance thi interest account was not detected ii the treasurer's office. It did not mat ter to what bonds the coupons belong ed, as there is no way to ascertain thi fact when they are presented for pay ment. He was asked how he came to com mit this wrong, and replied that fo two years Mr. Gibson urged hlmtoge some bonds for him; that he kept put ting him off; but finally the temptatioi was too great, and he yielded. He go out a bond and turned it over to Mi Gibson. Then he got others. Mr. Gib son got the premium on the bonds which was about $40 on the $500 bond each, and $80 on each $1,000 bone Then later Gibson began to demam money from him and he gave hln small amounts from time to time, sa; from $5 to $25 a week. ?'?n cross-examination Mr. Zimmer man was subjected to a very sever ordeal. Mr. Crawford plied him witl question after question, worded In sar castle style and intended to show tha although Zimmerman claimed Glbsoi to be the author of his wrong-doing yet he gave Gibson merely a pittance a small share of the proceeds of thel conspiracy. Mr. Crawford's examination of th witness was one of the best things o the kind that has been heard In thi Richland court room for a long time He endeavored to show that Gibson a a bond broker had no means of know Ing that the bonds he received fron Zimmerman were stolen: that hi merely sold them and received the pre mlum as a commission, while Zlmmer man retined the principal; that hi conducted his negotiations with Zlm merman In the office of Gibson and li public places and" there was no secrec; about It. "Witness said he knew Gib 3on had been for years a bond broke and he never told him that the bondi ivere stolen. Gibson, said Zimmerman bad disposed of all the bonds which hi purloined except one, and that one hi sent to his own nephew In Washing ton, who sold It and sent him the pro ceeds less the premium, which was thi lephew's commission. His nephew dl< lot. he said, know that the bond wai stolen and thought it an honest trans action. Gibson sold the other purloin ?d bonds and Mr. Crawford wanted t< tnow why Gibson should not havi hought all the transactions hones ilso. Mr. Crawford asked Zimmerman 1 re had been advised to plead guilt] yesterday and he said that he had an< hat the suggestion met with his heart] ipproval. He was asked If the hop< lad been held out to him that the ple? vould lessen his punishment, and h< >ald he had been told It would be beter for him to do so. His attorneys an< lis son had so advised him, but n< issurance of this sort had been glvei llm bv the nrosecutlon. He did no tnow he would be put up as a wltnesi igalnst Gibson until after his plea o: rullty. Gibson Convicted. Thomas J. Gibson, the bond broker vho disposed of the bonds for Zlm nerman was convicted of "recemnj itolen goods, knowing them to havi jeen stolen." Gibson, who is abou ?eventy-six years age, testified tha le had been in the bond brokerage bus ness for a number of years. He claim' id that his relations with Zimmermai were only those of broker and client ind that in the case of all hi? trans ictions, he received only a commissioi >f one-half of one per cent. He de lied that he had any reason and sus picion that any of the bonds had beei stolen: but believed Zimmerman to bi i man of means, well able to owi ponds. He denied that he had eve: ilackmailed Zimmerman, although hi admitted that he had borrowed mone: from Zimmerman on several occa 3ions. Gibson produced several wit aesses to testify to his previous gooi reputation and character. The Jury however, believed that Gibson was ii pollusion with Zimmerman all th< while and returned a verdict of guilty MERE-MENTION. It is probable that the government: if the United States and Mexico wll nterfere in the quarrel between Nic iragua and Honduras and force ai arbitration of their differenced \ Madrid, Spain, cablegram, says t jyclone has ravaged the southen Philippines and 200 persons wer killed.... Representative Kirkpatricl >f the Missouri legislature has beei stricken with smallpox... .Pittsburg Pa., was visited by a $350,000 fire las Monday... .The United States senati las passed a resolution that all can led meat labels must be dated as t< 3ate of canning and date of inspec :ion Rear Admiral Evans ha: nformed the navy department tha Ihe battleship Connecticut has thirty Ive cases of typhoid fever on boarc Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Shaw has accepted the presidency o the Carnegie Trust company of Xev STork Congressman-elect Hacket if the Eighth North Carolina dlstric and Representative C. G. Bryant ha< a flsticufT on the floor of the house a Raleigh on Tuesday The Penn 3ylvania railroad has decided to d< away with the use of steel ratlwa: ties with which it has been experi menting. The officials ascribe the dis astrous wreck near Johnstown, las Saturday to the steel ties W. A Sarrett has been elected president o the Seaboard Air Line railway com pany to succeed Alfred Walters, whi [lied recently. ? It has been decided not to accep any bids for building the Panama ca nal. This announcement was mad* following the meeting of the cablne last Tuesday, after the president ha< been in conference for an hour o more with Secretaries Taft and Root It was decided that there should bi no readvisement inviting proposal for construction of the canal unde the plan as first laid down, but ther will be a full consideration of the sub Ject before determining on a changi of the present