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A GOOD WORK Dost by flu Audubon So- duty at Shown by ITS ANNUAL REPORT ■ '< * Which Jut Been Filed for the lafoRaatlMi of the Public.—-Free* yt*at Tut lor M&kea a Statement - on the Bnforcemeiit of the Game Law for the Year Jut Ended.— Society Deeerree Support of All. President B. F. Taylor of the South Carolina Audubon society has com pleted his annual report showing the work of the society since its incor poration by the general assembly at the last session. The report is inter esting in that it shows the improve ment in conditions in the preserve tion of game and that until the so ciety took charge there was little at tention paid to the laws of this State. The report submitted by Mr. Taylor is as follows: On March 16, 1907. there went in to effect the statute creating the Audubon society of South Carolina, With powers of a State game and fish commission** On Ajpfil' porators held wmeeting.izTColutnbia and the following offio^Lwere efee*' ed: President, B. F.-Taylor. Vice president, Dr. H. N. Snyder. Temporary secretary, George S. He\ ward. ' - ^ Treasurer. A. R. Heyward, Jr. The following were elected to con stitute the board of directors: Neils Christensen, Beaufort; 0. B. Martin, Columbia: Dr. P. N. Mell, Clemson College; C. P. Wray. Ridge- D. H. Coker, Hartsville; Mrs. way Augustine Smythe, Charleston; A. F. Lever, Bexington, and R. I. Man- • Ding, Sumter. - Immediately after the meeting the president began gathering all infor mation available regarding the exact condition of game and fish protection in the State. He soon ascertained * that in many sections but slight at ten tion was paid to any of the game and fish protective laws. Gamebirds and deer wereficonstantly killed out of season, and in some quarters a large traffic of their dead bodies was earned on for market punwees. Fish being slaughtered in immense numbers by means of traps and dy namite. Song birds were shot indis criminately and many were trapped to be shipped North. The beautiful sea-birds, which nest in colonies Along the coast, were constantly rob bed of their eggs each summer. The license law, which formerly requim every non-resident hunter to pay $25 FOUND ON REEF. Only Man Who Escaped From Wreck .—•■V ^ of Houseboat. The only survivor of the five men who were washed to sea on the 1H- fated houseboat to Cedar Keys, Fla., Thursday, was brought ashore, hav ing been found on an oyster reef by a tug boat' After being battered about for a time by the storm the boat went to pieces. This survivor and one other man managed to keep afloat on part of the wreckage, but while helplessly drifting In the gulf one of the men died from exhaus tion. The rescued man was in a pliable condition when rescued, hie clothing having been torn from his body and he was almost dead from exhaustion. there will be two or more active of* beers m every county. It has been found hard to get wardens in a num ber of the counties, because they are required to work, and because, in some instances, they do not wish to make cases against their friends. It is the duty of a game warden to acquaint the people of his territory with the character of the laws for the preservation of the wild game and nsh, to see that the $10 non-res ident hunter's license, now required by law, is paid and to arrest and prosecute all persons found guilty of infractions of the game laws. War ty, and are required to make .reports * ■ ' tivfr for shooting license, had been sys tematically avoided. Under the ol< law 14 county game wardens hac been appointed. Letters to all these wardens brought out the fact that owing to inadequate pay, lack o: State supervision, and for other causes, they had been practically in active, one of them only reporting two convictions for violation of the r s lawsforthe year previous. On other hand from all over the State letters began to pour in asking for him from the Audubon society, showing that large numbers of peo ple were interested in bird and fish protection, and hailed with much joy the fret that the State had at length taken an intereeMn preserving these valuable assets to the commonwealth. One of the first things to claim the attention of the Audubon society was the publication in pamphlet form of the State game law known as the “Audubon law." Fifteen hundred of their activities to the Columbia office.’ It is hoped that soon arrange ments can be madq to-put a number incor- J_of these officers on a regular salary, but at the present their remunera tion consists of Tees for work actual ly accomplished, viz.: $10 for each conviction which they secure, and $2.50 for each non-resident license they may be the means of collect- A1 though the law has been in op eration but a short time, its efficien cy has already been demonstrated. In addition to an immense amount of educational work, the wardens have found i,t necessary to bring prosecutions in a number of instanc es. As a result of their activities, convictions have been secured in the following cases. Killing ouail out of season, 4; dy namiting fish, 1; hunting without li censes, 4; killing non-game birds, 2. Eight cases are now pending in the courts. One warden has destroye< over 30 traps mone stream which Were illegallj^set for catching fish. has already laces, an< irresponsible people have been taught that the fish anc game protective laws must be re*' spectea. On the faithfulness and ac tivity of these officers must depem much of the lasting good for which the Audubon society is working. Many of the wardens have but re cently been appointed and as yet have not had sufficient opportunity to show their abilities. The secretary, James Henry Ric§. Jr., has been in the field a largd par; of the time since May 1, solicitin members for the society, selectin wardens and performing other du ties of similar character. He has al ready visited over half the counties in the State. Mr. Rice has however, been forced to give his attention to other duties than those of the socie ty, as his pay is not sufficient from this source alone to maintain him We hope the THeoi&e for^^^ MANY MAO WOLVES. I Tl»y Ail Rapidly Incraasing ta thaStata of Taxis Efforts Being Mad* to Protest Btoek and People Who Are In Exposed Places. , „ ., The ranchmen of this section, says a staff correspondent of The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, are making a desperate effort to eradicate the wolves which infest their pastures. Notwithstanding the fight which has been waged against them for many years their numbers show an annual increase. They srem to thrive with the settling up of the country. They are not only a menace to the live stock, but of late years rabies has S read among them , to an extent at is alarming. Many instances are known of the victim of one of these animals dying of hydrophobia. Since the estab lishment of a state hydrophobia in stitute at Austin three .years ago more than a hundred persons have gone there for treatment of mad wolfe bites. The wolves are of the coyote spe- BOOK AGENT. * j j- „ , cies. They skulk around at night dens work under the direction and and kill young calves and make control of the Ste£e Audubon, socie- away withiambs A Mfrer Came New kfairyiat W* Own Sister. A dispatch from Englewood, 0. D., says Albert Jackson and Mlsa Mlnnia Barton discovered jnst before the day set for their marriage that thay were brother and sister, and thay have gone north to northern Minne sota to make a search for their moth er, whom theyjte™ not seen since they were_Jittle children. Jackson Is a miner and has. been In the Black Hills for several years. Miss Burton came to the hills six or seven-months ago as a book agent. The young woman sold the young miner some books. Jackson fell In Ipve with her and % few weeks ago asked her to marry him. She con sented, and they set a day for the nuptials. It came to light Jut before the date set for the wedding that Miss Burton’s real name was Worthing ton, and Jackson’s real name was ^Iso Worthington. They had been adopted when children, taken the names of their foster parents, and lost track of each other, neither even knowing the names of the other un til the developments which Interrupt ed their wedding plans. SHOT THEM BOTH. - copies wete printed and distributed throughout South Carolina and the more important features have been printed frequently in the public press of the State. - The importance of this work can hardly be underes timated, as there is no doubt that many people violate the game laws through ignorance of the statutes. More than 5,000 pamphlets, with plates showing the wild birds in their natural colors, have been distributed in the schools, among farmers and elsewhere. These were furnished by Mr. William Dutcher, president of the National Association of Audubon The work of revising and enlarg ing the warden force at once began. Some of the officers who displayed most interest were rec«jjirmaricmed by the government as State wardens, and a number ofadditions have been made. The following is a list of the of wardens appointed and •erving up to December 15, J. E. Rutledge, Lancaster; George A. Malloy, Cheraw; W. L. Samson, Cross Keys; George W. Hazzard, Cat Island; William Elliott, Yemasee; D. J. Salley. Orangeburg: William Lyj kee, Lykesland; S. M. Rice, fr.. (E: U.) Union; John