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YOLU U ] il BIG OAKLAND MILL PUT IN OPERATION TIURSDAI LOOMS AND SPINDLES BEGAN T4 HUM AT 11 O'CLOCK. Big New Enterprise for Newberry Un der Able Business Management Will Succeed. Newberry's third big cotton mill wa put into operation at 11 o'clock 01 Thursday morning, when the loom and spindles of the Oakland mill be gan to hum. This mill, located just beyond th north-western limits of the city, is on of the handsomest in the South. Th agitation for its erection was begu: by Col. Walter H. Hunt, who wa elected president upon the organiza W. H.~HUNT. tion of the company. Col. Hunt mE with fmne success from the start, rai: ing a great deal o.f the stock in tb -city of Newberry, and making the mi peculiarly a local enterprise. The mill has a capital of $400,00, and has an equipment of 542 looms an 20,160 spindles. The location, on on - of the highest pcints around the cit: and In the most healthful surrounc ings, is ideal. The architects and er gineers were Lockwood, Greene & Cc of Boston, Mass., with an office i Grenvlle ad te ontacorswe th ik atrCosrcinC. fices of .thes woay Coernt wee wihg f sucessfron th start,ildingt Tebiding iatdals hen'sock in cor scitoNew, and moeaings theuse Te milah an cmoitals, wit0iple and hsrrouipnt oee of th osa 20,60pntages. location, on oane ofthe ihist loctd waron hen cbt scdienit throsgt athfu crountyo ings iers idao.Tharitcsnde ,Ter were LoincwodargeebnesC mof oston,ieac, abit and ofineg ~rty,iassurn the sconcors thee Wterrser,Ms..it nofc Col.raltr. Hunt Sofuthe rlnew flees redn of the coCrnsmerei cargtie of planningan buihoiha bee hes ilpeintendsomt.co Followion ad the operectors oth arel netg and commdiou, C.ttE. Suma mer,J A. Mtn . FIA.rgtGe nt TuNroundns ome iAE of1. TO INVESTIGATE THE CAPITOL PLANS CLAIM ) COMMITTEE OF FIVE FROM HOUSE TO TAKE TESTIMONY. Plans for Improving State House Lead to Another Investigation-Claim Is For $13,500. s Columbia, Feb. 8.-The house had a various resolutions before it today in s regard to the bill for $13,500 for draw - ing the plans of the State capitol, and finally adopted a combination of the e resolutions by Messrs. Rembert and e Stevenson, the resolution as adopted e providing for the appointment of five a members by the speaker to inquire s into and report upon the matter. The five members of the house will prob ably be named by the speaker tonight. The committee is given the right to summon witnesses and take testimony. This claim was published in the last issue of The Herald and News, and the sharp clash in the legislature in regard to it is published on page six of this issue-the adverse report of the ways and means committee, the statement of the sub-committee, which made the contract, incorporated in a message of the goviernor, and the re ply .of Chairman Browning, of the ways and means committee. The statement of the committee to the effect that the governor was not present when the contract was sign ed, was signed by F. M. Bryan and C. D. Lee, and appended to it was a statement of the other member, W. W. Dixon, that the statement was correct. t 1 Then at the meeting of the house on Wednesday night the Columbia State reports Mr. Bryan as rising to a t question of -personal privilege and saying that the governor was "in and out" during the meeting of the com d mittee in the governor's office, and that e at the close of the meeting, when the e governor had been shown the Todd plans, he said: "I think it is beautiful. If the bill passes the general assembly, it shall have my approval." n The report of the committee which e met in the governor's office and which I made the contract with Todd & Ben n son, ayid .which was signed by Mr. -Bryan, according to the newspaper re n ports, was to the effect ihat an editor e ial in the State insmnuating that the' governor was in some part responsi ble for the con tract, was "both false and ms'.eadi4-g, as the said contract was n'it'1er made lior signed in the govern~or's office or in his presence, and so far as v e kncw the governor knew nothing of the said agreement uiitil its presentation by us to the full committee at the meeting of the gen eral assembly in 1912." JThe Herald and News dispatches from Columbia seem to look towards Imore investigation and inv'estigation committees, ad nauseam.I "SAFE IN THE ARMS OF JESUS" VIA SING SING ELECTRIC CHAIR Sing Sing, N. Y., Feb. 5.