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‘Just Like a Member of the Family”
VOL. XXXVI
BARNWELL, S. C.. MARCH 6, 1913
MANY CASES
/ TO BE TRIED
A Total of Eightyseven Cases
on the Criminal Docket
MANY ARE OUT ON BOND
11 Murder Case* to be Tried.—Second
Week Jurors Drown Monday.
The criminal docket for the approach
ing term of the Court of General Ses
sions will be an unusually heavy one,
and there is scarcely any likelihood that
it will be cleared. In all there are
eighty-six persons charged with crime,
ranging from petit larceny to murder.
They are divided as follows:
Murder, 12; fornication. 2; attempt to
rape, 2; buggery, 1; assault and battery
with intent to kill, 8; forgery, 3; burg
lary, 1: grand larceny, 5; highway rob
bery, 4; housebreaking and larceny, 4;
larceny of livestock, 4, carbreaking, 6;
violation of the dispensary law, 20: lar
ceny, 7; obtaining goods under false
pretense, 2; other cases, 6. Total, 86.
The following prisoners are in jail
at the present time awaiting trial:
For murder: Ben Riley, a negro,
charged with killing Morri* Green, also
colored, at Old Campbellton, now Fair
fax, in November, 1884; Charlie Wal-
ESCAPED CONVICT
CAUGHT IN ST. PAUL
Elliott Gaurdner, a Negro, Wanted Hi» this
County, is Sent for.
Sheriff J. B. Morris received a tele
gram Friday from Acting Chief of Po
lice M. J. Flannagan, of St. Paul,
Minm, to the effect that Elliott Gard
ner, alias Walter Peters, had been ar
rested in that city. Gardner, or Pet
ers, as he now calls himself, was con
victed here about five years ago for
burning the ginhouse of Mr. J. L. Ellis,
at Baldoc, and was sentenced to ten
years at hard labor on the county chain
gang. After serving about one year
he escaped from the gang and had been
at large since that time.
Gardner was first located at South
Bethlehem, Pa., last December. He
left that city and went to Minnesota.
The police there were furnished with his
description by Chief Lynch, of South
Bethlehem, and although the telegram
stated that he denied that his name is
Gardner the negro is said to answer
the description.
A photograph was mailed to Sheriff
Morris, who stated that although the
negro has changed somewhat, having
grown a mustache and his hair now
being longer, h* is very sure that he
is the man wanted. Gardner is a
bright mulatto and the photograph al
most gives him the appearance of be
ing a white man So strong is the
[f
ker, a negro, charged with killing
another negro near timer in January | gheriff’s belief that the right man has
of this year.
Fornication: Angus Williams and
Curtis Brumfield
Attempt to rape W A Hartzog
Larrencv of Live ttork Clifford Be!-
ford, colored
Buggerc Luther k’av. a negro
Carhrealving W T Scott. \vh:'e and
Hammie Wi'harnv coftrel
I'uiglar) \V.i:ie Wrhv’er lolnr*-!
and halt*-' > w.th ir.tenl
kill and
Tin >ma'
I .ar c •
it 1 - Me Hr n an
to
Ben
1 been arrested that Rural Policeman K.
| F. Morris was sent to St Paul Tuesday
1 to bring him hack to this count)
—
AN OPEN LETTER TO
THE CITY FATHERS
The Re* A E. Eviton Call* on Council
lo Proceed Against Tigers
iicn’ cnu-n It .<» <«mnc'ii!. reported
Wrr BraV a rvro
!1 ha" kn
• ig<
i .i*r v
H.e f< >i'.. > a , ng pi . sun>
I">nd, peiid.ng the trial o'
are out ou
the.r eases
Murder John Dunbar, white, i tiarg
el with killing Savon, a negro near
Allenda'e last >ear Krth :r N ott.
charged with the murder of his wife at
hairfax ;n December of iaM )eai. Ge <
Mi Seal, a negro, charged with killing
another negro at Millettev die. Junius
B Prep'.es, * hite, c harged with killing
Wesle) Gantt, colored, last Deeemfier.
