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- =5 , DR. J L SPRArT, M Dentist. Offoe: Up-Stalrs la ^ Bank Building Terms: STRICTLY CASH. 15TII YEAR. SAN FRANCISC< Once Beautiful Metroj; a Scene of TWOHUNDRED THOU Huildizigs Not Wrecked by Ea Fire.?Property L< TheTlatest reports from San Francisco andjsurrounding towns are to the effect that the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles are practically a total loss as a result of the violent earthquake and fires which visited the places on the morning of the 18th., The following bulletins issued since that date give an idea as tc the fearful loss of life and property and conditions of those rendered destitute by the catastrophe: San Francisco April 19.?Ten square miles of the city are in i ruins as a result of the flames and I quake. P\illy 30,000 houses are destroedy. The city is now under martial law, 3,000 regular troops from the&Presidio acting as policemen. San Fraccisco April 19.?The Hamaom fn nrnnortv Kw flio nnoL-n w * WJ/V/1 vj MJ LUC t|UAI\e and flames will go up to $200,000, 000. This is in the city alone. In the rest of the State the property loss will be about $100,000. New York April 19.? It is reported in the city that Santa Rosa, in Pomana county, suffered equally as much as San Francisco from the earthquake. Not a building block was left. Houses toppled over as if built of sand. Estimated loss of life is more j than 500. New . York, April 19. ? The chamber of commerce has received a telegram from Mayor Schmitz, of San Francisco, accepting all aid offered. He says conditions in the city are indescribable. Over $3,000,000 has been been raised in this city for the sufferers. One firm gave $75,000, another $50,000 and another $10,000. Washington, April 19. ?Immediately after convening this morning the house voted an appropripriation of $600,000 for the relief of the San Francisco sufferers. This amount was later increased to $1,000,000. Los Angeles, April 19. (2 p. m.) ? At this hour the city is in the throes of an earthquake, The buildings are rocking and the citizens are fleeing from their homes and business houses. It looks now as if the city is doomed. Calumet, Mich., April 19.? An earthquake shock which was felt distinctly throughout Hancock and was more pronounced in the Quincy mine killed Timothy Leary and injured four others while working one mile below the earth's surface in that property to-day. San Francisco, April 20 ?The figures at hand as to losses are still matters of guess work. From one thousand and to ten thousand are estimated as dead, while the injured are placed at 25,000. The property loss will be over $500,000,000. 5jan Francisco, April 20.?The destitution and suffering is indescribable. Women and children who had comfortable homes a few days ago slept last night? if sleep came at all?on hay on the wharves, on the sand lots near North Beach, some of them under the little tents made of sheeting which poorly protected them from the chilli nor rvpan winds. Thousands of members of families are separated and with no means of learning one another's whereabouts. The po!ice to-day opened up a bureau of registration to bring relatives together. Washington, April 20.?By diection of the secretary of war, ue commissary general of the ii-my has been ordered to send 200,000 more rations from Den/er, and other Western supply -'epots to San Francisco. Kew York April 21?The voice-1 V i / 'v. ? jit0 I ' ? FO . i * 3 FIRE SWEPT. Kills of the West Now rv t a.* i^esoiciian, SAND ARE HOMELESS. rthquake Later Destroyed by >ss $200,000,000. ' less appeil of San Francisco has been hea?d throughout the civilized word. From every city and town in this country, from European capitals and from far Eastern communities comes news that all humanity, in expressing its sympathy, is also offering every ma:erial assistance. From the incomplete figures of the contributions which have been made it is estimated to-night that the San Francisco found is rapidly nearing the total $10,000,000 and ' vill have passed that figure bjl Monday, when the United St tes Congress, it is announced, vill add $1,000,000 to the $l,00c(p00 appropriated from the Treasury at Washington. In the burst c|f generous contributicrs. New York City ranks next to the government itself and bids fair to far exceed the Federal contributions. To-night the NewYork fund amounted to approximntolv ?9 fkOO fifl vitU - ?>v*wv>? J yfcd, V'W, vu, I til W-Ulill 1UU" tions coming in fart. ' - __ /Some HorriLie Facta. The national House of Representatives hast voteu $600,000 to relieve the sufferers, to be expended ur.dei the direction of the Secretary of war. The San Francisco mint containing $300,000,000 in coin and bullion, was saved only after heroic etfort. Building is the only structure of like sire that remains standing i])J,he city. Americans in London are to meet to-morrow for the purpose of subscribing to the relief fund which is now being collected to provide temporary quarters for the destitute. The total numper of dead in all the California cities visited i by the catastrophe will probably reach 3,000, and the improv :.ed hospitals are unable to care for the injured.. City of Santa Rosa destroyed; 