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ESTABLISHED 1855 YORK, S. C., FRIDA.Y, FEBRUARY 4, 1921. NO. 10; ; . ^Jf
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VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
Brief Local Paragraphs of More cr
Less Interest. ,
PICKED DP BY ENQUIRER REPORTERS
Stories Concerning Folks and Things
Some of Which You Know and
Some You Don't Know?Condensed
For Quick Reading.
"I sold a hundred bales of cotton yes- !
terday," said Tuesday a prominent business
man of the county. "I got 15 1-S
cents a pound for it and today 1 notice
that it is dotvn a good deal from that'
figure. I am not advising anybody to
sell cotton," the business man went on
to say; "but I have no apologies for
CL.^11 i n c minn T PAlilH fpf fillt of Hphf
by selling it and that is what I did. If
it goes up I'll have no regrets."
Matches Going Up.
"You wouldn't think it, would you?"
remarked the wholesale salesman to a
retail buyer Wednesday; "but it is a
fact that matches are going up in price
instead of coming down. Our latest
quotations show an increase of 50 cents
a case in the price of matches." The
salesman said that he had no explanation
of the cause-unless it was because
there are only a few firms engaged in i
the manufacture of matches and they
have the business "sewed up."
Up Against It.
Here is a copy of a letter said to have
been written by a creditor to a bank
when the bank sent ? notice of note
due. Mr. W. W. Bovce of Fort 31111,
gave the editor of The Yorkvllle Enquirer
a copy of it when the editor was
in Fort Mill a few days ago and Mr.
W. 13. Moore of Yorkville, mailed Views
and Interviews a copy about the same
time. Anyway it is to laugh:
"Dear Sir; I received your letter
about what I owe you. Now be pachent.
I ain't forgot you, and as soon
T 11 .-.OT- vnti If t.Ilic
iU^ I'.'iiva j/dj my, x it jwm. ?.. ?
was Judgment Day. and you no more
prepared to meet your God than 1 am
to meet your account, you sho going to
Hell."
Take 'Em Off.
"1 wish ladies would, take off their
hats when they go to a picture show,"
commented a man this morning who
appeared to be a little out of humor
about it. "I sat in a moving picture
. theatre a few nights ago. The placewas
fairly well crowded. Scaled in
front of mo was a lady about as broad I
as she was long and she wore a big hat.!
Of course I couldn't see through her I
and 1 couldn't sec over her on account!
of that hat. I whs in a fix, I'll tell you. j
You know," he concluded, "this old j
world would bo a more attractive place J
if we all showed a little more consideration
for the other fellow all along
the line.''
The Proposed Catawba River Bridge.
"We people here in the north-eastcm
part of the county would like very
much to see Yorkville take a more active.
interest in the proposed Catawba
river bridge," writes Mr. R. R. Ilarpcr,
of York So. S. "We have about 25 or
20 miles of river from bridge to bridge
and no way whatever of crossing only |
by small boats. The bridge would not i
take trade from Yorkville: but would ;
be the means of getting a good road all!
the way to Yorkville. Therefore Yoik- :
ville would get more trade from this,
section as wc can buy goods in Yotk-i
ville cheaper than we can in Charlotte. |
for living expenses, rents, etc., are!
lower in small towns and they can afford
to sell at a lower price."
Cheaper Groceries for Cash.
The retail grocer was talking tilings'
over the other afternoon with Views j
arid Interviews. Said he:
... *1.? . ' ? I..JA1.A..,. mi'A Ciinir 1
L IlUl.iJt* Llliit hhj uuiciiao ?t.iv i
on a cash basis, and. I wish the retail i
grocers could g:-t together and do like - '
w!if. It would mean cheaper groceries 1
for the consumer and believe me in a '
time like this commodities should be as
cheap as possible. When wo sell 0:1 i
credit we necessarily have to charge i
higher prices. There are so many peo?
pie vim don't pay their grocery bills'
and we have to make up that loss i
s-iinoJiow. The cash system would cut
the expense of bookkeeping and it,
would cut other expenses that would ,
mean cheaper living. Maybe we will j
get to it some of these days, i don't
know."
Passing cf Gania.
"I have also shot wild tin keys in
o It..
the day of the muzzle-loader; we had
never seen a breech-loader in "our
country. Only white men hunted, and.