N. Bates, Spartan* qurg; John D. W. Watts, Laurens; J, H. Robinson, Greenville; John Weiking, Charleston; Kajitan E. Kremeer, South Island; Victor E. pielming, McClellanville; Theo. S. Johansen, Frogmore; Charles Ander- •on. Port Royal, Richird Stone- bridge, Savannah, Ga.; E. Y. Fergu- •on, Enoree; E. A. Sessions, Ridge- way; J. W. Wilson, Conway; Frank E. Johnstone, South Island; W McKaskill, Conway; W. S. Fletcher, Smith, Gaffney; C. W. Boykin, St! Stephens; S. P. Holliday, Pineville; W. S. McClelland, Pineville, N. C.; H. Warren Richardson, Garnett; •Thomas B. Eerie, Anderson; Halvor 8. Svendsen, Charleston; Charles Johnson, South Island; James E. Swgn, JMt. Pleasant; Frederick H. Hilton Head: Robert Gfc; K S. Viliepi- . H. Wylie. Rod* : J- H. Hook, Clemson College; wssBWij lirocnwood. force is b fmida issrS; year will warrant the appointmen of a man to give his whole time anc attention to this work. His services in the field but with more funds with which to keep him active much more of the territory could have been covered He finds in his visits throughout the State that the unanimous opinion of the people is that the society is great ly needed and that the game protec tive laws should be made more ade quate by amendment in a number of instances. These changes are sug- the flames and coals of the fire, gested later in this reDOltr By direction of the hatiohiT gov ernment, the lighthouse keepers on the coast have been instructed to protect the sea-birds and to cooper ate with the Audubon society. We have had all the eighth keepers ap pointed game wardens, with the un standing that their duties as wardens must not interfere with their duties as light keepers. Already we have obtained from these gentlemen much valuable information regarding breeding colonies, and their constant trips from their stations to Charles- leston, Georgetown, Beaufort, and Savannah will enable us to prevent many depredations on islands during lie breeding season. The United States department of agriculture has also furnished the society with sev eral hundred copies of their publica tions of ‘Game Laws” and the “Val le of Birds to Agriculture.” These lave- All been distributed in the ijik : : The outlook for the Audubon so ciety work in South Carolina is very iromising. Already a very substan tial membership has been enrolled and this will increase as the objects >ecome more widely known. There are hundreds of people in the State who enjoy the sport of hunting or angling; these should all be interest ed in it work. The owners of private game preserves, whether resident or non-residents of the State,, will doubtless gladly co-operate with the society, as, indeed, some of them have already siamified their willing ness of doing. Every farmer in South Carolina should be a local friend of the so ciety. which is laboring to preserve he valuable insect-eating and weed- destroying birds, by whose efforts in ield and grove his lands are enab- ed to produce their annual yield. And then the outlook is bright be cause the movement is a good one ’ pdte founded on sensible principles, n 37 States in the Union, Audubon societies exist and everywhere they are having an enormous iufluence 'or good. B. F. Taylor, ' — President. • Tk® «POrt of tiw treasurer shows over $1,000 colled from does and various away wittriamns and kids. The last Legislature passed a scalp bounty law which earned an appropriation of $100,000 to pay for the scalps of coyotes and other wild animals, which cause serious losses to the stockman. Gov. Campbell vetoed the measure. ^ Many of the ranchmen have hun ters constantly employed to kiH the wolves' wildcat and other depreda ting wild animals. This method of eradication is slow and very expen- give. A few years ago Clement Bonter- ant, an Englishman, purchased a ranch west of here. He soon found that the covotes were carrying off most of his calves and lambs. He employed Mexicans to capture half a dozen coyotes alive. He placed sheep bell upon each of these jpy- otes and turned them loose upon his ranch. It was Mr. Bon- terant's theory that the belled coy otes would frighten away all the other coyotes of the place. Instead the belled coyotes attracted other coyotes to them and in a few days each belled coyote had a big flock of followers and these hordes of ani mals were playing worse havoc than ever before. After many, efforts the belle< otes were recaptured and the removed from their necks. Mr. Bonterant then tried the ex perience of catching coyotes alive The Murderous Act of - a Jealous Young Man. As the result of a tragedy at Mar lon, N. C. ( which occurred In front of the First National Bank building, Jathes Fatteteon-was