10,000 homeless; not a business building left standing. General Funston, in a dispatch to the War Department says that 200,000 are without homes in San Francisco and too many tents and supplies cannot be sent. Fireman who go to San Francisco are returned to their homes, being unable to render any asCiof O AT* ^ 1^-1- ' ' ' oiubuuva vsii av,V/Vu. l MX IclCK OX water. The heads of many families are forced by officers and firemen to stand by and see their property gQ up in flames, and oftentimes loved ones burned to death. a i Some Tacts Ahont Sfcn Francisco. It was first explored by two Franciscan, Palon and Combon, on October 9, 1776. In 1848, six months after the discovery of gold in California, it was a village of less than 500. It was chartered a town in >1850, having then less than 1.0,000 inhabitants. Its population went up by leaps and bounds, and it soon became the principal city on the Pacific coast. It is now the principal port of our rapid growing Pacfic trade. The city is built on the northeast end of the peninsula, which is 20 miles long and si:: miles wide at or^e point. The land on which the^city is built is very uneven, rising at oi.e point to 945 feet. A great deal of the business section is built on land reclaimed from bogs. It covers an nraa nf aKnnt Wi :l? ?.. VJ. UWUb W ?H[U<IIC The dome on. the city hall was 332 feet high. Its harbor is one of the finest In the world, covering an area of 450 square miles. It has one hundred public schools and fifty hospitals, public and private. It has been visited by five destructive fires, which aggregated $16,000,000 damages. Its Chinese population is about 32,000, most of whom live in a section to which b widely known as "Chinatown." The population of the city was estimated last year at 100,000, | H 3 . Mil! J L ..Mrnmm PMII l)KM(X'i{A(% JUS RT MILL, S. C., THUR i Hester'* Cjttor Report. Secretary Hi tter's analysis of the cotton mo\ement for the sev! en months of the season from September lst to-March 31st. in-1 elusive, shows that, compared with the crop movement, of last ar, Texas, includinsr Indian 1 Titory, lias brought into sight t! is season in lound fi?rures 152.000 hales less; other Gulf States, which include Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi. Tennessee, Missouri and Oklahoma, have marketed 059,000 less, and the group j of Atlantic States, which include North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Virginia, are 181,000 loss, making the net decrease in the tc>al crop marketed 1,192,000. Mr. Hester j shows the amount brought into j sight by groups of Atlantic States for the seven months of the season to be 4.020,541 bales. Total crop in sight, close of March, 9,340,388 bales. Cut His MjIss Throat. Dock Miller, a Spartanburg negro is undoubtedly a heartless brute. On Easter Sunday Miller and a sister wont to a country church to attend services, and i upon reaching the church and without apparent cause flew into a passion with Ids mule. Drawing his knife fr ;m his pocket he cut the animals th]*oat, laying open a gaping v/ounri from which the blood spouted in a stream. With his knife dripping with bf id Miller stood by and saw th-- poor beast die. The deed, . 4. ... ?:.j J 1 it is ?aiu, was c>nuniu,eu (luring the sermon. Several colored men and women were on the outside of the building and wore eye witnesses to the brutal act. The act of Miller is the first case of the kind that has ever been recorded in Spartanburg county. Men have been arrested on the charge of cruelty to anmals, but never before has a man been arrested for killing his own beast of burden. 1 he ^ase will be pushed in the court of general sessions. The act of Miller is condemned by the colored men and women of the section in which lhe brut;.' deed was enacted. The Campaign Will Soon Open. Col. Wilie Jones, Chairman of the State Democratic executive committee, has sent the following letter to the various county chairmen throughout, the State: "At a meetii of the State Demscratic executive r mmittee held April 5, 19vt>k a convention f Ua T ^ i? n uiv i/uiiiutiaui; puny ui OUULll Carolina was called to take place May 16, 1906, in accc- 'dance with the provisions of the party. "You will please issue orders at ( .nee to the presidents of the Democratic clubs in j'our county to assemble their clubs on April 28, 1906, as provided in the constitution, for the purpose of electing delegates to the county convention, which will assemble May 7, for the purpose of electing delegates to to the Ste^e convention, each county being entitled to double the representation it has in the General Assembly." HAD LITTLE FEAR OF SMALLPOX. Winston, N. C., Coi.de Married in the infested Baihs District. That smallpox has little terror for those affected .'ith the matrimonial fever was forcibly demonstrated Wedm day night between the hour.