James G^eei h and Lizzie Deloach. IxPh
negroes, charged with the murder of a
negro near k'me This case w»s
tried at tne l.i't term of court and re
sulted m a mistrial Essie Vournaris. a
negr i woman, i l,arg,-d with the mur-
d« r of a negro man near Fairfax last
1 all
Housel.l eak m : and iar« en\ Lm W l-
hams. co!o’ ed . I !i \ w tru (irnnt e > m ed .
Ken Bos nton colored
Assault at.d butter) w.th intint to
kill, Flow! Harses, colored. \ngus
Williams, colored Flor rie Hicks, color
ed
Forgery J 1’ Lewis, white, Solo
mon Jones, colored; Ben Anthony
colored
Attempt to rape Gergsby Move, a
negro.
Violation of the dispensary law Evans
Brown, colored.
Car-breaking, John Talbert. Nor then
Dunbar, and Arthur Moore, all negroes.
Obtaining goods under false pretense:
Ellis Sanders, colored.
Grand Larceny: Joe Fike.
that the t iw n marsh:
of numerous person, wrho are operat
ing blind tigers in Barnwell, and that
the 'aid marshall :s w.lling and dis-
;*<>sed to pis* eed against them, but that
fie is debarred front doing so b> the
apath>. or worse, of the Intendant and
Wardens, who so the re[Hirt is. are
afraid of the p'nhab.e corise ,u ‘rices to
them in their seseral busuiekse* and
professions of a i) restn ti\e measures
against the illegal se lers of li juor
('an these re[x>rts t>e true'
No man t.as ati) moral rigfit to ac
cept an office unless he intends to
faithful!) fulfil the duties of such of
fice A course such as report w >uld
indicate ;s now e'erafive in i>ur midst
is tantamount lo an invitation to an-
archv
If the
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I>n IT NOW
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LAW-MAKERS WILL / XD. WHITTLE
MEET AGAIN TODAY
t^t
Recsss Was Taken to Prevent Possible
Vetoes at Nest Session.
To all intents and purposes, the Gen
eral ^Assembly adjourned Sunday morn
ing at 4:30 o’clock. As a usual
thing when the Appropriation Act ia*
finally adopted and all Acts have been
duly ratified and turned over to the
Governor that is tantamount to ad
journment,. and such is the present
legislative situation.
On Sunday it was reported
twenty-odd Acts had been turned over
to the Secretary of State without -sig-
nature. The Governor has not vetoed
any of the twenty-odd Acts that he sent
to the Secretary of State; he simply
had not signed them, and it was either
one of two things—to continue the Leg
islative session for a lapse of three days
they were handed the Governor, by
virtue of which they became law, if not
vetoed: or the Acts would slumber in
the office of the Secretary of State
without force and effect of law, and
next session could be vetoed in the
first days of the session. Therefore a
recess was taken until today (Thursday,
March 6th .
There will be a slim attendance at
this time, as the sole purpose of the
recess until today is to accomplish the
span of three legislative days, the time
in which the Acts become automatical
ly effective. When the solona meet to
day it will be simply to paaa resolu
tions of thanks and congratulations,
exchange courtesies and advise
the Governor that the General Assem
bly is ready to adjourn and inquire if
he has any further communications.
Thirty-one Acts were vetoed by the
Governor, hut in twenty-six rases his
veto was overridden by
Died at Hk BUclrrtOe
Saturday Evening.
WELL KNOWN IN THIS SECTION
Leaves a Wile and Daughter—Was
Buried Sunday Afternoon.
Capt. J. D. Whittle, perhaps one of
the best known men in this section of
the State, died at his home in Black-
ville Saturday evening at 630 o’clock,
following the taking of two doses of
poison that morning, one at 3 o’clock
and one at 9 o’clock. Although physi
cians worked all day to save his life,
their efforts were fruitless.
Capt. Whittle was a remarkable man
in many ways. Coming to thia county
a number of years ago a poor, mnn he
amassed a considerable fortune by his
persistent efforts and keen business
acumen.
