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Scraps and /acts. ' ?Two hundred and forty persons wero drowned Tuesday when the Chilean passenger steamer, Itata. sank off the Choros Islands near Coquimbo. It was believed the sinking of the ship ' * was due to overladen condition in the heavy . setts. Belief that nil the ...passengers and members of the crew were drowned was expressed in a ro, port from the cruiser Chacabueo. Tho 1 * Chacabuco was,cruising in the neigh: borhood of the Choros Islands when I the vessel rank. The theory exprcss ed by members o? the crew of the Chacabuco is that the bottom of the : Itata was scraped against rocks near I tne island and torn completely off. The * Itata was built in 1920 and registered T v-i Mi inn 1 of Brazil. The ship , "jf ?_ was of 1.59S tons. The Choros Islands are oft Cpquimbo, which is a .-seaport > half way down;on the coast?of Chile. . The position of the islands is 1 ititude J 29.15 and longitude 71.23 west I. ?No arreet has be?>n made in conjl'neetion with the killing from ambush 3 at 5 o'clock yesterday morning of E. M. Feaster and Reedy Rpoth, South| ern Railway special watchmen, on duty 41 the Southern Railway s yard r and repair shop at Hamburg, S. C., t Just across the Savannah river from Augusta A coroner's jury h:is investi, gatefl the killings, but have secured ' i no evidence on which to base wnr rants. Solicitor General R. L. C.unter at Aiken, says that the authorities I have information which they are. using as clues and that there is some prospect of securing the assassins. The i inquest was in progress over Roaster's j body when it became known that ' ??--? 1- _ v ;? ? l ?t All. , Jiooin naa au-u m a iiveini<u . pusta, where he had been rushed when ' he was found fatally wounded In ll.'imburg and the same jury which investigated as to the Feaster killing sat in * the Booth case. The juries were able ' only to pronounce that the killings J were the acts of parties unknown. ? Falling exports of raw cotton dur5 ing July were reported Tuesday by the 1 commerce department. .During the jl month 373,742 bales worth $42,650,000 * were exported compared with 508,902 | bales worth $36,270,000 during July a year ago, while during the seven ' months ended with July shipments ' abroad aggregated 3,254,261 ba'es worth j $316,000,000 against 3,305;743 hales worth $248,000,000 during the corresponding months ended with July ship! mints abroad aggregated 3,254,2G1 * bales worth $248,000,000 during the cori responding months last year. Exports f of cotton cloths during the month ag greguted 60,000,000 square yards worth r $8,000,000, however, compared with 49,. i 000,000 square yards worth $5,000,000 V during July a year ago, while for the seven months ended with July the total i. was 147,000,000 square yards worth $49,000,000 as . against $275,000,000 squurc yards worth J Kt.O'io.ouo auring if' the same months last your. ? Greenville, Mis.?., August 31: The f airplane lias entered another war against the boll weevil, in tests near here today, under government super'1 vision, demonstrating its efficiency in the newest Held it has set out to conquer. Flying low over a 140,000 acre r trftct Lieutenant Guy McNeil, of the army aviation corps, spread a trail of calcium arsenate, recognized extermi[ nator of the pert, over several hundred acres in the opening demonstration of i a series of tists to prove the practicability and worth of the air machine 1 as a destructive agent against the ' i weevil. Today's test, undertaken un der the Supervision of it. K. Coad. di2 rector of the government laboratories If & -.-tO-U-tiMCgaJlSi ?T Co It mi eluiitvis fi oin I ,uiii,sianu. Arkansas and Mississippi, the newest method of combatting tlie insect. Inspection of the field satisfied the farmers, standing as judges, that the' plan was a success. With the use of the airplane from 200 to 2!>0 acres can be sprayed in an hour, and a considerable saving in the quantity of the poison is claimed for the new method. I'nder a plan discussed today the cost ot equipment would be solved: by community co-operation. ? While the nossibilitv of an enforc ed shut-down of many textile mills in tho Carolinas within the next two or >three we^ks looms larger daily, says a Charleston dispatch, most of tho mills in the l'iedmont section of tho two states o pom to exclusively on hydro-electric power and therefore are not menaced by the growing scarcity of fuel, according to men familiar with the situation. Many of tl.o mills operated by hydro power use some coal, but comparatively little, it is pointed out. Of this class is the Chad wdck^ Hopkins company's large chain of mills. E. C. Pwelle, secretary of this company, said Tuesday that their plants have enough coal on hand to last only two or throe weeks. .Nocording to Winstone D. Adams, secretary of the American Cotton Manufacturers' Association, this condition is typical of that of the electricallydriven mills- of this section generally. It was :*tid by these ofllcials Hint virtually no eoa 1 is being received by any mills in this section and unless the situation is relieved somewhat In the next week * or two curtailment of