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rv\ v sr. abr Silhm ?fralb. ' v ^ ESTABLISHED IN 1895. DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 1, 1911. Vo1- 17 No 17 RECONSTRUCTION DAY! EDITOR WILLIAMS TALKS INTERESTING! OF TOM MILLER AND DAYS OF?AL ASSEMBL A Time Wlieu Kvery Man Hiul Weapon for Defense and Of fens ?Stirring Days in the Capitol. (A. B. Williams in Roanoke Times Sometimes a single name or small incident of those who lia\ seen and felt things and long ai rays or dead. We read in th South Carolina newspapers that 1 E. Miller has been removed sun manly by the new Governor froi this long held position as presiden 01 the colored university at Orangt burg. ? This is "Canary Miller," quite a old man now and long ago recoil ciled to white rule and become good and useful citizen. He wa different thirty-four years ag when lie S:it iti the Smith Cnrnlin Legislature as a represent ativ from Beaufort?a short square buil man, seven-eighths white, wearin a heavy, light gray sack suit, wit his habit of running his hands int the pockets of his coat?a fairl clear indication of a loaded revol\ er in each pocket. Other nasty hal its had "Canary." He sat as member of the hist attempt at Republican legislature in a South ern State in the last year of Recor struct ion era. He sat with "Th Ring-Tailored Roarer of the Con: j liahee," a black negro whose gulla dialect from the coast of Afrioj whose immediate ancestry was s strong that a white man from tli up-country barely could understan hi in will en he addressed the House also with the "Duke of Marlboro, an unctuous yellow scoundrel, rej resenting the very garden sixit c * the State, who used to rise up an thunder from a broad chest and wide throat when the House in cIk rus rendered: "Hold the Fort ft Hayes and Wheeler." How it di reverberate, rendered to the air c "Hold the Fort, for 1 am Coming, when the South Carolina Legisl; ture refreshed itself with song. In the I legislature. "Canary" was not of the grou collectively known as "The Fort i nieves, out ne was about as fu of fight and venom as a rattlesnake * One hundred and twenty-five we the legal membership of the Hous of Representatives in the year < the mighty uprising of the whil people under leadership of Wad Hampton the outbursting and e: ploding of a fighting and despe ate civilization against a fiO.UOO n< gro majority, the law and Ulyse* S. Gramt in the President's sea The Democrats had elected sixt] four?on the face of the return: * By means that kept two or thre Republican Representatives at the homes; but when their names wet called they answered. "Dummie; ringers," had been put in to an: wer for them and no Democrat dai ed to knowledge that the realitic were not there. Who could ident fy one lowland cornfield negro froi another. ' Then, the Democrat again, by means, won over two c three; Tom Hamilton was anion mem, He must tiave been a d< scandant of a Zulu chieftain, b< cause later, when liis brethre clamored against him, he rose, ta and straight, his skin 611100th an sleek as silk, and remarked ths sometimes we went out in his fiel and killed ar ice bird with a revoli or for his sport; whereupon hi brethren whimpered into silence b< cause they knew it was so. Mei white or black, who could drive piBtol ball through a rice bird a eighteen steps was valuable at th moment and to be respected. Bi tho Dom<V?PQto truino/l nvap n cruita the Republicans?"Radicals everybody called them?simply wei through the formality of declarin seats from some Democratic eoui ties vacant and filled them wit anybody who might be handy, weai ing any names that might fit, an A so retained their legal majority, t be certified to Washington. So it befell that on a Decemlx day the sixty-five Democrats an heir colored allies, sitting in C< lumbia hall at Columbia, decided t 'go and occupy the hall of the Hous of Representatives at the Stab House. They went trooping clot ? Dehind Lawrence Orr, of Anderso county, six feet and four incht high and two hundred and sixt pounds in bulk, who threw h: (Continued on page eight.) Liiteix*. . w..