He was one of the largest atock dealers
hereabouts and has been known to sell
as many as 35 cars of stock in a single
season. In addition to this he farmed
extensively, and lands owned by him
in and around Btackville are among
the finest in Western Carolina. A year
or two ago he purchased s valuable
plantation near Americas, -Qa., and
since then has divided his time between
the two States. It te estimated that at
the time of his death, he was worth
about a quarter of a oailli
and it is said that be carried life
ranee amounting to MQtOOO.
it w not known whether or not Capt.
Whittle took the poison with
intent He had not been in |
the House. ' for * cou P !e of ytmn, suffering
BARNWELL’S SICK LIST BARNWELL COUNTY
GROWS IN NUMBERS TO FIGHT HOOKWORM
Out of twenty-mx items in the Senate,
i the Governor a veto was sustained in
onlv three case*.
When the history of this session of
the General Assembly is written it will
be that it was# "let well enough alone
lavrmaking body " There was no de
sire to disturb the present industrial,
agricultural and commercial progress
of the State There appeared to be no
demand for it
The Assembl). to continue the good
• era and to lend ita hand to the pros
perity and development of the Stats,
passed two companion bills, one to im
pose a one-mill school tax for the com
mon schools on all property in the
State, and another looking to compul-
i sory education Both of these mess-
! ures, after the) had been adopted by
majority votes in the legislature, suf
fered vetoes. Jhe one-mill tax over-
' came the veto and is now a law, "the
i-
t v ♦*
Barn w < !!.
!v mad'-
mG tn it th* . are Mlr.xiil to
.avs s ,< t thi-:n rv^g;i and
>’ Bett'-r im-r
A f l.v. -.u -
C V.irrn 1 I'M '
insomnia, and his phy^cians had pre
scribed s powerful sedative for
He is said to have taken an i
of this Saturday morning and
it up with laudanum It ia i
he had suffered financial revsraaa late
ly and all together his troubles Imd prey
ed upon his mind to a great
Cap* Whittle a body
in the Springfield cemetery Sunday af
ternoon m the presence of a largo eon-
course of fnenda. Dr. J. D. Pitta, of
BlackviDe, assisted by the Rev. W. J.
Snyder, of Barnwell, psrfomri^ the
last sad rites. The pall-bearers wort:
Mem. H F Built. C. E Fhhburne,
A H. Ninestein. R A. Gy lea, J. S. Hut.
to. and B. L. Bovlaton.
Capt. Whittle is survived by Ms wife
and one child, a daughter about IB
years of age. and to these the ainearo
sympathy of a large number of friends
goes out in their hour of sorrow.
Mexico and South Carolina
South Carolinians mustn't be too hard
on the barhar.sm of the Mexicans for
deposing and assassinating their presi
dent until they quit taking prisoners
out of the hands of officers and lynch
ing them —New berry Observer
Buying seed cotton: Alien Eubanks.
Cases on appeal: Wm. Beard; Ed
Smith, et ah; Caesar Young.
Second Week Jurors.
The petit jurors for the second week
Larceny of live stock: Charlie Lovett of Court were drawn ou Monday. They
and Let* Austin, both negroes j are:
Highway robbery: Robert Washing
ton and Daniel Gadsden.
Th^following cases were continued
from previous terms of Court:
Murder: Sol Adams; Stokes Robinson;
Simon Priester.
Violation of the dispensary law: R. \V
Williams; S. H. Rush (2 casesi; H. S.
Head, case on appeal; J. W. Williams
and R. W. Williams; Zeke Brown; Lee
Bradley; W. H. DeWitt (2 cases ; 0. D.
Moore; George Noble; Jake Graham;
Sam Edwards; W. W. Willis; Jack
Riley; Sam Harley; Sophia Odom; Caro
lina Phoenix; Joe Lebbey; Arthur
Bell.
Grand Larceny; Wm. Bush; Joe Poll-
erkas and Leon Bush, J. M. Weathers-
bee.
Larceny of live stock: Peeples Childs.
Highway robbery: Fields Major and
Willie Baxley.
Assault and battery with intent to
kill: Pat Thompson, Willie Thompson
and Isaac Thomppen.