operation on the part of many mills will be necessary. Only one mill, the Lancaster Cotton Mills, of Lancaster, S. C., thus far has been reported closed on account of the coal shortage. " "Rrtchacl" rut a patch Hmonp negro women on dress parade. Watson was j picked up on the 1200 block of Bland- | inj; street on complaint of a negro woman who told ^officers that Richard was a "funny woman." Detedtives are to hold, the negro on a charge of loafing and loitering and for investigation. They intimate that Watson may l>e wanted at another point. The prisoner said ho was 39 years old. Ho weighs about 170 pounds and is "ginger cake" color. i ?hc Hlorluillf (ihinuiw. r j | Entered at the I'ostofflco at York, as I Mail Matter of the Second Class. Friday, September i, 1922. If Hlense should be elected there would be the Columbia State to hound his every action; but if the oligarchy wins, who is thero to look after the interests of the people? The Yorkvillo Enquirer has always held that the women are capable of as intelligent; use of the ballot as the men, and it contends that last Tuesday's primary proves the correctness of this proposition in so far as York county is concerned. Observe the manner of the working of the Australian ballot system. It used to bo that ward heelers could tako a man's ticket, scratch it up to suit himself and watch him put it in the box. In that way a few active heelers could hold the balance of power at the precinct. But it is not that way now. The voter must ttx the ticket to suit himself and he can vote as he pleases. Under this arrangement the ballot box becomes the true voice of the people. The real issue is not so much Blease and McLeod, as it is the domination of the oligarchy headed by the Columbia State. Auuhc of Blease is merely a blind to divert the attention of honest but innocent people from the real issue. The success of the oligarchy on September 12, will mean that taxes win conunuu iu muum ?io they have been mounting since Rleasc went out of office, and the defeat of the oligarchy will mean cither that extravagance will l?e stopped or the jwople will know the reason why. The announced purpose of Henry Ford to shut down his immense plants because of inability to get coul lias struck the coal conspirators like a bombshell, It is estimated that the f mmr r* .?*a> > a * * - * rlosing down -of the Ford plants will directly or indirectly affect not one million but tbreo million wage earners. The coal corporations realize that coal is of littk? value to the deal er unless the consumer has1 the money with which to pay, and that the shutting down of the Ford plant ij> of tremendous importance. Accordingly many dealers have offered to sell Ford nil the coal he wnrtts at nominal prices. But Ford says no. He takes the position that the priority orders for coal deliveries are intended for the benefit of men, women and children who might otherwise freeze and he refuses to buy coal that should go to prevent suffering. He persists in his determination to shut down his plant. The Columbia State is trying to emphasize its alleged disinterestedness as between Democrats with the ridiculous assertion that it had no candidate in the first primary. Everybody knows thai it is untrue, and the Slate knows it. M^Lcod was its candidate from the beginning. It knew as surely that MeI,ood would be in the second race as it knew that John Duncan wouldn't be. There is not a man or woman in the state who lias any political perception whatever who did not know this. Everybody knew that it wan :i question c.j ino ougurcny ago inn nomocracy, Itlonso standing for Democracy and his opponent for the oligarchy. It is true th:il tho stale tli?1 not come out openly for nnv candidate. That was rot necessary; hut it did not fool anybody by lit:!.ting Mens?, the candidate of the Democracy, all it knew how. It would have been foolish to have taken a candidate from the other side, liecause it was a.s clear as the duplicity of the Columbia State that if Democracy was not defeated in tho first race the only source of help in tin* second was the following of the defeated independent candidates and to have angered this following in the first race would have been fatal. The thing about the Columbia State that irrijtales us most, is tlie assumption that so many of its renders are idiotic fords who seem to be without sense enough to comprehend what ought to be plain | even to a child. I From what we see, we judge that the I 1'ee Dee Advocate is in the tine for I liicniii '.I sessions of tlie legislature, j So is Tin* Yurkvillc l'hujtiiivr. Who ilext? 'J'iie Oiilmi Herald intimates '.hat the prejudice of politicians will he i hard to overcome. Just so. Tiiey kill i ed it before, aft or the people had voted I ' to 1 for the change. This hoary, hewhisk'n d custom of annual session' should tro. It has no place in our lpl?.-vilt I'll; i ness eeoic niv. .N'otiojy call unselfishly say a word in its favor. Why don't the politicians allow us to vote on it? Are we not sufficiently I intelligent f'1 know what is last for us? Why refuse us a vote? We ehali Icnge an answer. If the people are against i*. 