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VOL XLVIII NO. 2 NEWBERRY, . C.. FRIDAY. JANUARY 7. 1910 TWICE A WEEK. $1 50AYEAR Home. Stretch Herald and The Last Count Before the Shows Contestants Rum Announced- Contest 4 night-Results Ann The last count in The Herald and News contest before the final count of the judges shows the contestants running very close. Now is the time when the work is being done for the whirlwind finish, and the interest is intense on the part of all those who have been keeping up with the contest-and that includes all the subscribers to -The Herald and News and all its' readers-for The Herald and News .has many readers who are not sub scribers. The contest will close at midnight on next Mofiday night, after whieb time the votes will be turned over to the four judges. The jtdges are: J. E. Norwood, Cashier Newberry 1 Savings Bank. R. D. Smith, Cashier National' *Bank. . L Spearman, Cashier Ex change Bank. J. Y. MeFal, ~Cashier Commereial Bank. After the eomnt on Wednesday af- I tersoon, which is piblished to-day, -gt eveathe eoest- manager knows &wthe eo stants are runnng. iihe result will be pab4shed in next Friday ' issue of Thd Herald and ews. This result will be the offeial _,PMrt 'of the judges 'There are five handsotne prizes. hieh are as follows: prize, 'Browniekar or $150 in 1 gold, at the option! of the winner. 2nd prize, a handsome diamond ng; on exhibition at Daniels & Williar.son 's jewelry store. 3rd prize, gold watch, on exhibi tion at Daniels & Williamson's jew-' ,elry store. 4th prize, gold-headed -umbrella, &ALUDA I THE FoREFEbONT.I A.arJng Progress of the County -Shown by the Multiplication of *Sauda, January 2.-Perhaps there~ is no surer index to the prosperity of a given section of South Caroinal then the multipliation of banks1 * within that section, espeeially when -such mul.tiplication of banks carries with it a tremendous increase of ankin capital and a 'corresponding inerease in deposits. *If one 'will take Sraluda as a cen tral poinit and draw a cirele about it with a radius of, 25 miles, and make' *a comparison in the 'number of banks and banking capital and deposits within this area,. as compared with t wo decades ago, the results will be little less than startling. Until 1888 there was but one bankl in a14 this area, the old National of Newberry, founded in 11871. Twenty-one years ago, within the area indicated, the total -?umber of banks was one, the total capital was $100,000, and the total deposits of that one bank was less than $250,000. To-day within this area: there are twenty-two ,banks, includinig the old Ntional of Newberry, as follows: At Greenwood, three;- at Newberry, four 7 Ninety Six, two; Chappelis, one; Prosperity, two; Leesviile, two; Batesburg, two; Ridge Spring, one; Johnston, one; Trenton, one; Edge field, two; Saluda, one. The total capital of thes4 twenty,io ba.nks aggregates upwards of one and a quarter millions of dollars. The sur plus foots over a half million doi lars, and the total deposits are more than three and one-half millions. In this same area two decades ago there was not a single cotton mill or oil mili. To-day there are a half doz'i of the best cotton mills in the State and two others building. -There are at least eight oil mills. The aggregate capital of these in ures is over three millions of Now In News Contest Final Count of the Judges iing Very Close-Judges loses Monday at Mid )unced Next Friday. on exhibition at Mayes' Book Store. 5th prize, $10 overcoat or cloak.. The vote was so close at the count on Wednesday afternoon that there is a chance for everybody in the contest for any of the prizes. The few days remaining until Mon day at midnight are the time for effective work. The p;rizes are of 'considerable in trinsie value. A Browniekar or $150 in gold -is a nice present for anybody. And all the other prizes are valuable prizes. And in addi tion to the intrinsie values it will be a .signal honor to win one of these prize. Remember that there are five prizes. After the count published to-day, which was mad-e on Wednesday af ternoon, the next information given out will be the. final count of the judges awarding the prizes. The winners will be published in the issue of Friday, January 14. The full details of the contet including list 6t es, rules, etc., appears on'0-. i#h page of this issue iof Tl#7Heraia and News. ThI vote'at' six o'cloek on Wed nesday afternoon was as follow.: Barpey Burr Leitzsey, JT.....21,593 A'ie- Laurie. Lominack......21,207 Clyde Ward.. ........ J. D,. Davenport, Jr...-.... 5,453 Oscar Summer.. .........4,78f a". Harry Summer.. ,... .... 1,916 Osee Coleman.. ..........1,506 Heyward B. Ewart .......1,304 Clara Novice Brown ...... 800 Geo. A. Wright, Jr. ........605 Jiin Tom Miller ............ 113 Herman Langford ........ 106 Annie Mann ...... ...... 103 Mallie Glasgow Sligh ..... 100 Pearl Davis ........... 100 dollars, and will;perhaps run into four millions. Withini this ar-ea there h'as been a corresponding increase in other in dustries, to say nothing of the growth of mercantile establishments and the magicai enhancement of irm values and farm .products. 'And, what is of far more interest, this showing for this area in the past, twenty years is naot peculiar to the section of the State indicated. . A study of other sections of South Carolina would doubtless show even more startling progress 'and mriagical development. At the beginning of the New Year one is forced to won der what .the next two decades will show all over the State.. HASKElLL APPOINTElD CONSUL. Columbia Man to Get Diplomnatic Post in Mexico. -Washington, Jan. 5.-The Presi 'dent 'to-day sent to the senate for confirmation the name of Lewis W. Haskell, of Columia, S. C., ~to be consul at S.alina 'Cruz, Mexico. About two years ago Mr. Has~kell came to Washington and stood a competitive examination for a place in the consular service and has"been on t.he eligible list for some time. He belong:s to the rel known Haskell family of South Carolina, aind his appointment :-will doubtless be good news to his friends throughout the State. TRUST COMPANIBS MERGBD. 'New York, January 3.-J. Pier ont Morga, Thomas F. Ryan and Levi P. Morton linked hands in New York today in a trust company mer ger. which unites resources of $15, 000.000. It is a triple combina.tion, 'bringing t-he Guaranty Trust Comn p:y, all ot this city, under one head, wnhtl the title of the Guaranty Trust Company. The merger is perhaps the 1.ss of its kind in the United NEWS OF PROSPERITY. Prosperity's Contingent of School Boys and Girls Missed.-Graded School Improvements. Prosperity, Jan. 6.-The Mission arv Union will meet at the Baptist church inext Friday afternoon at 3:30 o,clock. All the women of the I town are urged to attend and take an interest in this interdenomina tional society. Mr. H. J. Rawl returned Monday from a visit to Leesville. -Mrs. J. P. Bowers, Mrs. Thompson Young and Miss Lora Nates have gone to Graniteville to visit their sister, Mrs. W. P. Blanton. Mr. Luther Long, who has been for a number of years one of our suburbanites, has moved his family to Helena. We are sorry to lose them. Mr. W. W. Kinard, of the county, has moved to the Fellers' farm, on the outskirts of our town. If one goes down town this week one is forcefully reminded of the "deserted village"- deserted in comparison with the last two weeks, when the youths and maids from col lege were to -be -seen everywhere. "The State" said "they" took pos session of Coiumbia Monday-just as they had been doing everywhere else for the past fortnight. We feel very proud of our town when we come to discover that we are send ing to various schools and colleges more than twenty-,five bright, aetive, embryonic men and- women. Educa tion is truly the hope of our coun try and we, feel sure that when these "doctors, lawyers and Indian chiefs" returni "'.for keeps". in a few years that our town will be muWe| benefitted -by their presence, their trained minds and thir broadened views. Long .ive these boys and girls, say we. Indeed, we speed their parting with nothing but good wishes for their efforts this year. We only trust that their greatest achievements last year will be their least achievements dnring the one that lies an unwritten scroll before them! Mr. A.; G. Wise and Mr. S. J. Kohn retuned Saturday from the