kilted cutrtiht and Alfred Patterson, his brother, was picked up in the street in a dy ing condition. / The shooting wag done by Graham Finley, a well-known young man of THE FRHT GOES ON. DMMMkM DfllftU Will CMtMd fir TMr N|tts to > trie te Veto on All Questions Af fecting Them aad Their Property. The county *>ard. la reporting its finding, stated that there was evi dence of lrregularltles in the con- duct of the election, such as voters being allowed to vote at precincts where they were not registered and being allowed to vote without proper proof of having paid taxes, but that there were not enough of such Ir regularities to have changed the re sort ef the election. The attorneys for the disfranchised voters contend that the queetion of numbers does not enter into the matter at all, and that the boxes In which such irreg ularities occurred should be thrown oat, thereby changing the result ma terially. They Had a Death Icy The State says in the tawney flood ot Hogs boo swamp, seven miles southwest of Columbia, a party la charge of j* string of horses had am exciting adventure Wednesday night The rains and snowa of the laet tew days had poured a torrent tote the streams feeding the Congaree and the river had overflowed the swamp so rapidly that the party were not aware of their danger until they were in the grasp of an icy aad d«*th laden stream. After a harrowing struggle in benumbing waters in the darkness of midnight, the members of the party were saved. The live stock was the property of the Faulk livery stablea, of which Mr. John H. Faulk la manager. The horsee, 13 in number, had been bought in Orangeburg, and were be ing carried to Columbia by Jahn Medlln, assisted by Ferney Owens and another boy. The road from Orangeburg follows the Congaree river up to Brookland, where the The Orangdbnrg correspondent of The News and Courier points out that under the Act governing the formation of new Bounties It is pos sible te so run the lines of a pro posed new county that one voting place cam control the entire flection; In other words, every precinct but one can be left out of the new terri tory, while the people are included, as the Act does not say anything about the manner In which the lines ■hall be rua, and aa is true In the Calhoca ssattocr the new county llnee may be run without regard to towashlp lines or to the shairi of either the old or new territory. ’ Following are the motion and ap peal which, will be argued before the State bo«|rd of canvassers: *4 crossing Is made on a bridge. Marion, and waarover Miss Patterson state of Beuth Carolina, County of special pur pose. The coyotes soon contractec the mange and were turned loose. That experiment worked with bet ter success than the one which he first tried. Nearly every coyote in southwest Texas is now afflicted with the mange. Mad wolves are such a menace to this section thnt many ranchmen have built corrals around their homes as a means of protection for their wives and children against attack by the animals. When afflict ed * 5»yote does, not k..,.,, to enter the open door ot a house or go boldly into a camp where men are sleeping and attack to run across ew days ago a party of deer hunters were sitting around a camp fire over on the Nueces river, The night was dark and the air chilly. The men were enjoying the comforts of camp life when they suddenly heard tie growl of a coyote and be fore any one could grab up a gun the animal walked into the circle of light and nassed squarely through alsof the fire. It then turned and started toward one of the hunters. Before the mad an imal could get to him the man man aged to get hold of his gun and kill it. The coyote when suffering from an attack of hydrophobia will attack-] and bite full grown cattle. The bite produces rabies in the cattle and the losses of livestock from this cause are considerable. It is very dan gerous to enter a pasture where shere are cattle which are suffering from hydrophobia. The animals charge everything in sight. Tom Hubbard had a gang of Mex icans at work constructing a water hole, or “tank,” as they are called, on a ranch near there recently. The laborers lived in an open camp and had taken no precaution to prevent attacks from mad wolves, One night they were lying asleep upon the ground around the camp fire when one of the mad wolves made its appearance among them. Two of them were sent to the State Hydrophobia Institute, where they were treated. The other Mexican refused to take the treatment and on the ninth day after being bitten died. _ a sister of the two men shot. Fin ley met Miss Patterson In company with Henry Moore, hla rival, as the two were returning from church. He