-. ' . S MARION MF.MOR1AD ISSI K NOW XKARIiY KKADY. Some of the Interesting Articles Y That Will lie in That Valuable Paper. The Memorial Bulletin of the; Marion Chapter of the Daughters of V the Confederacy will probably be ' ready for sale and distribution be I fore the end of the week. The num11 ber of copies to be printed are not; ,e ' great, and a number of orders have been sent in for them. After they j are all distributed there are going, a to be a number of people who will j rejgive a lot to get a copy and they r_ ; are going to be hard to get. Send e in your orders at once to Mrs. \V J. p Montgomery at Marion for a few j ! more than you will need for yourn self and the children and send tliein |t to some old Confederate who would >_ appreciate it. The issue will contain an extract n from the proceedings of the Beces-j L_' sion convention, the ordinance of secession. s A short sketch of Col. K. A o Thomi>son, the last survivor of that S1 body of men. e| The names of the signers and It J the districts that they represented. K Brief sketches of those from old ^ Marion, as far as could be obtain? ed. J Poem, "Waiting for the Bugle ".Call," by Frank H. Sweet. Prison experiences of Dr. .lames ,l j F. Pearce. a Reminiscences of Tracy R. Fore. Reminiscences of A. J. tliles. Reminiscences of J. C. Sellers A short sketch of the Jarioi l" brothers. Address of Mr. Stackjiouse to ?. .. ' iiic tuarion enapier. ? Sketch of Co. H., 8th S. C. Sketch of Co. K., 1st S. C. I Rolls of all the companies volunI leering from Marion as far as could j be obtained with such revisions as ~ were possible. * Souk, "Do they Dove You Still d in Dixie." ! Song, "Carol'na." J" Illustration of the secession hall, >r the Marion monument, Gen. Hampd ton. Col. Thompson, Mrs, McLucas. who kept. Memorial Day alive in I Marion for so long. | The papers will be sold at. ten cents a copy to cover the expenses of the publication. It will be a p most valuable souvenir, and should y ; be in the homes of all those who II i have kin wlho volunteered from BJ Marion to go to war for the South l8 and uer cause. ie1 ? ? Governor's l'ardon Keconl. :e i Columbia, May 26.?Special: A ( compilation made this afternoon i shows the following as to pardons. I refusals and commutations from the Governor's office: t ; Total petitions presented . . . . 284 , Pardons granted 44 ! Pardons refused 84 Q Sentences commutted 21 | Paroles 62 >ejNot acted on, including petitions in hands of Judges and ^ J solicitors at this time .... 62 In the records it is shown that r>g | 2,262 notaries public have been j ' commissioned during the present , administration. At the rate for ^ commissions of $2 each the amount of money taken in up to-date is >r ? ? ' K $6,724. ^ TKAKS AWAY CX1NCRFTK WAhL. j 1 i'litalil) Numnvly Averted on I nilianniMilis Smt'iiunv (* Motor Speedway, Indianapolis, lt ; May 27.?Running at a rate of 80 I miles an hour, a ljozier car, driven ['I "danger ctirve" entering the home 's; stretch of the Indianapolis Speed| way this afternoon, while turning) up for the Memorial Day 500 mile a race, and crashed into the outer lt railing. Van Gordon and W. I. Bare dell, of New York, who was mechanlcian's seat were hurled over the ^ top of the wall and nearly 100 feet 1 across the lawu. Both escaped dangerous injury. B The heavy racing car tore out a 1 20-foot stretch of the thick con^ crete wall, then whirling like a r~ top, turned over twice and landed ? i upside down in the centre of the ? Speedway. The wheels were raked from the machine. The driver said the accident was caused by the blowing out of an engine cylinder while he was rounding the turn. le I ^ m ^ < 'ard ofThanks. We sincerely desire to express n our thanks to thv* friends who were so kind to us during the rey cent illness we have just passed '8 through. Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Barlow. RELATES STEEL HISTORY s OECLARES TRUSTS" OBJECT TO STIFLE COMPETITION I TELL HOUSE COMMITTEE HOW 1 ;i Cunu'nif's liiU-irsts Taken Over at . Double Appraisal Value.?ltoeke- |( feller Foreetl to Sell at lioss. v Washington, May 27. John \V. a dates revealed to the House "Steel S Trust*" investl?riltillf?- mmniiHi.. i?>- e day tin- history of tlie I'nited States s Steel Corporation. Present at the .A committee's session were some of p tlie leading steel men of the conn- p try. e Mr. (later told of millions lost and j created almost in a breath, how the p Carnegie mills, appraised ?it $1 ?> ?,- | : 000,000, were recognized as ' ^ e li $320,000,000 almost within the | time required to make the transfer i to the corporation; the grim elasli in the formative days, when John 1>. ,, Rockefeller was dissuaded from M I joining the corporation, and the | manner in whicli others were pre- } | vented from engaging in the steel j trade. t] Oil King Koived Out. v j Relating how Carnegie had been I | forced to abandon plans for ex- t I tending his steel business. Mr. jo Gates frankly admitted that the gi- c gantic industrial combination was1 i tunned to throttle competition, and f ; he surprised the committee with the h luiuin uiiui u:;ii kiu max wneii jotin I) Rockefeller had sought to enter [ > 'the steel business, a deal had been put through by which the Standard Oil magnate was forced to sell out t ;t >r forty cents on the dollar. ? Characterizing Mr. Carnegie as "a j bull in a china shop," Mr. (iat.es 1 ( j told <>f a midnight conference 1?o- j ,, jtween himself, Charles M. Schwab], I and J. 1*. Morgan, at which the toi tal corporation was conceived and ; how it resulted in Carnegie getting $:i20,o00,000 in the corporation's se| curities for his steel interests, ! which lie previously had offered for t $100.1100.000 cash. Tennessee Company Acquire*!. v Mr. (Jates also told the commit- 1 tee of the taking over of the Tenn- tt I essee Coal and Iron Company by 1 the United States Corporation dur- f i ing the 1907 panic, a deal in which v ! he was interested sis a stockholder , i of the Tennessee. This, he said, W:i? :i f/trnotl t ; by Mr. Morgan and other financial it leaders to save from ruin the Trust ] d j Company of America, threatened by j t i the financial upheave! because it!' had loaned too much money on the1* ; stock of the Tennessee Corporation. * Plans made by Mr. Carnegie in " 1899 and 1900, to circle his steel in-;t terests with a railroad of his own ! o and to compete with the Nationoal I | Tube Company just organized byte I.Mr. Morgan, by the erecting of a|S tube works at Ashtabula. Ohio, were v | the factors that led to the birth of ti jtlie steel combine. The story of P | the steel combine. The story of the t\ j negotiations which led up to the V | combination now the subject of Cor-'si gressional inquiry were entertain-j K ingly told by Mr. Gates. <i Wanted to "Stop Carnegie." i II* revealed how Mr. Morgan, ja alarmed by Mr. Carnegie's plans, j B mill I lie llUVWT OI UiniSfll II and James J. Hill; how Charles H. a Schwab, who, he said, was the only' man who had influence with Mr. j w Carnegie, was called in to suggest a way to stop Carnegie," and hov.- tl the pioneer Iron and Steel King of | ,, the country was curb-, d in his pur-It pose, though greatly to his financial : ti gaiv He explained that the steel f, business was threatened with sev- ), eral demoralizing forces when Carnegie s plans became known and _ that Mr Morgan and others l>e- n came alarmed, fearing that Carne-, gie would demoralize both railroad , interest ind steel p'ices. This was the situation as des< .' !>e ed by Mr Cates, himself a director . at preset! in the Republic Iron and I Steel Company when Mr. Morgan .. I wnrtl /* Uim l.e/vt..-!