! comparatively few of them. Besides it
required skill to load a gun, as well as
skill to shoot it, and the weapon soon,
fotfled. The bag was necessarily
limited by this and the time taken up
loading. Ammunition was high and
money scarce.
"I have lived to see his prophecy
I verified, and verified to an extent he
never dreamed. In those days Arkansas
was in the Far West. My two uncles
who went there (driven out by their
Ku-Klux activities) were mourned as
dead, almost when they left us. The
buffalo and the grizzly wore both found
in Arkansas. Euffalo tongues .and buffalo
meat were on sale Everywhere. We
bought both in Charleston, likewise
prairie chickens.
"I have myself shot prairie chickens
within the limits of the present city of
Fort Worth, Texas. There is not one
left in 500 miles of Fort Worth today,
so far as I can learn.- The buffalo has
all but left the earth.
"In my youth wild turkeys were
fairly common in the Up Country, at
least in the less settled portions of
Abbeville and Edgefield. I have also
shot wild turkeys in Chester county. ^
"Sow, had we known the facts of (
the situation, of how rapidly game
was vanishing. there might have been
a stop put to it; but we did not know.
We had no means of knowing.
"It is a privilege of this generation to .
know the facts and to restore the im- i ,
paired inheritance. There is not the |
slightest reason for game or fish ,
scarcity in South Carolina, granted |
adequate protection, as I can easily
demonstrate to anybody's satisfaction t
by actual facts of record, taken from (
recent experience. ,
"To get it before the people, put into
the common schools. Inspire boys and
girls with correct ideals, based on
positive knowledge, and with that
knowledge save the race. The Lord
says in llosea, chapter -1: "My people
are destroyed for lack of knowledge"?
too true."
Sand.
"Put this in your pockctbook," said
Wednesday a friend of Views and In- '
terviews, "and when things are not ]
coming your way, take it out and rend j
it. It will do you good: i
I observed a locomotive, in the railroad yard, ]
one day: '
It was waiting at the round house, where the
locomotives stay.;
It was minting for the journey, it was coaled I
and fully manned ,
And it }:>. ! a box the fireman was filling full
of tar.d. 1
It appears that locomotives cannot always got
a grip i
On their slender iron pavement, 'cause their ,
wheels are apt to slip:
So when they reach a slippery spot, their tae- '
tics they command. !
And to got a grip upon the rail, they sprinkle
it with sand,
l.'s about this way with travel along life's
slippery track? '
if year lord is rather heavy, and you're a'ways
sliding Lack : .
If a common ioconiitive you completely un- '
dersland.
You'!! provide yourself in startim? with it K->td i
supply cf sand. I (
If your truck is steep and lii!!y, and you have J .
a heavy Krads.
And if these who've conic before you have the
raiis cjuile slippery made, <
If you'd ever reach the summit of the upper
tableland.
Ycu'll find you'll have to do i: fcy a literal use '
of sand. j I
If you strike some frijrid weather, and discov-j j
or. to your rest.
That you're liable to slip upon a heavy coat of 1
f rost. . 1
Then same prompt. decided action will be called
into demand. .
And you'll slip 'way to the bottom if you
haven't any sand.
You can jtet to any station that is en life's I
schedule r.ccn.
If there's lire beneath the boiler cf ambition's
strut;? machine.
And y,.u'il reach a place called I'luslitown a, j
a rate of speed that's vrrnr.d.
If for all '.Sic slippery places you've pot a pood j
supply of s;ind.
NEGRO FOR SENATE.
Miliionairo Hum Merchant Seek: Place ;
Amor.g French Deputies.
One of the most rontarktiljle romances
.'.i tin. cntili-ll fiL'llre '
PAY FIND SISTER
Ward of Admiral McCully May Have
Relative in United States.
HER PHOTOGRAPH IS RECOGNIZED
Mrs. Jack Muschnick of Milwaukee
Thinks Possibly Child is Her Baby
Sister.
Through the agency of newspapers,
little Nina Furman, one of the adopted
children of Admiral N. A. McCully.
o Hn/1 Alrloul eictor fillvp fiml
well, and conversely, 2;: Jack Mus- |
clinick, of Milwaukee, may find that
her baby sister has escaped from the
perils of war-torn Russia, and is a
member of the admiral's happy family,
according: to the Anderson1 Daily
Mail. Stranger things have happened,
and efforts of newspapermen in Milwaukee,
Washington and Anderson,
may prove that the two arc really sisters.