demanded that Moore surrender the girl to him and was met with prompt refusal. A personal encounted ensued, and the'-glrl’a brothers, who were also returning from church with a party of ladles, appeared on the scene an< took their sister’s <■ escort'* part, whereupon Finley drew his revolver and killed one of them outright and mortally wounded the other. He was arrested. CHURCH AT McOOLL BURNS. Newly Completed Baptist Church I MUl Village Destroyed. The East Side Baptist Church in the mill village at MeColl, was des troyed by Are one night last week There had been a prayer aervlce in the early part of the night and It Is thought the fire originated from defective flue^ This la a aad loss to the Baptists, who had just recently finished the church at a cost dCrf-about $2,000.“^Fortunately there was about $1,600 insurance on the building This church was built through the efforts of Miss R. C. Carroll, who hat done a great work at MeColl. Im mediately steps are being taken to ward rebuilding the church. Fire at Ninety-Six. wxi Again vlitted hr a very disastrous fire Thursday night The alarm was sounded about 2.30 o’clock, when It was discovered that J. C. Hutchison’s store was on Are. The flames soon spread to the ad joining stores of Rev. A. J. Cauthen and Dr. W. H. Holland, together with the Ninety-Six telephone exchange, the K. of P. Hall amUflxtures, Dr. I>. X. McAlhaney’s dental office and fix tents. Whereby nnmerona voters, who meat of taxes are fatal violations of ~ turns. The Labor Law. Chief Justice Pope Thursday sign ed an order calling an en banc meet ing of the circuit and nupreme judges on January 16 to pass upon the con stltutionallty . of the contract labor law Involved in the case of ex parte Holman. Some Plain Talk. The News and Courier says “there is no question whatever that the im provement of tbeEdisto River should have the careful consideration of the River and Harbors Committee in Congress. Representatives Patter JUROR DIED From Heart Failure While Sitting On a Case. The greatest excitement broke I'orth In Part 1 of the court of gen eral sessions. In New York, where a civil suit was being heard when It was discovered that Moaea Olefllck, uror No. 2, who was apparently as leep In his chair, was dead. The clerk of the court was calling the roll of the jurors, but when he reached OlenlckV name, there was no response. -He called the name a second and a third time, but ■till there was no answer. Nearest the uror was Thomas Moore, an agent of the Gerry society, and Moore lean ed forward and touched the appar ently sleeping juror on the shonlder. Moore saw in n moment that the uror was dead. ' Dr. Frank McGuire, the Tombs prison physician, was hw> riedly sent for, but he said the man tee. He • od • ®01 had been deed several minute. Hi that before long] hand of $52.17, ^4 Ami strickeg with ImarUallure gaged in an effort to make this stream navigable for boats of very light draught from Charleston to Orangeburg. Last year, as Mr. Le ver showed in his recent statement to the Rivers and Harbors Boajrd of the War Department, 2,000 bales of cotton and 10,000 tons of fertilizers were sold in the city of Orangeburg. “Sixteen thousand bales of this cotton were shipped to Wilmington and all the rest, with the exception of 84 bales, which came to Charles ton by some good fortune, went to Savannah. All of the cotton market ed at Orangeburg should hgve been sold and shipped through the port to Charleston. That it did not take this direction, as we have heretofore pointed out, was not on account of the rates charged by the railroads for the transportation of the cotton. “As a matter of fret the rate to Wilmington from Orangeburg was joyed by Charleston as compared with Wilmington amounted to 25 and of 20 cents the bale as compared with Savannah. Something more than the deepening of the Edisto River, evidently would be Heeded to draw the cotton from Orangeburg to this port, and that something meat be torneys for Contestees, and John 8. Bowman, Jr.. Eaq., Chairman of -County Board of County Can vassera of Election.' Please take notice that Ar R. Par lor, A. C. Smith and S. J. Smith, for themselvea and all other similarly Interested, further protesting and contesting the validity of- the said election, will ask the State board of canvassers to sustain the action And Judgment of. the county boar<L'Oi canvassers upon the following grounds, to-wit. The eonaty board of canvassers should have declared and adjudged the said election null and void for tha further reasons: 1. Because the said election was not secret, hut that the secrecy of the ballot aqd voting was lost and destroyed - because tickets In viola