Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Scraps and |acts. ? At a Joint meeting of Southern Soft and Hard Yarn Spinners and the 1 Xorth Carolina Cotton Manufacturers, in Charlotte last Saturday, resolutions were adopted by which the spinners of the south pledge themselves to shut down their mills for thirty days, beginning February 1, or curtail production 50 per cent during the months of February and March. , The soft yarn men, hard yarn spin- , nets and state manufacturers held separate meetings in the morning, and the joint session, at which time the resolution outlined was unanimously adopted, was held during the evening. A large majority of spindles of the south was represented at the meeting. ? In Seattle's fight against tne spread of the plague by rats an interesting experiment was tried recently. A rodent was dyed- blue and turned loose, to find out just how 'long it could retain its liberty and how far it could travel without falling into one of the myriad of public and private traps set for the plague distributors. The particular rat selected for the test was caught, a week after being turned out, a mile from the point where it was liberated, in one week lately 2,025 rats were received by the health department, of which 1,529 I were paid for at the rate of 10 cents i each. The total number of rats t brought in since the plague campaign < started is 15,831. < ? John H. Walsh, president of the de- I funct Chicago National bank, was on < Saturday found guilty on fifty-four * counts of misappropriating funds of that institution, and is liable to imprisonment of not less than five years, I and the law does* not admit of the sub- 1 stitution of a fine for imprisonment. ' Walsh was indicted on 182 counts, but I demurrers were sustained as to thirty- < two of these, leaving 150 upon which s the jury had to pass. The misappllca- 1 tion of one million dollars was the act 1 upon which the jury found Walsh guilty. The maximum penalty of ten years on each of the fifty-four counts * on which Walsh was convicted would i make it possible for the judge to im- s pose a sentence of 540 years. Walsh < is out on a $50,000 bond, and will move < for a new trial. < ? Asheville special of January 18 s to the Charlotte Observer: U. G. For- < tune of this city, formerly trainmaster of the Asheville division of the Southern railway, instituted in the I superior court of Buncombe county, 1 a suit against the Soathern Assistant ( General Manager George R. Loyall i and former Superintendent A. Ram- i seur, demanding $50,000 damages. 1 The complaint has not yet been filed, i but it is stated that the suit is brought i for alleged slanderous charges or ut- < 1 r.C tka llu-QV Q t . lerantes uj uiiiviuis ui uiu iam>u; ?> < the time Mr. Fortune, together with i Mr. Ramseur and former Roadmaster j Ramsey, were discharged from their < official position several weeks ago. < The alleged utterances reflected se- 1 riously on Mr. Fortune's character and i at the time he stated that he would i bring suit against the company. Mr. i Fortune has employed Messrs. Locke Craig and Frank Carter and Solicitor i Mark W. Brown, three able lawyers , of this city, to represent him and the , suit will be thoroughly prosecuted. ? Raleigh, N. C., January 18: As the result of a head-on collision at Cameron, fifty-four miles south of Raleigh, between a Seaboard Air Line freight and the north-bound fast passenger train No. 84 early to-day, two men were killed and twenty injured, none seriously. Engineer E. H. Vaughn and Hemp Townsend, negro fireman, both of the passenger train, were killed. Both were from Raleigh. The collision is attributed to trouble with the air brakes on the extra freight train and to complicated train orders, with no blame to tne train dispatcher. The freight had orders to meet the passenger at Southern Pines, the orders being received before reaching Cameron. The air brakes failed to work, and while trying to make up lost time to get into the siding at Cameron, the train was struck by the passenger train, the engines crashing together. Townsend was killed in the collision and Engineer Vaughn died of his injuries after reaching here. ? There has been a good deal of excitement in governmental circles during the past few days over the discovery of an anarchistic plot to blow up the American battleship tleet in the narrowest part of the Strait of Magellan. The first intimation of the plot came from Paris. One of the numerous agents of the Parisian police accidentally got on to suspicious talk going over the telephone and was able to put in motion investigations which disclosed a plan on the part of the anarchists to ship explosives to Rio Janeiro and to lay mines in the narrowest parts of the straits. How the explosives were to be gotten to the straits has never been explained. The anarchist band at Rio is supposed to be composed of Italians, Germans and Frenchmen. Several arrests have been made at Rio Janeiro, on suspicion. The American government received its first warning through the French government. There are those who have doubts as to whether anything really serious is under contemplation, but the greatest care will be exercised nevertheless to guard against the success of anything of the kind. ? According to Consul Wilbur T. Orocey at Tsingtou. China, a strange experiment is being tiled in the Antarctic. ' Recent newspaper articles," he says, "announce that fifteen Chinese ponies have been .sent front Shanghai to the order of Lieut. Shackleton, who is in command of the Nimrod conveying the expedition about to make a dash for the South Pole. The animals, with twelve sets of sleigh harness specially made to order, were supplied by it British firm tn Shanghai. The ponies were shipped via Hongkong to the Bluff, New Zealand, where they will be handed over to the expedition. The use of the ponies is said to be entirely Lieut. Shackleton's idea and he is taking his farrier to shoe the animals with ice shoes. The plan is tin experiment, but Lieut. Shackleton has great hope of its success after the party reaches the solid ice. Inquiries were made regarding the capabilities of horses in freezing latitudes, and eventually Commander Shackleton decided that the Chinese pony from northern Manchuria was the best suited for the purpose. The expedition is also provided with motor cars, and the trial between motors and ponies is in itself interesting." ? The establishment of "The Cnited States National Bank of America" is provided for in a bill introduced in the house a few days ago by Mr. Fornes, Democrat, of New York. The bank as conceived is to be located in Washington and is to have a capital stock of $100,000,000 divided into 100,000 shares of the par value of $1,000; three-fifths of these shares to : be purchased by the United States treasurer at par, the purchase money to be raised by the sale of $60,000,- , ooo United States gold bonds, payable in 50 years and bearing 3 per cent in- ' terest, the same to be designated < "United States currency bonds." Two- . fifths of the shares are to be offered , at not less than par to the national banks of the country, to be paid for in gold coin. "The United States National Bank of America" is to open for business September 1st, 190S, and to cease to exist Sept. 1st. 1958, un- 1 less its life be extended by congress. < A branch Is to ho established in New York, Chicago, Now Orleans, Boston. Denver, St. Louis. San