* I- ? -" .. u W ai a in cat a UUgU JttlUCB . | I Hill seeking a conference to de- y termine what could be done. Mr. I * K (lat.es said he told Morgan that i ('has. M. Schwab was the only man (i | who could influence Mr. Carnegie. (i i Out of that came an all-night con- j j ference at Mr. Morgan's New York j | ?? 1 home. The Outcome of which was r the United States Steel Corporation. Silent on Stock Value. Mr. Gates stirred members of the t i committee when he declined to state 11 i what he thought was the value of >: the common stock of the Steel Cor- u poration. Mr. Gates was asked 1 ( \ sn<>ori\<; \k.\U .H'l?so\. it'jtiiM's llavc Difficulty and due is Shot Through llndy. A shooting affray that may result eriously occurred on the plantation f Mr. K. 11. Webster near Jiitlson tuiiday morning. The principals reiv Kd. Slicvas and Boh l.ocklcy. lad blood bus existed between the egroes and Sunday uiornitig when hey met a difficulty followed. Boek?y and his brothel* came upon Sheas near the negro's home and after n exchange of words they fell upon Ihevas and began to beat him. It aid that one of the l.ockleys had a tick and tin other one a knife, kiiyway. during the mix-up Shevas tilled a magazine pistol from his locket and fired. The bullet etiier<1 the stomach of Bob Bock ley and tassed entirely through bis body. >erforating the liver and intestines I is thought that Bocklcy will die Bermuda Briefs. I?ry windy weather and much ceded roin is the talk of the day ow. On Friday night last Irom eight mtil eight thirty o'clock it looked ike there was goii'K to be great Icstruction done in this- section by find and forest fire. The wiioi ?? lS dowing at a terrible speed in 1 here being several fires northeast f Us il looked like tin. tinio I....1 onto to go. Tlie fire is still hurling and ciinic very near burning I),.- dwelling houses last Sunday H'i 1-y hard work they were saved. L. I Stephens was in Dillon last Ion day 011 business. W C. Mi'KcAzie is training tin 'Unday School at Mt. Cavalry for a hildren's day in the near future. Ve hope lie will make a suceess. S. S. Stephens spent the day at he river last Wednesday in seareh f the finey tribe but did not find hem. Old Cor. Calvary Items. M. It. Moody is suffering very iiueli from the dislocation and trueure of the right arm We hope lit rill soon be able to look after hi* vork again. This misfortune took lace with hiui a few days ago, on he Dillon Bridge, when a mule beonging to .1. Arthur Herring sprang rom the bridge, carrying the buggy fith him into the inud below. Nothug more was injured in the affair. It seeuts to Ik? a gloomy looking ime with the farmers of this secion at this time. We thought the [fought had been inose severe but he drought has not been anything o compare with the terrible wind torm which passed through ths eclion Friday night last. Such lias ever been witnessed in this secion heretofore. The cotton fields I" Rev. .1. H. Moody, IS. I' Wiggins, . S. McKenzie and Wavcon Stephns look to be completely destroyed, onie of the corn is also burned seerely. The farms mentioned seem [> have been most directly in the nth of the winds, while other lirillS. esnocinllv cotton i? i'ith this wind we had a very light liower of rain, which we were verj lad to have The order of Mon?y seemed to be to look out for fed, the planting the second time, nd the replanting with the hoe. hit we yet live in hope, and trust hat we may soon overcome this disster. W. C. McKenzie, of Bermuda, as in this section Sunday last. Kev. J, I. Allen, will preach at lis place (Mt. Calvary) Sunday p. i. at four o'clock instead of three, his is his regular appointment, hut tie hour of worship is changed to mi- o'clock. We hope many will r?ue u-li ?