-, of 12 and 2 o'clock, when Mr. John Fox and Miss alice Martin, both of Winston-Salem, N. appeared at the home of ex-'Squire Willard O. Bailes, in the smallpox infested district of Pin ville township and were united in marriage by bv the genial 'sqiure. The marriage, according to the Charlotte Chreniele, is a romantic one. Miss Mai tin is said to have been visit; ig relatives in this city and her fiance came to Charlotte yesterday to see her. They went on a supposed stroll ia?x nignt, nireci a team tram tie Wads worth Stables and drove ta the South Carolina line, where the genial magistrate lives. Mrs. E. ?. Gatling, of Hallsboro, N, C., is a visiter at the home of her brother, Mr. T. B. Belk, in this plaee. f j I < f T I y 1 . TICK, Till Til. SDAY, APRIL 2(>, 1906. STERNIJOUS TIMES IN A "DRY" COUNTY. Newberry County Flooded With Liquor. : ? Differences of Authorities as t?? i Need of State Cons tables. They are having a merry, strcn-, uous time over in Newherry | county over the blind tiger jitua- , tion there, but the governor nas, ! cn f Ol* vo^no/\/l 4-? 4..-* 1 ? I 1 iui 111 unwu lw LitKc (i .'ianu, i says the Columbia Record of" the 19th. Newberry is one o* the counties which took over the blessings of prohibition under, the Brice act, and is now going up against some of che cusse lness of illicit trallic. At present only one constable is operating in the county- .Jess George, who is do:ng stunts at i Prosperity. But Constables Gid- j eon and Eison, who returned a j day or so from interesting work ; at Pomaria, say the county is: tiooded with liquor. It is coming in in great quantities by express not only for personal use, but to tigers as well. At Piosperity a few da\ s ,tg<) these officers seized 131 -2 gallons at one swipe and a , short time after this uncovered 382 bottles of beer hid out in the bushes half a mile from Prosperity. This find fr.Hnwtwt o lose search of the storo of t harlie Counts at Prosperity. A. H. Kohn and James D. Quattlehaum, styling themselves a committee appointed by the town council of Prosperity to take the matter up with the ' governor, have wriiten the governor asking the withdrawal of tie* constables from the town of Prosperity, saying the town au- j thoiities are able and willing to police the town against this traffic, and wanting to know what the governor intends doing about the half mill levy for enfoicir.g the law in prohibition counties. The governor replied tha', he had nothing to do with applying the levy, that the law applied the levy, that the governor mi rely used it to enforce tne law. He ( declined to withdraw the constables for the present, but said he would be glad to confer further about the matter. Mayor Cromer, of Newberry, who has no liking for the dispensary law and is a strong pro- j hibitionist. takes quite a different view of the situation, so far as the town of Newberry is concerned. He says in a letter to the governor that constables' are j xt 1 i - ucvucu in i-Mtiwuerry ngrn, away to enforce the law, that in order to cope with the situation officers in sympathy with the law are necessary to have about. Governor IIe> ward replied that, he would take the matter up with Chief Constable Hammett. As is well known, the policy of the governor has been to give every community a chance to enforce the law by its own officers. Clubs Will Organize Saturday. The meeting of the Democratic clubs in this County will be heid on next Saturday, the 28th, and the county convention made up of delegates selected at the club meetings, will assemble at the court house on the 7th of Ma> to elect delegates to the State convention, a county chairman, a county executive committee and a member of the State Democratic executive committee. ( The State Democratic conven- i tion will be held in Columbia on 16th of May, that being the tVnvrJ A f-k/\ vi>>i vi 1 uvcur.ji. nun UIC Illt'CL" ing of the convention the new 1 State executive committee will | make arrangements for the State campaign along lines decided , upon by the convention. The , itinery will be mapped out by < the executive committee. < The qualifications for vo^ng < in the State primaries are that ' the person who desires to vote 1 must have been a resident of the ( State 12 months and of the ( county 60 days, who must pledge ( himself to abide by the result of ( the primaries, and his name , must be on the club list at lea >t , five days before the fii st primary, i York county is entitled to ten < delegates in the State convention. < Mr. Jas T. McGregor, cf ' Walterboro, stopped over in th>s ' place Sunday night on his way ' to Yorkville to attend court as a | witness in the case of Chick vs. , Fort Mill Mf#. Co. I. I ? *-: I [MES Proceedings of Last Week's Court. Yorkvilto !se\v En. The court ot General sessions i ae t * - convened Monday morning with Jbvi.ire J. C. Klugji presiding, Mr. W. J. Cavony of Rock Hill was elected foreman of the grand jury and will retain this position during the year. The case of The State vs. Mort' Williams charged with murder! was the first called for trial l?y the solicitor. It was alleged that this defendant killed Wash Blair last fall at a negro church south of Yorkvilie. At 1 o'clock Tuesday afternoon the jury brought in a verdict of guilty of manslaughter. Williams was son-; tenced to five years on the chaingang. Will Crosby was found guilty i of assault with intent to ravish and was scute nurd to 80 years in the penitentiary. Crosby is the negro who assaulted a little white girl, Lillian Sweat, near Rock Hill about two months ago. Wm. Barnett, charged