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boo)k rwqd noi lrrepnding tu) for eithe t~*rausacti ii no c B. ~ommUI sions were1 paid i curreney as Mr. Curiel had testitied in the morning. Witness replied That these transac tions had occurred; four years ago and he had no clear r6collection of them. He stated that no bill had been presented. but tha Farnum had call ed upon him an made demand in person. 1 "Who approvid the claim?" "I did." "Why?" "Becaus, ouir salesman, Mr. Sinn, had som-e kin" of agreement with Farium." Another ent y in the cash book on Jan. 4, 1904, 'Was J. S. Farnum $950, and on the same date "Sundries," South Carolin, dispensary, $450. Col. Felder broughlt it out that these also went to Farlinm. but no reason was given for the dual entry. ' Farnum as Adjuster. A new line was then opened. Mr. Curiel elaimed that Farnum had brought him in 1906 orders for 2,000 cases and he had refused these for the dispensary was even then in his debt for $50,000. The stenographic report of the questions and answers is as follows: "Did von have a difficulty in dis solving partnership with Farnum and Wilson in 1904?" "I had no partnership. Mr. Far num threatened to tie up our account if we did not pay him." "Did you pay him?" 'Was the account ever tied up?" "Tied up for four years." "Mr. Farnum have any instrumen tality in tying it up?" "I am afraid he did. He had a great deal of influence with the last board." "Do you really think so? Who was the last board?" "I do not remember." "'Maj. Black, Capt. Rawlinson, Mr. Wylie? And you really think he had some influence with those three gen tlemen?' "He had seen me in my office about the matter." "What did he say about that?" "He then sent me a telegram say ing 'for $1.500' he could settle my ae count." ''Got that telegram with you?" "No." "Coul'd you find it in your files?" "I think I could." "He sent you a telegram that if you would send $1,500 your account would be paid." "He had an order whieh I declin ed to fill in my office." "Was that at the time the account was tied up?" "No, the account had been releas "By the legislative committee?t But the gentlemen with whom Far num was dealing were holding down the limb." "'I think so.'' h"And he wired you what?" "He sent me a telegram to New York in my office." "'He telegraphed you that if vou would pay him $1,500 your account would be paid?" "i-He telegraphed with no explana tiofl. only 'Fifteen hundred dollars, 60 or 90 days.'" "He had a personal interview with you in your office in New York 'about the payment of your account and told you the board of directors were holding up the account unless you paid $1.500; that would have been exactly $300 apiece, would it not?" "He brought an order for 2.000 cases of goods which that board want ed to buy and which I refused to sell, and I said. 'Why don't they pay my account'?' My account was $50,000 at tha.t time." "Farnumn was a lawyer, wa he?" "I do not think he is. But he is as (h1p a awer. I- said to him before I doanything if'the way of ae cepting any order from this board I want my :ecunit settled--that is, the account I want settled now by this commission. He said I will advise you hiow soon y'our aceount will be settled and then he wired. '$1.500, 60 o90days.' acceptance from the b1)rd atC or 90days was the way I nnderstood it." "A:n! you had to) pay' a omiso to get your goods in and a commis sion t*' some~ one to get your money?'' "'I declined -to do it." "'How about that conversation about the $1.500? Did he tell you what von would 'have to do?" "He said :he would advise me." "'As soon as he eould see the board of control?" "He did not say." WY::- st ed that lie had not paid the S1.500-and had not got his mo ner. M .. F-ei,ier' then wenit into atch nie:s! discussion with Mr. Curiel as to the relative merits of whiskies. and Mr. C'uriel declared that hie had made fln a c'ompound of :3X rye for Sou., Carolna, which was declared [mi i e were no sold to other cus- ii tomers. Witness admitted that he had re ceivei request frob Farnum for Ite sample cases to be sent to South Car olina in tha.t happy Yuletide of 1904 su when $4.000 worth of sample cases M were piled up in the express otliee in re ('ulubia. but lie denied that he com- to plied with Farnum's request. ch The New York and Kentucky com- es pany has 13 distilleries and 47 cor porations, but the New York branch N is the only one which ever dealt with th the dispensary. The examination ou rested here and will be resumed to- s, day. w] m CLAIMS WANTED $10,000. t re Whiskey House Man Makes An In- di teresting Witness-Featare of Dispensary Investigation. of News and Courier. Columbia, June 9.