procedure. In his let ter to the chairman of the canal com mission instructing that body to re ject the bids for the construction o the canal, the president states tha the purpose of the contract was to se cure in the building of the canal thi services of the best, most experience* and most skilled contractors in thi country at the least risk to them am at the least expense to the govern ment. This purpose filled, he state* as the contractors whose personal ser vices in the* work are what the com mission sought, have made arrange ments to divide the profits under th< percentage bid with the bankers am others to whom the contractors hai to look for the needed capital. Si that the contractors who are actual); to do the work have arranged to ac cept a comparatively small proportioi of the profits accruing under the con tract. No contract can ultimately op erate to the benefit of the govern ment. the president stated, In whlcl the contractor's energy, skill, expe rience and personal supervision of th work are not adequately paid for. Th president further stated that Mr. Ste vens, the chief engineer advisei against accepting either the MacAr thur or Oliver bid. One of the chie reasons for adopting the contract pro posed was that in its main feature it was formulated by Mr. Stevens, whi was expected to supervise the worl as chief engineer. His resignation the president says, takes away th special reason mentioned for proceed Ing under the present form of con tract. b LOCAL AFFAIRS B t NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. J Yorkvllle B. & M. Co.?Has a coup! " of mules which It wants to sel ? quick. Harry Miller?Requests parties on hi e club for The Enquirer to pay fo B same early, as the time for maklni 1 his final settlement Is short. J. J. Keller & Co.?Remind you tha " they are agents for the Limestow Springs Lime Works, and that the; want to do your repair work. I. W. Johnson?Has buckwheat flout " maple syrup, sauer kraut, klpperei T herring, and says he is headquarter for Royal baking powder. Miss Rosa Lindsay?Invites you b ? have your photographs taken no\ to send to friends with Easter greet ' 41-1 era Bank of Clover?Tells you to gro\ Jj. with a growing bank. It want I your business. Pays 5 per cent oi L' special deposits. * M. W. White?Says this would be i dreary world If everybody held t y the same opinion. Wanted, variou bank and mill stocks. " York Drug Store?Calls your atten u tlon to the merits of Dr. Hess' prep aratlons for horses, cattle, hogs, etc I which are sold under guarantee. n Yorkvllle Hardware Co.?Claims tha , if there is anything In hardware o !' any kind that you want that It 1 ' ready to supply your wants. Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co.?Re e marks that the use of Its fertilizer f will help you to have money in th 0 bank. See page four. i. s All the people living along the weak " er rural routes should persuade thel e neighbors who may not have alread; - done so to put up boxes. There Is i wonderful difference in the conven ? lence of the mall that goes every da: 1 and one that goes only twice or thre 7 times a week. ^ As we understand it no more thai g two schools in a county are to be al i, lowed to receive the benefit of th ? $50,000 appropriated by the state, un ? less some of the counties fail to com . ply witn tne requirements to De nxe< i by the state board of education, li * which event the per county dlstrlbu . tlon will be more liberal. The Bethan; - High school people, we understand, ar 3 eligible for a part of the approprla ^ tlon, and will no doubt take steps t procure what Is coming to them. I f Is to be hoped that York county wl! J not allow any of her part of the fum f to go by default. 3 The postoffice department at Wash i- lngton has sent out the following offl 3 clal order: "Post cards ornamente* j with particles of glass, mica or othe > similar substances, liable to injure th J persons of those handling the mallf 3 are hereby excluded from the mails ex f cept when enclosed in suitable envel opes." Closely following the order t hold up tinsel post cards comes th ? report that the postal authorities ar j likely to Issue an order limiting al s post cards to one size, and soon th t freak cards will disappear with th 1 tinsel ones. The styles of post card . are so varied that It has become a per i plextng problem to know Just how t > curb the card business, which has be J come enormous and Is still growing - As a result of the order to hold up th - tinsel cards thousands of them ar g being poured into the dead letter offlc i at Washington. r It looked like too good a joke no 8 to be reproduced?that Charlotte Obser . ver fake on the marriage of Mr. W. H - McCaw lest week; but now that it i * gone out, we feel it only justice to ou ' readers that they be let into the in e side of the affair. Mr. McCaw as thou ' sands know, is one of the brightea newspaper correspondents in the staU He is one of the few writers in thl 8 section who is able to make a gooi ? living for himself as a free lance, am no man in the state has turned ou 1 during the past few years more rea live, warm copy of the kind that make 1 the editors sit up and take notice. S 1 when he got married the other day, i 8 was not surprising that one of th c bright men in the office of the Char 1 lotte Observer. Mr. McCaw's leadini " paper, should be seized with a desire t 1 give the popular correspondent an inl 8 tiatory roast that would be