-While the condemned inmates in the death house, in Sing Sing prison softly sang "Safet in the Arms of Jesus," Charles Swen ton, a negro, was executed in the elec - tric chair this morning for the murder of Isaac Lee. It was the first time in e the history of the prison that the con demned have ever sung a death dirge a while another has paid the penalty of y his life. Swenrton went to the chair r cheerfully. After two shocks he was - pronounced dead. Swenton shot and killed Isaac Lee on the night of .November 9, 1910, at - the la,tter's home on West 69th street,! - New York city. Both were negroes. The killing was the indirect result - of a quarrel over the tariff. The two .men were drinking in a saloon and the discussion was suggested by a poster .on the wall. Lee said he could not understand how the "trusts could' have got hold of codfish, because there are so many in the sea." This remark angered Swenton, who told Lee to "cut it out." In the quar - re that followed, Swenton was rough ly handled by Lee. The next night Swenton went to Lee's apartment and "KU KLUX KLAN" IN (Written For The Drayton Rutherl C., by Col. D. In the early days just after the over their new-found freedom and t ment to the Constitution, granting ship, that they showed their gratitu atrocities. Murders were commiti burned; but what, more than all e] ings, were the gin houses. Nine a few months, within a radius of burnings were not confined to built those of widows with a house ful The citizens of the South had yie: table-the freeing of their slaves-1 ballot. Upon this one issue most The right of the negro to vote-out This .spirit of secret revenge upo not openly aided and abetted by t spirit was secretly fostered, and means possible. In every town ai stationed a garrison of Federal so] to preserve order and see that just But, instead of this, the people wei being dragged before the provbst a frivolous charge made by the laa against the housewife by some of hE trivial the complaint, or how overv alty in money or a jail sentence wi infraction of the law or infringemi promptly reported by the negroes, sent to make arrests. To prevent end stop these abus clans. The negroes, at the instigi were forming secret clubs and milit wherever a leader or scalawag w: them. The negro, being a child of toda; day, nor caring for tomorrow, and with a holy dread of the appeara; was first determined to act upon th, is the reason the 'lans devis2d the hideous false faces to cover their The first organization in Newberr a name taken from those organize m;iles east of Newberry, near Pomai who had won some slight distinct acclaim, chosen as its logical lea everywhere in the lower part of tl river to Saluda, all through the " Columbia. Above Newberry clans Confederate officer, the whole bei first named officer. Not every one order, but only such as had the p taking-courage, fidelity and loyali a young man expressed his desire 1 appointed to inquire into his antec< physical courage, and a willingness of the order and the safety of the c notified to appear, at a certain hou: or lonely out-house, with an answ' ap'proach him. At the appointed ti. would r-eceive him, blindfold him, to the general rendezvious. Theret laws were given him, with the r'y or be initiated. None ever drew bec from his eyes he found himself sur: looking beings, all clad in white, The initiation in some degrees w impressive and blood-curdling to I sign, grip and pass-word. Every ders, to secrecy, and a vow not to alty of death from his comrades. The meaning, or origin, of the na: with many Versions given, and perl was an over-dress of pure white, pletely covered the head and should while at the sides of the head wert cloth stuffed with cotton, at the tip Their places of meeting were in land, or at some deserted farm h< sometimes under the shadow of ti swamp in the Broad, Enoree or Sa places of rendezVous they would and determined, then range over ce a sufficient time before daylight to home unobserved. The sight of the ing horsemen, upon the negroes, h~ never a word spoken, and if the ne, the coming of these weird night ridt feet, they generally took to the wi and put out their lights. No violence was ever done any 0 doing were first made by some m impartial investigation made. Ift and it was thought best that the ev a miniature coffin was secretly pu him to leave the country-a warnui of outrage were committed on inofft vate grudge or spite, throughout th doors of the clan. But these wer other States, bire'd for that purpos secret, and one m'ember not suppos to imposs.ible for them to clear the: Parties from Tennes'see overspreaC would be forfeited should they rett (CONTINUED C NEWBERRY, S. C. ord Chapter, No. 152, U. D. A. Dickert.) war, the negroes were so elated he enactment of the 15th amend them the full benefit of citizen de to the country by all sorts of ed, dwellings and barns were se, incited their incendiary feel gin houses were burned during less than thirteen miles. These lings of the men, but often were .1 of orphan children. ded very gracefully to the inevi but reluctantly allowed them the of the South's troubles sprang. of this all armed conflicts arose. n the people of the South, while ie Federal authorities, still that bitterness engendered, by every Ad county seat in the State was diers, whose apparent duty was ice was done to black and white. re kept in a constant turmoil by narshal in these towns on some orer against the employer, or. or servants. -It