Francisco. Cincinnati ami Portland. Ore. The hank shall be governed by a board of X.rt directors, elected by the stockholders and the secretary of the treasury shall be the chairman. The bank may isstie additional notes of the United States National Bank of America in amount not exceeding $400.000,00ft and such notes shall be available for general national bank circulation upon the deposit of proper security. Four per cent dividends may he paid to stockholders on the bank's annual earnings. $hc \iorltviUf tfnquiw. Entered at the Postoffice in Yorkville as Mail Matter of the Second Class. YORKVILLE, S. C.: TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1908. Salisbury whisky men threaten that If the extra session of tlte general as- 1 jctnbly enacts a prohibition law, the 1 Rate will hereafter vote the Republican ticket. This would seem to indi- ' cate that the whisky people of Salisbury have a hard, hard, very hard, jplnion of the Republicans of their < Rate. i It now begins to look as if the ut- ] torney general has not been too busy i cvith other matters to give further at- i tention to tlie dispensary grafters. As j to how the whole tiling will now come i )ut. it is up to the people of the state, | ind especially to the general assent- I Dly, which body should not fail to pro- | ride the ? 10,000 that is being asked for. Thkre are accommodations for only < ibout 400 girls at "Winthrop. There i ire more than a thousand girls who de- < sire accommodations there?South Car- I dina girls. The girls "who desire ac- i commodations, or most of them, are as I ieserving as those who already have ' iccommodatlons. It is up to the gen- I ?ral assembly. I Thkre is a strong probability that ' :he lien law will be repealed. As to ' .vhether or not repeal is wise, we are , loubtful. There are gooa men on ooui i sides of the question, and there are nan.v members of the general assembly. who though themselves believing :hat the repeal is unwise, will vote for j epeal, because they think this is the ieslre of a majority of the white people bf the state. It is a fact that the mat- 1 :er has not been generally discussed intong the people. The discussion outside of the general assembly has been i ion fined to a few newspapers, most of them in favor of repeal. However, the repeal of the law will no doubt make , the issue quite a live one in short or- 1 iler, and if It shall develop then that , the people are not ready for repeal, there will be something in the next several campaigns to make the voters sit 1 up and take notice. And as a matter of fact, it may as well be admitted that , South Carolina is in need of something i like this. ! Coiv.bN'>;t. Henry Watterson was one of the principal speakers at a meeting held in Carnegie Hall. New York last 1 Friday night in the interest of Tuskegee Institute. Seth Low, one of the trustees of the meeting presided, and explained its object to be to raise $70,000, of which the institute stands in immediate need. He explained that because of the financial stringency, the revenues of Tuskegee had fallen off $35,000 during the past seven months. Mr. Watterson spoke of the "Negroes of the Future." He took the position that the negro is entitled to receive at the hands of his white neighbor, the fullest sympathy and assistance in securing an education, and the opportunity to make a living. Mr. Watterson thinks that the negro who desires social equality is a very foolish creature, and he has not a very much higher opinion of the white man who fears danger from that source. Social questions, he declares, have always regulated themselves, and they will always continue to do so. He is satisfied that the negro is weaker than the white man. and thinks that the negro will do well to recognize the fact. He thinks, however, that the white man should always accord to the negro all the rights, civil and general, to which he is entitled. Mr. Watterson was enthusiastic in his estimate of the value of Tuskegee and has all confidence that this institution will do much for the uplifting of the negro race. He told his hearers that all suggestions for getting rid of the negro were riore or less absurd, and that whether toe prospect is agreeable or not. all concerned may as well make up their minds that the negro is to be here forever. Stripes and Bars. If there is one pernicious fault that The Enquirer tries to guard against more than another, it is a feeling of vindieativeness against anybody or anything. This paper would not lay claim to virtue superior to that possessed by others who try to do right, nor would it put itself in the position of appearing to think that it is so very just that it cannot be wrong. It does, however, hold to the belief that it cannot afford to stand for any kind of a compromise with wrong, and upon moral questions it is unwilling to occupy half way ground. It was suggested some time ago by an esteemed contemporary, that in overthrowing the dispensary and putting a stop to the rottenness anil corruption that was permeating the institution and reaching out into other departments of the state government, the people could afford to feel content; but The Enquirer has never been satisfied with any such view as this. The virtues of honesty and integrity have always been held in high regard in South Carolina. It is true that juries are not as infallible as they might be: but public sentiment has always been powerful against those who would acquire questionable gain by dishonest means. There have been men who stole thousands and escaped the law; but ! they and their children even of the third ami fourth generation have found it difficult to acquire ease of conscience i as against the accusing attitude of a large class of ncople who persistently insist upon condemning such prae- ( tices. i During the nightmare of corruption ! that lasted almost throughout the life jf the dispensary, it began to look as 1 if flagrant stealing was to become honorable. Men of presumably high social and moral standing sought and secured places in connection with the business and while it was evident that they were stealing thousands and thousands of dollars, there were those who would scout the suggestion with the claim that such men would not think of such a tiling. Duplicity and hypocrisy were making most alarming strides in undermining the integrity of the commonw en 1th. It may he that South Carolina is big, strong and powerful enougli to allow such offenders to escape the punishment they have merited without sustaining harm to herself; but we do not think so. While we would not deny tiiut iw.noutv i? a real concrete virtue. we are of opinion that it is not necessarily an innate quality. There are people who were born honest maybe, and had honesty instilled into them afterward until there could be no departure; but most people are honest because they realize how miserable they would become if they should give the world good cause to look upon them as otherwise. Hut dishonesty is as contagious is the smallpox. When men of recognized position and reputation are allowed to stoop to dishonesty without being tnade to feel the weight of public contempt, thousands of other less conspicuous individuals are inclined to use the circumstance as justification for doing likewise. From this point of view, the cost of the dispensary to South Carolina has been terrible. As we see it. there is but one way by which South Carolina can regain