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F- Dittoti Dferath. ? >t, > ESTABLISHED IN 1895. DILLON, SOUTH CAROUNA, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 2, 1309. VOL. 15, NO. 44 SHOCKING TRAGEDY NEAR LITTLE ROCK. H 1 While Oat Hunting Boy Slow* the Top of Another'* Head Off. An Ugly Looking Affair. With a breach-loading shot-gun loaded with No. 5 squirrel shot, John Tredwell, a white boy 16 years old, bred a charge into the head of Wade Tucker, also white and aged about 16 years, on the plantation of Mr. A. J. C. Cottingham near Little Rock Monday afternoon, that will doubtless prove fatal. The boys were out hunting and were accompanied by seyeral negroes. There seems to have beer no motive for the shooting. The Tredwell boy does net bear a good reputation and it is alleged that he pointed the gun at young: Tuckei and told him t o "look out." Young: Tucker told Tredwell tc be careful, but at that raomenl the gmn fired and the entire charge of shot took effect in Youcg Tucker's head, inflicting: a wound that the physicians say will prove fatal. The scene of the shooting: was in the branch back of Mrs. Lottie Stackhouse's plantation. The wounded boy w as carried home as quickly as possible and medical aid was summoned but the physiu cians say there is no hope of savJ' . ing the young fellow's life. # There had been no previous difficulty between the bovs and il is believed the shooting was due > > to gross carelessness or criminal ' disregard of human life on .thfl of the Tredwell boy. Tred" #clt fled immediately after the dhpftting and has not yet beer '4^ ^sicker is a son of Mr. John D, l Tnmf and is a hard-working:, in dnstrious boy. V TitC PALMETTO LIMITED." All up and down the line, fron I Fayetteville to Charleston, comes a roar of protest against the Coasi \ Line's new taain, the "Palmetto l Limited." The people do not like the looks of the handsome ne w ) train and thev like its schedule I still less. The Palmetto Limitec has not been on time a single daj Y since it was put on, the mails havt been late, express is always be hind time and the people are in i bad humor. Such are the report; in the newspapers. Now there i; really nothing wrong about the "Palmetto Limited?' but its sched ule. So far as equipment is con cerned it is just what the traveling ( public has needed. But the mis take the Coast Line is making: is in bunchinir its trains. Dillon has excellent railroad facilities and - does not feel the indbnveniences of the poor schedules on which the "Palmetto limited" runs, bul ^ there are other towns up and down ~4 the road that have to depend on the new train largely to get in and out aad if the train is thiee 01 ' fbar/hours late all they can do is to wait patiently until the train 1 comes along. Now the best way } to remedy these matters and tc \ put the travelling public in a good | ( humor once more is for the Coast Line to make a mid-day train of the "Palmetto Limited" and run I it on a fast schedule like 82 and 85 are Tun on?that is stopping only atfthe largef1 towns. Then f'fi 1 *?'the people hack the little local aV Jpodation train that used to rtm between Fayetteville and kt| Charleston. This train will ac comodate the limited travel in the smaller towns. One of the Coast ||J Line's greatest needs is a midday train. It has plenty of trains I now but they are run too close to gather. By replacing the old Z trains on the old schedules and malrifcg the "Palmetto Limited" jpJ *'.k midday train, with stops onlv at 1 fbe larger towns, the Coast Lfqfe ' wiil have solved the problem ol II transportation over its lines for 1 some time to cpme. The Herald ft- * " 1 metto Limited" taken off. It is | just the kind of train the public needs, but put the little accomodation back on for those who do f not like the looks and size of the new train. Time is too valuable , to compel a business man to travel , to Charleston o r Columbia or t< Augusta on a slow local train, a anyway, and the "Palmetto Lim- d ited" can be used exclusively by ? the man who has something to s , do, and the local can be used by I ! the class that likes to travel for t 1 the fun of it. But don't take off a the "Palmetto Limited.'