VOL. XXXIII
BARNWELL. S. C., THURSDAY. JANUARY 27,1910
ENDED AT LAST D0NT LIKE them reform NEEDED' ENDS UFE WITH acid GHASTLY CRIME B0LL WEEV1L ™
Tke DUpensary Winding Up Commission
Gets Throagh Its Work
BILL TAFT SPEAKS OF DEMO
CRATS AS YELLOW IXKiS.
AND MAKES ITS REPORT
The Board Expresses Satisfaction
That the State Dispensary Has
Been Wound Up and Is Now a
Thing of the Past, After Giving
* the Details of Their Doings.
The commission appointed bj r Gov
ernor Ansel under an Act of the
legislature to wind up the affair-,
of the old State dispensary ha't
drafted its final report to the Gov
ernor, and is now in the hands of
the printer, and will he laid on
the desk of the members of the leg
islature in a few days. The re
port is an -exceedingly, interesting
one, and the commission has appar
ently, made a fine business show
Ing. The total net mon y result is
$453,464.56. of which $d'75,000 ha-
been paid itno the ■State treasurr,
$80,832.80 is on hand in cash, $22,
631.76 due by counties, and $75,-
000 is real estate, tins being th
summary of the business from th
time the commission asunied chari-
on February 16, 1007, up to Jar
uary 12 of the present year. And
more is to come from overjudgments,
amounting to over $200,000.
The commission has realized grand
total receipts of $974,586.55, o
which $56,936.36 is interest earn-
by deposits of funds in the banks <r
er the tSate at 4 per cent. The to
tal amount paid out was $893,753
75, including the $275,000 turne'
over to the State treasurer. On mer
chandise account a gross profit oi
$12,024.86 is shown, while on fapi
tal account of $400,000 there is £
net loss of only $4,1 89.76.
The supply account shows a n-;
loss of $33,286 42. “which loss i
accounted for in running the di-
pensary several months, using thy-
supplies In suppying the various
pensaries for goods sold to
The "conscience mou.y
"from old creditors, who
counts on the books.”
$39,500, "the attorn
per cent comm is*
could recover on
The lltlga*
courts was
but this
whiskev
ai»n "
Objects to Minority’s Selection of
Members for Committee to Fro bo
UBllinger-Pincliot .Row.
Z<ich McGee in his -Washington
letter to. The State says President
Taft not only disapproved of put
ting Henry T. Rainey and Ollie
James on the committee to inves
tigate the interior department but
he is hot about it, and he calls the
two Democrats "yellow dogs.” A
number of newspaper men and oth
ers were in the office of ^he presi
dent's private secretary when the
president walked in.
"What -fir the news about the in
surgent;-?" asked the president.
“You ought to know, Mr. Presi-
The Slate Asylum for the Insane is in
Bad Condition.
SHOULD BE REMODELED
HARD PRESSED BANDIT SWAL
LOWS A DEADLY POISON.
Two Women and One Man Foand Mur
dered hi New York’s East Side. -
HAS COTTON PLANTERS TOO
FRIGHTENED TO FIGHT.
MM I
Fire Canes fame ■
■# * 'pp
Unknown Man Shoots Jeweler, Prob
ably Fatally, and When Pursued
Takes Deadly Capsule. —
KILLED WITH HAMMER
Many Improvements Urged, and the
Sanity Arrangements Said to l>o
Deplorable and the Institution
Very Much Overcrowded—A Ma
jority and Minority Report Filed.
J Last year the General Assembly
I appointed a special commission to in-
| \estigate the conditions at the State
) Hospital for the Insane. On this
commission were appointed Senators
Christensen, Hardin and Hates, and
dent,” ropik j one of the correspon- n, -‘P resentat - i ves Carey, Harrison,
Jems,
you."
“Ye
clouding,
amide m
I do not i
loaded di
They have been calling on ' Sawyer and Dick. The committee
J lias been diligenTin its work and re-
said the president, his face Days were spent in taking
president,
“but they can not per-
to accept two yellow- dogs,
'ron,-so to play a game with
■e." Th<» committee to in
vestigate the* interior department and j
ti;e conTlict of
is to consist of L
; wo Lemoernts.