any considerable part of what she has lost m account of dispensary corruption, ind that is by putting stripes on the people who are responsible for that corruption and putting them behind the bars. Thus, and thus only can an adequate corrective be administered to thousands who have strayed from the paths of honesty on the excuse of having such conspicuous examples and precedents higher up. There are those who have been disposed to preach that Mr. Lyon had done ?nough in throwing on the light that resulted in the overthrow of the state dispensary, and that he was warranted In giving his entire attention to other affairs "more important" than the punishment of the thieves. But there has been nothing more important than the punishment of the thieves and there Is nothing more important than this low. The attorney general stands more in need of the backing and support of all good citizens now than he aver did. and it is sincerely to be hoped that this backing and support will not be withheld. THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. Some of the More Important Developments In House and Senate. The two houses failed to agree upon the proposition to hold elections on last Friday, and the matter will probably be attended to on next* Tuesday. Mr. T. P. Cothran having withdrawn from the race, the probability is that Associate Justice Gary will be re-elected without opposition. Mr. Nash's prohibition bill came up in Friday and by a vote of 49 to 45 the house refused to strike out the enacting words. Several members of the Charleston delegation were absent. Otherwise, the bill would have probably been killed. On motion of Mr. J. G. Richards, the bill was re-committed, the object being to postpone debate. Mr. Aull's bill, introduced at the request of the South Carolina State Press association to regulate actions for libel and slander, was killed by a vote of S3 to 22. Mr. Kershaw was afraid of the bill unil hold that there was now very little prosecution for slander. He did not think it wise to pass a law to tit a special case. Mr. Ayer and Mr. Aull fully explained the present status and why the proposed legislation was fair and just, and only to protect the newspapers against impositions and petty cases. Mr. J. P. Gibson also favored the bill as proposed. Mr. Ayer explained that no reputable newspaper would do an unintentional wrong. The members of the bar have generally saved the multiplicity of suits. Newspapers do not fear high-toned attorneys. This bill is to prevent petty lawyers seeking advertisement from bringing such libel suits. The newspapers have always stood for that which is best and highest in the state. The newspapers need such a law as is proposed. It is the law in many states. Mr. Nichols said newspapers were not as careful as they ought to be. They ought to be more careful. Corrections do not always get the same prominence as the libel. In the past it has not always been so. Mr. Aull said the law provided for such prominence. Mr. Nichols said the fear of damage suits made, the papers more careful. Mr. Fraser said the constitution was plain on the question as to what was the procedure in cases of libel suits. He doubted if there could be any limitations by statute. The house adjourned to reconvene Monday night. During Friday a number of new bills were introduced in the house, among them the following: Mr. A. G. Brice's bill to provide for the election of public cotton weigher in Chester county and to prescribe their duties and to provide for their compensation. Mr. Nicholson's bill to make an ap propnation 10 meet me expense ui criminal prosecutions and proceedings against certain officers and other persons and to provide for the payment thereof. Mr. Aull's "bill to prohibit the sale or manufacture of malt or spirituous liquors, wines or beer, and to provide punishment. Mr. Aull's bill to levy a tax for Confederate pensions and to provide its distribution. Among the new bills presented in the senate on Friday were the following: Mr. Toole's bill to establish a rural police system and to define the duties and hours of the officers thereof, and of all other officers and citizens of this state in connection therewith. Mr. Christensen's bill to amend section 1,200, code of laws, 1902, so as to better provide for uniformity and impartiality in the examination of teachers. Mr. Christensen's bill to make an appropriation to meet the expenses of criminal prosecution and proceedings against certain officers and other persons and to provide for the payment t hereof. Mr. Johnson's bill to prohibit engineers from having charge of running trains while under the influence of alcoholic or other intoxicating liquors, and to prescribe a penalty therefor. Mr. [Slice's bill relating to the selection. drawing and summoning of jurors in the circuit courts of this state, substituting judge of probate for coun ty treasurer wheresoever said words appear in said act, and devolving" the duties of county treasurer relating to the selection, drawing and summoning of jurors upon the judge of probate. Mr. Smith's bill to compel specific performance of contracts between landlord and laborer, to punish for contempt of court in such cases and give them privilege of trial. ? Spartanburg, January IS: The farmers' Union of Spartanburg county will organize a national bank and erect a handsome bank building in this city in the present year. Application for a charter will be made at once. The capital stock will be one hundred thousand dollars. All of the stock in the bank will be owned by the members of the i'nion. President O. p. Goodwin, of the State Farmers' Union, delivered an address before the County Union today and urged them to push the work of ; organizing the bank as fast as possi- . Ide. The directors of the Union have ' reported that a large amount of stock has been subscribed. 1 LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Jus. E. Rankheud, Sharon?Offers white Holland turkeys for sale at $4.50 a pair. M. W. White?Tells what a business man says about selling stocks. He has local real estate for sale. J. L. Williams & Co.?Make a special offering of embroideries and insertions at 30 cents a yard. W. E. Ferguson?Calls attention to a new lot of choice edibles that he has in stock?all fresh. Loan and Savings Bank?Invites you to do your banking with it. Its safe is burglar proof and is protected by insurance. J. Q. Wray?Says that scores of buyer? have carried away bargains from hi? store, and invites you to come for yflur share. J. W. Dobson?Is making special offerings to Saturday buyers of soap, soda and sugar. R. M. Bratton. Guthriesville?Will hull cotton seed at 3 cents a bushel or for one tenth as toll. Glenn & Allison?Say that their Mr Allison is in the west buying another carload of mules for their trade. G. W. Sherer?Gives directions as to how to be happy in this world. He wants your beef orders. Thomson Co.?Will close its gigantic ealo npvt Snturdav nieht. Xew of ferings of seasonable goods. Yorkville Buggy Co.?Is better prepared than ever to furnish its customers with first-class buggies. Right goods at the right prices. M. L. Thomasson, Admr.?Gives notice to the debtors and creditors of W, Jasper Thomasson. deceased, to make settlement with htm. York Drug Store?Advises you to keep a supply of Bowen's grippe and cold tablets on hand for emergencies. Strauss-Smith Co.?Again calls your attention to the special January clearance