banquet of: the Carolina Insuramce company, given at the olumbia hotel-on New Year's eve. Mr. A. H. Kohn, of our town, is secretary and treasurer of this corporation. We 'have heard very favorable accounts of this affair. in luding the entertaining, ,witty and humorous 'speech made by our gen ial, editor. Miss Lillian 'Hair has returned from a visit to Blythewood. Miss Blanche -Kibler gave a 'most delightful "At Home'' to her class of young men during the holidays. This largi grou.p of Sunday school workers was complanmented by a like number of girls, and a very deeta ble evening spent together. Elabo rate refreshments were served. Mr. Workman visited his brother, Cief Worknian, last week. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Mos'eley have been in Clinton this week at the bed 4de of Mr. H. C. M.oseley,whose con dition, we are sorry to say, is -not improved. Our enterprising furniture dealer, Mr. J.: C. Sehumpert, has just re eived a carload of up-to-date furni ture. The graded 'school hiss been numer ically increased this ~year. Many improvements are being made in va rious ways. The library will' soon have a large addition of thirty.Q or 'more new and interesting books. 'Good work is being done by teachers and students. We had to smile when we saw our last letter in print. We intended the hint about the linotype machine to 1be pyarely confidential. On a second and a half's reflection we -decided that "the powers that be'' took that way of making us a delicate apolo gy, accepted it and observed with pleasure that the new machine had been put into action. We hereby drop all parties concerned a Chesterfieldian bow, with the hope that we '11 feil like doing the same over the appear anee of every letter this year. Messrs. Fraik Porter and Archer Willis, of -Columbia, visited at Mr. H. P. Wicker's last week. M. Crowther- of Ahheville. spent several days of last week with Mr. Young Brown. Mrs. Vary Hawkins, of Newberry, I is visiting her daughter, Mrs. B. B. Hair. Dr. W. A. Shelton and family, of Liberty,. visited Mr. George Hunter's ( -family last week. T.he Literary Sorosis will be en- 1 tertained by Miss Koh-n -rext Tues day at .3:30 p. m.' "South Carolina" E is the subject for this year's study r and the President, Mrs. Morris, re- s quests all members to be present at S this first meeting. Miss Rosabelle Harmon returnedI 1 to Scranton on Monday t> take i charge of her music class. t Mr. Godfrey Harmon, Jr., returned k to Furman University on Tuesday., I THE SEMMNOLE CASE. rt New Inidictment Handed Out in Co- t ,umbia Against Garlingtoa and Young. t The Record, 5th. In the court of general sessions C this morning, a new indictment was t handed out against John Y. Garling- a ton and James Stobo Young, charg- 1 ing conspiracy 'and breach of trust 1 4itth fradul,nt intent in conneetion with the management. of the Semi- i o1ole Seurities company: This. ind;.etment covers practicaily t the same points as previous indict ments on which true bills have al Teady been returned, but in addition it is aleged that Garlington as pres idext and, Young ab secretary of the Semir.ole eompany appropriated to their own use $55,596 in money of the property of the Seminole com 1pany. The first count of the indictment covers.the ,previous eharge that Gar lingtoja 3aid Young issnea to oarling ton 75,000 shares in stock, of the E par value of $1.00 and the market I value of $1.50 a share, "pretendedly t for -75,000 shares of staek in the 3 Carolina Agency corapany, but of no i market or actual value and which I said stock said Garington had no power to sell, dispose of, transfer or assign." It is alleged that this transaction was in pursuanee of a conspiracy to "ehe&t and aefrai,'' and that it also constituted' a breach of trust. - The fourth count in the indictment charges that Garlington ass. president b and Young as secretary and treasur- t er were. entrusted with $55,596, "to. hold and keep for said Seminole Se- i eurities compaay,'' and i breachb and v in violation of their trust, without u paying for- said stoek and without a giving any consideration wha.tever, did feloniously tarke and appropriate for arlington 's own use 