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VOLUME 18?NO. 50. FORT MILL. S. C.. THITRSTIAV. MARf'Vr t? loin a.?4, ...? J*
WANAMAKER'S MONUMENT
^ MUST TAKE SECOND PUCE
Fort Mill is the Home of First am Only
Memorial to North American Indians---Erected
in 1900.
If Roderick Wanamaker, son
of John Wanamaker, the merchant
prince of Philadelphia and
New York, wishes to spend a
few thousands of his dad's millions
upon a monument which he
| proposes to erect in New York
harbor in memory of the once
powerful North American Indian
certainlv thprp is no ohipr.t.ion to
such an enterprise by the people
of this section. On the other
hand, they wish him godspeed
and shall be disappointed if he
does not build the monument of
Parian marble and make it buss
the sky. What there is objection
to in this little upper South
Carolina city, however, is the
claim which Mr. Wanamaker is
setting up as being the pioneer
in such an enterprise. He should
take a day or two off and come
to Fort Mill and visit Confederate
park. There he would see a
monument commemorative of the
identical virtues of the North
American Indian which it is his
purpose to perpetuate. He is invited
to come to Fort Mill and
bring with him all the friends he
may choose and there will be a
committee to meet them at the
depot and escort them to the
park, less than a hundred yards
distant, where will be pointed
out to the party the one and only
monument of the kind in the
Western Hemisphere. This is
the Catawba Indian monument
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late Mr. J. M. Spratt caused to
be erected on Saturday, July 31,
1900. And there it has stood
ever since to tell the world of
the once mighty prowess of as
noble race of red men as ever
lived on the American continent,
a race which fought side by side
with the American continental
and later followed the fortunes
of Lee and Jackson in the strug^
gle for Southern independence
! in the '60s.
The monument is of Indiana
L limestone and consists of a
nedestal 12 inches high, having
beveled upper edges. On this
is a second stone, similar in
shape and height, but narrower,
and on the western bevel of
which, in raised letters, is the
word "Catawba," while on the
face below appears names of
noted men of the nation, and on
the eastern face the names of
some who fought in the Confederate
army. On this stone
rests the die, which is almost
square and 27 inches hi??h, and
having on the western face a
forest scene where native wild
turkeys are enjoying their freedom;
on the north side is engraved
a legend stating the removal
of the nation from Canada
in 1000 and their friendship for
the white People; on th<
side a galloping buffalo, roaming
over the plains near the mountains,
and on the south face the
"iii memoriam." A neat capital
stone is above and projecting
over the die, on which is the
figure of an Indian warrior
kneeling with drawn how and
ai row, ready for game or an
enemy. The whole structure is
about 12 feet high.
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Mr. McNinch Republican Candidate?
The Fort Mill friends of S. S.
McNinch, former Democratic
i mayor of Charlotte and well
known here as president of the
Charlotte Brick company, whose
plant is two miles south of town,
will be surprised to learn that
a movement is on foot among the i
i Republicans of the Ninth North
I Carolina district to induce him
to become their candidate fnr
H Congress in the election next
November. The district is now
' represented by E. Y. Webb,
jH Democrat, of Shelby. Mr.
McNincn is a leading business
?| man of Charlotte, and it is said
II to be the purpose of the Regs
publicans in that district to try
g| to influence him to accept the
9- domination in the hope of:
alienating the business interests
9. of Charlotte from the Demo9<
cratic party. The Charlotte
K Observer is authority for the
statement that Mr. McNinch is
9' a Republican, that he voted the
9 Republican national ticket in
9 1908 and previously. I
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RURAL FREE DELIVERY SUBJECT
OF SPEECH BY NR. FINLEY
Fifth District Congressman Points Onl
Advantages to the People From
Operation of System.
Congressman Finley, member
of the committee on postoffice
and postroads, in the course of
his speech on the postoffice appropriation
bill recently, gave
out some interesting facts and
statements relative to the rural
free delivery service. Being a
member of the sub-committee
that frames this enormous ap
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propnauon annuauy, rar. riniey
is conversant with his sublect.