sale now in progress at Its store. First Nationnl Bank?Tells you that one dollar will open an account In Its savings department and the Interest will help it to grow. National I'nion Bank?Says that any bank's business depends upon its assets. and that Its last statement showed assets of almost $1,500,000. Mr. V. M. Dillingham, miller at Moss' mill, killed a hog last week, weighing 550 pounds, which yielded eight gallons of lard. The announcement of Mr. R. M. Bratton of Guthriesville, tendering the benefit of his cotton seed huller to the public will no doubt receive the consideration of those who have been studying this subject. The legislative special from Columbia to Winthrop and return last Sat 1-.. noroono 1 H i root inn Ulimy Hrtfi Ulllln HI*- l^tnunui V.. . v. of C'ol. R. W. Hunt, assistant general passenger agent, assisted by Mr. J. C. Lusk. division passenger agent. The run was made in remarkably short time, both coming and going. The general county government law is a poor one rather than otherwise. Many of the counties have found the plan inefficient and are asking for changes. So far as our observation goes, the law has not been satisfactory in York county. In brief, the governing officials consist of a supervisor and two county commissioners. The supervisor is ex-offieio chairman of the board, and gets a larger salary than the commissioners. For this reason, probably, he is supposed to have more authority and responsibility. As a matter of fact he has no more authority than either of the other commissioners; but his responsibility is greater than either. There is a disposition to hold him responsible for whatever may be done, when as a matter of fact his one vote may have been one Way while the votes of the two other commissioners with equal authority and less responsibility may have been against him. As we see it, the system is a very poor one and should be changed. It would be better to place the affairs of the county in the hands of one man, who shall be responsible for all the authority the law confers or in the hands of three men who, under the law shall be charged with equal authority and responsibility. Miss Mary Nance, president of'the Association for the Improvement of the Rural Schools for South Carolina, has arranged to visit Yorkville about the middle of February for the purpose oi commencing the organization of this county. The purpose of the association of which Miss Nance is president, is to foster and encourage more general interest in the rural schools. She is not seeking to teach anybody the necessity of schools. This need is now being sufficiently realized perhaps; but what she wants is better schools. It is bet* especial object and purpose tc work up appreciation of the desirability of making school rooms and school grounds more attractive. It will be remembered that the school of Miss Nora Williamson of Guthriesville, last year won a prize of a hundred dollars, offered by Miss Nance's association to the school making the most improvement during the year. This does not mean that the Guthriesville school is the best in the state; but that it made greater improvement. Miss Nance is a most earnest worker and a good talker. She is able to give good and sufficient reasons for the work in which she is engaged and she is also able to inspire others with the elevating enthusiasm which sustains her good work. THE SPECULATIVE MARKET. Following are the developments in the speculative market yesterday as summarized in a Xew York dispatch of last night: After a very sharp advance early the cotton market reacted closing steady at a net advance of 5 to 12 points on old crop months, but net uncharged on October. Sales estimated 450,000 bales. The market opened firm at an advance of 20 to 27 points in response to the strength of the English market, and during the early session showed a net gain of 26 to 28 points on active months on covering by Saturday's sellers and bull support. There -was a heavy realizing at the advance but after a reaction of 9 or 10 points the market steadied on bullish reports from southern spot markets and during the early afternoon sold within a point or two of the top. Business was less active, however. and during the late trading the market weakened under selling by clique brokers and reports of f"eer offerings in the south. The close was at practically tlie lowest point of the day for active months. Briefly speaking. the decline was attributed to trie appearance of clique brokers as sellers which was followed by the liquidation of early buyers. Private wires from Texas reported freer spot offerings at concessions, but the southern markets officially reported were un changed to i! up, ami mosi 01 mo advices from the eastern bolt were bullish. Receipts at the ports today were 33.056 against 37,170 last week, and 18,988 last year; for the week 229,000 against 254,325 last week and 299,155 last year. Today's receipts at New Orleans 6.355 against 7,705 last year and at Houston 7,937 against 12.838 last year. ABOUT PEOPLE. Miss Daisy flaulden of Charleston, is visiting her father's family on It. F. D. No. 3, Yorkville. Mr. E. Manning Stanton has been Appointed assistant cashier of the First National bank. Mr. Claude Sherrer had the misfortune to nearly sever his right foot while cutting wood near Rock HU1 recently. It required sixteen stitches to close the wound. W. \V. Dixon. Esq., has been elected \ captain of a newly organized military company at Wlnnsboro. 1 Mr. and Mrs. O. O. Doggett of Charlotte. spent last night in Yorkville, the I guest of Dr. A. Y. Cartwrlght's family. Jennings K. Owens, Esq., was last night installed as chancellor eommanJ der of the K. of P. lodge at P.ennettsville. i Miss Margaret Miller left last week ; for Livingston. Ala., where she will isneml two or three months with rela i tlves. | Mr. John A. Jenkins of the clerical force of the National Union bank. Rock Hill, spent Sunday and yesterday in Yorkville. j Mr. H. H. Beard, manager of the . Western Union Telegraph office at Yorkville, left for Birmingham, Ala., yesterday as a witness in a mental anguish case against the company, i At the fifteenth annual meeting of i the State Bar association held in Columbia last Thursday night, J. S. Brice ' of Yorkville, was elected vice president for the Sixth Judicial circuit. Messrs. G. H. O'Leary, president of [ tne Clover Manufacturing company, J. G. Wardlaw, president of the York Cotton mills, and W. B. Moore, presl; dent of the Neely Mills, went to Charlotte last Saturday to attend the meet I I11R <U I lit* yiiril .-!