The question being asked is, “Is j
Mr. Taft afraid that Messrs. James!
and Raim-y might make political |
Secretary Hailinger | * * u
<ur Republicans and | r * :in<, c
I what
I testimony and studies were made of
i oilier hospitals for insane. Much of
! the results of this inquiry is placed
| before th** people in the reports re-
a few days ago.
committee is entirely at va
in the most essential feature,
hould lie done to further al
leviate conditions? There are two
reports, one signed by Senators
Christensen and Hates and Repre
sentatives Harrison and Dick. The
e'.pn.'il out of tile inv -stigation?
i he only possible way they could j oDter report is signed by Senator
make political capital would be ft : Hardin a1111 Representatives Sawyer
find something discreditable to the | and J - D. Carey. The reports are
jJmiui.-trati .n. if Hailinger has so ' nt, rely af variance In point and
nothing to hi-*
Vyel^'ow doz"
out of it.
-redit, not even a I suggestion that there is but one way
tiould make capita
NEWLY MARRIED HRIDE
to g:-t the varying views, and that is
by reading both reports, w-hich are
very long and volttmous.
Without placing the blame on any
I a - tieular person, the majority re-
Sivking n Divorce Ei-om Her
Prein her S|m>u*o.
(H<l
StH*.
A ept-cial dh-patch from Spartan
u; g says after giving manieq life
k-cs than a month's ti
that the evie’noe shows
Jut
*1 ge
ues imrm-tt,
\V . Hurnett.
Ai.rs. .vt
Of Re
That fifteen patients of one ward
were bathed in the same water‘in
a *ath tub..
That th- foulest water closet cey lr „ m t^meTsUvd "con.
tre of wide soil wiatlon, w nieh
^n r or.n» t» 1 . -UnuHry 15tli
i. a -
^*iil t.i »how tile
.. ...'pre- I ttion of Barnwell'*
•uie for bt 'tie*i cia«s eiiUiitulninem.
toimwing resoluiioiiS were
.■cKnimotuly adopted :
" herea* die Barnwell County
T’eHcber'* AsMiviation ha* by the w ill
of Divine Pmvid - nee lost a devoted
me-'her -nd cn worker. J K. Chan-
Frederlck Boettcher, a Brooklyn
jeweler, was sandbagged and fatally
shot in his store late Thursday af
ternoon by an unknown man, who
ended his life by taking a capsule
of carbolic acid before he could be
locked up. Boettcher identlfled his
assailant as a man who come to
his store not long ago and looked
at some diamond rings. It was on
this plea that the stranger entered
Thursday presumably with the in
tent of robbery.
When the jeweler started to come
from behind the counter, the strang
er pulled a chamois bag, filled with
sand and shot, from his coat pocket
and struck him a crushing blow on
the head. As Boettcher reeled the
man fired a shot .which took effect
behind the Jeweler's left ear. The
shot brought Mrs. Boettcher down
from her apartments over the store
and the man fled, leaving one re
volver in the store and throwing
another away as he ran along the
street.
Hard pressed by the police, who
had been attracted by Mrs. Boett
cher's screams, the would-be robber
was seen to raise his hands to his
lips and swallow hastily. In a mo
ment more he was under arrest and
though apparently suffering, he
walked back to the store where
Boettcher identified him as his as
sailant.
The prisoner was taken to the
police station and preparations were
begun to search him. Here he col
lapsed and died before medical as
sistance could be summoned. An
examination by a surgeon later
showed beyond doubt that he swal
— - Dill
lowecjrifind in neighborhood mill*.
Sot’ll h de-
iimnd will greatly benefit the country,
both In irtureaslug the demand for corn
and In siliiiulatlng interest In the lin
portant *uhjo«-t of improving and in
again bringing to being the old Xa»h-
Innetl gii«t mill*, which have now al
most disappeared from our stream*.”
—Greenville News
HKD MISTAKE
'-Gil dDtres*
I .islen :
The Man Wan a Prv*qH*muM Young
Italian, and One of the Women
Wan His Wife and the Other Was
Probably Ills Wife’s Mother—Rob
bery Was Motive.
A triple murder was revealed In
as obscure flat in the heart of New
York's Fast Side, at No. 10 and 20
Montgomery street, at dusk Thurs
day. Two women and a man ar~
the vietims, and the manner of death
was horrible. Gagged with silk
handkerchiefs and (heir heads crush
ed with a hammer or axe, they were
left bleeding and fully dressed on
the floor with a whimpering bull
terrier as companion fofTho dead.
Robbery was the motive, or else it
is another case of the Black Hand.