37,064 shares of stock in' the S'winole comn pany. The last cournt in the indiebnent is as follows: "That John Y. .rling ton and James Stobo Young, late of the county and State aforesaid, an the 15th day of January, in the year t of our lord one thousand nine bunn drel and eight, with force and arms I at Columnibia court house, in the county of Riichland and in the State r of South Carolina, fifty4~ive .thous and, five hundred and ninety-six dol~ t lars in money lawful ecrrency of. the UJnited States of Amner'sea, of th,e e value of fifty-five thoiisand, five bun dred a:d ninety-six dolkrs, and of deniation and issue to the ju rors aforesaid. u.nknowrg of the prop erty of Seminole Securities-company, r a corporation duly incoroorated un der the la-ws of the State of South larolina, then and there being fo'!nn feloniously did steal, take and carry> ma aeainst the form of the statute C n m'neh case made and .orovided. and against the peace and dignity of the State's Financial Affa.irs. Columbia, Jan. 3.-The finances of the State are in a fine condition ae cording to -a statemen.t made todqvI at the State Treasurer's offi e. W m State debt and rihero ; "1. money to meet all obligations. The total amount of taxes received to ate from .the county ' treaslgrers :3fOU'nts to $378,771.35. This is less hau the amount received up to the ame date last year, which was $420,-1 250.52. BLECTIONS BY .LGIS.LATU.1L leveral Vacancies on the Circuit Bench Fall Due Now.-The In surance Commissioner. .olumbia State. The general assembly at the com ag ses-ion will have a number of acancies to fill by election. Thee leetions are usna-lly held about the aiddle of the sessioni, after the first eramble over old and new bills has ubsided, but acordin,g to state ients made by certain members al esolution wil ,be introduced early a the present session for an elee ion not later than a week after the ody is caled to o6rder. The man ers feel that with elections, and leetion promises off their haa hey can transaet business quicker nd there will be less interruption b he friends of those seekg office. An examination of the book eon aining commissioned officers kept 6y the Secretary of Sitate shows that aanly of those named for trustees of sate colleges have failed to secure heir commissions in the past sever 1 years. This appIied to every col ege under State control and nat taly the legislative committee sp >ointed to investigate vaanies to e filled had a rather difficult time in ecuring data for , a report back to be senate -and house. There are no vcancies to be fiRed n the supreme court benwh, but sev ral judges are to be elected for the ircuits. -Those whose terms empire re: C. G. Dantzler, First jreuit; Lobert AJ&rioh, elected to - sITed ames Aldrich, resned, Seond eir-, uit; ,R. C. Watts, Fourth cirvuit; eo. W. iage; Sixth ciremit; J. Q augh, Eighth eie*it. The genera. asse. wil also lect an insuranee commssioner. F. L MeMaster of 'his city' was elee ed .when this offiee was created twb ears ago, and his record is such that is doubtful if he will have ay op osition. Those whose 'terms expire as pen entiary directors are: W. H. Glenn-, ,ho succeeded B. F.'Thomas, resign-1 d, and D. B. Peuri.foy, whose com ssion expires on March 12. It is, hardly probable that Miss ,avinia E LaaBorde, of Columbia, rill have ariy opposition as State li rarian, she having filled that posi ion satisfactorily for several terms. ihere are other off2ees to be filled y the vakious colleges, but those hose terms expire wifl not be known ntil the legislative comnniittee mnakes report. [EGRO ENUMEBATOiIS .TO QOUNT NEGROBS. irector Durand Instructs that Blacks be Employed to Gather Information About their Race. Washington, Jan. 3.-Declaring ht the coming eensu1s would sho0w a egro population of more than 2, 00,000, and the desirability of hav ag negro enumerators to count the egro population in ths sections of he South where the :negro popula ion is two-fifths or more, for the. eason tha~t negro enumerators can tain more accurate informnation rom their own race than ivhite numerators, thus requiring both egro and wihiite enmmerators in aany Southeran districts, Census Di eetor Daurand to-day issued genieraa astructions to supervisors. "Negroes doubtless can obtain he information required from their wn race more aeeurately than white numerators,'' says Dr. D}urand. 