1< t us know it. If they | want the change they should have it. j Oh. hut the Sohuis whisper to each I other: "The people don't < arc." Wc ! donv it. Everyday during tlie session i | you can hear the reninik that it is! 'folly to meet every winter. The JioUiiC This company employes around 1,500 worker* It closed last Saturday. It was pointed out tliat of the 1,000 'or moro textile plants of all kinds in the two Carolina* 313, mostly in the . Piedmont sections, use hydro-ek?,?tric . power exclusively, while 21'5 use steam power only, and 202 use hotli electric and steam power, according to tinlatest avallahle statistics. No peroral shut-down of electrically-driven plants is expected, according: to lo..a! textile workers. ? Columbia, August 23: Richard "Watson, negro wearing women's clothing and known as Kaohael Watson, was urrcstf-d Saturday night on the 1200 block of UUinding street by Detectives Shorter, Nels an and Allen, and in a short time it developed that Watson had been working in several homes in Columbia. Watson wore a white dress, black stockings, white shoes, breast pin and carried a ladies' handkerchief. The police did not find a powder puff or a handbag. Watson told officers where he had a room and when the white employer was told of his arrest, expressed regret and surprise over the arrest of "our Raehael." Th regret1 was supers- d -d by indignation when it became known ilia' the "negro woman.who worked around the house" was a man. The negro told a reporter that he came from Virginia two years ajro and had heen in Smith Carolina two y< ars. Watson said In: worked for a wi ll known family in T,?"xirv ton and for others at Brookl.-.nd before coming: to Columbia. H? admitted that he was "she" at the hones ho lived in or worked mound. The prisoner talks in a moderate ton aiul casual observation and ordinary listeti;n^r would throw tie. av? race person off their guard. His make-up was ideal for a wgress. 11i - hair dressing was of the m- d< r:i sort and a ntir-es' cap put the "O. K." on the man who posed as a woman. It was said that Watson carried a fine line of silk, sili.i and tricotino dresses for Hiindiy wear. The walking hats were up-to-date and 1 I Journal shows,that when a vote on this matter came tip last session a large blopk of Solons were absent. Xo record j 011 them. Biennial sessions won by one vote but it 'required a two-thirds majority. We wish to see a fair fight and a full vote.?Calhoun Times. We are in favor of biennial sessions of the legislature; but we cannot have it. The Columbia State is opposed. The people of South Carolina voted a constitutional amendment on the subject about twenty years ago, and the legislature refused to follow tho people's orders. The understanding was that the State and other Columbia ; politicians who arc interested in havI tho lee-isl:?tore meet every year. persuaded I ho members of the legislature to ignore the people. f , Standing at Homo. Blouse is from Newberry and is now a citizen of Itichland, county. McLcod is from Orangeburg county and is now a citizen of I/oe county. Lapey; is a citizen of Ohesterlield county. The personal character of nil these gentlemen is about the same, the one being no better than the other;, but they are not being voted for on a basis of personal character. Tho issue is thle rule of the people or the domination of the oligarchy led by the Columbia State, a proposition that is thoroughly well understood by some .people and only partially sensed by others. The vote in Newberry last Tuesday was as follows: Illeose, 2,075; Cantey, 30; Coleman, 109; Duncan, 52; Laney, 579; McLcod, 1,645. Tho vote in Chesterfield was: Blease, n *" ? T r<Alnmon Himnnn 6U1 ; ViUllQt I, vuivuiwm, WW, ^ 19; Laney, 1,543; McLeod, 328. The vote In Lee was: Biciise, 1,146; Cantey, 4; Colc-man, 10; Duncan, 7; Laney, 36}; McLeod, 968. The vote in Richland was: Bloase, 4,679; Cantey, 54; Coleman, 115; Duncan, 54; Laney, 821; McLeod, 4,116. No matter who might have been the candidate against the oligarchy or for it, tho result would have been about the same. The oligarchy knows that tho election of Blense means an eclipse of its power, and that is why it is against I llease. Dlease Is the strongest candidate that can be put up against the oligarchy, for tho simple reason that he commands the confidence of those who know him to a larger extent. lie is known as a man who does not mind saying where he stands and who can always be deixmded upon to do what he says he will do. Illeose is a candidate of a party just as McLeod is a candidate of a party, and any claim to the contrary hy anybody is simply bunk. Choice of the People. The Columlna State came out Wednesday morning, screeching: lik i a maniac and scolding like a wet hen. because of the manner in which the democratic voters of South Carolina had asserted themselves in Tuesday's primary. "It is certain that the Democratic people of South Carolina will on the 12th of September once again declare that two terms in the governor's office is enough for any mortal man?as it was enough for Hampton, llagood, Tillman and Manning," it yells. Then it goes on to comfort itself with: "They will nominate Thomas O. McLeod as the candidate of the DEMO CRATIC l'AKTY. "No good buttle is ever won without earnest, patriotic, incessant and organized work. That kind of work already lias begun. "In the first primary of 1016 when Manning, Cooper and Hlcase were the candidates, Mr. Uleuse had a plurality of nil,ooo. "He was defeated in the second primary by about f>,000 "Who has led in yesterday's primary can not at this hour be told; it may be Mr. lilcase, it may be Mr. AleLeod. In cither case, tlie plurality will not be large. "In 10t6 the combined majority of Manning and Cooper against HI ease was around S.000. The State said the following morning that it was only necessary for the opponents of Mr. Hlea.