* It is c , just the train the public needs, t but it ought to be put on a new i schedule. v Card of Thanks. | Through the columns of The ( Herald we desire to return our r . warmest thanks to the citizens of e this community for the kindness r and sympathy extended to us dur- t ing the sickness and death of our r ; baby child While our house now F I has a vacant chair, yet as we re- * > fleet upon the many deeds of sym- r pathy and love of the citizens of s 1 Dillon, it gives a silver lining to | the dark cloud left by death. May ; God's richest blessings rest upon j 1 each of them. Respectfully, t Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Clark. t Dennison's gilt price tickets i (large sizes) at the Herald Book ? t Store. ? M .. ~ vJ1 jy nuiu^tri o( election. \^S '' Pursuant to the proclamation of ^ ! the Governor of the State already c 1 published" notice is hereby given c that an election upon the question \ > of creating a New County out of j the upper portion of Marion County, and also upon the question of ? name and County Seat of the same, 1 will be held on the 14th. day of i December, 1909, in the polling c precincts and at the voting places s 1 prescribed by law, in the County . ' of Marion; said polling precincts t and voting places being within the * ) area cut off to form the proposed S New County, for the purpose of ^ ' conducting said election, the fol- ^ r lowing managers have been ap5 pointed for the various precincts c 1 and polling places1 r Frank Bailey . ) c , W. A. Blizzard - > Dillon j T. S. Richburg , G. D. Barlow ) ? 1 C. C. Lovell Maple Mill { 5 H. V. Deaver ) 5 L. B. Alford ) i Murray Hayes / Campbells - Otis M. Page ) Bridge I . Steve Stephens ^ ^ r J. 1. Carmichael >-Bermuda 1 R. M. Oliver ] Alb.J.Carmichael ^ i ' Frank Mclntyre fHamer 1 J. R. Regan j I D. D. Mclnnis 1 i Daniel Alford Mudson > R. M. Jackson J ? J. W. Hamer ^1 ? J. S. Thompson fLittle Rock t T- L. Manning J ? | W. B. Allen ) t [ D. McL. Bethea \ Centerville ? ' J. W. Nicholson i E. Lide Berry i J. Rich Hayes Fores . John D- Coleman , A. S. Manning E. B. Berry Latta E. C. Allen ; S. S. Turbeville Lamar Watson Gin-House * i J. F. Bethea / t 1 Rhfoid B. Rogers J Thos. E. Fore Fork \ Oliver Carmichael ^ Wra. T. Moody ? Edward Hill Kemper 1 R. K. Hayes The managers hereby appointed v and herein named will call and get 1 i the ballot boxes and ballots and all 1 necessary papers pertaining to the \ . proper conduct ot said election. s These will be obtained upon ap' plication to John C. Sellers, Sel- 1 lers, S. C. W. L. Hewitt, * 1 \ John C. Sellers, i \ \ S. W. Smith. < Commissioners of Election. . R. P. Porter. Clerk. Ballot boxes to be returned to } P. Porter, Marion, S-*C. A full line of gold paper for 1 decorations just received at the < Herald Book Store. ( -: c ; WASHINGTON LETTER. j! I i j 1 lews from Our Busy Cap- 1 ital. The trusts appear to have en- ; ered on hard lines. The Stand- t rd Oil Trust has been ordered to lissolve. A jail sentence is in he air over the managers of the ] ugar trust. The leaders of the ( -alx>r trust have been sentenced < o terms in jail. The Food trusts | nd the medicine trusts have been , >r arc being disciplined and life j inder anti-trust conditions prom- | ses to be wholesomer and better , vorth living. ! The Editor of the Louisville ! Courier Journal (we believe his lame is wauerson; nas just landid from a vacation in Europe and nade the startling announcement hat there is afoot a plan to 1 nake Theodore Roosevelt next resident. If he had remained in America hemight have known that lothing else has been expected ince March the fourth. The influences of Pinchot and Sallinger in the same administraion are about as incompatible as he services of God and Mammon. They represent the Antipodes of idtninistrative management ind lim. It is difficult to see how President Taft can carry out the ^ooseveltian policy of conservation with Sallinger as Secretary >f the Interior and it will also be lifficult