|IIIIIIt-| rt. I GREAT DAY AT WINTHROP. i All days are great days at Winthrop college. Every day there are nearly five hundred young women receiving ' intellectual, moral, religious and physical training that is destined to make them Irresistible forces in the uplifting of their present and future homes and in increasing the power, glory and greatness of South Carolina and the nation. Hut last Saturday was a great day in another sense. As the result of the thoughtfulness and foresight of Winthrop's great president. Mr. D. B. Johnson, the state of South Carolina, through her representatives, was enabled to get an actual glimpse of the splendid work that the institution is doing, and from what can be seen, heard, thought and felt, draw inspiration in the contemplation of the splendid new era that is now dawning upon the state. Almost the entire general assembly, members, officials and attaches, accepted President Johnson's invitation to participate in the Lee's Birthday celebration and a special train front Co, lumbia brought not less than 200 people, all of whom were received by the Winthrop faculty and students as they disembarked in the college grounds, taken to the college and treated to a day of entertainment so full of charm, novelty, good fellowship and instruction that it will likely remain impressed ' upon the memory of most of them for many years to come. Most complete and admirable ar inofuiiipntu hart hppn made beforehand for the entertainment of the visitors. Every contingency had been provided for. The Daughters of the Confederacy took a very prominent part in the work of entertainment, piloting the visitors about the ground, showing them , through tlie buildings, and waiting up, on them at dinner, and of course, they made a great success of it all. The girls from each county took charge of home folks. From the train the visitors were escorted to the college auditorium. There President Johnson announced the proi gramme of the day, and told how it had 1 been arranged that visitors should be shown through the college from four different directions, each party being In charge of guides who could be depended upon to discharge their respective duties without any resulting confusion. and during the next few hours until the 2 o'clock dinner, the building was done most thoroughly, the visitors being entertained and instructed by what they saw in every department from kindergarten to manual training, 1 music, art and literature. I The dinner was a tremendous affair, , some 600 people being seated at about | sixty tables, accommodating ten persons each. The visitors were seated at the same tables with the students and members of the faculty. The din, ner consisted of turkey, rice, ham, potatoes, coffee, fruit, mince pie. It was ! splendidly prepared and delightfully i served, the waiters having become ex. perts under a system that requires each , of those occupying each table to take week about as waitresses. After the 1 dinner had been in progress for nearly t two hours, President Johnson rapped , for order, anil called for the toasts. To . Speaker Wlialey had been assigned the first response, the sentiment being api proprlate to the day and the occasion as follows, "Robert E. Lee?I have led the young men of the South in battle; I have seen many of them die on the ; field; I shall devote my remaining ener: gies to training young men to do their , duty in life." Speaker Wlialey eloquently, but earnestly, pointed out the lesson of service in Lee's life as a milI itary leader and president of Washington and Lee University. The other speeches were in a lighter vein. The ' toast card was as follows "High Schools," Hon. J. W. Nash of Spartanburg; "The State of South Carolina," , Senator J. E. Boggs of Pickens; "The Genera! Assemblv." Lieutenant Governor T. G. McLeod: "Winthrop College," i Hon. Olin Sawyer of Georgetown; ; "Higher Education." Senator W. N. . Graydon of Abbeville: "The Common Schools," Hon. O. B. Martin, state sunerintendent of Education; "The City f of Rock Hill," Mayor John T. Roddey: "The Press," Capt. W. E. Gonzales, editor of the State: "Woman." Hon. J. M. Banks of Orangeburg. 1 That the utmost good humor prevailed and that the entire company was in delightful spirits goes without saying. The speakers said many pleasant things about President Johnson, the college, the faculty and the young ladies. So friendly was the prevailing sentiment that applause hung on ? ? ?? "... L ., r +L?v %y? not i hair triggers generally, uul me notable feature of the esprit de corps of the whole institution seemed to be confidence in and enthusiasm for President Johnson. The girls do not. ; of course applaud with shouts like horrid hoys. They confine themselves , to handclapping; hut they are under no handicap In this respect. They can make a noise that will drown all i other sounds, and whenever any speaker said anything nice about Mr. Johnson, no matter what, the big dining room would buzz with an enthu; siasm that left no question of the popularity of Winthrop's president. During the speaking there came out a fact that is now pretty generally appreciated. Whenever Winthrop needs anything, it becomes the business not only of all the present studi ents, hut of all who have ever belonged to the institution to put the matter up to representatives and other state officials of their acquaintances in personal letters. These letters are i of such a nature as to call for replies, and when the replies are all gotten together they show something to about the same effect as a completed roll call, with the announcement that "the ayes have it." and it is as it should be, for Winthrop never asks for anything that she does not need and. never fails to make good use of it after she gets it. At this time -there are enrolled at Winthrop 498 girls. Of these 432 find sleeping accommodations in the two dormitories and the others board in Rock Hill. Of the large number who were turned away last year, more than 20rt were prepared to comply with the entrance requirements. They were denied admission for lack of room. A new dormitory like those already in use will cost $00,000. The Peabody education board has already given $12,000 for the purpose of the dormitory, and the legislature is being asked to appropriate the balance of $48,000 to become available in two annual payments. The proposed new dormitory will give accommodations for 200 additional girls and President Johnson calculates that they can have all the advantages of the college at an extra cost of only $5,000 a year. But it is not to be understood that there is any doubt about the general assembly making the desired appropriation. It Is not to be understood either that it would have been any different even without this big entertainment lust Saturday. The members had their minds made up before they came. When they went back it was with a general appreciation of the fearful mistake the state will make if it ever fails to look after Wlnthrop. After the big dinner, there was an intermission of ten minutes and after that there was a concert in the auditorium by the music department. It was under the direction of Mr. Bauer. Miss Grace Gardner and Miss Martin Gould Powell. LEE'S BIRTHDAY CELEBPATION. The celebration of Lee's birthday in the graded school building under the auspices of the Winnie Davis Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy, took place according to programme, a part on Friday night and a part last night, with a large crowd of interested people in attendance. Thp fpntnrp of Fridav nieht's rtro gramme was the declamation contest. ( The participants acquitted themselves t most handsomely. Miss Rita Beard c was adjudged as the winner of the v medal. 