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_____ ' VOLUME L, NUMBER 26. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MARCH 29-, 1M2. s r TWICE A WEEK, $1.50 A YEAR. >EW BOARD GETS BOOKS. Order Signed by Circuit Judge Ordering: Registration Books Turn ed Over. Judge Thos. S. Sease, at Abbeville, ? Avoriintr an firripr TP- I HJli r i iuaj ^ T ^ ~ ^ ^ - ? | quiring the books of registration for Newberry county to be turned over to the supervisors of registration recently appointed by Governor Blease. This board is composed of C. Eugene Wheeler, chairman, E. Lee Hayes and Gregg C. Evans. Mr. Fred. H. Dominick appeared before Judge Sease, representing the " ? f I new board. xnere was no reiuiu the rule to show cause from the old board, two members of which had formerly notified the clerk not to turn over the books to any others than 1 themselves. These two memuers vi j the old board, had addressed a letter to Clerk Goggans lasl week saying that they had reached the conclusion to withdraw the instructions alluded +r? This however, was not in the na ture of a return to the rule to show k <jause, directed to them, and was not W before Judge Sease. There was a return from Clerk Goggans asking the direction of the court as to whom he should turn over .the books. Inasmuch as the letter from Messrs. ? W. W. Riser and R. C. Sligh, of the old Aboard, to the clerk, contained the statement that they still believed they were the legally constituted board, it was thought best by attorneys for the new j board to have an order from the court j as to who was entitled to the books. Following is the order of Judge Seaee: "This is a proceeding regularly brought under Section 434 of the code of civil procedure, (1902), Volume 2, praying for an order of this court to compel the respondents to turn over and deliver to the petitioners the registration books and records of the county of Newberry, all of which is disclosed in the pleadings, which will be filed. The petition and order to show cause were duly and legally served on the respondents on the 27th day of March, 1912. "It appears from the verified petition and affidavits and certificates submitted at the hearing that the petitioners were appointed supervisors of registration for Xewberrv county on the 4th day of March, 1912, by h'> excellency, Cole. L. Blease, governor, and that thereafter they duly qualified by taking the oaths prescribed by law, and were commissioned as such; that thereafter the petitioners duly organized as the board of registration for 1 -^+ir o r.r? immpdiatelv IMWUenj tyuin,.'. unu ? made demand on the respondent, John . Goggans, clerk of court of common pleas for said county, for the registration books and records, which were then on deposit in his office for safe "keeping, as required by law. Similar "written demand was made upon the respondents, W. W. Riser and R. C.1 Sligh, who were predecessors in office of the petitioner, (C. Eugene Wheeler, one of the predecessors in office, being also one of the petitioners), for any and all books and records in their hands, custody or control belonging to the board of registration of Newberry county. "A formal return to the rule to show ^cause, heretofore issued in these proceedings, has been made by John C. Ooggans, clerk of court of common r pleas for Newberry county, and custodian of the said registration books and records; but no return whatever "has been made by the respondents W. ~W. Riser and R. C. Sligh. "Section 176, Code (1902), Volume 1, ' !J? nnnnintniont nf wmcn prov lues iui mc a^fuutnin^ui. ? the boards of registration of the various co.inties in this State, says: "Between the first day of January and the r fifteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety eight, and between said dates in every second year thereafter, the governor shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, if in session, and if not in session, subject, to its approval at its next session, subject to removal by the governor for incapacity, misconduct or neglect of duty,-three competent and ^ discreet persons in each county, who H SD?.1I UG CiU?trns> anu quauucu o thereof, and who shall be known as the board of registration of county. "The petitici: :r.