remem bered. It is a fact that the prett; 3 young lady who has Just become Mrs McCaw is as pretty and bright as she i 8 sweet and modest. She is the idol o ' her parents and is a credit to the care ful and correct training she has had I There was really no objection on th f part of the parents to the marriagf ' except that they thought their daugh v ter two young, and naturally desirei II that the ceremony be postponed. Bu | the vicious scribe on the Observer dii x not care ror any or rnese iacis, now 1 ever well he knew them. He was uj " to laying in on to Mr. McCaw and t 5 laying it on in a way that would rais ^ some smoke. And he did it. But al though we have seen proper to hel; the Observer's joke along a little waj * we do not foel warranted in standim by it any further, and hence this ex t planation in justice to all concerned. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? Next Monday is salesday to ^ March. There are no realty sales be ing advertised by the clerk or sheriff but the probability is that it will- b t a , .o uay for general business, j ? A local physician remarked Wed nesday that he had visited seventy pa tients during the day in Yorkvllle am g vicinity and all were suffering fron either grip or pneumonia. Othe physicians were about as busy. ?Mr. Walker R. Latimer has brough e suit against the General Electric com pany for $5,000 damages on account o injuries sustained by the plalntlf while working for the defendant a the Tavora mill some time ago. Mi ~ Latimer, it will be remembered wa badly shocked and burned by electrl wires. Mr. John R. Hart is represent ing him in the case. 3 ABOUT PEOPLE. e Mr. and Mrs. Thad L. Carroll hav 1 been quite sick for some days wltl " grip. 3 Mr. W. H. Crook of Fort Mill, wa in Yorkvllle a few days ago on bus Mr. and Mrs. F. P. McCain are 01 e a visit to Mr. McCain's parents In Co 3 lumbia. 3 Mr. Jas. F. Thomson left yesterda; n for Baltimore, Philadelphia and Nev y York to buy spring goods for his firm Mrs. O. K. Hammett left yesterda; n for Greer's to take a position In th - new store opened by the Thomsoi - company at that place. Treasurer Neely has been quite 11 h for some days past, and Mr. J. F. Wal - lace has been receiving taxes for him e Mr. Neely was some better yesterdaj e and Is In his office today; but he 1 - still quite sick. 3 Baptist Courier: We are glad to hea - that Bro. I. G. Murray, pastor at York f vllle, is encouraged, and that th - church has had a number of accession s since he entered upon his pastoral o there. He was recently assisted In tht It ordination of deacons by Bro. E. ? i. Reaves. e Mr. L. B. Foushee and family, lef - yesterday morning for Knoxvllle, Ten - nessee, which place they expect t< make their future home. Mr. Foushei said before he left that he had no definite plan as to what he would probably do; but had an idea that he would undertake to make an Income as a e I professional advertising; writer.- His only difficulty along; this line, It would s seem, would be to secure an appertain nlty to show the right people what he can do. He was certainly a consplct uous success as an ad-wrlter during e his business career In Yorkvllle. y , INVESTIGATION PROMISED. . The intolerable conditions at the 8 Southern depot at Yorkvllle have at o last been brought to the personal atv tentlon of Mr. W. W. Flnley, president - * *U' + on/1 fVt Q t flffl OI lite ouuliici xi a j o ostu %>>mw w..? v cial promises a prompt investigation, 8 with a view to remedying the situation 1 In so far as the railroad may be resa ponsible. The following letter, which o was received at this office by yester8 day afternoon's mail, explains ltsell fully: Washington, D. C., Feb. 27, 1907. The Yorkville Enquirer, Yorkville, South Carolina, t Gentlemen: f I have noted your editorial in the s issue of your paper of the 19th inst., in respect to the service of the Southern, I beg to advise you that all the mat8 ters therein referred to will be prompte ly investigated, and everything possible will be done to remedy the situation as far as it may be due to negligence or other causes within out - control. Yours very truly, r W. W. FINLEY, y President. a TOM HARRIS TO BE HANGED. y The jury in the Tom Harris case, e after deliberating less than an hour, according to a Gaffney dispatch ol n yesterday, to the Columbia State, rendered a verdict of guilty of murder e without recommendation to the mercy . of tne court. Judge Aldrlch at once sentenced him 3 to be hanged on March 29. n If there ls.no Interference with thla . sentence It will be the first hanging y that has ever occurred In Cherokee e county. When Harris was sentenced to die, 0 he said: "Brothers. I'll meet you all In t heaven." [1 Harris was charged with the mur3 der of Mrs. Hortense Morgan, an aged white woman. In November last. The _ killing was thought to have been for . the purpose of robbery, j A written confession was Introduced r which Harris made to Messrs. White, e Becknell and Smith, while he was In Spartanburg jail. The defense offered . no testimony, and Mr. W. N. Clark of . defendant's counsel offered the argu0 ment on behalf of the defendant e Solicitor Sease, in his usual able and e vigorous manner, In a speech of twenII ty minutes, 'insisted that the killing e was murder and that the extreme pene alty should be meted out to the des fendant. W. S. Hall, Esq., then closed for the 0 defense and the Jury took the case after an able charge by Judge Aldrlch , at 6 o'clock p. m. 1 STORY OF A BILL. e "I lost a ten dollar bill on the street this morning, somewhere bet tween the stores of the Y. B. & M. Co., - and Messrs. Carroll Bros., and If you [. would Insert a notice to the effect that s the- finder can get the name of the r owner by applying at your office, I - will be much obliged." This statement was made In the t business office of The Enquirer last ^ Saturday was a week ago. The town s had been pretty full of people during J the day, and the reply of the adveri tlslng manager was to this effect: t "We'll, of course be glad to Insert .1 the advertisement If you desire; but s we beg leave to suggest that In our o opinion it will only be like throwing t away another fifty cents. While we e have immense faith in the advertising - value of The Enquirer, we will be frank g enough to tell you that its effect Is a o slim chance in the matter of cash - money. We have known it to succeed - occasionally; but more often than othy wise It is no good." i. The minister expressed his thanks s for the advice and deciding to take f the advertising man's advice, went - way with the understanding that the 1. advertisement was not to be inserted, e After he had gone, however, the ad!, vertislng man decided to make a ven ture on his own responsibility, and ina serted the advertisement in accordance t with original instructions. The first d result was another visit from the min later. p "I see you have inserted that advero tisement," he said, "and I have come e around to pay for it." "No charge at all," the minister was p Informed. "We did it on our own res\ ponsibility by way of experiment and g could not think of allowing you to - pay." Again the minister expressed courteous appreciation, and the advertising man thought the Incident was closed; r but It wasn't. On last Tuesday afternoon a little . boy brought to The Enquirer office a ' new ten dollar bill, wet and somewhat e faded, and explained that he had picked it up in the yard of Rev. Mr. , the minister who had first rej ported the loss. J UNJUST DISCRIMINATION. Complaint is made that between t the compresses ana me ranroaus me - cotton manufacturers of the Piedmont f region suffer a serious imposition In T the way cotton which is purchased t In the west is shipped east. The fol\ lowing is a circular letter lately sent s out by a cotton mill man which exc plains the situation and in which a - remedy is proposed: "I recently made a trip down to Vicksburg, Miss., to learn something of cotton conditions, system of shipping, compressing, etc., and to say e that I was astonished at the methods h employed and how the mills of this section are being imposed upon, would express it mildly. "You are no doubt annoyed by de lays, split-shipments, and wonder why, after getting a bill of lading for f, say 50 or 100 bales you do not get all of the cotton at one time, or why It should take three months to get a shipment from Vicksburg after the y bill of lading has been Issued by the ,, railroad company. The trouble Is Just this, viz: Your bill of lading Is ' not evidence that the railroad comy pany has ever received the cotton: e but Is Issued upon a 'certificate' issued by the compress people that they have 11 this cotton In their compress, and the cotton may lie In the compress for II weeks after the bill of lading has been Issued and you have paid your draft. "As an example the Clover Cotton ' Manufacturing company buys 100 bales ', of cotton from A. & Co., Vicksburg. g Miss, 'l ne saiu A. at *jo., oruer me compress people to ship 100 bales of cotton, marked "Dodge" to Clover r Cotton Manufacturing company. Up. on this order the compress people Issue a 'certificate' stating that A. & Co. have 100 bales of cotton In their 8 compress to be shipped to Clover Cote ton Manufacturing company, and upB on this 'certificate' the railroad com, pany issue their bill of lading. A. & ' C'o. take this bill of lading with draft attached to the bank and get their t money; then A. & Co.'s responsibility ceases and we have to wait patiently for thirty or ninety days before we 0 get our cotton and lose the interest b for this time. The reason why our shipments come split is this, viz.: T1 particular lot bought may be in di ferent compartments and on one dt the compress people may find one lc compress and ship out; later on tin will come to another lot which th< do likewise and by the time we g our 100 bales we have had a doz< or more small lots. 9 "The mills of this section are losli thousands of dollars every year in tl way of interest by allowing such method to prevail, and if we get t gether we can correct it. by simp refusing to pay a cotton draft unle the bill of lading shows car numb and Initial. Look up your bills 1 lading and you won't find one-ten : of them originating in Vicksburg th have car initials or numbers Inserte "Every cotton merchant with whc I talked said the system was an ou rage and a great imposition on t , mills, but they were powerless in t matter, as it was an arrangement b ' tween the compress and the railro companies, i "T.f yru are having trouble as ou lined in this letter I shall be glad , hear from you, and let us get toget er and break up this unjust syste ourselves or refer the case to the 1 ter-state commerce commission." THE HIGH SCHOOL LAW. Superintendent of Education M Mackln has handed The Enquirer copy of the high school law passed the session of the general assemt just adjourned. The