mattered not: how rhelmingly refuted, a heavy pen is imposed. Any little supposed ent of their personal rights was and a squadron of cavalry was es, was the origin of the secret ition of the Federal authorities, ary companies all over the State, bite could be found to organize g only, never thinking of yester being of a superstitious nature, ice of anything supernatural, it e superstitions of the race. That grotesque disguise of white, with heads. y of the name of "Ku Klux Klan," d in Tennessee, was about eight ia. A young Confederate officer, ion in the war, was, by general der. Auxiliary clans sprang up te county, extending from Broad Fork," to within a few miles of were also organized under a ng under the leadership of the could gain admittance into the roper attributes for such under y to his fellow-members. When o0 join the clan, a committee was ~dents, such as honor, moral and to sacrifice himself for the good auntry. If found worthy, he was -of the night, at some cross road ring signal to those who would ne, a body of disguised horsemen and lead him, often miles away, ie regulaGon1s, requiremZents andi -mison to reced at this point, k. Wls the bandage was taken rounded by a body of sepulchral ith hideous headgear. as ludlicrous in the extreme, but he novitiate. He was giren the nan was oath-bound to obey or betraj any member, under pen ne, has been a disputed question, 1aps none correct. The disguise L white head-covering that com ers, with eye-lits trimmed in red, y imitation horns, made of white being a red tassel. he depth of some solitary wood use, far away from habitation; e little mountain, then in some luda river bottoms. From these ride out, single-file, silent, grim rtain sections of the county until allow each member to reach his se silent, dismal and awe-inspir d a salutary effect. There was roes had the least intimation of ~rs, by the clanking of the horses' ods or barricaded i.heir houses ne unless the charges of wrong 3mber of the clan, and then an he charges were found correct, il-doer should l.eave the country, t at his door, as a warning for ig seldom unheeded. Many acts msive negroes, to vent some pri e country, that were laid at the e committed by assassins from e. As the "Ku Klux Klan" was ed to know another, it was next nselves of these unjust charges. the State, claiming their lives irn to their homes, for the part MILTON A. CAKULSLL REFUSED NEW TRIALI CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS DIS MISSES APPEAL. Was Convicted in U. S. Court in Green ville and Sentenced to Serve Five Years. Richmond, Va., Feb. 7.-A prison sentence of five years for Milton A. Carlisle, former president of the Na tional bank of Newberry, S. C., will stand so far as the United States cir cuit court of appeals is concerned, ac cording to an opinion handed down here today, the opinion being iead by Judge Goff. This case was argued here several months ago, Gov. Blease, of South Carolina, and Fred H. Dom inick, of Newberry, appearing as coun I sel for the convicted banker. It came up on appeal from t1% district court at Greenville, S. C. Judge Goff's opinion said: "There was nothing in the errors assigned, and that the defendant was given as patient a hearing and as fair and im partial a trial as any man could ask." Milton Anderson Carlisle was con victed October 20, 1910, in the fed eral court at Greenville on five counts of an indictment containing 162 counts. Carlisle's conviction came after a trial which lasted several days and arous ed much interest in South Carolina. The counts of the indictment on which Carlisle was convicted were those charging misapplication of the funds of the Newberry National bank, of which he was the president from 1899 until 1909. The specific charge in three of these was based on drafts by the Cold Point Granite company, of which Carlisle was president and treasurer, which were paid by the bank but refused by the parties upon whom they were drawn, the .bank not being reimbursed. The other two counts charged misapplication of funds paid by a farmer upon notes due the bank. Carlisle was alleged to have put these sums to his own uses. The total amount involved in the transac\ion for which Carlisle was convicte was less than $500. IThe bulk of the indictment, upon which Carlisle was found not guilty charged overdrafts of his personal ac count and of the account of the Cold Point Granite company for considera ble sums when "he had no reasonable grounds to believe that these funds would be repaid," as both Carlisle and the company were hopelessly involved. Carlisle, who is 7.1 years of age, was sentenced by Judge Brawley to five years in the federal prison, a motion for a new trial being denied. His Icounsel took the case to the circuit court of appeals, where it was argued some months ago. Whether or not the circuit court of appeals is the final court of adjudica tion in the Carlish case has been a matter of considerable