He is not classed with that number
who attribute the loss of
$28,000,000 in the postal service
annually to the rural delivery
system. On the subject he said:
"It is said that last year the
rural delivery lost to the government
something like $28,000,000.
My only regret is that everybody
who made that statement did not
take the figures and go over
them. According to the postmaster
general's report the
estimated revenue originating
directly on the rural routes is
$7,250,000 during the ppst fiscal
year. It is also estimated that
mail originating elsewhere going
to the patrons on the rural routes
amounted to something like
$12,000,000 last year. I am
satisfied that this estimate is toe
low. Now all the years that 1
have been here I have tried to
study this one proposition particularly
and the best information
I have gained from observation
and from facts obtained
wherever I could find them is that
for every dollar of mail originating
on a rural route two and
one-half times that amount is
originated or created elsewhere
on account of the existence of
the rural route. But at any rate,
$12,000,000 or $13,000,000 origiwl
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ucilcu ciacvviicic. nui ouiy is
this true, not speaking at all
with reference to the great benefits
this service is to the country
in the way of spreading intelligence,
knowledge and information,
and keeping the people informed
as to what is going on
in their neighborhood, but in the
outside world, a benefit which
cannot be measured; but there
are other benefits that are so
great that they can hardly be
calculated, although they have a
value in dollars and cents. There
are 41,000 new and old rural
routes in this country serving a
population of 20,000,000 and upward.
I took the trouble tci
make a calculation of the time
saved. Tal e the time saved bv
the country people on account ol
the fact that they do not have tc
go to the postofiice, because the
postoffice is brought to their door,
at $10 per year lor each family,
and it amounts to more thai
$40,000,000 annually in saving
of time. In addition to this,
patrons of rural routes live oi
farms comprising more thai
200,000,000 acres. The institution
of the rural delivery has
I brought a vast increase in tlu
value of farm lands. I hav*
made a calculation on this, and il
amounts to the astounding sun
of one thousand million dollars
increase in land values in th<
United States on account of th<
rural delivery service. Four pei
cent, on this would more thai
pay the annual cost of the rura
delivery service."
To Manufacture Automobiles.
That Rock Hill is to lead th<
State in the manufacture ol
automobiles is the latest announcement
of the Rock Hil
Buggy company. That wideawake
and most progressive
concern, which is just now
working overtime on its buggies
and turning out 155 jobs pei
week, will go, or has already
gone, into me manuiacture oi
automobiles. It is the intentior
to build high-grade, four-cylinder
machines to be known,
probably, as the "Rock Hill 30,"
and of these they expect to builc
a hundred this year.
The township board of asses
sors, composed of VV. L. Hall
D. G. Kimbrell and S. H. Epps
met yesterday morning for th<
purpose of equalizing the 191(
tax returns for this township.
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JOHN CALDWE
i In the two houses of Congress ?
I Saturday joined hands over the g]
; occasion?.was the unveiling of the
; aratist which, sixty years after th
i struggle for State rights, was se
s tol. The unveiling ceremony at
i cipally by South Carolinians. T1
> drapery around the marble figure
! ton, of Guthriesville, York county
i D. A. R., and Miss Gist, of York>
Former Lieutenant Governor Mau
The statue depicts its subject in
the south side of Statuary hall, fa
I houn's antagonist. The ceremonie
, senate and house after the comple
It was in the two houses that r<
I bellum belligerent States met once
i ator Lodge and Representative
i England commonwealth, and Sena
Carolina representatives for this ?
The Calhoun family was represe
rick and John C. Calhoun, grands
1 hnnsp in Uflflifirvn fn MrtPoll'c
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... by Representative Lamb, of Virgi
Finley, Lever, Johnson and Ellerb
Events at the State Capital.
Special to Fort Mill Times.
