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Wolfe-Eichel Company CAMDEN South Carolina '* .? ? COWBOY gets shot Resents Hordes Flesh Being Made Into Dog Meat Rotkford, 111., Dec. 4.? Enraged be cause the Chappell Brothers' Packing plant here slaughtered semi-wild horses to make dog food, Frank Letz, Montana cowboy, attempted to dyna mite theft plant today but was de tected and shot. ? His condition to* night is serious. Letz said his love for horses led him to attempt to de stroy the plant and that he came here for that purpose. Four times he set fires at the pack ing plant, authorities claim. One of the fires destroyed a unit of the plant with an estimated loss of $60,000. Several persons were injured. Three other fires were extinguished. Shortly before daylight a private Ictective saw a figure crouched against iPhe wall of the plant. He challenged him. The answer was ?a shot. A fight ensued, the prowler escaping after several discharges from a shotgun were fired at him. Investigation disclosed a suitcase :u!l of dynamite, enough to destroy he entire plant, near a hole in the building wall. Authorities later found Ix-tz in a clump of bushes almost two 'niies from the plartt suffering from *hotgun wounds. (?happell Brothers ship semi-wild icrses from western ranges, slaught ering them to make dog rati or, and :or shipment in tins .to European markets for human consumption. Law's Blander Almost Justified A dying confession by a waiter in a London garret revealed a tragic blunder whicji, the law had made. * Five years before this confession, the landlord of the King's Head Ho t tel, Banbury, had been hanged for the murder of one pf his guests. This landlord was heavily in debt. One night a rich old gentleman stopped at his hotel and over drinks foolishly, mentioned that fie had the sum of $2,500 with him and hoped that it would be safe. In the middle /)t the night Bradford,- the landlord, with a long knife in his hand, crept into the old man's room, intent on getting the money, even if he had to kill the man for it. When he flashed his lantern on the bed he was amazed and hor ror-stricken to find the man with his throat cut from ear to ear. In his terror Bradford shouted for help. Attracted by his cries, guests and servants dashed into the room, and found the landlord lying across the victim's bed with the knife in his hand. With such evidence, no jury would acquit, and Bradford was hanged. Then came the confession, five year* later, which showed that a serious error had been made. The confessor was employed as a waiter at the King's Head. He had overheard the story the rich man had told the land lord and had anticipated his master in the grim deed. ? The camel is thought to be the" fTrtT animal used by man. C. A. DAVIS 0 . - announces the opening for January First of . CAMDEN'S FINEST MARKET for Native and Western Meats Located McLeod-Rush Bldg. V Telephone 26 ) POLITICS BMSWING FO* t?t| I David R. Coker to b4 Probable Can didate for Governor'* Chair ) * I Columbia, S. C.f Dec. 7.-? With tb*| annual convention of the South Caro- 1 linn general assembly less than two 1 months away, and with scores and scores of cKiiens over the state riled worse than usual because of high taxes and poor crops and low prices; with election year coming on and state affairs more or less in a "dowl of a condition," as a little known! politician is wont to say; ? repor.e. of The Yorkville Enquirer, browsing around to find out what he can in I the way of political news, finds plenty I of politicians around Capital Town,! ready as usual, to hand out the lates. I that is going the rounds in the corri- 1 dors of the state house, the "political I hotels" and other places where many | a political scheme has been hatched I in days agone and where it is safe I to predict that many another will be I, formulated in tho future. There appears to be but little ques- 1 tion in Columbia but what the woods'! will be full of candidates for the gov^ ernor's chair in the primaries of 1926,1 But the real fight will' of course cen ter around a couple and not more than J three at most," and the majority wHl| as usual be running just to be run- 1 ning. As to who the big guns are going to be in the next gubernatorial I race, there is of course more or less J talk and titter. It appears certain! that one of the most formidable can- 1 didates is going to be Hon. David R. I Coker of Hartsville. It is regarded as assured here that Mr. Coker will I be in the race, despite a statement I accredited to him several weeks ago, I to the effect that he will not under! any circumstances be a ? candidate. | That is an old story? this denial of I a candidacy, say some of the old polit- 1 ical heads around Columbia. And they add that Mr. Coker is probably waiting to be drafted; but whether drafted or not, it is dollars to dough nutB