-e to go to the polls and vote in ' the second primary and Mr. Manning's I election was assured. The ICVKNT I I'lMirun Till.! Vl'I'IMJAI'V Oil" thi; statlis I'iiiii motion. "As tins is written the majority reported against Mr. IJlt-aso is 13,47.'?. "Yesterday Tin* State had no randidate for governor. It follows the lead this morning of the majority of the, people of South Carolina in choosing Us the candidate to win in the second primaty THOMAS ti. McLEOD. In the estimation of the Coluinhin State those thousands of rood men and women of Soutii Carolina, who voted lor Klease last Tuesday count for nothing, and tluir earnest desire must bo defeated at any cost. Coder no eirctunstances must they he allowed to el arose a governor who will not be subject to the Columbia State. Who believes tiie assertion of the : State that it had no candidate yesterday? In its issue of August 18, The ! Yorkville Hn<|iiirer said this, the truth i of wbieli nobody understands better j than does tlie Columbia State: "it set m? strange indeed that so zealous and sincere a man as Mr. J^amy cannot fully comprehend t!ic political situation in South Carolina. "Mr. Laney is running for governor without a shadow of a show of being elected, cither now or two years from now. "We arc saying tliis not because we ! regard Mr. lam y as unfit, for as a j matter of fact there is not a more fit : man in the race. Mr. I<amy has a deep and abiding sympathy for Mr. 1 | Average Citizen and if lie stands for J anything it is f?>r social and economic justice. "Mr. I?inry is opposed lo jobbery of | all kinds, and In lias never In en found cooperating with the hired reprosentatives of corporate or other interests. 1 "Mr. Mels-od is the candidate of the machine -not the anti-l'.loase machine; 1 htil (lie machine of the pa riff that has i the slale by tic threat in trie int< rest of its own domination tiie nro liine fur which Manninp and Cooper carried the flap. = "This machine is not so muc h oppns- i id to Bhase as it is for We, l*s and I Company. If CI ease were with and for * it, it would just as lief have Blease as anybody. "Mr. Laney is a .strong man; but ho is not as jkiwpg as the machine, and the machine it not going to support him because he will not suit its purposes so well." It is true that Rlen.sc had a plurality of 23,000 in the Manning-Cooper race of 191G, and was defeated in the second primary by a majority that was marked up as 5,000, but how? Did not Cooper enter the race in opposition to tho machine, appealing: to the support of Mr. Average Citizen? Sure. He had, even l>ern held up as a "P.leaseite." Then when he pot left, did not.the State's machine buy him out with a promise that if he would throw his influence to Manning in tho second race, they would givo him the governorship at the close of Manning's All ,i.. MIUlAl.ina nn. ? VI l/IIU U llll, U\ll LIHJ J/WUIIUIUIIJ ! !?derslood thai to he the fact. Hut even with that thoy had to steal the election from lllcaso l>y fraud. There was no Australian ballot law then. And I when Tlleasc's friends presented tangible evidence of fraud to the .state executive committee, the exeoutive committee refused to listen to the evidence. That is the absolute truth. As to this third term business. Wonder if the State would object to a thjrd term for D. C. Heyward at this juncture, or It. I. Manning, or iiobert A. Cooper, or any other man except Cole I* Blease. John 11. Richardson, the 12th governor of South Carolina, served from 1802 to ISO 1. John l'eter Richardson, his nephew, served from 1S40 to 1S42, ic fltf? 5'^n/l rrrvi-nrn/M* nf tVtn ctotn nn/1 John Peter Richardson, the 56th governor and son of the 82nd governor, served from 1886 to 1S90. \V. E. Gonzales was his private secretary, and if he ever showed any other fitness for the office than the claim that came through inheritance, nol>ody knows about it. Richard I. Manning, 23rd governor, who served from 1824 to 1826, handed the office down to his son, John L. Manning, 1S52-54, 3Sth governor, nnd Richard I. Manning of present day fame, the 65th governor, is a grandson of the 23rd governor. P. W. l'ickens, tho 42nd governor, was a son of Andrew Pickens, the 19th governor. Wade Hampton was elected to a second term as governor, nnd resigned in tho middle of the term to go to the United Mates senate, where he hacl a right to go. Hugh S. Thompson resigned the governorship to take a better paying job as assistant secretary of the treasury. And listen to the