Columbia, March 15.?The
i death of Col. W. VV. Lumpkin,
i who was known and liked all
' over the State as an orator at
veterans' reunions and as candi:
date for the United States senate
| a few years ago, has caused
; genuine sorrow among all those
; who knew him. Col. Lumpkin
1 had gone to Asheville on a visit
to his daughter in order to re\
cuperate from a spell of the grip,
; but his condition became worse, I
. ending in his death Sunday
morning. His funeral took place!
\ today at noon with interment in |
the local cemetery.
James Cansler, of Tirzah, or
rather, "Tirzah of Cansler" was
lr in the city a short time ago and.
reannounced his biennial race
for railroad commissioner. Rep1
resentative Dixon, of Faii'iield,
1 who has been mentioned as a
possibility, stated recently that;
" lie would not be in the running. |
.1 Mines A 1 /O'
- ... ./VMIM.IV I U , W I Ul? IIland,
has not formulated his
plans as yet, and makes the
11 statement that he cannot tell;
just at this time whether or not
| he will run. He made a tine I
showing in both of the campaigns
in which he was a can-1
j j didate and it is not at all im->
probable that he will enter again. !
The subscribers of The Times
in the city are much pleased
with the decided improvement,
s in the general "get-up" of the:
j! paper. Very few places the size
of Fort Mill, in fact much larger
I I towns, can boast of a newspaper
as readable as The Times. M.
Fell in a Well.
Friday afternoon R. N. Capps, |
. a citizen of Steele Creek in
1 Mecklenburg county, N. C., who
is well known in Fort Mill, met
1 with a peculiar accident. Capps
and a negro were cleaning out a
; 155-foot well on the place of the
. former. The negro was at the
bottom of the well and Capps
was on the ground about the
mouth repairing the curbing.
- Capps lost his footing and fell
, to the bottom of the well, carry,
ingwith him a quantity of earth,
j rocks and timber. Neither Capps
) nor the negro was seriously
hurt.
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>outh Carolina and Massachusetts
rave of John C. Calhoun. The I
statue of the South Carolina sep-,
e period of his long continued 11
t up in Statuary hall at the capi- j,
11 o'clock was conducted prin-;
he cords holding together the
were loosed by Mrs. K. M. Brat,
ex-regent of the South Carolina
dlle, Governor Ansel presided.
Idin made the principal oration,
strident attitude. It stands in
cing the effigy of Webster, Cal- j
s of acceptance took place in the
tion of the exercises in the hall. ,
^presentatives of the two ante- j j
s more to bury the hatchet. Sen- (
McCall speaking for the New |,
itor Smith and a number of South ,
State.
inted at the proceedings by Pat- (
sons of the statesman. In the j i
speech addresses were delivered (
nia, and Representat:ves Aiken, (
?e, of South Carolina.
Lewis C. Baker Kills Himself. j
Thursday morning at his home *
in Charlotte, Lewis C. Baker
drank an ounce of carbolic acid
and died in great agony a short
while thereafter. It is said that
he had been drinking heavily a
few days before his death and
was in a despondent frame of
mind. Mr. Baker was well
known in Fort Mill. Until a few
years ago he resided here for
several years, being in the employ
of the Fort Mill Mfg. Co. as
a machinist. He was a man of
kind and affable disposition and
consequently made many friends
here, all of whom will regret to ,
near or his death, lie was married
about 20 years ago to Miss
Dovie Wilkinson, who is a
daughter of (1. W. Wilkinson,
a former citizen of this town- 1
ship. Among the surviving:
relatives of Mr. Baker is a
brother, -J. W. Baker, who resides
in Fort Mill. Mr. Baker
was a member of the Masonic
order, having: joined the local
lodge several" years ago. The
interment was in a Charlotte
cemetery Friday afternoon.
Messrs. Springs Win $48,000 Suit.