that he will be in the running. There is some foundation for the correctness of a report which will .not down, to the effect that Mr. Coker is the choice of the so-called "Columbia I ring," and that a shrewd and quiet campaign in his behalf is already go ing on around the state. In fact, it is said here that one of the state bureau heads, who is now traveling around the state presumably in the interests of his department, is not failing wherever he goes to stick in a good work for Mr. Coker, and to venture the assertion that the leading indus trial and agricultural interests of the state are for him. There is no ques tion but what Mr. Coker has 9 driving ambition to be governor of the com monwealthv and he may be. ^ One who holds a state office told the correspondent that Clint Graydon, Columbia lawyer, who announced his candidacy for governor several weeks ago, had stated in more than one pub lic place that if "Eugene Blease of Newberry does not offer for governor, I'll be the next governor of South Carolina as sure as anything." Now whether Mr. Graydon is going to be the next governor of South Carolina or not, remains to be seen. There arc not many people around town who think so; but the voters can put it in thefr corncobs and smoke it, that there Ms little probability of Mr. Blease being in the race. In the first place he has let it be known that he would like to be elected to a vacancy on the supreme bench. In the next place he is a brother of Senator ?ole Blease, and experienced politicians do not believe that it would be possible for him to be elected governor, since his brother is in the United ? States senate. That would be too much Blease, say some of the manipulators and others and that "goodness knows there is enough now and then some, with one in the senate." But the Bleaseslust niaturairy have a hanker ing -for public life, and at present there are three holding office in South Carolina if we mistake not. The continuous Colie is in the United States senate; Cannon G., hi* brother is sheriff of Newberry coun ty and a cousin named Sam is a mem ber of the state railroad commission. It seems to be pretty certain that "Gene" will be elected as associate justice at the hands of the next gen eral assembly. The dopsters hav* it that while he may have a personal following quite large enough to put him there; still there are other fac tions who at this time especially are very anxious to placate .the junior United States senator, and who have decided to see to it that Eugene is put across for the supreme court bench. Bank failures in various sections of the state have not only hit private individuals hard, but some of the officials as well. There is a story going the rounds here to the effect that one of the judges has been hit mighty hard both as a depositor and stock-holder in pne of the larger fi that jh? UlUd recently and that members of his family at well at himself suffered to the point where almost everything ihey owned was lost. Which goes to show that while the state favors some citizens, financial flunks are no re spectors of persons. Announcement received here that Senator Cole Blease is going to edit and pay for a weekly political news paper, to be known as "{Mease's Weekly," has been received in polit ical circles with mor4 or less amused interest. The concensus of comment contends that Colie is butting his head \)p against a brick wall. It is ieoalled here, that the last purely political periodical of any consequence published in sSouth Carolina was the Jnarleston American," edited by for mer mayor John P. Grace of Charles >.n. it laved a year or two, never did Amount to a hill of beans, and cpst .is stockholders like tho very dickens .0 keep it alive even when it died. Senator I* lease was one of those stockholders, it is recalled, and sur mise has been registered here that sie should fall for the same trick twice. Then it is also remembered .hat "Bull Moose Beard," once tried .0 run a political rag called the "Scimitar," over at Abbeville. It went the way of all the other purely political sheets in South Carolina and .hen it went its editor went to fed eral prison because of alleged "les majesty," to the late President Wil son and his party during the days of the World war, when free speech was not allowed in this country. Whether or not the next general assembly is going to pass a revalua tion of property act for South Caro lina is an unknown quantity; but there appears to be no question of the fact but what the lawmakers are go ing to stage % stiff fight around it. Almost everybody who owns land of course is against revaluation. On the other hand, the corporations and busi ness people are mighty tired standing for the present unjust system of rais ing the rnazuma to pay the freight of government. They are now waging a stiff newspaper propaganda cam paign