Columbia State invoking Iten Tillman, who first wrung from the political autocracy to which the Columbia State! belongs, the right of the people to choose their own governors, and it was on account of this action that the Columbia State was established. Tho State continued to fight Tillman to the yery d;iv of l:is death. After sorvn?g two terms as governor, Tillman \fa? elected to the United States senate. Manning served two terms as governor and quit because lie could not help himself. He could rot get to the senate, nor could he have been elected to anything else. Cooper was elected to two terms as governor, and got out before the end of his second term for a bettor paying job at ?10,000 per year, given to him through the influence of Nat H. Dial, because the said Nat 15. Dial feared that he' might be wanting a seat in the senate. Governor Clease, elected to a second term as governor, resigned a few days before his time was out in order to give Chas. 15. Smith the. honor of holding the office, and retired to private life. Rut mn?+f nrt l?o nprain. No, never, for to elect Illoasc to a third term would free the people to tiie pursuit of thv ir own sweet will, and end the dictatorship of the (Jon- . zales combination. BROTHERS BURIED Bratcher and Dan Lattimore Laid to Rest With Military Honors. CorrorpunHcnro Tlio Yorkvills Kmpiirer Hickory Grove, Aug. 151.?The most,' impressive, touching1 and one of the I' saddest funerals in the history of our | J little town was the one yesterday at Ml. Vernon Methodist churc h, v.lien " the last sad litis were lovingly paid t'?1 , all that was mortal of the two young j mm, brothers, Dan and Ilratehor Lata- ! 'y more, and in tribute to the promising j young lives that had been suddenly J , cut off in the prime of young manhood, \ . All the incidents surrounding the deaths of toese two devoted brothers, ' admired and loved for their manly;', rharaeler and for their usefulness, thel.* eiretmistanee of the young wife and ! babes of Dan?had the effcet of louelt- 1 ing deeply the hearts of the people, and the funeral was attended by an ; iMiiisually large gathering of friends and loved ones. 10aeh of the two caskets, borne by I members of the American Legion, was t enshrouded, in the "St.Irs and Strip' s," j which these soldier lioys had nobly dofended in servic across the sea. both!" having sustained severe wounds in ' butt le. Must beautiful and appropriate words ; ( were spoken by the .pastor, Jtev. .1. \V. Lewis, in conducting the funeral ser- ' vice?words of coin fort to the Ix-rcav-j v i -I families and sorrowing friends and ; of hojie and encouragement to all to j enrry on in ilie* ii.'iiiic.s u^aiiiM ire forees ill' i vi! in tin* world. After tin: sorviees at the church, tin* two hint hers were tenderly laid < in rest, side by side, under mounds : ? ?>f heautiful Mowers, attesting tiie love v nf friends and kinilrt d. Anions the many beautiful wreaths was an tin- ^ liieinatie o:ic from the Ann rie.an Le;;iou < and tine from the Urotiierbood of n Masons. I At the la^-t, taps were sountb .1 over v the graves of these two fallen soldier ho.vs, and the soft, t|ui\?-rintr notes 1 ueetn-tl to hear with tiieni the bent- v ilii'tion of love and the requiem of r hope. j J According to information available > it this time 1 Mease has majorities in tin eoniuios and AleLc?<l in seven. Blease has pluralities In twenty-seven I h counties and McLeod in seventeen, ' d JUOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Walter D. Thomasson?Curd to the voters. York Furniture Company?Dining room suits. Kirkpatrick-Bclk Company?Our buyers. The Star Thealre, J. Q. Wray manager?The Star Theatre. \V. \V\ Barron?An important battery announcement. Carroll Brothers? Sugar cured hams at :I0 cents a ]K>und. Peoples Bank and Trust Company?An invitatioA. Mrs. Lucia Ewart Quinn?Address to the voters. Peoples Bank & Trust Co. and Loan & Savings B:tnk?Banks to be closed on September 4 on account of legal holiday. Why not set out some pecan trees this fall? It dots not cost must to set 11 1 " " -1 ' o ? *? n hm f 111 lllfJU UUL UIIU lliVJ Ul V u nwUUV.kW. satisfaction when tlicy come into bearing. ltudded trees should begin bearing within three or four years and seedlings should begin to make a showing within eight or nine yer.rs. EXPENSE ACCOUNTS. Expense accounts of Hugh G. Brown, candidate for re-election, and J. W. Khillinglaw, candidate for county commissioner, show that Mr. Brown spent $7S.S0 before the first primary, and Mr. ShlUinglaw, $23.25. Mr. Brown spent $10 for entrance fee; $18.80 for railroad fares, meals, cold drinks, gasoline and oil, and $20 for advertising. Mr. Shillinglaw spent $15 for entrance foe; $0.75 for advertising; $1.25 for meals, and 2f. cents for a contribution at Forest Hill. PICKING THE WINNER The five dollars offered for the best guess on the result of the voting in Tuesday's primary has been awarded to Eugenia White of Filbert. xne award nus ueeu mauc iiuhuj/uuj upon a basis of the total vote, her guess being 5,075. Miss White guessed only two of the nominees for the legislature and only one of the leading candidates lor treasurer. She had a close