full text of which will be of much interest Just . this time, is as follows. Section 1. Be it enacted by the ge eral assembly of the state of Sou Carolina, That it shall be lawful t any county, or for any township, any aggregation of adjoining tow ships, or for any aggregation of a , joining school districts, or any inco ( porated town or eity within the sta , of not more than one thousand lnha ' itants under the last preceding Unit States census, to establish a hl| school in the manner and with t . privilege herein given. Sec. 2. That any high school ten tr.rlal unit mentioned in section 1 i this act establish a high school by i election to be held In said propos high school district upon the questii of establishing the same; said elect! i to be conducted in all other respec i including the requirements of tho who are allowed to vote therein, elections are now conducted und section 1208. of the civil code of 19( i in reference to special levies for schc purposes. If a majority of the vot cast shall be "For High School," ai not "Against High School," the hl| ' school shall be established, and b i come a body corporate under the nar . and style of High School District M of ? - county (the state board insert the number in order of .Its e 1 tablishment in the particular couni and also the name of the proper cou ty), whereupon the county board education shall appoint for said hii school a board of trustees composed ; five regular members: Provided, Th the five trustees for said high schc shall be appointed for six years, one whom shall serve for only two yeai two for only four years, and two f six years, the tenure^ of each to be d , termined oy lot: .provided, rurim That the chairman of each school di trict board within the high school te ritory be ex officio a member of t high school board: Provided, furthi That the trustees of any special dl ' trict in any incorporated town or cl operating under a special act of t! i general assembly, shall be ex offlc trustees of the high school in th town or city, every vacancy by e plration of tenure to be filled for s years and all unexpired terms to filled by appointment of said coun ' board, except in special districts ot erwise provided. , Sec. 3. That the board of trustees ! every high school so established hereby authorized to levy annually f the support of such high school, n i exceeding two mills on the dollar in a dition to the levy now allowed by la of all taxable property within su high school district, the tax to be cc ' lected in the same manner as spec! : levies are now collected under sectii 1208 of said .code: Provided, Thi 1 the right to make it a levy merely f ' conducting the high school for the th next current scholastic year as now d fined in section 123.2 of said code mi be voted down for that year in t ; same manner as now provided for : said section 1208 with reference tovc . ing upon special levies for school dl trict purposes. Sec. 4. That any public high schc i already established, or any number . high school grades in a public schc . already established?provided, it shi be organized and adopted as a hlj . school by special election as prescri i ed in section 2 of this act?in any hi) I school territory above described, mi claim the privilege of this act: Pr 'vided, further, That nothing in this a shall be construed as a repeal of ai i of the privileges granted them in t special acts of the general assembly. 1 Sec. That a high school maintainii a four years' course of study beyoi i the branches of learning prescribed be taught in the common schools the state, and embracing not few than seven grades or school yeai shall be known as a four-year hi; school; a high school maintaining three year's course beyond the cor 1 mon school course, shall be known a three-year high school; and o maintaining a two years' course b yond the common school course, shi be known as a two-year high schot Provided, That any and all hi) i schools established under authority this act shall Include in the course study instruction in manual trainii especially In respect to agriculture ai domestic science. Sec. 6. The state high school boa > shall provide for the inspection ai classification of high schools under tl act. In doing this, it may invite t assistance of such members of t universities and colleges of this sta as they may select, and their actu expenses shall be paid out of the fui hereafter appropriated from year i year while actually engaged in the d , ties devolving upon them. Sec. 7. That the state board of ed cation, as now constituted, shall co stitute the state high school boai The state high school board shall pr vide rules for the apportionment ai disbursement of the state aid to t high schools, giving due recognition the number of years of high schc work, to the number of courses of sti dy offered, to the enrollment of pupl the amount of industrial training gi en. and to such other matters of loc merit as may appear to the board a ter a careful examination of each hi| school: Provided, That no school shj receive more than fifty per cent of tl amount raised annually by taxatio subscription or otherwise: Provide further, That no school shall recei' aid unless it has at least twenty-fl' pupils and two teachers in the hif school department: Provided, als That no school shall receive more th? twelve hundred dollars annually fro the appropriation provided in this ac Provided, further. That no coun shall receive more than five