> ir. this proceeding were appointed 011 March 4, 1912; the senate adjourned, sine die, as appears | from the certificates of the president - - x _ ? ^ onn. and clerk of tile senate, un tut; i^ui day of February, 1912, and was not in session when these appointments were made. I "Under the authority of ex parte Whipper, 32 S. C., and Verner vs. SeibeLs, 60 S. C., "T+ io Ckr-arl JL t 10 Vi u vi v/u . "That <the respondents, John C. Goggans, clerk of the court of common pleas for Newberry county, W. W. Riser and R. C. Sligh do deliver to the petitioners, C. Eugene Wheeler, E. Lee Hayes and Gregg C. Evans, the registration books, records, and any and j all papers in possession of the re- j spondents, or in possession of either, of them, appertaining to the office of! tho. cnrvorvisrvps of registration and ! board of registration of Newberry \ county, immediately upon the service of this order upon them. "Let a copy of +his order by forthwith served upon the respondents, and all of the papers in this proceeding be filed in the office of the clerk of f court for Newberry county. "T. S. Sease, "Circuit Judge Presiding Eighth Circuit. "Abbeville, S. C., March 29, 1912." Following is the letter from Messrs. Riser and Sligh, of th^ old board, to the clerk of court: "Newberry, S. C., March 28, 1912. "Mr. Jno. C. Goggans, Clerk of Court for Newberry County, Newberry, S. C.?Dear Sir: The law makes you + V>a Anetr\H)ari nf +h a. lwVkS nf registra IHU VUOl/UUAUU, v l (.uv _ w tion, subject 'to the call of whoever may be the legally constituted board of registration for the count}'. Some days ago we left in your keeping the books, with instructions to let no person have them except the board as or-1 gandzed with W. W. Riser as chairman,! believing as we did then, and as we do now, that there was no other legs 11 v restituted board. Having calmly thought the matter over, and being un- j willing to inconvenience the voters of j Newberry-county, who may wish to; become registered, and disregarding any feeling of selfishness that we may have in this matter, we have reached the conclusion to withdraw the instructions alluded to above. In doing so we do not wish to be understood as j in any sense relinquishing our clear j title to the office, nor in any sense to f 'acquiesce in what we believe to bej clearly a partisan action by the ^over- j nor in commissioning other than those I who had the endorsement of the State senate at its recent meeting: but only to place no obstruction in the way of registering such voters as may desire to obtain registration certificates. "Most respectfully, "W. W. Riser. "R. C. Sligh." 3EWS OF PROSPERITY. ? ^ 5 TZ 1.* DMA^n ! Death ot 3irs. lame xiauKius wiwnu. Newberry-Prosperity Road Popular?Personal Mention. ( Prosperity, April 1.?Mrs. Carrie Hawkins Brown died at her home near & ? > Prosperity Saturday at 2 a. m., after a| short illness of pneumonia. She was of a lovable disposition and a mos* consecrated Christian, being a member nf St. Luke's Lutheran church. The funeral services were held at the Prosperity cemetery Sunday morning at 11 o'clock by her pastor. Rev. S. P. Koon. She leaves two brothers, Messrs. Geo. E. and A. H. Hawkins, and a number of other relatives and friends to mourn her departure. Her popularity was attested by the lovely floral offerings brought by her many friends. ? The road between Newberry and Prosperity has become such a boulevard that automobiles skim over it by the dozens these lovely spring days. We had so many visitors from Newberry Sunday afternoon that they are * ? ?* ~ mantinn Wo aro a ]- ! ujl> nu'iun uua lu mtnnvu. .? ~ ^^ ? . ways glad to have you. Come again. The Newberry and Prosperity passengers from Columbia on the C., X. & L. train Saturday evening were very much inconvenienced by rhe wreck of a freight which had occurred on that road just a few hours berore. The teachers' meeting was well attended by rhe teachers from above and i below Prosperity. Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Wise spent Sun- j day at the Wise hotel. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wise were guests Sunday of Mrs. E. E. Young. Mr. Will. Seel has returned to Columbia, after a visit to Mr and Mrs. A. G. Wise. Messrs. W. E. Moseley, Fred SchumTr on/1 YTiecoo Annio \TftSPlfiV p\/1 I, u i ? uuu ^ - ~* | and Jackson, have returned from a short stay to Mrs. J. H. Summer, of Newberry. Miss Addie Werts and her little niece, Mis Louise Bedenbaugh, have fi-Ani fViA Pnlnmhi^ hrysTiital. I rtUl liVU JLXV/XXX UUV V/VAMA^k/AUr ? wwr , where little Louise had been for an operation for a dislocated shoulder. Mr. Hal Kohn, en route to Laurens, spent Sunday with Mr. Walter Wise. Miss Elberta Sease, of Little Mountain, was the guest the latter part of the week of Miss Gertrude Bobb. Miss Kathleen Bell, who has been teaching in Greenwood county, is there visiting her sister, Mrs. I. S. Caldwell, before returning to her home in Staunton, Va. Mrs. Fred Schumpert and little daughter, Eugenia, leave today for her home in Dallas. Texas, after spending several months here with relatives. Mr. E. B. Kibler, of Columbia, was in town Friday and Saturday. "FIDDLING BOB" TAYLOR DIES. Tennessee's Beloved Senator Dies in Washington?Succumbs to Shock of