Salvatore Scaipone, a well-to-do
young Italian barber, his wife and
a middle-ag* d woman, believed to
have been Mrs. Scaipone s mother,
are the victims. His failure to ap
pear at his shop started an inves
tigation. whR-h rr-uRe I in • h
covery of the crime. I’olii omen,
summoned by the janitor of the
apartment, entered the locked flat
by way of a Are escape.
In the kitchen Scaipone's body
was found, it was tied to the door,
the fact battered beyond recognition
and lying in a great smear of blood.
Near his master stood the whining
bull dog, cowering and blood spat
tered. The animal had paced aim
lessly from body to body, snlffin*
on|e and then the other, staining
tso _.£rimiipn wtlh his foot-
id.
Dr. Knapp Urges Farmer* to Take
Heart and CVimbat Blue Devil’s
—and Insert Pest. ~
Bpll weevils have cost the United
States untold hundreds of thousand.*
of dollars in the destruction of th*
cotton crops, but most of It Is tc
be charged against the “bluff ’ that
the insect puts up, or rather, Hie
fear that its approach inspires.
According to Dr. Seaman A. Knapp
of the department of agriculture, the
average cotton planter was defeated
before he ever began to fight the
pest. Of all the drawliacks that con
front the cotton planter. Dr. Knapp
is convinced - Tffhf' pessimism Is the
SSKsi yv-mi
Men and ' Women
'« . S r, ntson wtlh his f<
WITH ALL IKK
worst. He said so plainly and em
phatically at Memphis Wednesday In
an address on the weevil ahd the
eyjls that follow in its train.
"The first and most serious of
those." h'* said, "is the wave of
discouragement and pessimism in ad
vance of tho weevil. Many honest
but mistaken men affirm in advance
of the weevil, that cotton can not
be successfully made where the wee-
\ il appears. Immediately the bank
ors and the merchants withhold
credit. Labor is compelled to leave.
Thu -Litiners do half work and fre
quently abandon a portion of their
crop. This frequently results in a
loPs of 20 per cent before the wee
vil has done any damage.”
This '”beaton-in-advance” attitude.
Dr. Knapp went on to say, resulted-
in the humiliating surrender of
planters and their "throwing up of
the sponge" In the second year,
with tiie result that the weevil Is
permitted a free territory In which
to ravage and multiply and the crop
falls to 25 per cent of its average.
"Much of this loss is failure to
plant, and to cultivate,” he said,
'•v .
iliul offftitnm
I thanli my good true friends for their generous patron
age the past twelve months and pledge my very best ser
vice to them in the coming new year.
of the Best Horses and Mules that experienced judg
ment could seleet and the dollars in hand pay for have
been received and handled oy me this season, giving abeo-
Jtisfaction in quality and price to every puichaser.
\.
received
%
Blaze on Fomth Floor of
Ing Forget Fire Fsrng** and
Window Rope* and J«
Ground Ib U.w, Five IW-lng
At Philadelphia flv* persoaa, flear
girls and one man, leaped to their
death a few day* ago in • PSnie
caused ,by a fire in ttie foor-
factory building at tQ
lor street, near Second and Walnnt
streets. Five other* received “ in
juries from which tt»*fr vrtll pro|>-
ably die, and many more or lea*
aerioualy hart. • ,' v
The dead are:
Morris Peeaen, aged 28 year*,
fractured aka!!.* •- *
Clara Swart,
fall. -
Ida Greenburg,
burned and ernahed. *
Rebecca Kaufman, aert 1» year*.
fractured skull.
Elizabeth Cbachkln, aged 18 yeara,
burned and cruabed.
The probably fatally injured are}
Rebecca Chachkin, aged 14 years,
fractured skull, internal InJarlM
and barn*.
Hyman Belokfli^ijiir ’ft^frfear*.
Both fairs and arms broken and prob»
able internal lajurtee.
Sarah OOheft* seriously
probably laternally injur
Philip Kolos, arm and
fractured.
Unidentified entered i
come by smoke and
Nearly all of the dead and
ly injured woykdd In the
8.30 a. m. to 6p.
Persons living away fr
will please make appotatments
eomlag By so delng (hey will I
•f Immediate service and
appointments.
LANDS FOR SALEr
Now Is the time to boy. Land# wRI
never be cheaper, and sure to li
lu value
BUY NOW.
MS Aerea, Rieh Land Township,
Kara well County,
One half is cultivation balaaeo