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I SAYS LIFE AND HOME ! WERE IN JEOPARDY Corbett's Statement?Thought He Had Killed Four Instead of ( Three?Thinks Parties Were Intoxicated, k i State. j^Earlos Corbett, who shot three men - and seriously vvounaea a near Salley, Aiken county, ^MKirday night, claims he shot in self HRense and to protect his home which was jeopardized by a tire started by' the parties shot. The following special from Columbia to The Charlotte, (X. C.) Observer was printed yesterday morning. giving Corbett's side of the trouble: j Columbia, S. C., March 28.?Carlos ^^.A. Corbett, who last night killed! ^fc^>ryan Salley and seriously wounded HHugh Fanning, Julian Cooper and: Hftnes Salley at the Corbett home, in! HKangeburg county, two miles from.; E^^Alley, came to Columbia early this. |^^^B>rning in an automobile and sue-, ^^^Kidered himself to the state peniten-; aauiunuvo. Corbett said that he acted in de- j 9 nse of life and to protect his homeH Bainst the alleged marauding party. j H ? According to Corbett's story, he; H^PTnd his wife were awakened last |MLnight about 11 o'clock, by flames ^^shooting up in the front cf his home, 1 r which, along wth his farm buildings j [ was threatened. He said that he had cane stacked 1 in front of his house to the height of three feet paralleling the public i iiighway, and this was arire with tne; flames shooting toward the house.; When he had the lire under control,} said, the automobile bearing a! BK'.rty which had passed his house ^^Vame back up the road. Hi averred! rfhat one of the party said: "Ho has i put out the fire, let's start it again."! Corbett said he was standing in; dense smoke emanating from the1 smoldering coals and they did not see ' him. Threatened H is Life. %"When this threat was made,", said Corbett, "I warned the party that I would protect my wife and my1 home at all hazards and after I had; spoken, one of the men, a hoarse i voiced man, Jonas Salley, I :hink ex-i ix.iaimed: "Damn you, we will k'Jlj you!" With this, two of the men got. out of the front of th i car and ad- j vanced towards me with their hands i in their hfp pockets and two other i men left the rear of the car with their j nds in their side pockets like they i Bere going to draw their knives, j Phese last two advance 1 as if thf-y | rvere trying to cut me off from the ; ^K*ear.- I then began shooting." ft Corbett said that when he first dis-; covered the fire he smelled an odor j ^ of either gasoline or kerosene, and >. he is of the opinion that some mem-J ber of the party sprinkled the cane j sind then ignited it. He was of the opinion that the i ! members of the party who live at j Salley were drinking. He claims that j he was cold sober and has not taken a drink of intoxicating liquor during the past eight years. He could attribute. no cause for the men attempting to burn his house as he alleged., j ? Formerly Was Police Chief. - J-"- -Tni-ivtaxlv r*hipf of: ^Orut!H wan iviiuwtj v... ? t>alice of Salley and is now farming. He is about six feet tall, of sparse, powerful frame clea.. cut face ?nd piercing, fearless eyes. When seen at the state prison he was calm and collected and no element of nervousness was apparent. He said that he came to Columbia to give himself up! to avoid possible further trouble. He said that he has large familyconnections in the Salley section as! I^have the dead men. Had he re-' WhainoH. these two elements might! ~^aave come together, engendering possible riot and further bloodshed. He said that he shot with a 38 calibre Colts special revolver and he! sdid, "I thought I got one at every | crack." He was under the impres-j sion that he had killed four men. One May Recover. Jonas Salley, who is desperately wounded, but has a fighting chance, according to his physician tonight, was brought to Columbia early this morning in a car and placed in a local hospital. J He was shot three times. One of the bullets went through the fore part of the head, penetrating both eye balls and blinding mm. i wo entered the left arm between the elbow and shoulder. One of these J lodged in the chest, this last bullet [ being the only one in his body. He rwill be operated on tomorrow and his eye balls will be taken out, according to his physicians. Corbett has retained ex-Governor j Cole Biease, to whose house he went! before he surrendered to the state j penitentiary authorities, as his attorney. ^ i URGES FARMERS TO STUDY COTTON COST! i ** ' - 1 "_ 101c D ' JTrOGUCllOZl V^OSl 111 l^iu t\an^cu , From 8 Cents to $1.07 Per Pound. s Washington, March 28.?The De-1 yM'partment of Agriculture annouced to-! H day that investigation by the officer | of farm manrgement'of the depart-; t mem shows that a price based on a "bulk line" cost of 28 cents per i HE pound lint, 85 per cent of the cotton gro.vn in 1918 on 842 farms from r which cost figures were obtained I would have produced a profit. Sixty- I L six per cent of the farms concerned j would have made money, the depart- 1 joient said. At a price based on the j -average cost of production, which the ' W department figured at 23 cents per j F pound, only 351 of the 842 farmers, | ' or 41.7 per cent, would have made a j profit, it was stated. The "bulk j line," it was explained, marks the i point on a scale of costs about which the price of X commodity must hang ~ - - * < 1 1f an adequate numoer oi producers are to be kept in the business. In the case of +he 1918 crop the price actually obtained coincided wjth the bulk line, the farmers receiving about 29 cents for the product. The net cost of production, it was found, ranged from 8 cents to $1.07 per pound, only three farms, totalling thirty-live ac % producing at the minimum cost, twenty-two showing less than fourteen cents,, while more than fifty ranged from -~0 cents to t ? "The more generally farmers study their costs and adjust their production on the basis of costs and prices the more readily will economic torces operate to maintain production on a profitable basis/' the department states. ''The government used the 'bulk line' duiing the war for pricelixing in industries other than agriculture. setting a price so that from SO to i>0 tK-r cent of a commodity could be produced at a profit. 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C., March 13, 1920. Rub-My-Tism is a powerful antisep* tic; it kills the poison caused from in* fee ted cuts, cures old sores, tetter, etc. l-13-10t NOTICE OF ELECTION IN EXCELSIOR-S WILTON SCHOOL DIS TRICT NO. 19 AND 35. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Newberry. Whereas, one-third of the resident | free-holders and a like proportion of the resident electors of the age of 21 years in the Excelsior-Swilton School District, No. 19 and 35, the County of Newberry, State of South Carolina, have filed a petition with the County Board of Education of Newberry County, South Carolina, petitioning and requesting that an election be held in the said School District on the question of levying an additional tax of four (4) mills on the taxable property within the said School District. Now, therefore, we the undersigned, composing the County Board of fnr Wwhprrv Countv. State of South Carolina, do hereby order the Board of Trustees of the Excelsior-Swilton School District, No. 19 and 35, to hold an election on the said question of levying an additional special tax of four (4) mills to be collected on the property located within the said School District, which said election shall be held at the Sam Bug Hill in front home of O. L. Livingstone, in the said school district, No. 19 and 35, on Friday, the 9th day of April, 1920, at which said election the polls shall be opened at 7 a. m.. and close at 4 p. m. The members of the Board of Trustees t>f the said School District shall act as Managers of the said election. Only such electors as reside in the said School District and return real or personal property for taxation, and who exhibit their tax I or registration certificates as reI quired in general elections, shall be allowed to vote. 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