vote on supervisor and picked only one of the leaders for probate judge. She picked the leaders for county commissioner. Some of the guesses were closer as to results; but because of the complicated calculations involved, an exact award would be impossible. OF INTEREST IN YORK COUNTY Numbers of races for various county oftlces in the primary election last Tuesday are of especial interest to York county folks by reason of the fact that numbers of the candidates have many relatives and personal' friends in this county. For instance. In Union county Frank Caldwell is in a second race for county treasurer with J. H. Bartles. Mr. Caldwell is a brother of Mrs. W. C. Whitesid.cs of Y'orkriHo. In Cherokee county Clerk of the Court Thomas M. Caldwell is re-elected over ifciy mo ml Kobbs. Mr. Caldwell was for a time a resident of Yorkville, and has many relatives and friends over the county. In Spartanburg county LeRoy Moore is in a second race for the office of master with K Gentry Harris. The vote stands: Moore, !?,387; Harris, 871. The third man, Wingo had 1.86Q votes. Mr. Moore was formerly super-' intendent of the school at Sliaron, He is a cousin of Messrs. W. D., A. M. and S. M. Grist of Yorkville. in Laurens county Miss Kate Wofford is in a second race for county superintendent of education. Miss Wofford is a graduate of Winthrop College, Rock Hill, and has many friends am one Winthrop alumnae ov? r the county. WITHIN THE TOWN ? Sales at the "country store" in Voikvillo last Saturday totaled about $ 1 *>, it is said. ? "Uncle" Atkinson, colored, paid a fine of $5 in Magistrate J'.lack's court Wednesday because of a warrant sworn out for his wife, Mattic Atkinson by Sarah Moore. Sarah charge I Mattie with letting Mat tic's cow cut Sarah's corn. "Uncle" Atkinson told the magistrate he didn't ;nind paying the tine jiist so Sarah didn't get any of the money. "Just a case of niggerism," said lie. ? It is very seldom that a telephone exchange, is subjected to an < flieicney lest more severe than that which was ---- v....I ..ill.. .v.ih?niM 1,-1 i jjiavru uu mi- i ui i%> IIIV i .%? Tuesday night. There were thirty-one boxes tn lie heard lruin.all over York ounty with messages that required from a to 10 minutes eaeh in their transmission. I a sides this there were scores of inti eruptions l?y anxious inluirers for news. Hut ail this work ,vas ha ml led without confusion or delay mil in a thoroughly businesslike manner. It is no new thing to anyjoily here that Yorkville has a most flieient teliqihone systi m. Everybody vho.has enough telephone work to judge is aware of the faet; birt The Yorkville Enquirer desires to express i sincere belief that there is no more flieient exchange in tin state. The itall' eotisisls of .Mrs. I'aul Uunlap, Misses .Mamie Parish, Lillie Cunvnee ind Minnie Tohainusson, with .Miss Villeiiii .Nicll as chief operator. RETURNS FROM THE ELECTION People who hail gathered tlu* idea lull there was not much interest in j lie election of lest Tuesday should j iave< seen the crowds that gathered j Hound the bulletin board in front of! L'li.> Yorkville Enquirer office. First and last from within an hour if the closing of the polls up ~ 'clock Wednesday morning, there vole fully one thousand people watcliag that board?not a'l at unco but, oming and going. And tin- |>j>l?- crime fr<mi all parts i if llu* county, from Kock Hill, llick-j >ry (imvc, . Met'niinellsvilie, tfaiiinn, I tautiago> New Ziun, Kccrshcba every-j ehoro. 11 And when tin.* telephone of The! iorkviilc !ai<|Uiifr was riot busy it-- ! civin 4 i? nu ns, it wan being used 'in I ns'.vi ring ini|iiirics from cv ry win re. iiiiiii,, eight or t'ii hours the uctivit.s i raw incessant. In all the sixty or mora years of ox- t lericncc that The Enquirer lias had in I'tn k of this kind, in \ r ha: its arangcnients worked more sin ot'aly.! lore than thirty correspondents as-j Isted in collecting and i< lophoning the i el urns some of them v? l -runs oi cars and years, and some breaking ji 1 with their fust experience; lait not j ! of thou felt down. All of them ' ad a k' en appn ciaHon of tin t: no n- 1 ous interest attaching to quick work' and all measured up to the responsibility. lly 12 o'clock all the returns were in from tvery precinct and York was one of the few counties that could be reported complete to the outside world. To be able to accomplish the feat of which m? ntion is made required the I mechanical facilities of .1 city daily, and editorial organization somewhat j beyond the ordinary; but it will be un- I fair for The Yorkville Knquirer to lake too much credit to itself without acknowledging the splendid service of the local telephone exchange. That service was simpiy to perfection. RANK MOTION REFUSED In an order Hied with Clerk of Court McilUekin yesterday, Judge Thomas S. Seaae of S|iartanburg refused fo vacate the order of the late Judge Ernest Moore of Lancaster, appointing receivers for J. N. McCill's Sons Coni' i?iny of Hickory Grove. The motion, to vacate the receivership was brought by the Planters llank of Sharon, which set fftrth in its petition that it was one of the large creditors of the said defendant