for him to find a man so veil equipped by taste and experience and so inspired by enthusiism preservation of the national esources as Gifford Pinchot. He s much better known and esteemid for his initiative and activity as i conservator than any man in the Jnited States. It was expected hat he would be appointed as secretary of the Interior and it vas never imagined that there vould be appointed a Cabinet >fficer out of harmony with the nan with whom Roosevelt was ionspiciously proud to be a coadutor. That most distinguished and itrenuous of Americans is workng off his nervous energy in the vilds of Africa. He could not lave taken a wiser course. Had le remained in this country it vould have been impossible for lim to have found seclusion. Cnowing this he has fled to the \ntipodes and plunged into the lark Continent. Nothing short 1 ' ? nugicss icicklapny, UIIQ II1CTC s no receiving station in a thousind miles of him, can advise him ibout the Pinchot-Balling:er conroversy. He will know it only is ancient history when he reurns to America. If he were , lere he could not keep out of it ( ind there is no question as to the side he would take. , i It took years of agitation and 1 nany campaigns of education to substitute civil service reform for 1 he old spoils and influence sys- < em. Political propagfandism in Republics is slow, for the evils to ' >e uprooted have also their propagators. Possession it has been laid ' is riinp r?r?intc in la\?r " It s humiliating1 to know that notvithstanding our wealth and progress we are in many respects be- < lind the civilized countries of the vorld and that even some of the lemi-civilized countries arc in idvance of us. How long, O, low long will the four leading ex >ress companies of the United states be permitted to stand in the vay of such a simple self evident tbcescity as a Parcels Post. In all Tie large Post Offices of the coun:ry there are notices to the effect | hat packages may be sent by par- ( :els post to London, Paris, BeiMn, ' 3airo, Bombay, Calcutta and a I \ f t>V.x * C-fi/'-n T Vs- *, 4 ^ liuulred other remote places. !?;: t is well known that the sarr. >aekages cannot be >ctit ti< tu tVashincton to Baltimore a trip >f ortv miles made in one h?-nr \:ept through the cmployin*:tt < ! in express company at inner, more ltan the postal rates. The capital of the United States lias the largest negro population jf any city in the world. N- i ~airo, in Northern Africa or Tier stictoo in Central Africa nor am)thcr collection of houses or hu: has a large population of blaek- as has Washington Hilt worse then this the Washington blacks ;r. the most degraded, degenerate, and it is stated that 111 four verand six months vessels will : a from ocean to ocean. The ex t vation could be completed in t years but it fcill take long-. r that that time to build the inim^ns datr^xnd locks. Vessels o. largtonnage are already using parts n the canal. The present President of iIk United .States as well as his predecessor is an equestrian. Mr Taft rides a bigger horse than die President Roosevelt and there i> good reason for it. There is ra precedent for the prodigous size of both horse and rider except it the equestrian statue of <>encra Winficld Scott at the intcrsectior of Sixteenth Street and Massachusetts Avenue. _ COTTON AND GOLD. Colnmhia State. The census report of cot tor ginned to November 14. shows: falling off of a million and a hall bales compared with the quantitj ginned at the corresponding tinu last year. At the same time last year when the production was the rec ord of 13,825,000 bales, 75.3 pel cent, of the crop had been ginned If the same were true of this crop the yield would be about 11,150, D00. However, if the proportior of decrease is maintained for tin balance of the 26.7 per cent., tin present crop will be only about 2, 050,000 bales short of last year indicating a yield of 11,775,00( bales. What South Carolinians have keener interest in is the fact thai up to November 14. there had been ginned in the State 913,40/ bales, against 938,926 at the same date last year. If that