Larceny: Joe Gardner, Mack Culley,
Aquijla Scott, Whit Scott and James
Scott; Rufus Childs.
Obtaining goods under false pre
tense: Joe Allen.
House-breaking and larceny: Joseph
Odom.
Disposing yf property under lien: R.
L. Mims.
Privily stealing from the person;
Julius Walker.
J M Myrick,
Allendale
J C Spain,
•*
R K Fennell,
t«
W A Chavous,
4 4
J J Thomas,
( 4
J R Myrick,
Baldoc.
H B Calhoun,
4 4
Wickliffe -Ashe,
( 4
J \V Rountree,
4 4
H T Walsh,
Blackville
John O’Gorman,
41
H H Ray,
4 4
B J Hammet, Jr
4 4
W H DeWitt,
4 4
>
G J Chitty,
44
Joseph Peters,
44
C L Wilson,
44
Thomas Walsh,
4 4
W L Best.
‘ 44
M L McElheny,
Four Mile
J W Bates,
Great Cypress
W M Shepherd,
44 44
P C Baxley,
Rich Land
A E Corley,
4 4 4 4
W B Parker,
Red Oak
A I McLemore,
Rosemary
J A Cope,
Sycamore
T J Weekly,
44
John E. Johnson,
WUliston
J D Kennedy
4 t
G W Greene, Jr,
<4
S B Hair,
<4
J E Kennedy,
44
Fred W Toole,
44
J B Matheny,
44
Moise Hair,
44
Sererm! Barnwell Coanty People are in
City Hospitals.
Ba r i'.\v f! : (' iu:itv has quilt a numbt r
uf propit w Im arc at p: cv nt in the
hospitals of ne.ghlxjr.ng t itie v Some
of them, at last rejioits arc improving
very fast, while the condition of others
are not so favorable as their friends
would w ish
In Columbia, Mrs. J W C. Reed,
who is at Knowlton's Infirmary, has
not been doing so well lately. The
bone that was broken in the unfortu
nate accident of several weeks ago re
fuses to knit, the surgeons stating that
so much energy had alrea'dy been ex
pended before an operation was per
formed.
Mrs. W. C. Milhous, who is also at
Knowlton’s, is doing very well indeed,
and it is thought that she will be able
to undergo the operation for which she
was carried there within the next few
days.
Mrs. B. P. Davies, who was operated
on for appendicitis at Columbia Hos
pital last Thursday, is improving rapid
ly and it is thought that she will he
able to leave the hospital by Sunday.
She will spend a week with Mrs. Lena
Davies, at Columbia College, before re
turning home.
Miss Norma Cato, a teacher in the
Healing Springs school, was operated
on Thursday at Knowlton’s Infirmary
for appendicitis and the last report from
her was very favorable.
The friends of Mr. and Mrs. H. £5.
Mellichamp, who has been at the city
hospital in Augusta for the past two
weeks, will be glad to know that she is
improving under the treatment she is
receiving there.
C. Authur Best, Esq., went up to Co
lumbia Sunday morning for treatment
in Dr. Poe’s private sanitarium. Mr.
Best underwent an operation in Mem
phis, Tenn., recently and following his
attendance upon his father’s funeral
was confined to his room several days,
the trip proving too great a strain on
him. It is sincerely hoped that he will
soon be restored to perfect health.
The mao who attends strictly to hi*
own buftlne** seldom has a headache
the cext morning.
An Appropriation of till) Made by the
Committionert of Tuesday.
\» the misctiiig of the Count) Board
of Commissioners here Tuesday it *as
dei ided to make an appropriation of
IHX) to aid 111 the treatment of Barnwell
County patients \sho are affected with
the hookworm The entire amount
will only be used if necessary. The ap
propriation was secured through the
efforts of the Barnwell County Medical
Society and the treatment will be given
under the supervision of the Society.
This treatment has proved very suc
cessful in other counties of the State
and as many as 500 patients are said to
have been treated within two weeks in
a small tow n where a hookworm dis
pensary was located. An officer of the
Rockefeller Board was in town
Wednesday to complete arrangements
for the administration of the treatment
to sufferers in this county. Details
will he given in the next issue of The
People.
