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The Fort Mill Times. \ VOLUME 19?NO. 51. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1911. J1.25 PER YEAR ED CATON, OFTEN IN TROUBLE, WANTED FOR THE CHAINGANG Getting into trouble and staying in it seems to come easy with Ed Caton, a former Fort Mill township farmer. Afterserving a sentence on the chaingang of York county about ten years ago. for violating the dispensary law, Caton migrated to Mecklenburg county, N. C. He had not been long across the State line when : he was suspected of again engaging in the illicit liquor traffic and was promptly haled into court by the North Carolina authorities. He was fortunate enough to be acquitted of the charge. Two years ago, howpvpr he ncain bohhed ur> in the Mecklenburg court as the defendant in a suit charging adul- j tery. This time the court got | Caton's goat and sent him to1 the chaingang for 18 months. ' He served part of the sentence only. Upon what now appears to have been a misrepresentation of the facts as to Caton's health, ! Governor Kitchin was induced to parole him. Caton at the time being at large through escape from the chaingang. After Caton received the governor's parole, effective during good behavior. he settled down in the Sharon section of Mecklenburg county. Little more was heard of him until Sunday, the 5th inst.. when he and a numerous) party of "sports" foregathered | at Caton's home and got busy i inaugurating a big cocking main they had planned for the day. i The officers of the law got busy i about the same time, however, and swooped down on the k "sports," with the result that L about a dozen of them were fined in the recorder's court in Charij| lotte the following day, Caton being one of the number. Next to get busy was the good people gll of the Sharon neighborhood, who |H sent a petition to the governor gj| praying that he rid their eommunity of Caton's presence by S? nrrlfiHlur him ruf i > >-><,<1 thn rv?4 v ? v> & j fs I > I 1 I I k V W I I IV' VJ LV I I chaingang to complete his unexpired term for adultery. Governor Kitchin ordered Caton to appear at a hearing to he held in Charlotte to show cause why he should not be returned to the chaingang for violating the terms of his parole. Caton did not appear for the hearing, however, and when the officers went to arrest him there was no Caton of the name of Ed to be found. He had run away. Considers It No Dishonor. Ex-State Senator J. S. Brice, of Yorkville, does not think that reproach has been brought upon him by the action of Governor Blease in dismissing him as a member of the winding-up commission of the old State dispensary. In a statement prepared for the press. Mr. Brice says: "1 would say the commission a few weeks ago gave to the governor, and through the press to the State at large, the reasons of the delay in the completion of their work and also the reason why a certain amount of money was retained in their hands. It is useless to discuss the legality of the acts of the commission with the governor, since the governor in his mvn knows more law than any other lawyer in the State. "I will say, however, that 1 do not consider it any dishonor to be removed from office by a man of the calibre and character of our present governor. "My work as a member of the commission is an open book, that may be read by all men. and I leave it to the honest citizens of South Carolina, who have no sympathy with thieves and grafters, to say whether or not 1 have done my duty." Hub Evans Case Continued. The case against Hub Evans, former member of the old South Carolina board of dispensary di rectors, under indictment in one of the so-called "graft cases" was continued in the Newberry court Monday until the next term. The continuance is probably the last which will be granted, the case either being brought to trial at the next term of court or nol proased. according to Judge R. C. Wutta, presiding. f \ . i' PARDON RECORD OF GOVERNOR AHEAD OF HIS PREDECESSORS' Governor Blease is shown by the records to have set a pace in the issuing of pardons, com-1 mutations and paroles which no other governor in many years has reached. Fifty-five times within the 60 days, ending Saturday night, since his inauguration he has utilized his power of executive clemency. Twenty-seven of his beneficiaries have been pardoned out- j right, 18 have had their sentences commuted and 10 have been paroled during good behavior. Many of these comU I J ! iut.iicii.iiMi?