1 The feature of last night's pro- * gramme was an address on the life and J character of Gen. Robert E. Lee, by ( Prof. Yates Snowden of the South Car- t olina college. This address was a I most admirable production, but because Prof. Snowden was reluctant about ?. giving out the full text at this time, we t are able to give only the the following 1 s summary: ^ Prof. Snowden briefly contrasted the t views of Gen. R. E. Lee as expressed to c General Hampton, and the views of c General E. P. Alexander, as given In his I , address to his fellow alumni at West t Point some years ago, and reiterated in s the foreword to his recent great work, t "Military Memoirs of a Confederate." ( The two views differ diametrically as j to the manner in which the results of t the struggle should be regarded by ( southerners, and perhaps suggest what j will nrohablv be tho verdict of after ? times. He gave a brief bibliography of the biographies of I^ee by various southern and English authors and deplored the fact that as yet there was no definitive life of the great soldier. The untimely death of Col. Henderson, the eminent Knglish soldier-critic and biographer of Jackson, prevented his use of the invaluable material for a definitive "life," which had been collected by the late Col. Charles Marshall, Lee's personal friend and military secretary. Two aspects of the life of Lee were presented, based on the unpublished reminiscences of Maj. Henry E. Young of Charleston, judge advocate on his personal staff, and on the statements of the eminent scholar, Prof Edward S. Joynes, Lee's associate on the faculty of Washington college, after the war. Brief extracts were made from tributes to Lee by General Lord Wolseley; Col. Chesney *ind Col. Freemantle of the British army and Maj. I. Schiebert, the eminent Prussian soldier and scholar. Special attention was directed to the entire change of attitude of northern writers regarding Lee, and the speaker held that this was only a forecast of an utter change in northern views regarding every Confederate from Jefferson Davis down to Dan Whittaker, Jim Hagins, or any other of the humblest soldiers of the Sixth South Carolina reeiment, who followed Col. Asbury Coward from Yorkvllle to Virginia. In emphasizing this change in the northern point of view. Prof. Snowden , cited the extraordinary statements of Alpheus Crosby, in an address before the Phi Betta Kappa of Dartmouth college in 1865, in which he claimed that the negro had "the appropriate attributes of a citizen and a voter," and concluded with the amazing question: "In the hands of which Robert would the vote be safer, Robert Smalls or Robert Lee?" Charles Sumner, too, shortly after the death of Lee had denounced him, in the United States senate, as a traitor, "who stands high in the catalogue of those who have imbrued their hands in their country's blood." "I hand him over," said Sumner, "to the avenging pen of History." But In less than a generation, Sumner's "Avenging Pen of History," had been blunted by his own fellows in Massachusetts, and Forber and Rhoades pay hearty and enthusiastic tribute to the illustrious southerner, while Charles Francis i Adams not only proposes that the north < and the nation erect a statue to Lee, 1 but declares that "similarly circum- 1 ! stanced I hope I should have been filial 1 and unselfish enough to have done as 1 Lee did. Such an utterance on my 1 part may be "traitorous," but I here t render that homage. It is a happy augury, said the speaker, this tribute from "our friends, the enemy," and when all good men and true at the north shall echo the noble ( sentiment of Mr. Adams, what a joy t it will bring to you women ( "Who have forever clung With a love that will not die, s i To the memories of our past: i Who are patient and who wait, r True and faithful to the last. For the Easter morning sky I When wrong's rock shall roll away { From the Sepulcher of right." f ********* ' "Till the children of our foes Shall be proud and glad to claim And to write upon one scroll J Every dear and deathless name On our Southern muster roll!" / A people is known and judged/oy its ( ideals of manhood and womanhood, and j so long as Lee is our highest type, we ? need not fear to look the civilizations s of the old and new worlds in the face. Eminently proper is it for you, . Daughters of the Confederacy, to honor one who was as pure as yourselves! . The committee charged with the duty ^ of criticising and judging the merits of 1 the various papers submitted In the IT. v D. C. medal contest, were unable to ? agree as between Nos. 18 and 22, and decided to award first place to both. t No. 18 was the paper of Miss'Dorothy e Montgomery and No. 22 was the paper of Miss Annie Ashe. The committee of ^ ^ ? "T" ^ Vf |ae . judges were nev. w. *j. cw?n, t Maggie Gist, Messrs. G. W. S. Hart and c J. G. Wardlaw. The division stood Mr. ? Ewart and Miss Gist for No. 18 and ( Messrs. Hart and Wardlaw for N<x 22. i There was no other way for it than to v s present two medals, and this was done r most appropriately by Mr. G. W. S. t Hart. 1 r LOCAL LACONICS. Southern's Division Headquarters. What is known as the Rock Hill di- s vision of the Southern railroad is to be a abolished and the division headquarters g are to be moved to Charleston, from c which place trains are to be operated. $ The change is understood to be in the a interest of economy. i? Barn Burned ^ The barn of Mr. Lester Lambert, j about five miles south of Sharon, was destroyed by fire last Friday afternoon. * The fire is supposed to have been set " through the carelessness of a little negro boy smoking a cigarette. The loss was about $200. ^ Still In Jail. o The two white men who were committed to jail by Magistrate Smith of il Hickory Grove, for vagrancy the other *' day. have not yet been released. One '' of them claims to be a plumber and the j5 other claims to be a cotton mill opera- " tiv'e. The man who claims to be a c 1 1 i_. ?.,Sr.,d,wl . .VI si /laOO nAt On. ^ plUIlllJfr If II l|l|iicu rum pear t<? be able to work. ? E Mrs. Rebecca Lucas Dead. tl Mrs. Rebecca Lucas, widow of the v late Jacob Lucas, died at her liome on b Turkey creek, about four miles south- C east of Sharon, last night. She was in f: tlie 91st year of her age. Mrs. Lucas it was well thought of by all who knew t< her, and bad many intimate friends, K both old and young even at her ad vane- 'I ed age. I> E The Southern's New Schedule. pThe schedule on the Southern's a Charleston division, which became ef- tl fective Sunday, affects trains passing ir through Yorkvllle as follows: Train ci <o. 35, westbound, passes Yorkville at .10 a. m., as heretofore; train No. 14, astbound, passes at 10.45 a. m; train yy. s'o. 13, westbound, passes Yorkville at i.12 p. m., and train No. 36. eastbound, >asses at 0.0ft p. in., instead of at 8.55 'I ). in., as heretofore. per Death of Mr. Edward Leech. We Mr. J. Edward Leech died at his home ag; iear Hickory Grove this morning1 at j ibnut 6 o'clock after ajong and tedious llness. He developed a case of blood ?.,rj loisoning some months ago from a corn >n his toe. Tlie toe was amputated and j))(I ifterward liis leg. He survived the cju ihock of amputation quite satisfacto- j lly; Hut the progress of the poison was j))f lot arrested and he failed to improve. ' dr. Leecli was a Confederate soldier j ind was about 60 years of age. He has .' aken considerable interest in public af- t airs, and was generally regarded as a nu| )ublie spirited man. He was a valua- ha( )le member of the Methodist church wo ind his taking off is the occasion of tjle leep regret to hundreds of friends. ?a I'lie funeral takes places at Salem, ,|j Cherokee countv. this afternoon. hu claims of the Catawbas. of Columbia State: Chief Harris of the Jatawba Indians and three other rep- * esentatives of that tribe are in the :ne :ity and expect to appear before com- *or nittees of the senate and house this ^Ul veek in support of their claim for a arger appropriation this year. Assist- aei int Attorney