> # \f- Alio.. I 'c?i ? nut .?u . j~% i icii nan iu 0?iy. Sub. lan.v questions relating to the powr of the Steel Corporation to dilute prices and to command busiess. Asked if he, as an indej>endnt manufacturer of tin plate, aiding below the "trust" price, should eceive a suggestion from the trust" that the price of his ore and ransportation might tx> advanced, .ould he attach weight to the sug;estion? He said: "I would consider it a bluff. If I isve got the cash I can buy ore as heap as anyone else. I don't l?eieve the Steel Corporation makes my such threats. If they did 110 ?ne would pay any attention to hem." Mr. Gates left Washington after he hearing. The next meeting of he committee will be Tuesday. The vitnesses expected are IC. H. Gary ind Norman It. Ream, of the Steel 'orporation. A VIOLENT WIND STORM DOES GREAT DAMAGE IN DILLON AND OTHER COUNTIES MANY FARMERS RE-PLANTING Storm Sweeps Over Dillon I relay Niglit and ICeports From tin* Country Indicate that Much Damam* Has lleen Dour. Dillon liad a touch of a real Kant Indian simoon Friday night. About S o clock Friday evening fitful flashes of lightening in the northwest indicated that a storm was rising, hut the cloud had ever* ap1 pearaticc of an ordinary rain cloud and those who watched its progress (felt that at last the long drouth had heeti broken. Scarcely before one could realize what had happened the clouds swept down upon Dillon with the violence of a small , eyelone, the atmosphere was filled with dust and flying lebris, and bouses rocked and creaked as if they would leave their foundations. . The wi id held close to the ground and picked up the pulverized dirt in great sheets, driving it through the (?1I1TIS III I II l< K UIIO Slllllllg ClIIIIIIS. , Redestrains who were caught in the ! s/or in relate some interesting exper| ieni'c.s One man who was making ' his wav .'omeward could find in shelter and lt *be niomeiit when tin dust had bee.nlniost utihearnbli he came to a dt,,,l? ditch into whicl he flung himself v here he lay unti the storm had subs "led. Anothei man wiio wjls driving along tin highway found hiiuself it' an opei L1 field where he and hi s borsi 'felt the full force of the ?torm The wind would lift the buggy r'*011 the ground and the horse, unable *' travel, was paralyzed with fear. It, unhitched the animal, left the bugg: iu the field and sought shelter Portuuately lie discovered an abandoned barn where he remained uiitil the wind had subsided. Reports from different sections ??: the H unty indicate that cotton hai I l.ccn badly damaged. Iti sandy land: ' | particularly the wind twisted tin stalks until the roots were loosened |and in some instances cotton wai completely buried by the shifting sands. Many farmers are re-planting. rite storm seems to have covered 'Itite a large area. Dispatches from : Marlboro and Darlington say that [crops in those counties were badly | damaged. With the exception of the cotton crop the wind did very little damage to other property, it ! is reported that several small outhouses on plantations in the lower part of the county were demolish| ed, while in some places trees were unrooted. The property damage 111 Dillon was small farmers'In ion Meeting. The Dillon County Farmers' Dn! ion will lie held at Dillon, in the court house Saturday, June l"tli, at 11 o'clock. All the local unions are icijnested to elect delegates to the county meeting at once. There will be business of importance (a come uo and will ?lein:i.n?l ;< full delegation from each local union. Trusting the Farmers' Union meeting will be attended largely by all the members and much good be accomplished in the Interest of the farmer's movement and the betterment of our country at large. Respectfully, Arch M. Hot Ilea, County President. F Sanderson, County Sec. and Ureas. A letter from Mr. W. H. Breedeu i says the Dillon contingent to the Little Hock reunion arrived safely after a most delightful trip. At Hamlet the party ran into a severe wind storm which raged with the violence of a small-sized tornado, but no damage was done. Several I ??i nit* imriy, liiciuuing Clerk of Court John C. Bethea. Doug Manning and Jack McLaurin, got off the train to take In the city of AtlaJita and were left behind. They caught up with the party at Birmingham. The party will go front Little Rook to Hot Springs where they will spend some time. Why He Mourned. "1 hear that your rich uncle is dead.'