FUNDS TO ENCOURAGE
SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT
County Board Has Money on Hand—To
be Disbursed March 21.
The County Board of Education has
on hand funds arising from the State
Dispensary fund, marriage licenses,
etc., which will be used to strengthen
weak schools, encourage school im
provement and in promoting educa
tional interests of the school districts
in this county. At a meeting held
Friday, it wks decided by the members
of the Board that this fund will be dis
bursed on March 21. The trustees of
all school districts that wish to benefit
by money from this fund must submit
applications in writing, stating object
for which they wish to use the money,
to Horace J. Crouch, County Superin
tendent of Education, on or before the
twenty-first of March. The law pro
vides that the disbursement shall be
made subject to the approval of the
State Superintendent of Education.
A fool can shatter a wise man’s ar
gument wiu an idiotic laugh.
GOVERNOR OUSTS
PARTY NOMINEE
H. C. Folk, Nominated for Master in
Bsunberg, Ignored by Blease.
Bamberg, March 2.—It became gen
erally known here this morning that
Governor Blease had ignored the re
commendation of the primary election
by appointing J. S. J. Faust, Master in
Equity for this county, to succeed H.
C. Folk, who has held that office for
eleven years and was nominated in the
last primary, without opposition, for
another term.
Many were the comments heard on
the action of the Governor and his
ignoring of the will of the people as ex
pressed at the ballot box is very gen
erally condemmed, even by his political
friends.
No other recommendation of the pri
mary election in the county has been
ignored by the Governor.
It is understood here that the Senate
refused to confirm the Governor's ap
pointment of Mr Faiist, and that the de
legation from this county will make
every effort possible to have Mr Folk
retained as master of the county.
Mr Folk himself has little to say about
the matter, but intimates that he will
take such action as he deems wise af
ter careful and cool deliberation over
the situation.
veto of the Governor to the contrary
notwithstanding,’ *s is announced j CAMr smftsrr
ter the vote is taken The optional 1 SOME FACTS ABOUT
compukory school attendance law
passed the House by more than the
two-thirds vote required, but failed to
secure the two thirds vote in the Sen
ate, and therefore, will not find its way
to the statute books
The Governor has considered and
persistently fought compulsory educa-
cation and his veto was to have been
expected and was in line with his oft-
repeated position, but sooner or later
this State will have a compulsory edu
cation law on its books. It is sure to
come and when it does come it is lia
ble to be a mandatory statute and not
one to be voted upon as was provided
in the compromise McCravey Act that
was enacted at this session.
INNOCULATING SEED
Mr. A. M SwmUts Has
did R—ka.
Mr. A. M. Sanders, farm demonstra
tion agent for Barnwell County, waa in
town Monday and brought to The Peo
ple office specimens of crimson clover
that he had grown on his model farm.
The plants brought to our office show
the effect that artificial innoculatioo
has. On October 17th of last year Mr.
Sanders sowed small patches of crim
son clover and ’Vetch, part of die seed
being innoculated and part left untreat
ed. The strips of untreated seed are
plainly discemable in the fields. The
clover that was innoculated is a very
rank growth, the weed being from six
to ten inches in height, while the other
lies flat on the ground. Mr. Sanders
stated that in the vetch field the dif
ference is even more noticeable, as
that part that was not innoculated is
practically dead, while the other is
growing beautifully. He used what. is
known as “farmer germ” to innocu-
late his seed and enough for one acre
can be purchased for 12. The seed
should be sown as soon after innocu-
lation as possible and a cloudy diay
should be selected, otherwise the sun’s
rays will destroy the germ. Mr. San
ders expects to graze his hogs on the
field that he planted.
It has been found, however, that burr
clover is better for this section than
the crimson variety, as the former,
when once started, does not require
yearly sowing, as is true with the
other. Innoculation with thisvariety
is not absolutely necessary, although
better results are to be obtained
this is done.
Those who are interested in thin
branch of fanning are invited to call on
Mr. Sanders, who will be glad to ahow
them what he has
personally explain the
lowed. .’
Irery man owes himself
and it's up te him to
and display the