general DeBruhl will to n.le norrow present to the general assem- *"'e )ly the results of his investigation of he alleged claim of the Catawbas sl" igainst the state of South Carolina. _ J -lis opinion, it is understood, will be that j his tribe of red men has no legitimate :laini against the state which would ' itand in any other court of claims in y' his country. This matter was referred o the attorney general at the last sesion of the general assembly for invest!ration and Mr. DeBruhl has gone over he records carefully. Andrew John >f Washington, D. C., formerly presl- ' ^ lent of the Senecu tribe of Indians in j s'ew York state, who has for the past " wenty years appeared before congres- ^ ilonal committees in the interests of he rights of the various tribes of In- ? ilans throughout the United States, . irepared a pamphlet last spring giving ' * he side of the Catawbas in the matter Ull >f their claim against this state. He ( ilso appeared before the general aslembly at the last session and had 1 jlanned to be here again this year, * vhich was only prevented by his sudlen death several months ago in Wash- 'or ngton. The pamphlet which John pre- cm lared goes Into the details of the varl>us treaties and dealings between the date of South Carolina and the Ca- d'8 aw bus. Copies of the pamphlet will r?I )e distributed among the members of he general assembly and Chief Harris of' Mil appeal to them to study the records c"( n the case for themselves. an( wa runeral of Mr. Belk. we Charlotte News, Saturday: The fu- dei leral of Mr. T. Banks Belk, the well- j itnown merchant of Fort Mill, S. C., Pai .ook place yesterday evening ut 3 )'clock and was attended by six or sev- an; ;n hundred people. The entire town > Fort Mill seemed to have turned jut to pay the last respects to this sai lonored and useful citizen of their immunity. The funeral was to have an< seen held at 2 o'clock, but Mr. Wil- Pa] iam Mack, a brother of Mrs. Belk, 921 vho came from New York, missed < lis connection at Charlotte and took ma in auto in this city, traveling as far ?b< is the end of the macadam road Ca le was met with a team from Fort bei Mill. The funeral was conducted at sa' he home by Kev. Chalmers Frazier, 'e8 lastor of the Presbyterian church of 01,1 Lancaster, S. C. Mr. Frazier, In the th? ;ourse of his comforting words, said: ' 'If every one of the kind deeds done ly our brother were a blossom his "l Jier would be hidden under a wilder- dls less of flowers." The remains were ta- 'n ten to the Presbyterian church yard jor ind laid to rest. The pallbearers P?' vere: Messrs. Walter Meacham, & Shelly Halle, Mclver Hughes, O. A. Pa: Tones, Stephen Epps, Raymond Mc- ',v [lhaney, J. Harvey Witherspoon and Pei F. G. Whitlock. The Masons partlci- s?] aated In the funeral ceremonies. A acl nost interesting feature was the cov- So' ;ring up of the grave by half a dozen a"' )ld colored friends of'the deceased. th< This was by his own last request. Mr. an' Belk was a true friend of the colored sal people of his community and they ta< locked In large numbers to his funer- sta il. There must have been 25 or 30 of Pei his race present at the grave side. ?ro Friends and relatives came to the 'uneral from Mecklenburg, York, Wl1 Lancaster, Union county N. C., and Jnion county, S. C. Among those at- ch) ;ending were: Mesdames B. D. and CO] 3. P. Heath, of Charlotte, and How- PJ* ird A. Banks, of Charlotte; Mrs. W. j. White, of Yorkville, Mr. Will fleath, of Monroe; Mrs. J. P. Gatling, ~0) vho lives near Wilmington; Mrs. N. lln R. Hotchkiss, of New Haven, Conn.; pu Vliss Mary Belk and Mr. Chap Belk, ln he last three sisters and brother to ^e? ;he deceased. ter rea ?????we SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. sai am ? The Farmers' Union of Spartanburg ma :ounty is arranging to organize a na- cla innal bank with capital stock of $100,- pei 100. got ? Various South Carolina Banking as- cla lociations that Issued certificates dur- wa ng the recent panic are calling in and Pic etiring the same. am ? Genree Kennev. colored, was hanged n Charleston last Friday for the murler of Herman G. Stello, a stockade , juard, In August, 1906. ^ ? Burglars entered the rural postofflce the itatlon at Gluck's Mill, four miles south Wil >f Anderson last Friday and stole a cai in box containing $48 In cash. Some cht roods were also taken from the shelves. 0f ? George Berry Proffet, a young tha Iraughtsman of Columbia, aged about I !3 years, committed suicide in Colum- the )ia last Sunday, because his love of the l young stenographer was not returned, an: ? Chief of Police A. E. Dargan of ^n( Darlington, was found dead in a room 'n >f the city hall In that town last Sunlay morning at about 10 o'clock. He lad been shot through the head, and dJd ils revolver was lying by him; but vhether it was a case of suicide or nurder is not certain. Opinion is inilined to favor suicide. ( ? Spartanburg, January 18: The peoile of Spartanburg are considerably (ca xcited over the number of reported ggj, loldups and robberies in the city dur- ( ng the last few weeks, and many peo- boi ile are afraid to venture out at nights an( inprotected or unaccompanied. The cor itizens are looking well to their per- tW( onal safety and the safety of their ^ lomes. There have been several seri- jn ius assaults and robberies and hold- rep ips within the last few weeks, one of g^a rhich resulted fatally and two others pu, piionslv The nolice have received r> eports of alleged hold-ups. but they ^ ake little stock in them. The alleged son lold-up of a colored minister Friday (jjr light, the police declare, was a fake ^ in the part of the preacher. jU(j ? Columbia special of January 20, to ant he Charlotte Observer: Allen Emerson, det celebrated white prisoner, whose sen- ant ational escape from the Anderson jail sur bout a year ago was the subject of to rand jury investigation and for whose abr apture rewards were out aggregating dis 1,500, surrendered to Constable Adams, sta bout twenty miles from Anderson, this ;aturda.v afternoon and was placed in 16, Lnderson jail early this morning. The sta unstable kept the prisoner at ills home, disj hirteen miles from Anderson, till early to-' Sunday night. Emerson met Adams tha n the public road, being then on his sail .ay to Anderson to surrender. He on greed to surrender to Adams if the 100 unstable would agree not to claim the 500 offered by the Drakes, nor the $500 ffered by the sheriff for his capture, le said he was well armed. Adams greed to this. This leaves Adams $500 1 rom the state. The prisoner declines -> sa.v how or where he spent the time inee he escaped. He, however, told ? ow he got out of jail, saying he se- aga ured a bar of solder from a plumber Cj^ orking in the Jail and carved out a ey from this with a pocketknife. Imerson escaped a day or two before ed ic supreme court announced an ad- the erse decision on his appeal. He had we( een given a life sentence for killing ieorge Drake, a prominent Anderson "er irmer, in the latter's home. The kill- the ig was in the room of Drake's daugh- bill ?r. Mrs. Bailey, early in the morning. Imerson pleaded self-defense, claiming nit Drake had acquiesced in the im- mo1 roper relations existing between Cor Imerson and Mrs. Bailey, by whom sun Imerson had children. When it be- trie line known at Anderson Sunday night is c lat Emerson was in the town and not not l the jail, Sheriff Green had some diffl- en ulty