-The only reve- q1 lation at this morning's session of the winding up commission was the testimony offered by Mr. H. A. Cmiet t who resumed the stand today, that James Farnum visited Mr. Curiel in New York and carried there in person ti an order from the dispensary boar'ti signed by two members. and at te' 01 time asked for commissions on t hf order which Mr. Curiel says he turn- P ed down. The other feature of the session was the tests submitted by f' Col. Felder, of various kinds of whis keys tending to show that the goods P shipped into this State were not ' I straight whiskey, but was a combina- " tion of cologne spirits coloring mat- t ter and an article called "extract of h rye. The contention of the State is that t this inferior class of goods was sent here, and the prices charged were the same as for the better grades, and in this manner the firms were able to pay the large commissions out of Iwhich the dispensary board is al leged to have gotten its share. The latter contention is borne out by the d I affidavit of Dudley read yesterday afternoon, and the State will endeav or to prove to the satisfaction of the commission that the tests are correct P by bringing here on June 15 the ex- q pert chemist, who gave the formila by which the whiskeysmight be separ ated into their constituent parts. During- the entire session this, morning" f,rom 9:30 until 1 o'clock. Mr. Curiel was on the st-and and he was questioned and cross-questioned by the attorneys for the State and his own attorneys. When the exami nation was begun it could be seen that Col. Felder would pursue a line of questions along the line .of deter mining to prove that inferior goods were shipped into South Carolina. He asked Mr. Curiel if Farnumn had not told him that goods charged for as "Three X'' might be shipped from the '"One X'' sto" a,nd ebarg ed for at the "Three X'' price in order for the commissions to be paid. to which Mr. Curiel replied that "-he may have given me to understand that the dispensary board knew not-h ing about the grades of whiskey.' Mr. Curiel denied that he had ever. added to t'he prices in order to be able to pay the commissions charged, but that this method had been suggested to him. He did not recall whether: IFarnum or Wilson -had made the sug gestion, but he turned it down. Mr. Curiel was asked many ques tions as to the methods of making whiskey, and then came Col. Felder's test as to the comstituent parts of whiskey sold here. First, -he took some whiskey out of . a ot tle of Hunter, Baltimore rye, I and placed it in a vial, into which was poured some substance. The ef fet was that there was a separation 1 apparently of the parts making up the composition. A dark substance settled at the bott'om, which Col. Fel der says -is the coloring matter used. i the middle portion of the vial a lihter substance was distinctly out lined. This he said, was the cologne prts. and at t-he top was a small di iion of a dark substance, which h-e saswas the extract p)f rye. (Col. L Mer st-i IE thiat he would be able to establjih to the satisfaction of all t~at the test was corieel, and that the whisk: 2Vwas not such. but was c mposed t the substanees(. shown by the test. Mr. Curie1 did iiot under stand such a test, and did not recog *n- it :s Icrct. La ter he charaet te:zed the test as a "h lumbugr. After the t,e-t with the Hunter rye 'ol. Feld :ied the same thing with, G(een River whiskey. whieu did not s]o te:e different .constituents as were sho'wn in the Hunter rye. This, he delared. was straight whiskey. eint of the bonded , variety. Col. eder referred to the notorious "Fus- X'" sold here to the dispen ,ar, w ich. he said,. Was aged by droping1~ inI one b)all o'f po'tash to age vn ear. t w~o baflls to age the stuff two years. and so on. until the sixth. wihe would kill. A famous Sc-oteh brand of whiskey. Wa ii,indeonl tilis.4. ])tit wva ide ater i reeni Rirer whiskey, i1ch.. aeci_nding to the explanation binitted by Col. Felder stood the st. Before going further with the st Col. Felder asked Mr. Curiel what ch a compound would be worth, and r. Curiel said if the test were cor et it would be worth about $3.50 .$3.75 per .case, the price in reality arged -in this State on these class of goods being about $10. Senator Weston, attorney for the ew York and Kentucky company en questioned Mr. Curiel, bringing t that there had been sold to this :ate $63,000 worth of goods, of ich about 75 per cent was Duffy's alt, that high grade bulk goods to e amount of about $21,000 had been turned by the commission after the sensary was abolished. Mr. Curiel stated that the DuffNt's alt shipped 'here and to -other parts the country was all of the same iality: that he also charged the me price here as elsewhere; that did not add on, penny because of e commissions paid; that he quit ,e business in this State because he uld not afford to pay the commis ns, and because his account was d up. He reviewed the transac Ins with James Farnum as brought it yesterday. stating in detaail the -opositons as to orders. One of the orders shown today was >r about 7.000 cases of goods which :r. Curiel said Farnum brought in .son to him and demanded -a com ission thereon. There was another -der in April. 