in an effort to pave the way for the fight. Page ads of protest against the present unjust syBtem of indirect taxation, have Been running 'in the leading newspapers of the state for some time past. Who is paying for the ads nobody seems to know. In fact, the only thing about it, is that the newspapers are mighty glad to get the business. Just now it appears that three big battles are 1 6 be waged in the next general assembly of South Carolina, and that they are to wage around the questions of: Revaluation of property. Consolidation of state offices and commissions. Reduction in bducational appropri ations. In addition to these there may be a serious effort to abolish the state highway commission, and get back on a toftnty unit basis of road building. Put it seems'to be the consensus of opinion that the state highway de partment is entrenched in too strong a position to be rooted out. : K? Death of James C. McManus James C. McManus, proprietor of the Dixie Cafe, died at his residence, the old Dunlap house on South Main street, Lancaster, Wednesday night, after a painful illness of several days. Mr. McMahus, who was a na tive of Chestefield county, had made his home in Jacksonville, Fla., for some time, until the summer of 1914, when he moved with his family to Lancaster and about a year ago pur chased the Dixie Cafe, which he con ducted until his decent illness. The deceased was in his 38th year and is survived by his widow who is? a daugh ter of J. W. Cunningham of ? the White Bluff section; two .young chil dren, a boy and a girl; his mother, Mrs. Martha McManus; three broth ers, Henry and Stove, of Lancaster, and Stoy McManus, Union county7 , North Carolina; three * sisters, Mrs. Lola West and Mrs. Estelle Broom, Lancaster, and Mrs. Maggie Lloyd, Camden. The funeral and interment took place Thursday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at Pleasant Plains church. J. F. Mackey company of Lancaster* had charge of the burial arrange | ments. ? Lancaster News. A Lawyer in Church A young criminal lawyer wax al ways full of quips. A few year* ag*> I attended the funeral of a millionaire financier ? one of those "hitfh financier*" whose low methods he loved to turn the light on. I arrived at the funeral a little late and took a seat beside him, and whis pered, "Ho ? w far has the service gone?" ' He nodded toward the clergyman in the pulpit, whispered back tersely, "Just opened for lthe defense." ? Everybody's Magazine. The boundary |ine between Poland and Germanjr^s often crowded Wrtli men, woroea -#nd children bicycle rider*. Why Priatera Die Youag The flower show had been a great .success, and a few *evenings later Mr. Blank, who had performed the open* ing ceremony, was reading the local paper's report of it to hia wife. Presently he stopped reading, his justifiable p*;ide turning to anger. Snatching up his stick, he rushed from the room. Amased, his wife picked up the newspaper to ascertain the reason of her spouse's fury. She read: "As Mr. Blank mounted the platform, nil eyea were fixed on tho largo red 'nose' he displayed. Only years of patient cultivation could have produced an object of such brilliance." Charles W. Law, of Davenport, Iowa, preached his own funeral ser mon by having it prepared upon pho nograph records a short time beforo 1 death. " Grange Hold* To lib Money. Now York, Dec. 7. ? Red Grange has not forgotten the economical lesaona of his days aa a college undergradu ate and ice toter in apito of his sod den rise to affluence aa a professional football /star. According to hia manager, C. C. Pyle, Grange ia given $100 a week for spending money, the remainder of hia income being put in an Illinois bank. "A week ugo Saturday," said Pyle, "I gave lied a $100 bill. Yeaterday thinking he might be in need of aome change, I asked him if he wanted his hundred. "Oh, no," he answered, "I atill have $70 left and the trainer owes mo $10. Charles Darwin onco took from the foot of a wandering bird a small fragment of earth which, when moist ened and plaiited, produced no less han eighty planta. Real Estate For Sale Seven-room home facing Rectory Park ? owner has given us a" price that's right. Eight-room home facing Monument Park. Another lovely home to be told at a sacrifice price., ? ' '? * Eight-room new brick bungalow facing original pine grove offered below replacement cost. Ten-room dwelling adjoining business property. Can be bought furnished, very cnaap. ? ? O ?> J : ! ? ' Our listings this week include a number of small homes about town that are good investments. ' Several small farms near town. For Rent Nine-room furnished Colonial ' home, heated, season $1,250.00 / Six-room furnished bungalow, season ... .. $800.00 Five-room furnished bungalow $600.00 LET US TRY TO FILL YOUR NEEDS C. P. DuBOSE & CO. 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