> iicive utrcn mj arrangea as to be in effect full pardons, except that the beneficiary is not restored to citizenship. On each of these cases Governor Blease has acted without official advice, having: said some time ago that he had no use for the State board of pardons. He has not seen fit to take the public into his confidence as to the grounds of his action 011 the various petitions for clemency which he has granted. In the office of the secretary of state, where the records are kept, only the purely formal orders are filed. Governor Ansel's custom was to file with each order of this kind a brief statement of the reasons moving him to his action. These statements were shown to newspaper men visiting the office and the rej>orters were also shown at the same time the | petitions, with indorsements. Runaway Buggy Demolished. A buggy, the property of W. M. Ad kins, a farmer of Fort Mill township, was completely demolished Friday afternoon by a runaway pair of mules belonging to J. Z. Bailes, of the Pleasant Valley neighborhood. The mules I wopu i r\ ? J ? ?? v iii tviiv*vi iv; \ ? a^\/n ami l were standing- on Main street near the public well. Mr. Bailes ordered the negro driver to take hold of the bridle of one of the j mules, lest they become frightened at an approaching train. But instead of taking fright at (the train the mules became ! frightened at the negro and bolted up the street. They ran into the hitching lot at the head of Main street and one of them jumped on the buggy of Mr. Adkins. breaking it into many pieces. Mr. Bailes readily agreed to pay the damage to the buggy and the matter was amicably settled. Massey-Hunter. The announcement, made at a meeting of the Book club held Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. T. B. Sprat t. of the approaching marriage of Miss ' Li 1 lie Massey to Mr. J. Cleon Hunter, of Woodruff, came as a pleasant surprise to their many i friends in this section. The marriage is to take place early in June, and will be an event of interest in Fort Mill's social circles. Miss Massey is a daughter l?r M.. I 1 V? > - i v i mi. ij. ??. masht'y ill HI is ii young woman of lovable dispoi sition and attractive personality, j She has a wide circle of friends in this section and throughout the State. Mr. Hunter formerly j lived in Fort Mill. He is now a popular druggist of Woodruff and also has a large number of friends here and elsewhere in the State. Can You Spell It? The proper form of writing (Sugar creek has come into quesj tion. notes the Charlotte C.hron1 icle. Some one has suggested that the spelling is Indian and i is not the ordinary S-u-g-a-r. Some has said that it ought to j be spelled S-h-u-g-a-vv. Another i mat it ougni 10 oe spelled S-ug-a-w. Out on the ridge be' yond the Sugar Creek church, there is an old graveyard. SomeI one has put up a tablet on the edge of this graveyard and on that tablet the name is spelled S-u-g-a-w. Who can tell what is the proper way to spell Sugar creek? If it is any other than S-u-g-a-r, then the name must be j Indian, and it is more than probable that the name was originally I Indian. PRESIDENT'S SPECIAL PASSES FORT MILL IN GREAT HURRY Returning to Washington from a rest of several days at his winter home near Augusta, Ga., President William Howard Taft passed through Fort Mill at 9:12 o'clock Sunday evening on a special train running on the time of regular train No. 32, which 1 was delayed ten minutes on account of the special. President 1 Taft probably did not know when his train reached Fort Mill, otherwise he might have deigned a hurried howdy-do to the score of citizens who were at the depot awaiting the arrival of the train in the hope of getting at ieast a glimpse of the first citizen of the republic. As it was, the train slowed up a little as it passed through town, but at that one man said it was "hitting the ball," as the expression goes in railroad parlance. The special: was composed of five coaches and the president was riding in the rear coach. President Taft and his party reached Washington early Monday morning. Orangeburg Schools Fly State Flag. The graded schools of the town of Orangeburg are the first to comply with the law, passed by the General Assembly in 1910, requiring that the Palmetto flag I be displayed from every public school house in the State. In all I the other counties of the State the law d' ubtless will be observed as soon as the fiags can be secured from Clemson college. The act of the General Assembly lequires that the fiag be displayed, except in rainy weather. from a stair upon the State house, and every court house and upon every public school building, except when school is closed during vacation. The act further provides that the cost of the fiags 1 shall be paid out of the expense funds for the maintenance of the respective buildings and that the fiags are to be made at Clemson college at a reasonable price. Tho rloeirrn iu Kino nnfli ? nrKitn W.V.X- ?, ,V1. ? crescent in the upper flagstaff corner with a white palmetto tree in the centre. It is a misdemeanor to mutilate or destroy the flags. It is thought that the display| ing of the flags from public schools will be of great benefit to the school children, as there are are many of them who probably would not know the flag of their State if it were shown