1906, for 200 cases of te malt for the same rea-sons, and tere were other orders later on which ? turned down, because his account ,.d been tied up here. He refused > pay Mr. Farnum the $1,500 to ive his account settled as per the roposition submitted by wire. He lderstood even after he had no di 'et dealings with Farnum that the tter was ''still in the transactions.'' Mr. Curiel and Col. Felder had a ifference as to what Mr. Curiel tes fled yesterday in the matter of com issions. Col. Felder recalled that xr. Curiel had said that he had never aid a commission until after Simm it. Simm was the man who made ' If you don M( MODERN:l will save mone Let ua onap for a free trial any Loose Leaf Sheets on any Bonds. Mortgages. Etc. Floigu olcin Cnter Ruled Leger F eCoos Cot of Production HoehlExes Credit Information isaletAcut DentitW Records JunlSet Double Rjplled Ledger Lays'Clcto hpdcat Re~uii Fon o C oke ton Empoys Rcors Horinentague om I they proveiou clamlpy ~ELent H.nt Jom-nalm Shet TELNEBERRYH Dapital $50,000 - - No Matter How~ Smal The Newberry i give it careful at ppies to the rae an TAS. McINTOSH. Sarranement with Wilson and Farnu . .Mr. Curiel said that this was not his statement. In order to clear the matter up the books of the compawy whiol had been taken back to the hotel. were ordered brought up again and the accounts were referred to in order to prove the record, so that it could be seen v-hether or not comnissions were paid after Simm left the employ of Mr. Curiel's com pany. The books showed that Simm had left in January, 1904, and that since that time Farnum had been paid sev eral amounts, including the $2,600 (Continued on Page six). NEWBERRY UNION STATION Arrival and Departure of Passenger Trains-EEective 12.01 A. M. Sunday May 30, 1909. Southern Railway: N.. 15 for Greenville .. ..857a.m_ No. 11 for Columbia .. ..1.40 p.m. No. 11 for Greenville .. ..2.43,,p.m. No. 16 for Columbia .....8.47 p.m. C., N. & L. EV *No. 22 for Columbia .. ..8.47 a.nm. No. 52 for Greenville .. 12.56 p.m No. )3 for Columbia .. ..3.20 p.m. *No. 21 for Laurens .. ..7.25 p.m * Does not run on Sunday This time table shows the times al which trains may be expoected to de. part from this station, but their de parture is not guaranteed and the time shown is subject to clange with oat notice. G. L. Robinson, Station Master. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT Notice is hereby given that I will make a final settlement of the estate of Melvin Hartman, deceased, in the court of probate for Newberry coun ty on Thursday, June 24, 1909, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and immediately thereafter apply for letters dismissory as administrator of said deceased. B. 0. Lovelace, Administrator. 1taw-4t. 7t believe that )ORE'S WETHODS' r in your office Ssend proval Binders, a Cabinet and Record of these forrms: Life In,murance Price idst Blanks odgt or ST iet hRecrd. Publisher,, Subcptions -Mrge a on Quadril. Rule Forms Peit t ey cotos noteiig. -roSrpl ustoes Wel $i30,00ee entiofnno thcso messg SurplusOROO, REPORT TO THE STATE (CONDEN: OF THE CONI The Bank of Prosperit AT THE CLOSE OF BUSI) RESOURCES: Loans . . . . . . . - $ 97,213.14 C Overdrafts.. . . . . - I,976.03 r Building and Fixtures 4,000.00 Cash in our vault. . $ 6.183-57 Cash in oth er Banks. 25-494.18 3r,677-75 $134,866.92 DIRECI S. S. BIRGE, DR. N. L. BLACK, W. J. F. BROWNE, P. ] DR. J. S. WI Our institution is under the s examined by the State Bank Ex THE EXCHA Newberr SAVINGS A( Every person in this vicinity o Savings Department. You can $1.00. You can add to it on an, gest that you adopt some system: the surest way to make a succes We Pay 4 0 Interest oj Compounded S Open an account and train Once you acquire the habit of la: your income it will become a ple a snug sum earning interest fors DON'T PUT IT OF] . D. DAVE NPORT, E President. VM. L. SPEARMAN, C Cashier. IThe First,Cough B,eu though not severe, has a ti d i~e mxembranes of the throata Coughs then come easy all wint ulightest cold. Cure the first co * et up sa inamatIan in the delic *lungs. The best remedy is 8YRUP. It at once gets right: moves the cause. 'It'is free fror * a child as for an adult. 25 centi * MAYES' DRI COA L NO IS T HE TIM For next winter's use ~ou TH E BEST CO2 i>RICES. The longe Sore your Coal will c - v~our advaratage to see1 you money on your Co SUMMER I BANK EXAMINER iED) )ITION OF Prosperity (, S.- C. NESS, APRIL 28, 1909. LIABILITIES. apital Stock. ....$ 25,000-00 urplus and profits. . 12,49750 )ue to other banks . . 2,694.01 )eposits . . . . . . . 94,675-41 orrowed money . . . NONE $I34,866.92 "ORS: GEO. Y. HUNTER, H. HUNT, B. WARNER, IEELER. uipervision of and regularly uiner. HOE BANK V,,S. C. ""COUNTS. ight to be interested in our >pen a Savings Account with r plan you see fit, but we sug atic, definite method as that is s of saving. I all Savings Accounts, emi-Annally. yourself in the saving habit. ying by a certain per cent. of asure and you will soon have you. F. BEGIN NOW. ~DW. R. H IPP, V. President. - ~EO. B. CROMER, Attorney. of the Season, endency to irrdtate the senui ands delicate bronlchal tubeS er, every time you take the ugh before it has a chance to. ite capillary.air tubes of the QUICK RELIEF, COUGH at the seat of trouble ad re-. a Morphine and is as safefotO J STORE. COAL E' TO BUY while we can sell AL at such LOW r you wait, the tst you: It is to LIs We can save IROS. CO