company; that by said order appointing receivers all suits against the said company had been stayed and prayed that the said order be set aside and declared to be null and void on the ground that it did not appear on the face of the verified complaint and answer that a cause for appointment for receiver was shown without authority to grant such an order, and that all creditors should be allowed their legal remedies. In his order refusing the petition of the plaintiff Judge Sense says: "The exact point involved does not seem to have ever been passed upon by our supreme court; but I hold that where a petition for a receiver has been made by a creditor, and such petition is consented to by the defendant whoso property is to be effected, and facts are shown as in his case where it would be of interest of all parties to huve such receiver appointed, and that such is necessary, then such appointment cannot bo questioned by a creditor who did not join in the pro "Thu Planters Bank in this case has not been deprived of its rights by tlie said order; but it is confined to a different remedy from thut it prefers to pursue by this motion. By petition to the court it could be made a party to the original proceedings under which receivership was had and would have all the right* and remedies of a party in case it was prejudiced by any orders in the case. I do not think it proper to grant the motion under the facts and circumstances before mc and the motion must be refused. MAGISTRATES' RACES Three candidates must enter tlic second primary in the race for magistrate of Ebenezer township, according to official count of the vote in' the several magistrates' races as tabulated by the county executive committee. In the Ebenezer magistrate's nice John It. Pong led with 126 votes wniit* w. n. Hwinnlc each received SI votes with T. O. Hlaektnon tailing the ticket with 61 votes. In Itethemla township a second race will lie run between K. A. Crawford, incumbent and W. It. Harper. In the other townships the present magistrates were re-elected. Following is the official vote in the first primary as declared by the executive committee yesterday: Bethel Township. Votes .lohn M. Ford ....... 191 J. I). Boyd - 117 Bethcsda Township. E. A. Crawford 101 Prank M. Sandlfer -? 50 \V. Ft. Harper ? - tin Broad River Township It. J. Caldwell 27 l>. I'. I-ittimore . 195 It. L. A. Smith ... 23S Bullock's Creek J. L. Duncan _ 233 Catawba Township, E. Cfpitys Nunn 514 J. P. Wingate S96 Ebenezer Township. T. O. ltlackmon ? It W. S. Brnsweil S4 J. M. Swinnlc S4 John is. Pony 126 Fort Mill Township. J. It. Hall 131 E. S. Parks 221 King's Mountain. It. E. Love C71 York Township. W. S. Peters 189 Krcd C. Black ... - ... 571 * Bethel Commissioners. Tin* official vote for the three members of the Bethel township road commission was as follows: Arthur (.' I.air.ett 102 8. S. Itnird l>)2 S. S./tllena 102 ALLEGED BOX STUFFING Dr. .1. H. Saye, executive committeeman for Slyiron precinct and socrctaryLtreasurer of the York County Executive Committee reported to the committee at its meet in.? yesterday that hi* hail been informed bv the managers at Sharon of an alleged attempt on the part of a voter to "stuff the ballot box." Dr. Saye's statement to the committee was that the managers had reported to him that a voter had in some unknown manner become possessed ol' two tickets and tried to put them in the box for state ofti? -itogether. One of 1 h< tickets slipped into the box while the other in some manner became unfolded and fell to the table outside the box. l)r. Saye thought that the fart should be presented to the York county grand jury for investigation. Members of the executive committee immediately began to inuuire of Dr. Saye how it could happen that a voter could be possessed of more than one ticket for each box since the tickets were in the hands of the managers for ilistribul ion. lie could not explain the point but went on In s-y that be had heard that I there were a number of tickets distributed among the voters in the (own r?f Sharon on Monday * ftcrnoon. .Vug. "S. lie did not kno.' where they lauie from and his information was "bear say" testimony only. Till- rommitten .unanimously passed i motion appointing l>:\ Snc a ciiiiiiniltoe or one to thorouchly investigate l!i" i(i;i11 >>* ;iml I" secure : ili'.adits from the manajrvrs i)ml report lo the j lommitteo nt its next meeting. The manaevrs ol election ;ii Shnmn 1 were: .). Hope Hicham, \\\ S. Love; itnl K. It. Shannon. I Jr. Saye did not present tile mini' >f the allejtvil "IciMot utliflfer" to the omniittee. Ask I'd for the name hv a ep >rter for Tile Vorkville Kmiuircr, lie refused to jive the information - nvinsr: "I don't want Iiis r. inv published." Asked about the matter yesterday afternoon J. Hope Highnm, one of tho election managers at Sharon said: "The man who had two tickets was Dick Norman, i nin satisfied, howeve r, that there was no intention of wrong doing on his jxirt. I do not know how it'came about that .V'-. Norman managed to have two stato tickets."' STATE OFFICERS. The official tabulation by tlie Oounj ty Dcmociatic Executive committee J for state offices yesterday showed that : totals printed in Tlic Yorkvllle Enquirer were substantially correct, except a bad error in the case of the vote for J. H. Hope. The total for Hope in i The Enquirer's tabulation was 2,775 ! when it should have l?een 117l>. It ap1 pears that .Mrs. Drake's total had been ; carried in the adding machine and ? trlvinc I f dim flirt ; UUIIimzil'U Willi IIVJA, , credit fur the aggregate vote or both. None of the other discrepancies were 1 material. The official vole for state j offices was as fo''o\vs: For Governor: Cole Ii. Mease 2,671 J. J. Cantey 46 William Coleman 138 John T. Duncan 31 George K. 1-moy ?.. 