per ce: of the annual appropriation providi for under this act. Sec. 8. The funds raised in the vi rious counties by taxation, subscri] tlon. or otherwise, for high school pu poses, shall be placed in the coun treasury, together with any approprii tlon received from the state board education, and shall be paid out on upon the order of the board of hi* school trustees, duly approved by tl county superintendent of educatio Roth the treasurer and the county si perintendent of education shall ke< accounts of this fund, as is providi for other public school funds. Fee. 9. That each <sf the high scho districts so established is hereby ai thorized to receive and use gifts, tram f*is. bequests or devises of properi for corporate purposes, whether th! he otherwise conditional, or whethi absolute in their terms; and also issue counon bonds within the const tutional limit and to dispose of tl same to raise money for the purpoi 't nurchasing sites and the erection < buildings thereon, or for the purpoi of purchasing Improved property, sul able for school, or dormitory, < mess-hall purposes; Provided, Thi the question of amount of issue, ar the rate of Interest, and the time < times of payment of the princlps shall frst be submited to the qualifle electors within the said high scho districts who return real or personi property for taxation, at an election I be held in the same manner as elec tlons for special levies for school dls trlct purposes are now required to 1 submitted under said section 1208 < said code: Provided, That a petltic ie for such election be first addressed tc f- the board of trustees of said school ly district signed by a majority of the >t, freeholders therein: And provided iy further, that an annual Interest on said sy Issue shall not exceed six per cent, and et that the sale shall not be for less than ;n par and accrued Interest. Sec. 10. That the sum of fifty thouig sand dollars (S50.000.00), or so mucl he thereof as may be necessary, for eacl a of the school years, beginning July 1st o- 1907, be, and the same Is hereby, apily proprlated to carry out the provisions as of this act. and the comptroller gener eral is hereby authorized to draw warof rants upon the state treasurer for sue! th amounts, upon the order of the stat? at board of education, duly signed by th? !d. governor, as chairman, and the stati im superintendent of education, as secreit tary: Provided, That tuition shall b< ne rree in every scnooi receiving aia unhe der this act to all pupils In the coune ty where the school Is located: Pro ad vlded, further, That nothing In thli act shall be construed to mean tha it- pupils of different races shall atteni to the same school, h- Approved February 19, 1907. !m , n" LOCAL LACONICS. Full Penalty Now On. All taxes not heretofore paid, bu to be paid between now and March IB are subject to a penalty of 7 per cenl a The > penalty was 1 per cent durlnj a January, 2 per cent during Februar; > y and after March 15, delinquents wll * be turned over to the sheriff, at Clover Routes Also. n_ Mr. J. D. Qwlnn, postmaster at Clo th ver has been notified that certain ru 'or ral delivery routes out of Clover ar or not sufficiently patronized to warran a. the continuance of dally service ove r- them. The department Insists tha te> there must be more boxes and mor mall, else the schedules will have t< gh be changed so as to give less frequen he service. -j. Taxes Next Year. of The state levy for next year ha I been fixed at 4J mills?\ mill less thai on last year. The levy for ordinary coun on ty purposes In this county Is 4 mills ts, and to pay Interest on Three C's rail road bonds, 1 mill In Catawba town er ship, 2 mills In Ebenezer and 3 milt )2, in York. To this, of course. Is to b< *?1 added the constitutional school tax o GS n(j 3 mills, and various special local taxes ?h Woodmen Supper at Leealie. e" There was a big supper at Lesslt P0e last Friday night under the auspice to of the Chestnut camp Woodmen of thi s- World. The guests were the famllle and friends of the members of thi of camp, Including some visiting Wood Sh men. Oysters wgre served but th< main feature of the repast was th< good, things brought by the mothers of wives, sisters and sweethearts of thi woodmen from their respective homes The supper commenced shortly afte >r> | dark and lasted until about 10 o'clock 8- "We Had iota or good tnings 10 eat, said one of the Woodmen and it tool 3r a long time to eat them." 8 bg ?The Army and Navy Journal, < >to conservative aervlce publication o at unusually splendid sources of infor matlon, says in its current issue be "While the Cuban situation is as com ty plicated as it was when the' Unitec States troops landed at Havana, then Qf is a growing feeling among the Intel is llgent, conservative islanders <n favo: or of permanent American control. Ii some circles the belief prevails tht w, a protectorate should be established ch under which the United States shoult ('?j undertake to uphold the law and or on der and exercise supervisory author it ity over administrative affairs. Then or are others, however, who contern g" that a simple protectorate would no ay suffice, and that what is needed is th< he absolute annexation of Cuba to th< United States on the same lines tha a- were followed in the case of Port< Rico. This Is declared, as the manl ^ fest destiny of Cuba and the only plai )Q1 that will provide a stable and efflclen ill government for the island. The mil itary problem Involved in the presen situation is one of extreme difficulty iy The plan to Increase the rural guar< o- to 10,000 has provoked violent oppo ct sition and has been abandoned, tern porarily at least, partly because o the great expense it would involve an< if? partly, it is said, because of som< doubt as to whether troops recrultec of under present conditions would prov< er thoroughly loyal to the government r?