represented 75 per cent, of the product, the South Carolina crop will be aboul 1,200,000 bales. Comprehend the significance ol those figures' They mean thai the South {Carolina farmers, averaging Intents for their cotton and selling 90 per cent, of theii seed, will get ninety million dollars?or thirty million dollar? more than a million-bale cror would have brought if sold for ten cents. The like of such prosper ity was never known before. * < * % V trifling and criminally disposed lot of negroes ever' assembled. They are refugees from Virgin: ?. Carolina and Maryland during i'k ivnr of thp rlpcpntwl intL- i Washington has a reputation !< : charitable activity. They It:--.-e come here to be fed and take r care of. They are atllicted will the microbe of laziness ami i;. efficiency. They arc diseased am dissipated. In 110 other city ear be seen so many ragamuffin Aft cans driving two do'dar shelve horses to rickety thii (ioi'.ar w.i\ ons and the contrast of these wi'.i a back ground of marble il.ievs ipainfully grotesque. Encouraging news units fr n the Panama Canal. Tito cost >. is now definitely known wii! !> in round numbers, three lumdrn and seventy five millions of ti ?lla: V.U. II I > . I lilic I ' t I i I' , I ? 11 v.- J. i 41 I.I V I one say a word detriment.: to tin ; i new c?>11111 y. Many < it ih? w!i?? ' wiTc uvoiM' to it arc now its] stall nchest .supi???rtcrs, ami is' :t f became necessary t.<> a;.;"ain vote mi the subject the verdict ill bcha.lt'm | the new county would be nio?v i pronounced than be to re. There J is hardly a man who livis in the j ! county that will not ad. in it 'hat the! , new order ot' tilings pleas. > ban j . most. ' "The county now has a nice court house, an excellent i il building, a county home a id farm, road implements, teams, etc.. and everything has been paid for since the creation of the countv ami tintaxes have steadily dcercas. d. !" 'The new cotiii'j. iu- serw d to . bring the pcoj le elos tether. It has been an educator to the people. Scares of pi > ie who h d not seen a court house r h ar . a 1 legal 'argument because of the (lis ' tance to their court h< c. have ; had this experience sin t:a ere. ation of the county. "These are some > f t'-e facts about the new cor. . > ? . Ck. rpkec. ' As a matter of fact in- <>kl county seats were oppos d < it> form.: ? t'on, but that < p;> .si:i->n was has: d t upon rronc:-a ; Neither Sparta.11 >11 I . n York has suffered i.e . u-e of 'the creation of Chen k.-o. 1 t nn\ have been the natural o-d.-r of 1 things, but-the tjuth ; - ti.it Cm-. . counties have pnVyres a-d . wa ' more rapidly th:** ;lu-v .1 1 bef.ue, "We know n<>C 1 ,< . 1 d'tions surnni hn Gaston and f Cleveland, bur our experience is t that small count:-s, judiciously managed, a;e best for all concerned." * 1 m m + Dennison's wax seals at the . Herald Book Store. Gold and silver tinsels, festoons 1 and mica snow, just the thing lor holiday decorations, at the diet aid Book Store.# ,f? . ... L * ^Arirniis^kl HOW CHEROKEE HAS PROSPERED. Taxes are Lower Since New County has been Formed and the Pe >p!e are Happy, Prosperous and Contented. A Strong Argument for Smaller Counties. l*lvrnl:v.r, > >!' tin- richest counti'-s : i tin* state w.i tonne*! in IS4'/. TheA: w. - str.>:ye o-.po sitioii to the tofinati* n >t CJuvo j kcc* ' hie <>i tlic elih f argumentsI against the formation -a' Cherokee j was tiie "tax are.anient." and t)l< i <till county ]>c ipk used it there! ills; like it i-- i> ir.e" tie- in Vai ti . today. !>ut as Che ) leraiu has j sad, time and ne i't. there is nothing in the "tax i' -.invent" when j you jjet down to th h<?tt<>tn of it. It i 1 has been used b\ tin - op-.. ;ition inj i every new county movement, but I , theexperience of the : v. conn- ! ties has lieen that taxc were low-l e?" alter the anr.. w : ir.iie-1. ! The fo!i?-v.ir. i- taken :>:n n I issue o i the ?iaenev Lec.tv. r. . prime*! Jan. i. !'"> >. iusi i\i ars . hcrofcec utnty was t"i i v 11: i '.'S x vars h: ve passv i since the ' riu .:ion ot' Cherok-'i- c- ill)'. , and what is ih- at:i- "i . . iir-' Tiie . n e . nt n- ' -r. wa . that t :: uion. An examination 1 , of ; , r. i ft is s-M i-.Vs that taxe have ivi 11 in e.crv section t . .... ir )- \ . i c<>i:ir. . 