* "Yes. he is." rf'What did he leave?" "A widow we'd never heard of " iuaz stilib ,\ fmjhtkk. Dead- in Iirlciiic against Attack of Rebels. # Vera Cruz, May 'J7. Gi'iii'ral Diaz hi inst il' t'w k command of tin* Federal soldiers, who repulsed a largo foree of rebels, while the former President of Mexico was on his way from Mexico City to Vera Cruz. The latest estimates place the number of rebels dead at twenty and the wounded unknown. The attack on the train in which n. Diaz was travelling, and the escorting traius. occurred at Tepeyalie. With (Jen. Diaz at the time were Setiora Diaz, Col. Porfirio Diaz, his son. and the hitter's family. The trains were proceeding quite slowly with a pilot engine in the lead, the military train next. the Hx-President's special arid. last of all. a wrecking train to repair tracks il in ssary. The rebels runic into the open as the trains wire approaching Tepayachulaco. They numbered 500 and began a fierce attack. The Federals at once detrained and used rapid fire guns (Jen. Diaz ordered his special car to proceed nearer the scene of the attack and as it drew up he alighted and with pistol in hand, ran forward to aid his defenders. The Federals' quick action with the rapid firers, however, had taken the e..lo.l. I... cneoi-ic. .....1 tliou unrvti were in full retreat. The trains then proceeded at high speed. , < Mi his arrival here (Jon. Diaz i v as received hi silence. Then wer|. neither cheers nor hisses t'or the p' General. l'iaz was met hy .1. li. , Body, ii? whose home he hastened. L. From the flagstaff of this mansion the British flan was flying. II (Jen. Bias will I ss??i?uer of V!'\ ,,alubu,?^meriea'n steamer ^ ^ypiiai.ga, sajis for Sim in nay JJl. So wj|y <)f Havalla The . Ilia1'1'1 the former President ap-' pea.*? \ he greatly improved. Swift PiiiiislimeiM Method. Mexico City. May - 7 -Swift and 1 bloody punishment was uiveu the 5 1 . , , , assailants ol the troop train acting ' as an escort to (Jon. I>iaz, on I trip to Vera Cruz, according to ' message received here to-night by Alfredo Rebels Dominguez, the rep' resentative of Madcro. The telegrani was sent by lialurio (J. Mar, jthe leader of a group of revolu| tinnitus in the State of Vera Cruz Marquez says the attack was made by a band of men led by Delfino | Villaneuva, and that as soon as lie heard of it, lie gave orders to pursue them Leading the rebels himself, he located Villaneuva and his hand. routing tliem with great I loss Kobels Itoininguez says that Vilanuevu lias never taken orders from any authorized revolutionists and has always been regarded as nothing more than a bandit. lie expressed preat repret that any attack shouldd have been made on (Jen. Diaz's train. List hi IVtit Jurors Fot 'cssiims ( oiiil. June llitli, 'or Dillon ('oillit). A. K Mela llan, Carniichael. Oscar Campbell, Curmiehael. I) Mil.aurin, .Ir., Harlleesville. I J. S. Fair Kirby. J .1 W. Smith, Moody. I). M. Dew, Moody. William l'hlliips, Carniichael. ('. II Stanton, Harlleesville. (J. it. Campbell, Carniichael. llpoyd Kdwards, Reaves. Albert. Jackson, Moody. l?*turin Mcinnis. Harlleesville I k \.. Airord, Betliea. J I>. Ammons, Harlleesville. T R. Hayes, Kirby. H. M. Bullock, Hillsboro. \V. 1$. Ford, Hillsboro. W. M. Huxley, Kirby C.. P. Hayes, HillslKiro. I A. S. Allen, Moody. Ellis Scott, Hillsboro. I>. J Alford, Harlleesville. j A. Ij. Smith. Moody. \V. 11. Steele, Bethea. J. E. Wise, Kirby. A. H Webster, Harlleesville J. R. Reaves, Manning. P. Carskaddon, Hillsboro. J. F Jones, Manning. J. R. McCutcheon, Moody. R A. Hodges, Manning. W M. Hamer, Manning. R. J. l)ew, Moody. J. R. Daniels, Bethea. W. H. Murphy, Manning. T. J. Bass, Moody. Clerk of Court Bethea and Mrs. ' <? hea have returned from Missis sippi where they have been on a ' visit to Mrs. Bcthea's parents.