News of the recognition of Nina
Furman by Mrs. Jack Muschniclc, Milwaukee,
as her sister, comes tg the
Daily Mail from the Wisconsin News,
published at Milwaukee. Mrs. Musshnick
lives at 'Milwaukee, and is a
native of Russia, having come to
America seven years ago. Since that
lime she has heard nothing from her
family, but as they were in the region
where Bolshevik warfare has raged,
she had almost despaired of lives of
her loved ones, until she saw the picture
of the little Russian wards of the
liig hearted admiral.
Of the events from the Milwaukee
end of the story, the following from
the Wisconsin News gives a clear ,
story.
Leaves for America.
Seven years ago Rose Furman, p
pretty Russian girl of 19, stood on the
loorstcp of her little homo near Kief,
mhrnced her 'aged parents and bid
i tender farewell to four little nrom
Errs and sisters. Then with her*sweettienrt.
she departed for the land of
promise?America.
Today, Mrs. Jack Muschnick, G17
Tenth street, same young; womatn, appealed
to The Wisconsin News for aid
in finding one of the little sisters who
she believes has escaped the fate of
Hundreds of Russian children and is
now safe in this country.
The trail which Mrs. Muschnick
"eels certain will lead 1o the finding
>f her lost kin. may be taken as nnlther
eccentricity of fate.
dancing over The Wisconsin News
jn January 9, last. Mrs. Muschnick
svas attracted by a picture of seven
;hildren brought to the United States
[y Rear Admiral Newton a. Aicuuny.
A tremor' ran through her body as '
*he noticed the features of one of the
<id dies. ?
"It's she! My Cod. It must he
.rue! She's saved!"
Grasping the paper, Mrs. Muschnick
an excitedly to neighbors. Beneath
he picture they read the name "Nina
Airman."
"it must he true. She can he no
:>lher than your sister," they said.
But seven years in a new country is
not ample time to assimilate a multiudo
of strange customs. Almost fearing
to hreath her discovery least her
hope might lie flattered, Mrs. Muschnick
kept her own counsel. Plans to
write to Admiral McC'nlly himself wore
abandoned when Mrs. Muschnick
realized her limited command of English.
Recognizes Picture.
I'p at the! Lincoln house, the immigrant
linos most of ins problems can
lie solved, and it was there that Mis.
Muschr.ick brought her request today.
'Irs. Itosc Stern matron, heard the
story.
"The picture was printed in The
Wisconsin News, perhaps the.v can
help you find her." she said, and noti:ii-I
this office."
"I never expecte?] to see another
member of my family alive." Mrs.
iiusvimiCK turn ;i >% .,cn.-i importer.
"If you can llnd out thai this
is my little sister and show how ]
enn bring Iter home lo me, it will he
the happiest moment oi' my life."
lists .Mrs. Mug?!)nick made a discov-j
cry which means more to little Xina j
l-'urman than even the tender care of
Iter benefactor, Admiral .McCully ?
Snatched from the very hand of death
is a little air! to he' reunited with a
relative of her own Mood?
The special wires'of The Wisconsin
News to Washington are carrying
the message today. iv-rhaps she will
I.e.
In a letter to the oily editor of the
"iai'y .Mail. II. J. Kwnld, city editor
of the Wisconsin News said:
The I'urnians live 1 ;it Undorkori:
near Keif. Kr.ssia. TIi.ti' wcri' six
?-iiil?i:*?-si in the 1'jimily. Xasso. Alosrhc.
1 Sfii. Kohiva, Nina ami Uoso. The parents
names wore David an.l Jlanetal.
i
A Quiet Child.
.Mr. Kwai.l also encloses a family
jrrnan. taken several years iipi, and
an excerpt liT.ni a loiter received 1 ?y
.Mrs. .Mtischnick from Nina ami a nolo
:>> llietliilil from .Mrs. Mnschnok. The
picture was taken in Ktissia. and
shews a small child, who hoars a rom.nrlnihV
resemblance to Nina Knrntan.
one of the pd mi mi's wards. The
similarity of the names of the physical
likeness of the child to the picture
tnakts local people feel that the
rev.ignition of Mrs. Mtisehniek of her
sister may ho a jrontiine one.
I'eir.ons who were with the children
during Ihi'ir stay in .Anderson romein
her Nina as the most reserved, quietest
one of the lot. "While all seemed
happy, the other children seemed to
express their happiness more openly
than the quiet little girl, who seldom
spoke to anyone, and who seemed at
times, most sad.