Operation. _ % Washington, March 31.?Robert Love J Taylor, United States senator from Tennessee, "Fiddling Bob" to all the South, died here today, unable to withstand the shock of an operation for gall stones performed last Thursday. Early this 'morning the senator began to fail to respond to stimulants. Mrs. Taylor, worn out by a day and night vigil, had gone to her apart ments. At 3 o'clock this mornin'g the senator began to sink so rapidly that she was sent for. She was at his side when the end came at 9.40 o'clock. "Fiddling Bob" Taylor, so known because he played his way into the hearts of his audiences, carrying his violin wherever he campaigned, was 61 years * " t-T 1- ~T..l? 91 1 C>-A oH 01CI. in? WiiS UUl'Il J Uiji oi) ioyv, uv Happy Valley, in Eastern Tennessee, but spent most of his life at Xashville, practicing law. He belonged to an office-holding family. His; father was a representative to congress and commissioner of Indian affairs, and an uncle was in the Confederate senate. Offices Held. Once pension agent at Knoxville, thrice governor of Tennessee, from 1S87 to 1891, and 1897 to 1899, Senator Taylor forged his way to the national house of representatives from the same congressional district that had previously sent his father to congress and later his brother, Alfred A. Taylor, whom he subsequently defeated for governor. Senator Taylor was a Cleveland Democrat. Ke had served in the sen ate since January, 1907, his principal activity being in behalf of a comparative system of good roads and the Lakes-to-the-Gulf deep waterway project. His last speech in the senate was made last July, i<n advocacy of a Confederate monument bill. His last appearance in the senate chamber was a fortnight ago. Senator Taylor is survived by his widow, a son, David Taylor, and three married daughters in Tennessee. He was stricken March 15 at the union station, as he was about to board a train for North Carolina. He was hurried to his apartments, suffering intense pain from gall stones. Easter Egr? Hunt. The Lutheran Sunday school of Silverstreet will have an Easter egg hunt on the church lot on Good Friday at 4 p. m. Evervbodv invited. ^ 1 i iiun >t ruimiif i uuui Previously acknowledged.. ..$117.05 T. B. Wicker 1.00 1 Mrs. E. P. Cromer 1.00 1 Collection Lutheran Church of ; the Redeemer i: 1.70 ( Easter Eire Hunt. i There will be an Easter egg hunt < at Mr. Z. F. Wright's poultry farm on next Saturday, April 6, commencing i at 3 p. m. The proceeds to go to the i Ladies' Aid society of West End. The public is cordially invited. j IRA B. JONES HOWLED DOWN. Spartanburg Mill Crowd Greets Him With Jeers?Candidate Stops Speech. Columbia State. Spartanburg, March 30.?Shouting for Blease, increasing the uproar when remonstrated with and greeting with taunts and jeers an appeal for fair play, friends of Gov. Blease howled down Judge Ira B. Jones when he addressed an open air meeting of cotton - ? i- ?t- ?. ~ ~ J mill workers in tnis city ionium turn caused him abruptly to terminate his speech. The disorderly persons were greatly in the minority, but their effort was concerted. It had been rumored i during the day that an attempt would be made to break up the meeting, which concluded a two weeks' tour of the county by the candidate for gover nor, and was the only occasion when he spoke in the city. When Judge Jones, raising his voice to make it heard above the din, expressed his gratitude to those who were giving him respectful attention and said it was not the noisy persons buf. the srreat mass of silent voters who controlled the affairs of the I State, and that they would elect him governor, he was applauded with clapping of hands. Amid this applause he stepped down. Many Show Indignation. Miany pressed forward to shake hands with him and express their indignation at the unfair treatment which he had received. Judge Jones made his way to the outskirts of the * crowd, where the disturbers were loitering and surprised them by shaking with them. He -asked for the ringleader and told him he would like to have him cheering for Jones instead of Blease. The man said: "I'm for Cole. L. Blease." "That's all right," said Judge Jones. "You vote for him if you think he is the best man." The man told Judge Jones he was a good fellow. Such of Judge Jones' speech as he was able to deliver was a dignified discourse on the rights of working men and especially tb^eir right to compensation for injuries received in the performance of their duty. He said that if he should have a sympathetic legislature he would put on the statute books, as governor, an employers' liability law, under which it would not j be necessary for a worKmg man wuu lost a limb or was otherwise disabled in his work to sue his employer for