Two former Fort Mill citizens,
now prominent cotton factors in
New York city, were the re- I
spondents in an important decision
rendered Saturday by the
appellate division of the supreme
court of New York State. The
gentlemen were Eli B. and Richard
A. Springs, sons of the late
Col. Baxter Springs, years ago a
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-prwiiimtm, anu wc*?uiii\ vTLretni ui
this township. The Messrs.
Springs are members of the cotton
firm of Springs & Co. and as
such sued a Georgia planter
named Blakely for $48,000 due
on a cotton transaction. Blakely
had refused to pay the claim
on the ground that it was contracted
through a gambling
transaction upon which there
can be no recovery. The lower
qourt ruled against Blakely and
he appealed to the higher court, j
which has sustained the ruling
of the lower court and the report
of a referee. The decision of
the*supreme court, which was"
unanimous, is that the New York
cotton exchange is not a bucketshop,
but a legitimate market ,
for trading in actual cotton,
Mr. Jones Rales on Tax Questions.
In answer to questions by a
:ounty auditor of the State,
Comptroller General Jones has
given three decisions of importance
on the tax question in
this State. The comptroller
general was asked for ruling on
the following points.
1. Is the wife of a citizen,
deriving her income entirely
from investments through a
trustee in another State, subject
to the income tax in South
Carolina?
Answer: The income of a
married woman, resident of this
State, derived entirely from
investments made through her
trustee in another State, are
subject to the income tax in this
State. The residence of a married
woman is the same as the
residence of her husband, so
that if her husband is a citizen,
resident of this State, she must
oe treated as such also.
2. Are houses in process of
construction and nearly completed,
but not habitable on
January 1, taxable for the current
year?
Answer: Houses in process of
construction and not completed
or habitable on January 1 are to
be assessed for taxation at their
value on that date.
3. Is property shipped into
the State and on the ground on
January 1 taxable ad valorem
though not yet actually in use?
Answer: Property shipped into
this State which has arrived
in the State on January 1 is
subject to taxation, although it
has not been put to any use in
the State since its arrival.
A news item from Washington
says that the speeches in the
house and senate on the acceptance
of the Calhoun statute
will be collected in book form
md each member and senator
from South Carolina will have a
certain quota. How many will
oe made is not yet known. At
the proper time some South
Carolinian, probably Mr. Finley,
will introduce a resolution to
make more than the usual 700 or
300 copies.
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drug store. Come often;
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SANATOR TILLMAN IS MISSED . ; ? }
FROM HALLS OF C0HCRE?.?
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Carolinian's Absence Has Main " #
a Gap in National Capitol?-His ? * '
Personal Influence Counts. V .
In senate circles in Washington
it is said that it would cause no
great surprise should Senator
Tillman, because of his impaired ?% *
health, retire from public life at
the end of his present term.
While the senator h?l what is
termed a close call, his death
being expected at aity hour, he
happily pulled through and seems
now to be on the road to recovery.
His close friends say that he will
not retire unless he should become
a confirmed invalid, and
this is not anticipated. The
gossip of the possible retirement
of Tillman is in line with the
gossip that arises whenever a
statesman is taken suddenly
ill and not expected to recover.,
Senator Tillman has hid 15
years of service in the ' upper
I branch of Congress and no mepvhpp
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the front more steadily than the.
senator from South Carolina. He
has a personal influence that
counts for much for the State.
He is one of the few solons who
can fill the galleries and draw,
from the house when it is known
that he is down for a set speech.
He has been missed since his
illness. It is believed that he
would have had something inter-,
esting to say on the postal savings
bank bill which recently passed? - ,
and that he would have something
to say on the inter-state
commerce bill just reported may
be better imagined than described.
It will be recalled that
he handled the last important
piece of railroad legislation
enacted into law a few years ago.
It was the railroad rate bill
recommended by Roosevelt. But ? *
this time it is doubtful if the
senior senator from South Carolina
will be able to take a hand
in shaping the new legislation.
Indeed, it is doubtful if he is
again seen in the senate this
session.
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