1 n< . ...rv c< ' *?. * ho p ?r- 1 mati?in w.i 7 : !' . now i> i ni!'.--. T:i:< is d to tin ' .mi: qualifications of the gentlemen \v ho liave e<>nip is i tlu b ?ard : I county comm.-si tie'- ar.-i tlu- m pervisors, X 1.'. uulj? ?ii V. Whc'ehcl. liei'orc the creation of the new count .i n< unt o{ ! woi done on \ j d > I ; ih portions t ' t.ic old ueti< 1 that now compose Cher kiv was l very meagre. Last war >7.''as. j f?5 was spent the bridges ai dj public highways of tiic county. Ti'is does not neliulc ait> m ?;u \ . paid on the iron bride across It road river. The county is en tii'vly out ol ?.ci# cmc p' lor tlu-1 railroad liotids ini r:t< d from id*, i 1 old counties .li d : In e:e h iu. ; retired .i .act as tlic> in.e ire. } 'The attitude of those who wt re opposed to the new county iias been almost ifijo i-ntiieic chany I ...I i. : . R. P. HAM?R ON NEW COUNTY. Confidently Expects the New County to Win. AlL FAMILY UIFFERENCES hakmonIZED ^ No Contentions That will Divert the People From the Main issue. Flop-lid Tillli >. I Inn. R. I'. I lamer, one of the members ??t the legislature from Marion was in the city last night tvturnin-.. h one from a visit to his plantation in Richland county. Mr. Hauler says that he ,is confiilent tiiat the new county fight will win in Marion county that h e counts o n a three fourti s vote i n favor of the out. i-o say< that the growth of ti - town '"eprosentcd in the pronew county has increased w<?" iert'ullv m the years that have pa- e?i ditee the last election, and the '.i ?,' it ion of Latta and other lo i ( .operate which would lite before practically n. ; tv >ue? ess of the move UlClli . i ! especially commended the mailt' by the people of i.i' k r. i iv the county seat, bee : . e injured the voter of ? ;: public buildings with ?,: an , tax. He c;ills attent n the f.wt that the new county o, ! "ore e, which had a courti hp a . i.iil in every way suitable ami > " - table, issued bords for oak ooo to build them. Tlie icier Messrs. I )ilion on the same iinewa^ti i.elyard a|ipreciated and al. i . . low feast in that section i. there is no liyht over any matter, within the family, the whole .font is presented in a battle for the new county, county seat, name ami everything else is wide open, the best place wins and evc; v!> ly is willing to let it win. T . e- .arthouse will be established vis level* :he greatest number o po-pie want it. and they ean cal. ' whatever they want to eall it. Mr I lamer says that the farmr in . 1 -.at section are in the very best condition. A jjreat deal of .i.tt ui is held here and there, iiiiittyh the most of it has been marketed, the debts of the country paid and a surplus on hand. The construction o f new railroads promises an era of development unnrcedented and this encourages the farmers t<? more diversified . agriculture. ' As to the matter of taxation, he i calls attention to the fact that Florence, the tax levy i s as low as any in the state, while it takes, a very considerable levy to support the government and ?rk of old Marion. He feels :re that the new county between the two Fee I)ee Rivers will be able to run on a small levy, the people are very largely of Scotch descent and not inclined to spend money for the cake of spending it or for show. The Dillon Herald #1.50 a year. ? Mr II. M. Pemberton, advert is in 4' manager for the great Kimi?a!l Piano Co., has iust closed out tin* last ?-f a solid carload of these Icbratcd Pianos, shipped here i<>r advertising purposes, this car contained about twenty (20) in>;rrit .* its, and were quickly tak?. p m iiie of our most prominent eii-'-us tlmmghout the county, who were quick to appreciate the great money-saving opportunity in which to purchase a high-grade piano like the Kimball?the prices being extremely low for such a high-grade instrument.?Laurir burg Kxchange. Mr. Pembertt g will lx* in Dillon for the next davs with a lot of Kimball P: see his ad. elsewhere. k