* This aspect of the case is frankly dls a cussed by a writer in the Havana Pos n- who says: 'The proposition to In as crease to 10,000 the army of Cuba wll np e_ be as full of peril to Cuba to-day aj ill it would be to arm the Moros in th< >1: Philippines with modern firearms It will mean war and bloody riot. I; of they undertook to increase the arm] ng in the United States in proportion 1 nd would make an army of 240,000 r(j Would the people stand for such i nd thing? Let congress try it and see'' lis m % Jje ?The failure of Secretary Straua tee of the department of commerce, t< iai make direct response to the Inquiry nd of the house as to whether the allei laborers who had been brought lnt< South Carolina as the result of th< u- efforts of Commissioner Watson, o: that State, were lawfully landed, wll o- probably result In an official opinioi id by the attorney general on the sub he Ject. When the secretary's reply waj ^ received it was found that he had sim u- ply forwarded a copy of a decision bj Is, his predecessor holding that Mr. Wat son had not violated the contract la f_ bor law, but Representative Gardner jh author of the resolution of Inquiry jjj" took prompt exception to this re n sponse, contending that it was nol (d! complete in that it failed to treat th< ve question as connected with the immi^ grants themselves. The committee )0> on Immigration then presented a rein quest to the president that the mat ter be referred to the attorney gen^ eral. This request has been granted nt and it Is understood that the mattei e<* will be promptly taken up by the department of justice. It Is said thai p. extensive preparations for the imporr tation of laborers into several statef have been made as a result of the rulDf ing of the department of commerce ly in the South Carolina case and it it s" asserted that many or rnese imporrea laborers while ostensibly imported tc j.' work on southern farms, are in realsp ity destined for the north. ;d , ol Nbgroes Takinq Charoe.?Negroer l- who have rapidly been locating1 In s" what was once one of the fashionable tv jy sections of west Baltimore, thus causer Ing a rapid depreciation In real estate to values in that vicinity, are now trying Jg to buy St. Peters' Protestant Episco3e pal church, Druid Hill avenue and of Lanville street, one of the finest edi3e Aces in that part of town, t- A negro Methodist congregation has >r offered $90,000 for the church building, it a spacious, whitestone structure. Memid bers of the vestry admit that one offer or has been made for the property. The j, negroes have bought all the available ;d residential property in the neighborol hood of the church, and most of the al members of that congregation who reto side there have moved away. Some time ago the negroes tried to j. buy a Lutheran church a few blocks >e west of St. Peters' and they have reof cently built two fine church edifices in in the same vicinity. ROCK HILL AND VICINITY. Death of David Hoka?Mr. T. 0. Plowera In Arkansaa?Peraonal and Other Notes. i^irreaiKjmleni* of the Vurkville Ruauirer. Rock Hill, Feb. 28.?Further news - as received here today in regard to the death of Mr. David Hoke, which occurred Tuesday at Shreveport, La. Being a railroad man and .no particulars coming with the telegram announcing his death, it was thought that he had been killed accidentally. His death, however, was from natural causes, dying In a hospital.in Shreveport. The remains are expected to arrive here tonight. He is a son of the late J. C. Hoke, a prominent farmer of the River Bend neighborhood. j The. aged mother of the deceased young man nas Deen in very leeuic * health for months. He also leaves a " number of brothers and sisters: Mrs. J Berry of Barnwell county; Mrs. Knight * of Lancaster; Mrs, Margaret Hoke of 3 Waycross, Qa; ,Mr. Johnson Hoke and ^ several younger brother, who live near here. Rock Hill is to have a real musical treat Saturday evening, when Mr. Don Richardson, the brilliant young .violinist of Charlotte, who has visited t here o'er and o'er and has many friends, will appear at Freldhelm's . hall. Mr. Richardson will be assisted " by Mr. Karl von Laurens, pianist and Herr Peter Peters, 'cellist, both of i V whom are artists of ability. II Young Oliver Flowers, whose unannounced disappearance was noted several days since, has written to his father, Mr. T. O. Flowers, from Little Rock, Ark., where he went direct after leaving here Sunday last. After " visiting his friend who^e representse tions caused him to take this trip, he t will go to Helena, Ark., where he has close relatives and then will probably return home. >t Messrs. Russell and Pollard of the e American Auditing Co., of New York _ are in the city at work. They are at present engaged on the books of the ? Matlsinal Tin Inn Ttarilr nnri will Attend to a number of other Institutions before leaving:. Mr. Perry Blackmon, who married s Miss Herbert Bays, formerly of this a city, Is desperately ill at his home in Sumter. Dr. W. O. Stevens and Mr. W. B. Wilson, Jr.. and