Photographs, letters, etc., are being
sent forward to Admiral McCully at
once, in order that Mrs. Muschnick
may know the truth as to the identity
of little Nina as soon as possible.
BEATEN BY BOOZE.
f "
Many Famous Figures Now Down and
Out Because Of It.
Manhattan hails the conqueror and
shuns the defeated. Success is the
golden key that open every door,
writes O. O. Mclntyre, noted New York
newspaperman. Failure builds its own
barriers. It is a . changing city and
ruthless* In almost every endeavor
there is to be found that silent, brooding
dejected army . of men who have
lost their grip.
In the Globe theatre lobby, gay with
silks and furs and expensive shirt
fronts, the other night there came a
young old man who seemed buried in
his shabby overcoat with his hat pulled
down. Two critics bowed quickly, but
no one else heeded him. Yet only a
few years ago in the same theatre he
rose blushingly'in his box to the cries
of "Author," and bowed his thanks. Flis
decline was swift. "Whisky.
The tale is old a?r\ong the medical
fraternity of the surgeon whose nerveless
hands made daring strokes before
spellljbund clinics and who had his
stone mansion at Newport and a vast
Wewtchestcr estate. And yet one night,
twitching and hollow-eyed, he was
taken out of an all-night Tenth avenue
safe to a Raiting patrol because he
could not pay a 20-cent check. He was
on Blackwell's Island f<?r three months
without a visitor.
The cross streets of the Forties are
filled with men whose names illumined
theater programmes of another year.
They cringe at the doors of movie exchanges
hoping for some extra bit. A
magazine illustrator is now a doorman
at a Madison avenue club where once
he lived. Most of the members he
knew and had dawdled with them over
the nightly Scotch and soda, but few
recognize him now. .#*
Longacre square has became accustomed
to the occasional visits of the
powerful figure, collarless'- and unn-hn
fr#?rruentiv cdrrh's out of a
side street at midnight with uncertain I
steps. He shadow-boxes- with imagi-/
nary foes." mumbles and cackles to
himself and is finally chased, away by a
sympathetic traffic officer. The man
was once a mighty boxer and has battled
before crowned heads. Now he
iives over his past in drug dreams.
New York in its mad scramble for
success hab not time for failure. Only
the bells of the Bowery pawnshop ring
a welcome to the down-and-outcr.
Sooner or later they go to the Missions,
where they find food and warmth. And
sometimes they come back, but as a
rule they remain.
DOARD UNDER HOT FIRE. |
Senator Hart Would Abolish State
Board of Charities and Corrections.
Senator John E. Hart of York county.
joined with Senators Wight man and s
Widcman in an attack on the state
board of charities and corrections in
the senate in Columbia, last Tuesday
night, t.!ic bill to abolish having been
offered by Senator Wightman.
An unfavorable committee report was
laid on the table and Senator Wightman
launched intu an attack on the
board, claiming that when it was created
supporters of the movement declared
all evils would be cured and that
now conditions were just as bad, as he!
saw it. Jle charged that the secretary,
C5. Croft Williams was not content to
receive a salary of $li,500 from litis
source, but in addition taught Bible at
TO BRIDGE THE CATAWBA
York and Mecklenburg Commissioners
Make Agreement." ^ \ .
BRIDGE TO COST ABOOT $92,000
Mecklenburg Will Bear Two-thirds of <
Expense and York County One-third
?Work to Commence as'Soon as the 1
Commissioners Deem Practical. (
An q nrncmont- whcrfhv Yiork COUntV ,
and Mecklepburg county, N. C., will
build a bridge across Catawba river at j
the Buster Boyd site, in Bethel town- ,
ship, was made at a meeting of the ,
York arid Mecklenburg county commis- s
sioners held in Charlotte last Tuesday. ,
The bridge will cost approximately j
$92,000 and under the terms of the
agreement made by Supervisor Hugh j
G. Brown and Commissioners Ladd J. ^
Lumpkin and J. C. Kirkpatrick of York ]
county, and Commissioners J. B. McLaughlin,
J. R. Winters, W. M. Rose, P. {
D. Price and Joe H1. Robinson of Mecklenburg,
the latter county will pay two- j
thirds of the entire cost of the bridge, c
while York county will pay one-third.