tion of the statutes In such ease made were furnished and uaed in the said election, and because the tick ets furnished and used could not be voted' and uaed without disclosing how tha elector voted in said elec tion. f. Because the books-of registra tion were not opened In Cameron North, St. Matthews, EUoree and other towns la said county during the year 1917, although aaid towns contained over three hundred Inhabl- were opposed to the proposed new county, were thus prevented from rglsterlng, or changing and correct ing their registration-as allowed by law, and voting in the said election against the'formation of the said new county; 3. Because the statutes under FOUE HORSES DROWNED/ l» the Orangeburg—In the Matter of the Formation of thq Proposed County of Calhoun. To Messrs. Bellinger A Welch, At*- was by this means saved from The place at which the cfqjMhg waa attempted was formerly passa ble by means of a bridge. But the bridge must have been washed away dr tthe swamp had been flooded by the recent rains for as soon as the horses entered thn water, vthlch was. under normal conditions, very shal low they did not find bottom. There were two two-horse wagons and one to the scene. The horse attached to not be cut loose and they were drowned, the bodies being found lat er in the day when Mr. Faulk went to the scene. The horse attacked to the buggy was cut 'loose and this one and one of the remaining horses which were not attacked to any ve hicles have not yet been found Medlln and the small boy '•along came very near, being drowned when the accident occurred In their efforts to sav the horses. Medling caught one of the horses by-the bridal and ANOTHER COTTON PICKER Mr. Harvia, of Manning, Beeves Patent on New Machine. Mr. C. R. Harvln, of Manning, 8. C., baa invented and patented a cot ton picking machine which gives en- oouraging promise of doing the work for which it is designed. The whole _ apparatus is to be carried on a spec-— tally designed four-whqel truck and drawn by horse power Along the cot ton rows. The principle on which the machine works la something like that of the familiar suction flue at the modern ginneries. A gesollne engine on the forward — part of the truck furnishes the pow er to run a pair of twin fans that do the auction work, while connected with the fans are four or more flex ible tubes, or hose, that may be guided along the rows of open cot ton by unskilled laber. The force of the auction will draw up the flues all well opened cotton, while a spec ial device will pick out open cotton that does not come freely from the boll. Mr. Hsrvin baa not made a com plete machine, according to his de sign, but he has rigged up on an 'ordinary farm wagon an outfit that demonstrates his Idea to be pr^cti-— cable. Being necessarily engaged In other business, Mr. Harvln has had little time to devote to his important Invention, but he hopes soon to or ganise a stock company with suffi cient capital to push the matter ip a manner that Its importance deserves. We hope this machine will prove a success. There is nothing; that is so much needed on the farm as a good machine to pick cotton. Labor on the farms Is so trifling that unless some machine Is invented to pick cotton its cultivation will be greatly curtailed. It will effect a great sav ing too in the gathering of the cotton crop. Success to you, Mr. Harvln. PRIVATE BANKERS -• Should Re in Jail bays Attorney- General Jackson. "I have never met, in a like per iod, so many men who ought to be in Jan, as in my recent Investigation of the pfTairs of banks that got into difficulties in ^he leceut panic, 11 said- Attorney General Jackson, of New York, in addressing the annual din- drowning. It required some time to revive him after he had been taken from the water. The small boy caught hold of one of the horses in the water and swam ashore on Its back/ The boy, as soon as he came out of the water, commenced to ner 0 j t jj e Brownsville board of scream at the top of his voice and: tra ^ e( j a Brooklyn. Thursday even- thls attracted nearby persons. These j n _ came to the aaalatance of’the partlew Comptroller Mete. Bird S. Coler, and fires were built and all possible ^ Sanat0 r McCarren were among aid was given them. They assisted In the 200 Brooklyn bU8 iness men who and made au heftr( , him "The lawless .methods of those pi rate bankers," Mr. Jackson contln- 1 resuscitating effort to find Medlln of the lost horses. Damp of t Wants thcrfeld Vete. At a meeting df the Confederate Veterans and Sons of Veterans of Greenville Thursday night an Invi tation was extended to the Confed erate Veterans of the State to bold their next annual reunion in that city.