damages. By the provisions of the law which he proposes the employer would have to compensate the workingman without a lawsuit. An old man in the audience asked Judge Jones how it would be possible j to determine how much the injured man was entitled to without a law suit The speaker answered that in other States the loss of a finger was valued at a certain amount, the loss of an arm at another amount and other injuries similarly were provided for. The old man then asked if the proposed law would he constitutional. Judge Jones replied that it had been declared constitutional by the supreme court of Massachusetts and that the United States supreme court had j passed favorably on a similar law re-) lating to the employment of men in interstate commerce. Judge Jones said the present laws g-cv-erning workingmen's claims against their employers for injuries received in their work were unfair, putting the loss on the family of the injured man instead of oii the industry, where it belonged. Capital and labor were both indisr><an?^hip said thp snoaker, and ought to work together in harmony. Labor he said, is entitled to a fair remuneration, and capital to a fair dividend. Judge Jones said he had sprung from working people. Tlie Trouble Starts. There had been occasional feeble :*ries of, " Hurrah for Blease!" up to this point, and as Judge Jones began to allude to his candidacy they bei same louder. .fudge .Jones took notice of the noise by saying: "This great governor Df yours that you are shouting for was willing to tax the people of South Carolina $900,000 to put two wings on he State house." "What is a little thing .*?. 00,000 o 5 . of South Carolina?" re torted a man in the crowd. The shouting now became continuous. Judge Jones managed, however, to tell a story of a farmer who received a* circular from a Northern restaurant, expressing a wish to purchase fro^s. Th#> farmer wrote that he I would supply the restaurant with 100,-1 000 frogs. He shipped only six and when the restaurant people wanted to know why the rest were not forthcoming he answered that he had supposed from the noise there were 100,000 in the swamp but had been able to find i only six. Judge Jones said the disI turbers were like the frogs; though they made a great noise they were fevTin number. Still the disturbance continued. The candidate now said he asked only for a square deal. If his hearers differed from him, he said, at least give him the right to a hearing. He said he I +hfvm in n WaV v* v/uru L wvuv _ m as governor but would give them a respectful hearing, which was nothing m.ore than a square deal. He had been speaking all through the county during the last two weeks and this was the first time he had -been treated with discourtesy, he said. It was on'ly pouring water on the J wheel, he said, for he would carry j Spartanburg and the State. Still waters ran deep, and it was the deep waters which floated the ship. Turning to the earnest men standlug near him and straining to listen, Judge Jones said it was the orave, quiet men like they whose voices guided the affairs of South Carolina. Judge Jones will spen'd next week in Greenville county. Youngest of Ontlaws Captured. Hillsville, Va., March 29.?Friel Allen, a blue-eyed stripling of 17, youngest of the eight of the Allen gang, each indicted for the five murders in th*e Carroll county court house a fortnight ago, was taken late today in a carriage shed at the hom-e of his father, Jack Allen:, eight miles from here. He cheerfully submitted to arrest, and to* ttmi?-ill ^ night occupies a, ceil in trie niusvuw jail, with his cousin, Claude Swanson Allen, who surrendered without resistance to the detectives yesterday. Only Sidna Allen, a man of middle age, and his young nephew, Wesley Edwards, both bold mountaineers of reckless daring, are fugitives tonight. They are the last of the outlaw band, whose fussillade killed a judge, sheriff, prosecutor, juror and by-stander on March 14. WHI Resist to Death. *11 +TT-^ fto-n d<*Pyftrted rrit'i uujo . ^ fhe two men still at large and brought j back tonight their ultimatum of defiance. Both are prepared to resist until death. A father's anxiety to have his youngest son spared a terrible death in the mountains is assumed to be the cause of Friel Allen's capture. Jack Allen was not involved in the court house shooting, but it is known that since his son, Friel, joined the outlaws, ne has been endeavoring to advise him to submit to the mercy of the law. Just how the parent communicated with the bey has not bee i learr^d. i.ito IIf!!sv?lI\ I'illsville hr.,1 hardly iir.