The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, December 11, 1925, Image 3
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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.
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January First of .
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POLITICS BMSWING FO* t?t| I
David R. Coker to b4 Probable Can
didate for Governor'* Chair )
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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.
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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.,
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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.
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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.
First Floor Loan^& Savings Bank Bldg.
DeKalb St. ? Phone 43
N. C. ARNETT, REALTY DEPARTMENT
Residence Telephone 321
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like the great majority of petsons, you
can't make such a payment unless you
have been saving money regularly and
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' No. 8 Feed Mill , worth $2Sj00, take $15X10
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Witte Gasoline Engines at bargain prices
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well as Christmas Day .
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