to them. Many are unable to name I and describe the color and design appearing on it. Cattle Quarantine Modified. Local marketmen and others in : ; this section who deal in cattle and dairy products were greatly pleased to learn a few days ago that an order, effective March 15. had been issued from the agricultural department at Washington releasing York. Lancaster and other counties of South ! Carol inn from th<? PoHBrul ooolo quarantine for Texas fever or tick fever. This action of the agricultural department was the result of good progress made, during the past year in the ex-i termination of cattle ticks which I spread the disease. The total | area released from quarantine since the eradication of ticks was j systematically undertaken in the summer of 1906 now amounts to j nearly 140,000 square miles. * Death From Blood Poisoning. Rea, the 5-year-old son of Mr. | j and Mrs. J. M. Parks, died of j blood poisoning at the home of' his parents, one mile from Pine- j ville, early Sunday morning and the little bodv was interred at u-ii *? > i' nut nui cemetery ivionuay ai noon. The blood poisoning de! veloped from an ulcer in the little boy's mouth which was noted first about a month a^o. ? Local Mill Conditions Satisfactory. i Dispensary Constable Sanders Tuesday morning paid his first visit to Fort Mill in the dual capacity of liquor officer and cot: ton mill inspector. It is understood that Mr. Sanders found the conditions at both the local mills satisfactory and will so state in his report. OLD WINDING-UP COMMISSION MAKES WAY FOR NEW MEMBERS After issuing an order last Wednesday removing from office the winding-up commission of the old State dispensary, the members being W. J. Murray, Avery Patton, J. S. Brice. John McSween and A. N. Wood, Satday Governor Blease named a new commission to take the place of the men dismissed. The members of the new commission named by the governor are John V. Wallace, Charleston; James Stockhouse, Marion; T. F. Brantley, Orangeburg; F. H. Dominick, Newberry; John L. Mimnaugh, Columbia. Mr. Mimnaugh has since declined to serve, however, and the governor has not yet appointed a member to take the place offered him. ine otner members named by j the governor have accepted. John V. Wallace, of Charleston, represents the Cable Piano company and is a former member of the house of representatives. James Stackhou.se, of Marion, is a former member of the State senate. Thomas F. Brantley, of Orangeburg. is a former member of the State senate and at one time was a candidate for Congress. F. H. Dominick is a former la\V partner of Governor Rlease and was at one time a member of the house of representatives. He lived in Columbia for a number of years. His home now is in Newberry. Destructive Fire in Chester. A destructive fire in Chester Friday morning razed the big i wood-working plant of the Chester Machine and Lumber company. entailing1 a loss of $35,000, with but $6,500 insurance. The fire originated in a dry kiln and : spread so rapidly that the fire i department could do nothing to i check it. One of the owners of ' the company is Mr. B. M. Spratt, formerly of Fort Mili. The plant will be rebuilt at once. Negroes Fight on Train. Rock Hill Herald. Last Friday evening while j seated in the colored coach of the South bound passenger train, between Grattan and Carharrt stations. VVylie Keenan. colored, ; of this city, was struck two; terrible blows, one on his head and the other on the left shoulder. by Ike Brown, colored, the instrument used being one of the | heavy brass cuspidors used on the trains. Brown had been arrested that day in Fort Mill, on charges made by Keenan, and Brown waited his chance to do I his damage. Keenan received a ; long gash in the back part of his head, 15 stitches being neces-! sary in sewing it up. Brown i made his escape by jumping off the train while it was running between the two stations ? The Land of His Birth. The late Edward Ward Carmack was the most brilliant of; the first magnitude stars of the United States senate during the six years he was in that body. Nothing prettier has ever been said of the South than this, from the lips of Tennessee's matchless son: "The South is a land that has i known sorrows: it is a land that i has broken the ashen crust and j moistened it with its tears; a: land scarred and riven by the plowshare of war and billowed with the graves of her dead, but a land of legend, a land of song, a land of hallowed and heroic \ memories. "To that land every drop of my blood, everv fibre of mv beinir. every pulsation of my heart is! consecrated forever. "I was born of her womb: I was nurtured at her breast, and when my last hour shall come, I pray God that I may be pillowed upon her bosom and rocked in 1 sleep within her tender and en-j circling arms." What! Assassination? Spartanburg Herald. 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