in holding the crowds in check. no CLOSING ON GRAFTERS. nding Up Commission Getting Down to the Real Thing. Nie commission to wind up the distsury concluded Its session of last ek on Friday, and adjourned to meet tin on January 30. n addition to Goodman, previously ested and released on a bond of ,000, the following ex-dlspensary ofals have also been placed under ids of $10,000 each, on the same irge, conspiracy to ctefraud the state. r. N. Rawlinson, John Bell Towlll, seph it. Wylle, \V. O. Tatum. There warrants out for L. \Vr. Boykln and S. Farnum. Farnum lives In Charton. The constable who went there arrest him, reported that Mrs. Farm informed him that Mr. Farnum 1 left the state on business, but uld return as soon as he learned- of ! warrant. Boykln, who lives in mden was reported to be hunting In 1 swamps and it was understood that would return as soon as he learned the warrant. Arrangements had ;n made to furnish bail for all. t n the working up and prosecution of (se dispensary corruption cases, At- f ney General Lyon has been assisted ^ ring several months past by Col. T. Felder and General Clifford L. An son of Atlanta, Ga. The developnts up to this time make it very ar that these Atlanta lawyers are roughly familiar with the whole ry of dispensary graft, rhe commission had previously noti1 all liquor houses having claims ilnst it that they must present their i"* ""'i "in,l with thum somn one ilified to give the significance of ev item before they could expect any v. This, notice, however was not nplied with. Some stated that they I not understand it. Others gave ious excuses. In proposing an adirnment until January 30, Mr. Felder tgested that it was necessary in or to give the suddenly sick time to over and also to allow the people inested to pull themselves together beise of various tragedies. . Hie full finding of the commission in ' f case of Ullman & Co.. is as follows: man & Co.,.vs. the State of South Carolina. Claims on account of sales 0 the state dispensary. Anchor Dislliing Company vs. the State of South Carolina. rhe foregoing matters coming on trial before the duly constituted nmission created to investigate and Lke disposition of all matters and w ngs concerning the South Carolina pensary, and by consent of counsel ^resenting the parties at interest, 1 two claims above stated having ?n heard together; after hearing > evidence submitted to the court, d counsel for all parties having ived the right to make argument, , the commission, find from the evince before us as follows: L. That the Anchor Distilling comny and Ullman & Co., are one and i same firm, composed of A. Ullman d L. C. Straus. I. That the balance of accounts, dch from the books of the dispen- M y It would appear stand open in or of Ullman & Co., is 135,012.47, ^ d In favor of Anchor Distilling com- i ny Is 11,914.31, or a total of $36,5.78. . . 5. That the gross amount of sales ide by said Ullman & Co., and Anar Distilling company to the South rolina dispensary between Septemr 15, 1904, and the abolition of the d dispensary by enactment of the 1 Islature of the state of South Carna, amounted in the aggregate to i sum of $325,000. i. That beginning shortly prior to ? purchase made by the state board directors of the South Carolina pensary at its September meeting, the year 1904, and continuing as ig as purchases were made by said ard of directors from said Ullman Co., and Anchor Distilling com ny, their agents and representaes, and the majority of the memrs of said board of directors of the uth Carolina dispensary, a consplry to cheat and defraud the state of nth Carolina and its said deputy, . d in pursuance thereof and during ; said period the said claimants, by d with the aid and assistance of d board of directors, or, a majority jreof, did cheat and defraud said te of South Carolina and its distisary by charging and collecting im South Carolina dispensary prices the goods sold to said dispensary itch were largely in excess of the trket value thereof, which over- t arges, by agreement between said 1 aspirators, made and used for the rpose of corrupting and bribing the Icials and agents of the said state South Carolina to the end that the ard of directors of the South Caroa dispensary might be Induced to rchase the goods of said claimants : preference to the goods of other tiers in like goods of equal or betquality at cheaper prices, and by ison thereof said board of directors re induced to buy the goods of d claimants at said excess prices, i the difference between the fair Tket value of the goods so sold by lmants to said South Carolina disisary and the prices at which said jds were so purchased from said imants by said board of directors s fraudulently and unlawfully em >yed by said claimants in bribing i corrupting the officials and agents said state as aforesaid, so that the d state of South Carolina and its pensary was cheated and defraudout of the sum of $63,000. M >. The commission further finds 9 it said claimants did not comply :h the law of the state of South rolina relative to sales to and purises by the state board of directors the South Carolina dispensary in it: [a) They failed to comply with i provisions of said law requiring it only one bid shall be made by y one for the said Ullman & Co., i Anchor Distilling company, being fact one and the same firm, did udently and deceitfully pretend ^ t they were separate firms, and frequently make two or more bids the same time of the treasurer of ! state of South Carolina for coneration by the state board of direcs of the South Carolina dispensary. ;b) They failed to accompany dr bids or any of them with chem- fl 1 analysis of the liquor offered for e. [c) They failed to furnish any >d or bonds to insure the complice by them with the terms of the ltracts of purchase and sale be?en them and said state dispensary, d) That they violated said law that they constantly had agents, resentatives and solicitors in the te for the purpose of soliciting the rchase of their goods by said South rolina dispensary and did, through ir said agents and representatives ? Icit business from said board of ectors. thereupon, it is ordered and adged that the said Ullman & Co., 1 Anchor Distilling company is in>ted to the state of South Carolina 1 its dispensary in the DrinciDal n of $63,000 and interest thereon February 16, 1907, the date of the dition of the South Carolina state pensary by the legislature of said te, in the sum of $5,317.50. That * sum be credited of date February 1907, with the aggregate amounts nding open on the books of said pensary in favor of said claimants, wit: The sum of $36,926.78, and t after making the credit afore1 the balance due by said claimants said date, to-wit, February 16, 7, is the sum of $31,390.72. W. J. Murray. Avery Patton. John McSween. C. K. Henderson. 'his January 17. 1908. ? t Spartanburg Herald: The case inst Henry W. Thomson, of this r, charged with violating the poslaws by using the mails for allegfraudulent purposes, comes up in federal court In Columbia this >k. The belief has been expressed e that there will be no trial, that grand jury will make out a true I and the defendant plead guilty. A nber of local men have been summed as witnesses. United StatM nmlssioner Atkinson has not been imoned. Usually when a case Is d in the federal court In which he . oncerned, he is subpoenaed. His ' being subpoenaed this time Is takas an Indication that there will be trial.