speculation among laymen. The suprem~e court of the United States is, of course, the highest court in the land, but it is well known that only cases of a certain character may reach that court. Mr. Fred. H. Dominick, of counsel for Mr. Carlisle, was asked on Thurs day what further steps, if any, would be taken in the case. He said that he had only seen the newspaper dis patches as to the decision, which were very meagre, and thait he would have nothing to say in regard to the case at this time. Mr. Dominick, who was Gov. Blease's law- partner at the time of the inception of the case, made a brillianti and stubborn fight for his client in the lower court and in the circuit court of appeals, and he never gives up a fight until it is entirely fin Ished. There may be further develop ments, or there may not, depending upon the law and the decision of the circuit court of appeals. Th!e Philosophical Method. "Don't you find it harder and hard er to live within your mean?" "Oh, I found several years ago that it was absolut4ly impossible. That's why I've bought an automnobile and joined two more clubs. One has to manage somehow to keep from let ting it get on one's nerves."-Chicago Reod-Herald. 3l11u1'b3 ur w umn Ur THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE PASSES APPROPBIATION BILL PRACTICALLY UNCHANGED Xileage Bill Has Been Enrolled For Ratification-Clash on Capitol Plans Claim. On the motion of Mr. Browning, the house took up the general appropria tion bill Tuesday night. The measure was taken up section by section, aftem it had been read in full. Section 1, providing for a tax of 5 3-4 mills during the year 1912, was passed. The following sections were passed to third reading with their totals un changed: Section 2, governor's office, total $18,480; section 3, Secretary of State's office total, $8,320; section 4, comp troller general's office, total $10,600; section 5, insurance commiesioner's office, total $10,240; sectio* 6, State treasurer's office, total $8,642.35; eec tion 7, State superintendent of educa tion's office, total $9,270; section 8. adjutant general's office, total $18,570;1 section 9, attorney general's office, total $7,845; railroad conimissioner's office, total $11,570. The fight on section 11, providing for a salary of $1,900 for the chief game warden and $1,000 traveling ex penses, was led by Mr. Ashley. By a vote of 69 to 26, the house tabled his motion to strike out the section, and it' was left in the bill unchanged. Section 12 gave a total of $1,800 to the State librarian's office. It passed unopposed. In Section 13, making appropriation for the maintenance of public build ings, the item allowing Columbia the sum of $7,500 for water- and sewer age pipes for State institutions, caused the usual debate in the house. 'Mr. Williams wanted to cut the item down to $5,000, but the house refused to do this. An attempt was also made to abol ish the salary of $1,500 for the St'ate geologist, but this was left in the bill, as was the deficit of $262.53 for 1911. The section, No. 14, was pass ed unchanged. ,. Wants No Corn Show. The house refused to adopt the mo tion of T. P. Brown, of Florence, to amend section 15 for the department -of agriculture, commerce and -indue tries, by striking out the appropriation of $10,000 for the National Corn ex position in 1913 at Columbia. Mr. Brown simply offered his amendment. He made no speech in favor of It. Mr. Browning stated very briefly that the exposition, the greatest of its kind, would giv'e South Carolina an enor mous amount of advertising. He mov ed to table~ the amendment of T. P. Brown. The house tabled the amend ment by an overwhelming v'ote. Mr. Browning amend1ed the item carrying the $10,000 for the exposition by put ting- the expenditure under the super Ivision of a committee, composed of R. B. Herbert, F. S. n' and F. L Brown, all of Colmbia. The amend ment was made at the suggestion of the governor. The salary of the clerk of the de partment of agriculture, commeree and industries was reduced from $1, 400 to $1,000. Bill Passes Second Reading. The appropriation bill has' passed its second reading in the house prac tically unchanged. - There were con tests on several Items, but In every In stance, except three, the house voted to sustain the bill as presented by the ways and means committee. The bill passed second reading on Wednesday. L. J. Browning, chairman of the com mittee, took the hoor on numerous oc casions to defend1 bis committee's surp ply measure. Other members of the committee also spoke on items con nected with matters over which they had had supervision when the appro priation bill was being framed. The three items changed Wednesday b the house amounted to a decrease in the total amount of about $500. The house refused to allow the ways and means commuitte'e to increase the sal ary of its clerk from $200 to $300 and also refused to allow the code ecmr (CO3NTINU-ED ON PAGE 2.)