York county, it is understood, already
has her portion of the money available j
for the preject. Mecklenburg's coming r
in is contingent upon the rights and t
powers of the board of commissioners
of that county to issue bonds under the
acts, same to be decided by the su- f
preme court of North Carolina. t
Bridge Long Needed. J
The bridge, which is the result of i
many months' agitation, will be built at r
the Buster Boyd site, half way between
Shoal's Ferry and Fort Mill, S. C. Work i
is to begin as soon as the Mecklenburg i
commissioners can issue bonds cover- s
ing their share of the cost.
The nroiect will fill a long-felt need, ?
the commissioners say, inasmuch as it Is
directly connects Mecklenburg with her
sister South Carolina county. The c
bridge and. the necessary approaches t
are to be constructed of such materials c
as the joint commissioners of the two r
counties designate.
Mecklenburg county will pay twothirds
of the total cost and York coun- '
ty will bear the remaining third. Rep- {
resentatlves of the, South Carolina *
county said they already had the nee- *
essary money in hand, but Mecjclen- *
burg will ask the supreme court for t
authority to issue bonds covering the 1
sum this county will pay, saiys the 1
Charlotte Observer of Wednesday.
It was first thought that the bridge '
would cost about $102,000, but later es- '
timates reduced these figures to $92,- T
nnn Work will begin as soon as the |
commissioners deem practical. 1
It was pointed out that there is no
means of crossing the Catawba be- *
twecn Shoal's ferry in Mecklenburg,
and Fort Mill, S. C., in York. The dis- (
tance between these points is 23 miles !
by water. Much inconvenience Is caus- '
od persons living in the territory be- (
twecn the present bridges. c
Delegation Urged to Act. 1
In the resolution endorsing the road
bill, the commissioners urged Governor
Morrison and the Mecklenburg delegation
in Raleigh to use their best ef- ,
forts to secure the passage of the bill.
The two resolutions passed yesterday
follow:
"Whereas, there appears to be need of
and believing it to be to the best inter- ^
ests of a large number of the citizens
of the counties of York, S. C'., and
Mecklenburg. X. C., that a bridge be
constructed across the Catawba river (
separating the said counties:
"And, believing it for the public welfare
of the citizens of the said counties)
* ?i. f?nn?tructed as soon | ,
I Jill L JSUCJI MI JUJJV ?.?w ?
as practical; j
"Bp it, therefore, unanimously resolv- |
ed, by this board that a bridge at Buster
Boyd site and the necessary ap- J
proach.es there, be constructed of such
material and construction as a joint j
commission of the counties interested
shall designate and that the total cost
thereof shall lie borne by the said two
counties in the following proportion:
"That Mecklenburg county shall bear
two-thirds of such cost, and that York ,
county shall bear one-third of such J
cost. j
"The above resolution, however, shall
be upon the express condition as to the
rights and powers of the board of commissioners
of Mecklenburg county, to '
issue bonds under the acts, same to be
doc id oil by the supreme court. (
"The above resolution bavins been
duly passed by the said joint boards ,
of commissioners, the members of the |
said boards have hereto subscribed
their several names, each to the other
of the yood faith of the same." '
MEN AND BUSINESS
Financial Expert Writes oF Little Incidents
of the Business World.
A little old lady who hadn't had a
new bonnet in ten years was taken *
out for an automobile ride by a business
woman the other day, writes :
Richard Spillanc. She was very conscious
of her clothes, which were much
worn, ami more so of her hat, which *
was a rusty. Mack affair. <
Queer, isn't it. how much women
think of hats? i
The little old lady rode over country
highways ami city streets, and was a
hi! bewildered when the car stopped
and the business woman helped her
out and into a. shop.
II was a milliner's. The business
woman had the little old lady take off
the rusty old black hat and try on sev
oral the salesgirl or she selected.
"You're going to have a new hat,"
said the business woman.
The little old lady's heart missed a
beat when she heard the announce- !
nent.
A. minute later the little old lady
overheard the price of one of the hats
-?10. ' ]
"Ohl I couldn't wear a hat that cost
so much," she protested.
"Bosh," exclaimed the business wonan,
who "thereupon picked out a
beautiful bonnet of soft folds with a
lelicate band Inside and put it on the
)ld lady's head'.
"Oh! it's lovely, lovely," exclaimed
:he little old lady, who was so excited
ihe didn't know which way to look and,vho
became more flustered when a
salesgirl pinned a veil over the bonnet
md told her' bonnet and veil were
iers.