'The white men of the South them elves recognize the desirability of 'rployig negroes. to do work .of his character among their own race. do not consider it desirile that in he South negroes appointed as~ n nerge wa*ld b' aathorized to1 numera te white fami'lies. If many, not in- most, parts of the South .. ' s'r or: wel1d not be able A.- n aac.cir,to ' 4atis&ties re ~arding the white poroolation as Sr 'or: ennld.' ~derated t spin ncets are not yet in or 4er anyway. FARNUM FINED $5,000 FOR GVG REBATE HE ENTERED PLEA OF GUILTY ON WEDNESDAY. Was Accused' of Paying Money to Member of Disironsary Board. Other Charges N01 Prossed. The Record, 5th. James S. Farnum, agent in this State for .the Anheuser-Busch Boaw-', i.ng company aid other liquor houses which did business withtlelate State dispensary, today pleaded guilty to a dharge of conspiracy to defraud the State and paid a fme of $5,000. The end .of this case was a great surprise and came without previous intimation. This morning Attorney General Lyon appeared in'the Rich Land county court of general sessions with Solicitor Cbb, and presented a new indictment against Firm charging nim with conspiracy with Joseph B. Wylie, formerly member o the State dispensary board, to ,de. fraud the State. The grand jury at onee -retired and Wylie was examined as a witness3 a short while the grand jury returned with a true biL Farnum and his a tonneys then came intocourtaidoth. er proceedings were inteUFtai while the attorney general iinnonnei that Farmum desired to plead diyt and he..would accept theplea.arna stood .p and Jddge Price a for tht written plea whie w_ -ahY sigi(4. Judge 1r5ee. at onemo da sentee, saying that view - the ple he w'ould be- lein ray aide as -nin s Fammn mig4 i ai The- g said e kw sendHa4ion was pmnis e deserved, Nther though his moral guilt wag: great as-that f.' the iffe o '! State who had -P&ricipa'ed conspiracy ad a -epted ib&; He would uherefore impose a sentene oW $5,000 fine or one year's imprison ment on the chai'gang or in tte peni.tetiary. Farnum 's attorney pro dbed a certificate of deposit for $5 W00, which was aeepted as payn, and then the judge amended theen tence so as to Iiminate the alterna tive of imxprisonme nt. Othfrzer vases Drouppedi 1' .A~rney GpneraLyOen iviI view of Farinu's plea, nol pros the~ other cases against Farmam, five in all, two for bribery of State disp- a ary officials and three for eomnise ' ey, allbased on similar testinau. t '3 the last- term of court Farmxkwa aquitted on a charge' of conspiracy A4? based o practicaHly the same e Q7 A Complete Sufprie'. The snational compromie.fth cses against Farnumn-was entniey unexpected until the very moent when lie and his attorneys, B. A.HEa'~ good. and T. M. Mord~eeai, of Chiarle to;, and District Attorney! ErnestI Cochran 4f Anderaon, ppeae court with him, and took seats ii in the bar, while Attorneyl Geeri' Lyon sat near the solicitor, gwaitini qn opportuminty to break in aponi t,h? trial of the Medlin murder ease. Kr Farnum was. looking th ptureo~ health. If the trial bhrou2gh~ he passed last sunmr mutely,no going o~n the stand;ai~d the.ees stl - left against him, wftiedhiat P they have not caused -him-to los a owen'e of fiesh, aparently. Feels Humm'iatin When congratulated by rxd today on haiving an end of hepi seu-tio against him, lhe said: 'Well, I don't know whethei the . situaiie calls for congratulaionrs or not. I don't like te plead guilty, ee with the privilege of paying a~fmne. A fellow does not like to have a thing' - like that chalked up against. him." When the Medin-trial -was sus 'ended for the purpose of receiving Faum's plea, Farnum walked quiet ly over to the railing be.inid which ~ 0erk. Walker stood, a'nd at Ith. di. rection of Attorney Ragood signer _ a statement, attached to the indiet-,'__ 'nut, to'the effect ha '"Jame' S. 'rnum appears in person and pleads - 'l- o 4 within 'indictment,.. tIlis 5th day of Jwrarv; 1910." . N.in Sentence. Adresin Farnum, Judge Prinne