^st^d the excitement incident to Claude Allen's sirinriipss eanture yesterday, when Friel Allen galloped into town late today, the prisoner of Detective Thos. L. Felts, leader of the mountain campaign against the outlaws, and Detective C. Payne, who together made the arrest. UncJe Admits Guilt. The young mountaineer, of slender build and boyish face, was unhand - - ' cuffed and cantered mio iown wicli smiles and nods to those who recognized him. He showed, however, the ill effects of two weeks with little food or shelter. % The young prisoner talked glibly of his conversation with Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards. The former, he said, vminor TnHo-^ Thornton L. aunmuru v.~ov, Massie, while the latter acknowledged shooting Commonwealth Attorney Wm. M. Foster. His own part in the tragedy he discreetly evaded discussing. Tt~ hnwow. first hand in n.e uiuusm., ? 7 formation of the desperate straits of Sidna Allen, leader of the band, and his consciousness cf guilt. In the dialect of the mountains he told his story, heeding interruptions i MW??I?M?w and answering all queries. Will Die Fighting. "Uncle Sidna.told me," related the boy with unrestrained frankness, "that he never expected to see his family again. He hope.- the detectives will get discouraged so that he can get away but if they keep after him I think he will be shot killing them. He will never surrender. He did not like it when I left him. He told me I was making a mistake, but I was tired and hungry. Emptied Pistol Thrice. "Uncle Sidna said he shot his pistol i empty three times. He always was an ?UL T__J ir TT. J v./* y v/iui JUUge mas&ie. ne srcuu uc shot Judge Massie and that Wesley shot Mr. Foster. Uncle Sidna said he intended to get as many of the court officers as he could. When he was shooting the people in the street he really did not know he was firing at any of the jury. He said he saw men running and thought they needed shooting at Wliile In Xount&ins. "The day after the shooting Uncle Sidna and Cousin Wesley and I went to the mountains. Wesley had two pis J TT 1 _ O: J ? ? v.*-, J ? litis itllU ulujui oluiia jaciu A and a shotgun. We all had plenty of shells. We got plenty of rations for a while. We were hidden under a ledge by leaves. From there we moved to another rock and saw the officers raid my Aunt Alberta's house. "Some of the detectives came within fifteen or twenty yards of us. I wanted to leave, but Uncle Sidna said if the detectives came closer he would fire. Sidna Allen's Wounds. "uncie OXQna was sm/l in me arm at the court house and the same bullet went into his side and back. It is still there. His hurts were fix&d by one of the family. No doctor saw him, so far as I know. At daylight Monday, Uncle Sidna got some food in a sack. We had plenty of crackers and butter and sugar and stayed in the ivy and laurel bushes for ten days, but with nothing else to eat except those crackers. The day before yesterday I decided to leave and we separated. I was just starvd out. I left them on the mountain top, about three miles from Piper's Gap road. Planned Log as Breastwork. "Near where we were in the laurel there was a log we had planned to use as a breastwork in case of attack." Friel disclaimed knowledge of the part Claude Allen took in the shooting, and denied knowledge of the activities of Sidna Edwards, Victor Allen and Bud Marion, now in jail at Roanoke. Both Friel and his cousin, Claude, probably will leave here during the night or at daybreak for Galax, taking the noon train tomorrow, there, for Roanoke, where the two prisoners will join their kinsfolk already in jail. The detectives thus far have won $1,600 of the $3,100 reward offered by Governor Mann for the outlaws' capture. Fnlmer-Brooks. Mr. S. B. Brooks, of Columbia, was married on March 31 to Miss Blanch Fulmer, of Lexington county. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. n. w. Bu**f ?*s, pastor of the Methodist church, r.t the residence of the bride's father, Mr. George Fulmer, near Peak. -- _ T\ A Few "Donts." Wellssley college at Wellesley, Mass., has adopted this list of don'ts" which might be applicable to South Carolina female colleges: "Don't flirt with the handsome fellow down in the village. His wife may not like it." "Don't retire with undrawn curtains. The rubber industry is flourish'? nionoc ttiin Smith Am^r 1115 111 UU1CI jjickv^o w.?u ica." "Don't chew candy or anything else while on the village streets. If you must chew, try the rag." "Don't be a freak. The squirrels have enough nuts to attend to now." "Don't kiss each other in the public highway. Its awful to see a woman doing a man's work." "Don't study too hard. Folks may '' " 1 - ?? ^i.nrvorin<r f A PS TT1 VflllT* 111121K VUU cti ? |J1 tv own living." "Don't show your dislike of a hated instructor. Give her some of your home-made fudge." Now is the time to subscribe to The Herald and News.