The business woman was waiting
'or change from a bill she had given
:o the salesgirl, when the little old
ady touched her on the arm and
vhispered: "Oh, see, there's another
jonnet like mine."
Mist came into the eyes of the busness
woman then. "My dear," she
.aid to the little old lady, "why that's
rou and your hat.'!
And ft -was so, though the little old
ady couldn't believe it was her own
-efloction she saw at the other end o?
he long room.
The same business woman has some
'riends, inmates of a home for aged
vomen. To them she goes calling
iow and then. They are fed and cared
'or in the home, ljut they have no
noney.
One day she had them out journeyng,
and incidentally, to tea. They
vero much excited over the tea ball
the used.
At Christmas time she made a pres;nt
to each of her friends in that inlituation.
It was a tea ball, a replica of the
>ne they admired.so much, and in each
ea ball was a $5 bill, so that the redpients
would have some spending .
noney. ' .
This business woman is a fine, large '
landsome woman, who manages her
iffairs better than nine men out of
:en could do it. She has a philosophy 1
hat is worth considering. She never !
jives, presents to those who have, but '
:o those who need- and have to go J
vithout. She invifes"tO"'her" hotel as
ler guests now and then, those to :
vhom such a'visit is in the light of a
:hrilling thing, something of joy to be
:allccd of and held as a treasured 1
nemory.
Maybe it's because /of her philosophy
that the business woman looks
/oung, acts young- and feels young 1
;hough a grandmother. J
Maybe if business men looked out 1
>n life as she does they'd bring more
iunlight into the lives of many loss
"ortunate than themselves, and inci- 1
lcntally, bring more of it into their 1
mm.
The foregoing is printed because
iVords are things, and a small drop
of ink,
[ 'ailing like dew upon a thought, I
produces !
That which makes thousands, per- 1
haps millions, think. 1
HOME OF SILVER FOXES
]
Fur Farming Is a Big Industry on '
^Prince Edward Island.
The little Canadian province . of
Prince Edward Island is known as 1
;he "Garden of the Dominion," says
:he Dearborn Independent. Nestling '
n the sheltered concave formed by i
:hc southern coast of the Gulf of St. 1
Lawrence and protected from the Atantic
by the Cape Breton promontory
ind Newfoundland, its quiet is never 1
seriously ruffled by ocean storms.
Continually bathed by ozone-laden sea
tir, its climate knows neither extreme
scat nor coal and is pleasant, healthy
ind invigorating. Its summers are
jellghtfully cool and its winters are
enjoyable and bracing without com'ort.
There are now 3.000 foxes on Frinco
Edward Island farms. One ranch
.vhich the writer visited held 00 breeding
pairs and 70 more for killing for
their pelts before Christmas. The industry
has reached a stage which eniblcs
it to support its own literature,
i paper called the "Silver Fox Magazine,"
having a considerable circulation.
l'rince Edward Island fox furs have
now as established a place in the
markets of the world as California
peaches or Brazilian coffee, and the
success which has attended their
farming has resulted in similar rancfi;s
being established on the Canadian I
mainland and at various places in the |
l/niled States, chiefly in Maine and
Michigan. This industry has the
promise ol" great potential wealth and
is regarded with great favor hy the
dominion and provincial governments
which render it various kinds of assistance.
And the remarkable thing is that
it has been built up in a quarter of a
century from a few pairs of wild foxes.
It has been feared that extensive
production of the silver fox pelt will
depress prices; but with a lower price
will come increased demand and mass
production and it will be a great boon
to the people of the northern haif of
this continent if good furs can he
produced at moderate prices.
? The new First Baptist church at
St. George, is he opened Sunday.
MASTER OUTLAW SLAIN f
iVoii Destroyed South Dakota Cattle , ^
Valued at $23,000.
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KILLED BY A GOVERNMENT HUNTER ^
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Ferocious Beast Escaped from' Many 1 '
Traps?Fipally Killsd After Months "
of Pursuit.
The Custer wolf Is dead.!
T * ^ /S l^nl ils ~
J.U W(is> tiJC liltwici' <JXJU1JUU.L Ui. (.lie
luiraal world. For sr-ine years it had :/'?
lived as an outlaw?the cruelest, the
nost segacious, the most successful .
mimal outlaw that the range country c
had ever known. Its cruelty was sur- \ ::V
passed only by its cunning. It killed
svith the refinement' of animal fcro- ^
lity. *^v;
Took Heavy Toll.