wife went down ' this morning to be with him. Mes dames Stevens and Wilson are sisters - of Mrs. Blackmon. Misses Edith and Margaret McLean s of Oastonla are visiting Miss Rosa Mce Lean and Mrs. I. A. Bigger of Oakf land. , Miss Frances Harris of Fort Mill ' visited relatives here this week. Mrs. Johnson of Charlotte spent e Wednesday at the home of her neph_ ew. Mr. T. L. Johnston. Messrs. Sidney Friedhelm, J. B. 6 Sykes, and J. B. Oaston are In the s northern markets this week. e Mrs. Arnold Friedhelm is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Marlon Heyman In Camden. b Mrs. M. P. Hlslop, of King's Moune tain, N. C., visited relatives here this '* Mr. Walter Oeer, the State man is B In the city today, i. r McCONNELLSVILLE MATTERS. Pretty Home Wedding?Personal and t AtUa. MiiIm nt I lltli aat CoiTMoondcoc* of Ui? Yorkrlil# knooitw. McC xvnkljjbviuljc, February 28.? , One of the prettiest home weddings seen In our community In a long time, f vas the one on last Wednesday even lng at the home of the bride's parents, . Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Love, when their daughter, Miss Mary Louise became the happy bride of Mr. Joseph Lind1 say Huey. The wedding ceremony i took place In the east parlor which had been beautifully decorated before hand. Misses Ora Love and Janle r Ashe, maids of honor, entered just be1 fore the bride and groom and took t their places on each side of the officiating minister. Rev. J. B. Swann, pastor of the bride, who In a few well 1 chosen words pronounced them husband . and wife. Mrs. J. M. Love played the wedding march. The bride's wedding ? gown was a lovely creation of gray ? silk. Mr. and Mrs. Huey accompanied 1 by a few close friends left shortly af- ' t ter the ceremony, for the home of the groom's sister, Mrs. Maggie Huey, B where a reception was tendered them. ? Many beautiful and useful presents t attest the high esteem of this young couple. ' Mrs. R. A. Ford who spent Sunday - In Chester has returned. i Miss Annie Foster, who has been t teaching in Aiken county Is at home on a visit. Miss Sajlie Howe, who has been vist itlng the Misses McConnell has returned home. j Miss Louise Crawford is spending awhile with her grandmother, Mrs. " Ellen Crawford. The new depot at this place is about f completed. Mr. F. D. Williams and family ex1 pect to move to Chester in the near a future. 1 8 ?The sum of $173,000 was stolen - from the United States sub-treasury " In Chicago one day last week and up 1 to this time the money has not been recovered. No employee of the sub1 treasury is missing from his post, the b books are in perfect shape, no locks 3 have been tampered with and the dlsi. appearance of the money Is a myst tery, but the secret service men have t discovered a clue as to the thieves t and arrests are expected at any time. At the first discovery of the dlsapi pearance of the money it was supposed that It was due to an error In the bookkeeping department, but > the bookkeepers were able to show > that their books were absolutely cor7 rect and that the trouble wag some* where else. Saturday night a slight 3 clue was picked up which pointed In 3 the direction of a certain clerk, and f that, followed up, directed the finger 1 of suspicion to another clerk, an asslsi tant to the first suspect The second - clerk was put through a grilling by 3 the secret service men Who were en abled to get enough from him to 7 amount almost to a confession. The - Chicago sub-treasury is one or rne most Important In the country, as a ; great portion of the money used by , the western banks passes through it. - Its total year's business is close to t $500,000,000, and almost every day ; In the year there Is from $20,000,000 to $30,000,000 in its vaults. Cotton Receipts In January.?The . department of commerce and labor reports that the cotton in sight during January reached a total of 1,808,768 I bales, being the lowest total for any one month of the current season with . the exception of September, but exceeding like receipts In January, 1906, 1 or 1905, by about 900,000 bales; For the crop year to January 31 like , arrivals aggregated 9,830,750 bales in 1906-07: 7,987,831 In 1905-6, and 8,988,357 in 1904-5. The net overland movei ment for the first five months of the i current season totaled 776,050 bales, , exceeding that for like months In 1905-6 by more than 200,000 bales, and ' that of 1904-5 by nearly 150,000 bales. A maamIaa. ?nI/lna>o AIIICI IWIII opiIlliClO UiniiiBO 4vt v*?v same period were 2,901,305 bales during the present season, 2,715,922 during the preceding one, and 2,505,801 In ' 1904-5. Of the current year's movei ments northern mills took 1,640,702 . bales and the mills In the south 1,260, 602 bales. ? *** How It Was Done.?A copy of the ' secret report on the defense of .Port Arthur which was the basis of the in1 dlctment on which General Stoessel and General .Relss were tried for cowardice has been obtained by the St. i Petersburg correspondent of the Asso, elated Press. It was written by General Smirnoff, the actual commandant of the fortress j i and Js extremely sensational. It aci cuses Stoessel of cowardice and incapacity and finally of deliberate treai son about hastening the surrender. Smirnoff says that Stoessel usurped his authority and with the assistance of Fock and Reiss committed treason In making a premature surrender. He said that he regarded the defeat at Mukden as a direct result of this treason.