- for these reasons also. 7. The county board of canvassers erred, after finding as a fact that there were Irregularities such as vot ing outside of the right precinct and. without proper proof of the payment of taxes, in not going further and holding as matter-ot law that voting outside of the right precinct and voting without proper proof of pay- which thp aald new county election waa held (which deprives numerous voters residing within the area of the proposed new county, their vot ing plaee having been cut without such area, from voting upon the question of the formation of, such new county^ although duly qualified and registered electors) contravene Sectloa 1 of the fourteenth amend ment of the Constitution of the United States, and are therefore'void and unconstitutional. 4. Because uf mnay Illegalities and irregularities, to-wlt: Allowing electors te vote without proof of payment of taxes, allowing electors to vote who were Illegally registered allowing eiectora to vote when dis franchised by conviction of infam ous crimes, and others of like kind, J the bes ■til—St. Matthew’s voting son and Lever, of this State, are en- . —... . ,. . «... . ... I place therein should have been whol ly rejected and thrown out, thus re ducing the vote Id favor of the new county by two hundred and twelve votes, aad against the hew county by two vetee. 4. Because of many Irregulari ties and fllegalltlea in the vote and the voting at the voting places of Fort Motte, Cameron, Lone Star and BL Matthews, to wit: Allowing elec tors to vote without proof of the payment ef taxes, without being properly registered., after having been disfranchised 'by conviction, not having paid taxes, residing with- ont the election precinct where they voted, and the like, the vote in favor the new eounty would be reduced about forty votes. C. Because the result was chang ed or rendered very doubtful by rea son of the following. facte, to wit: Electors were allowed to vote with out proper proof of payment of taxes ere Illegally registered, failed to pay taxsb.^haA been convicted of dis qualifying. offenses, resided in elec tion preelnets other than the one In the Constitution of 'South and reader the entire election void and illegal. Wherefore the contestants pray the said election be declared void and Illegal for these reasons as well, and that otherwise the action and Judgment of the county board be sus tained and confirmed. — D. O. Herbert, W. C. Wolfe, Attorneys for Contestants. 015 DOLLARS SAVED TO ORGAN CUSTOMERS For Next 40 Days. We will sell our excellent $80 Or gans at only 005. Our $90 Organs for only 078. Special Terms: One- third now, one-third Nov. 1908. bal ance Nos, 1009. If Interested, dip this ad, and enclose it with your let ter, asking for catalog and price list. If you want the best organ on earth, don’t delay, but write us at once aad save $15 and make home harmoifl- ous. Address: MALONE’S MUSIC HOUSE, Columbia, 8. C. Organs. ued, "through deliberate and flag rant violations of the - trust reposed In them by depositors, the reckless use of other men’s money for the promotion of their own speculations, constitute a chapter In the history of high finance in {this city which properly can be conpared only to operations of the Tlteed ring, or the Traction gang, and which throws a great light npon the question aa to who is responsible for the financial panic of 1907.’’ NEW TUNNEL OPEN. The First Train Runs Under East River. The flrst paasengf -^rate passed CarollnaJ-ti irou * h the new tunnel under the __r!!TEh*t river, between Manhattan and Brooklyn, shortly before one o'clock Wednesday morning. Starting from the Bowling Green station, on the*. Manhattan side of the river, it reach ed the Borough Hall station in about ^ six minutes. With the starting back the train, the regniar interbor- ough aervtee was put into operation. It was possible to accommodate, only a small part of the enthusiasts Brooklyn crowd that came across th«. river to ride in the first train. Other trains, however, followed In quick succession, but as these ran from tha Bronx to Brooklyn, the overflow In the Bowling Green station still had to wait- These trains were packed with Brooklynite Many Idle Men.' The committee of the Central Federated Union which Is investiga ting the laying off of men by the national, State and city authorities, reports that there are at present Pianos FOOiddO men out of employment In New York city alone. r i 30 cents the hundred pound, to S* ^ ,ch 2? ^ i . rf0m rating because while residing vannah 29 cents and to Charleston within the proposed county their 25 cents. 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