with housebreaking and stealing c itfon seed from the barn of R. i\. ' .j very was found not guilty. M. Gamble who killed F. N. I Edwards at Fort Mill last winter wrs found not guilty, a clear case of self defense having been made out. lloyward Foster plead guilty to housebreaking and larceny and was given two years on the chaingang. . I Sumnel Kimbrell, assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, entered a plea of guilty and was sentenced to pay a fine of which he paid. Wednesday Emanuel Wilbams was found guilty of resisting an officer?a police man in Rock Hill - and sentenccd.to 18 months en the gang. Joe Pratt alias Joe Gwin was acquitted of the chrrge of selling: whiskey. Laura Partlow was convicted of violation of the dispensary law and given a fine of $200 or 6 months in the penitentiary. A. A. Loughridge was acquited of the charge of selling whiskey. The case of the State vs. Wm. j Currence, murder, was con-1 tinued. Thursday afternoon M. F. Owens was put on trial for the killing of Ainzi Sanders in Rock Hill on September 22 last. The case was given to the jury at 5 ; o'clock and after deliberating about three quarters of an hour a verdict of not guilty was reached. Bish Smith was found guilty of resisting an officer. Yesterday the ;asc of James M. Clark charged with the murder of Ben Armstrong was begun. The killing accurred at defendants home in Sharon last j February. The jury rendered aj verdict of not guilty after a few minutes deliberation. mis wonntl up the sessions business and Judge Klugh is now engaged in equity matters. Prof. S. E. Boney, principal of Gold Hill academy left Saturday tor Union, where he will engage during the summer as solicitor for the Union Times. WANTED?To buy, at market priood, u number ot healthy, younghans. B. W. BRADFORD. + %%,<<%/%, |tiie new 0xf( ? They've just arrived and art ? prettier than those of the past a a line of the celebrated ^DIAMOND B 117 a Have a'smartness and com ft f alone. p I MADE FOK US BY | ^ I _ Pptpr*^ 8 $ We have your size hiCELIJANEY . " ? / -V *1 ' v< V f \ / ^ THE TIMES will be serf only reasonable % time on ciodit ______ Dc.i't Look for More. Pay Up Promptly NUMBER CANDIDATES MUST NOT MAKE PLEDGES. Afcer Eleclicn Must Render Itemized Statement of Expanses. An act passed bv the legisla4-,^ C mar i < 1 tui-e <n i:?oo, out wnicn has now been forgotten by about everybody, affects in an important way, candidates ;n the coming Democratic club meetings, county and State conventions, primary elections, says the Rock Hill Record. of Friday. , This act forbids '"any person by threats, or any other form of intimidation, or by the payment delivery, or promise of money or other article of value," to induce "another to vote for or against any pai ticular candidate in such election." Section 2 of the act requires that every candidate "before he shi 11 enter upon his campaign" to tile a pledge that he "will not g.ve or spend money or use intoxicating liquors for the purpose of obtaining or influencing votes," the pledge requiring him "immedinfnlv ? ~ " 1 ?i-iiv; |n mmry lO 1116 an itemized statement, which "shall he open to public inspection," showing under oath "all further moneys spent or provided by me in said election." > The act makes null the election < of anyone who fails to comply with its provisions. Though his duties do not require him to do so. Stote Chairman Jones, out of the interest he feels in the party and exercising characteristic care to save his -a friends and acquaintances from the consequences of neglect or oversight, is taking great pains to get this act under the eye of everyone intending to become a candidate in the coming election. He is having several hundred copies of the act printed in order to distribute them himself and send others out to the county chairmen with a request tiiat they personally see that the candidates comply with the law in time._ County candidates file these~pledges with the clerk of court, while candidates in more than one county, such as wouldbe solicitors, congressmen, State officers and tin- like, are required to file the pledge with the secretary of State. Mr. Bass Injured. Mr. Oscar E. Bass, whose home is just beyond the northern limits of the town, was seriously in- |r\ jured on Monday of last week in the Southern Railway shops at Spencer, N. ('., in which he was employed. Ms. Bass, who is a machinist, was at work in a pit, over which ? stood a box car, the drawhead of Tlfll 11 Vl UFOU ........ .. ho ugiii^ i t|wiren. A shifting engine entered the track and bumped the cars, causing the draw head to drop from its fastenings upon Mr. Bass. He was removed from the pit and given medical attention and it was found that he had received a long gash on the back of his head and his neck and shoulders were badly ' bruised. / Mr. Bass was brought to his \ home here Thursda> evening and his condition at this time is much i improved. J )R1)SARE HERE J ; now on display. They're much m leason, too. Our very complete fl t N I) OXFOltDS I )rt that is characteristic of them fl They look so inviting that your feet will he wanting to H get into a pair when first you 9 see them. at your price, fl e. pn \f p i \T v a( \jUiU i fi l