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SAN FRANCISC<
Once Beautiful Metroj;
a Scene of
TWOHUNDRED THOU
Huildizigs Not Wrecked by Ea
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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
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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
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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
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tions coming in fart.
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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
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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
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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?
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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, |
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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,
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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.
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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,
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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
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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
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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.
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Proceedings of Last Week's Court.
Yorkvilto !se\v En.
The court ot General sessions
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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.
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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.
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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
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?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
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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
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