The telephones throughout the re- ':??$
grion around Custer, S. D., hummed 'UiKr
tvhen the word went out that a hdnter " ^
nad killed the criminal wolf, relates
i Bulletin of the Unltfed States de- ;
partment of Agriculture. That word V
jnded a nine years' reign of dread.
luring which the stockmen around
Cluster had paid tribute to ..the wolf to
Ihe extent of ?25,O0O worth of live- "
! \'X
stock. And mere money loss was not .'-A
ihe whole of the horrible toll it took. : J
When it killed for food, it took only > ..
.he choicest animals^but sometimes it ' t,z ,-vv?
cilled in atrocious ways for the mere
sake of killing. Often it wounded catlie,
breaking their legs, biting off their
:ails, multilating th^m terribly. '
. Four years ago Us mate was killed; V -
It never took another and many people
supposed that it devoted itself to re-' ^
irenge for her death. Later on, it at- '
rached to itself two coyotes, not as J Vjpg
jquals, but servants. Never permitted -'J*?.
:hcm to come near it, and they could
feed from its killed only after it had - :
-"fc *
finished. They traveled far out on its
lanks, giving it warning of ambush or ?.'r5;
lpproaching danger and adding to the 'Y'"atmosphere
of mystery that surround- - ,
* & ,
Every Efftjrt Failed .
After a bounty, reaching 9500, railed * .v-v#
to bring in the old criminal's 'sca!?;> '
ifter private trappers and sportsmen.
hunters had given, up the quest*, after '
poisons and dogs had failicd?the
stoclcmen tried to r'ound-?i)?"--^Bayffig;''~
a.3 they thought, located : the wolf a '
large number of riders ' starter4';%*> a"'1'17""
great circle and closed up. This' like
all other devices was unsuccessful. tlj
Some of the 3tockmen decided to-send
for a government hunter. Therefore
the department of. agriculture sent to
Custer H. P: Williams, one of its best
hunters, with instructions to stay af
ter the wolf until it was taken. " i'
Twice in May, 1920, the wolf 'stepped
on the jaws of traps and on' the
night of July 3 it rolled into one or lay ' fy
down on one and had a lot of its "hair?-^ . 'Af- '-l
pulled out. This gave it such a scare '"
that it left the country for a whiIe.;'J
NTo sign could be found of it hear Custer
until the night of August 1,-wheh " '?
It made its presence known by killingv
several head of cattle and wounding , .
several more. Williamson found some V %
of these cattle, took the trail of the ,
wolf and followed it all day. This led. ; ''
up to the mouth of a canyon, and,
knowing that the wolf would be taking
l sleep after its big feed, Williams
tied his horse and started in. Just
If
then two horsemen came up, riding at ,
breakneck speed and calling to Wil- . .
liams that they h~d found a yearling
steer killed by the wolf. Williams
motioned them to go back but they V .
did not understand what he meant
and he was forced to return to meet . .
them. Thus he lost the best chance .
he ever had of getting the wolf with a
rifle. When he returned to the trail /, -
he found the place where the wolf had r
bedded down to sleep. The noise made '
by the horsemen had given it the 'V-1
alarm and it had gone hack down the
canyon very close to the hunter and
escaped.
Caught in a Trap.
/ Early in September the wolf stepped
on a trap and was caught slightly by
one foot. Apparently the trap had
tipped so that it caught only one side
of the foot and the wolf was able to
pull loose. He left some hair In the
trap. This happened again in the early
days of October.
Williams finally got the wolf?October
11. Here isvhis own account
of it:
"He stepped into a trap in the
morning: and it got a good, grip on
him. He ran with it about 150 yards
when the hook caught on a tree, but
that did not seem to stop him at all.
He broke the swivel of the trap and
ran on with it on his front foot. I
trailed him three miles and got a shot
at him and got him. He had been so
lucky that I expected the gun would
fall to shoot, but it worked. He was
smaller than the average male wolf,
weighed ninety-eight pounds, and
measured just six feet from tip to tip.
IIis tpeth would be good for fifteen
years longer. He broke some of them
off on the trap, but aside from that f"
they were in good condition. He is
an old wolf with a fur that is almost
white."
L
? A verdict of justifiable homicidp"
was rendered by a coroner's jury , in
Charleston Tuesday in the killing of
Kid Grant, a negro pugilist by Street
Car Conductor T. A. Williams of
Charleston Sunday following an altercation.