5t0 Thomas G. McLeod 1,532 For Lieutenant Governor: K. C. L. Adams -1,059 K. If. Jackson 1,193 Jennings K. Owens 2,019 For Secretary of State: W. Hanks !)mc 1.716 James O. Hosier 3,200 For Attorney General: | Harold Eubanks - 1,205 D. M. Winters 1.043 Sam'l M. Wolfe 2,477 For Comptroller General: Walter E. Duncan 3,087 T. Hagood Gooding 1,763 For State Treasurer: Sam'l T. Carter ? -4,871 For Superintendent of Education: Mrs. Hossie Rodgors Drake? 1,599 J. H. Hope 1,179 O. D. Sony 152 Cecil 11. Seiglor 92 I K. K?rearln2t<n 855 Mrs. E. Burton Wallace 512 For Adjutant and Inspector General: Robert & Cralgr 2,085 Thomas B. Marshall 2,843 For Commissioner of Agriculture: 11. Harris 2,061 George VV. Wightman 1,795 Total vote for State officers 4,916 OFFICIAL COUNTY VOTE As a result of the official tabulation of votes in the races for county offices yesterday the York County Democratic executive committee found that thero would be no second race for the house of representatives between Messrs. Erwin ('.mothers and Emmet t> W. I'urslcy. Mr. Carothcrs being declared the foui-th member of tho legislative delegation. The official tabulation shows that five of the legislative candidates received a majority vote but since Mr. Carothere's vote was larger than that of Mr. i'ursley's ho was declared elected. The official tabulation yesterday did not show any other material changes over the. results of tho election for county offices.oh shown by The Torkvill" Enquirer Inst Tuesday. Following' is the official count: For Congress W. F. Stevenson received 4,825 For Houso of Representatives J, E. Hcamgunrd received 3,157 \V. A. Bolin received 1,188 W. It. IIradfolit received 3,017 Erwin CMrothem received 2,505 I'orter B. Kennedy received ? 2,033 E. \V. Pnrsley received 2,333 J. I?. Spratt received 2,706 W. J. Talley receive? 1,633 For Treasurer William A. Douglas received. .. 623 Ernest \V. Cluy received 437 Arthur T. Hart received 706 John It. Eoftan received ? 319 Lucia Kwart CJoinn received 1,061 D. L. Sifieder received - 350 W. 1). Thomnsson received 849 t!co. W. Williams received 265 M. C. Willis received 206 For Auditor Broad us M. T/>ve received - 4,835 For Superintendent of Education John E. Carroll received 2,956 W. T. Slaughter received 1,914 For Supervisor Tims. \V. Ijoyd received 1,366 II. (!. Fir own received 1,369 John l'\ Cordon recelvetl 899 J. E. I/iiham received 72S For Probate Judge Ralph 1!. Cain received .: 994 J. i>. Gwinn received 5 to J. 1,. Houston received 1,824 G. I*. Hmitli received 1,470 For County Commissioners r.-uhl J. Lumpkin received 3.113 J. C. Kii kpatriek received 2,!)73 II. I!. Morritt received 1.692 J. \\\ Shillinglaw received 1,378 MURDEiiED FOR MONEY. That ilratchcr and Dan Lattimore, Jr., sons of Dan I*. Ijiittimore, Sr., of Hickory drove, who were shot and killed at Camak, <P'orgin, early Monday morning, were killed with robbery as the motive and were shot down like dogs without a chance to defend themselves, is the belief of the father of the young men, and Carson and Her? U,. neri l.iiumore, ineir nrumcra, whu wore i;i Ynrkvil'e yesterday, and to whom a reporter for The Yorkvillo Enquirer talked about the case. Tho bodies of Hie two young men, who met such a tragic death, were interred in the cemetery at Hickory <trove on \Yedr.> s?!ay morning following funeral .services conducted by I lev. J. W. Lewis, pastor of Mount Vernon Methodist church. T!i" I todies of the two men arrived from Catnak during the early hours of Wednesday morning, accompanied by relatives and members ?tf die Masonic fraternity at Caniak, Dan I-ittiinore, Jr., being a member ol that fraternity. The wife of D.ui l^itliinore, Jr., lies prostrated at the home of the senior Mr. I.idit '.oi*' at Hickory (irove, she being on a visit there atMhe time she heard I he news. She is a. native of Kn .latul and was married to Mr. |,attiaiore after she had nursed him in an English hospital, where he was ill on account of wounds received in the World war. liratchcr i-ittimore was IIMIIKll l ie,I. Alleged Slayer In Hiding. W. T. Hall, aged about l'>, a farmer of t'aniak, and temttorarily serving as :i. i.iiljni::n! fop the Contra! of retire d, who is charged with tlio murder of the two J.attiinores, is I'< iii.tr hidden i:i a jail somewhere in fjioryia. I'Voling aaainsl hint follnw nk tho alh murder luea mo so in I omho tli.it Sheriff l!oj*iio doomed it host to incarcerate him in an unknown jail. Anoth- i railroad puard. a voting fellow about IS years' old, named Al(Contlnucd on l'age Eight.) j