. j
I ilOSlCr , ilium .mi. .1..... .
Henry Kiee, Jr., of Wiggins. .S. C.. foremost
nat lira list in the south in a letter
to-Views and Interviews. in his let'e:
Mr. Kiee goes on to say:
"There is no way whereby the importance
of natural history can so well
be brought homo and made a living!
force as by teaching it hi the e mnrui
s -iioobs and in the colleges.
"The lite it of such general knowledge
was one of the main causes in the
lestruction of our wild life and natural
resources.
"Away hack in 1S72. when my grand'
u' tf Hawtun. a large
1?!:?ute*s- ;i>:?1 a famous shot, used to take
m" hunting with him, f ridint; behind
him. he had"the rule, never hmken. of
killinff "lie partridge for each member
of the family?no more, unless I here
were guests at the Jiouse. wiien. to
have an abundance. he would kid two
around.
"The roiisecptenco was that hi- piaee
always ahonndcd In game. il- t id me
t!un that the time \yot:!d twin? when
partridges and all ojher piiic would
become searee in the state, unless they
Wre rigidly protected. This was in
is u in jfn?. may see a scijU'-l in the |
French si nail*, says a Paris dispatch.
Adrodat I leorntiilhc. iilack. and horn)
at Cluadalupc, arrived at .Marseilles in!
lldu with fifty frailer, in Iiis pocket and
v.'tnl t'i work as a ionirslioreman. "When |
the war beyan In- invested his savings,
in a small sleek of rum a few weeks i
before the price of that liijunr shut up. j I
Seili'.'itr in:' his first sleek he lr.unrht ;
inure, moved to Paris, and within three '
years became the larjctsi dealer in rum
in France.
In 1:?17 lie signed an enormous con-|
tract with the French jjoverr.ment j
whereby he supplied ptaeiieally all the
rum served to the soldiers in the'
tre.tchcs and used in the imr.pitals.
During fin* /crip i-pidemic of l!'is lie i
is said !> have made $.".(Usfi,fifi!! profit.iluyin^
himself a country mansion near
Paris he married a French woman, and j,
was made mayor of his community ia I
token of lartre benevoJewvs.
In November. P'-n, he was prosceut- ;
ed hy the pivernmcnt for falsely deeiai
iinr his excess war profits under the .
I
n-w tax law. The case is stjU pending.
Meanwhile he has announced himself
candidate for the exclusive French sen- i
>? t?!? (1:.--:riot uf i iin |Mnsitinn
i-i Senator Henry Itereag.-r.
111 writer. wh<> is ciiainmn ??f
t';H> senate ? <>niinissh'ii ?.m foreign affairs.
I iis supporters nllr.ge his elect i<m is
ainto-t certain, since a large proporti >n
of the voters in < inrelainpe are enfran-;
ciiiseiI Macks. If this liap|)cns lie will
! lie the .'irst negro to-lalte a real in any
: riiiuspcaii government.
.he university and received. ?400 fori
two months of this teaching. Two big
oflices in skyscrapers laid been opened
and numerous persons employed tu assist
the secretary, ail to 110 avail so farj
as work was concerned, Mr. Wightman
said.
Hart Likes Bill.
Mr. Hart heartily agreed with Mr.
Wightman and read from the budget
report where this report had expended
329,0t>l> last year, he said, to "discover
that some convicts in York county had
left tiic iitl off of :\ slop bucket."' Mr.
Mart openly admitted he was absolutely
against the board and wanted to see
it abolished. T11 reading from the budget
report. Mr. Hart said be saw an
item relating to a "fiscal agent," and 1
said lie hud never heard of this man,
woman or child and didn't believe this
"fiscal agent." had ever visited York
county.
Senator Widcman said, for once In hTs i
life he was absolutely in agreement'
with Senator Wightman and hoped t<>
see the board by the wayside.
Senator Young asked the senate not
to go 1 mekward and said ho know the
hoard was doing good work, lie favored
its continuance.
Senator Christenscn and. Senator;
Maker both pointed oul the need for the J
hoard and hmv it had accomplished J
more for South Carolina than could be
measured in dollars and cents, besides
saving to the state actual cash of more :
than was appropriated every year.
? W. J"'. fj. Harding, governor of the
Federal Ih.serve board has accepted
an invitation to address the Creenville
Ki wan is club at any early date.
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