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Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1908 One Dollar a Year M
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OP VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
The citizens of Orangeburg have
organized a memorial association and
will erect a monument to the memory
to the late Dr. A. S. Hydrick.
The news comes from Chicago that
John P. Grace, of Charleston, who
ran for the United States Senate in
the primary this summer, has given
$100 to the national Democratic
campaign fund.
An election is to be held in Clarendon
county on the question of dispensary
or no dispensary. Those opposed
to the dispensary met last week
and organized for the campaign, and
it is said the election will be against
the institution.
. W. A. Douglas will run for supervisor
of Richland county in the general
election. He claims that he is
not a bolter, but that much illegal
voting was done in the Democratic
primary. Douglas was not a candidate
in the primary.
Will Herrin, colored, was convicted
of murder at Saluda on Tuesday, in
the killing of Emanuel Carver, white,
some weeks ago, a special term having
been called to try him, with Hon.
- C. C. Featherstone "presiding. He was
sentenced to hang the 27 th day of
November.
Henry Campbell, conductor on a
freight train on the C. & G. division
of the Southern,*fell off his train at
Piedmont last Thursday and the engine
passed over his body, killing him
almost instantly. He was a young
married man. His body was horribly
mutilated. The engine was shifting
when the accident occurred.
An order has been issued for Hon.
O. L. Schumpert of Newberry to preside
as special judge at the special
s term of court at Spartanburg on November
11. At this court John Irby,
the negro, who is charged with attempted
criminal assault, will be
tried. Irby, since the recent riot, has
been in the State penitentiary for
safe keeping.
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Last Friday night the residence of
Dr. E. C. Smith at Williston was totally
destroyed by fire. The origin
of the fire is unknown. The loss is
partially covered by insurance. It
was only by the heroic efforts of the
citizens and the fact that the rain had
been falling all night, that the adjacent
buildings and the planing mill
near were saved, else the whole town
; would have been destroyed.
In Lee county there will be two
candidates for the office of county
supervisor in the general election.
Mr. J. Oliver Durant, who was defeated
for the nomination in the
Democratic primary, will run in the
| general election against H. E. Moon\
eyham, the nominee of the primary.
Mr. Durant says he dislikes to appear
as a bolter, but there were many
irregularities in the primary and this
is his reason for running in the general
election.
Effort at Suicide Successful.
Spartanburg. October 22.?Will
Burnett, a well-known young white
man who shot himself in the head
with a pistol last Sunday, died at his
home to-day as a result of the wound.
Burnett was one of the ten men who
were arrested a short time ago for
taking part in the mob that sought to
lynch John Irby, the negro charged
with attempting a criminal assault
upon a young white woman,
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"Blessings in Disguise."
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The negroes in the state call Tillman
an enemy because he disfranchised
them; but Capers is as bad
as Tillman. He cut off the few registered
negroes from voting their
choice for electors in their party.
However hard it may seem, the
truth of the matter is both Tillman
and Capers are blessings to the negro
in disguise.?Columbia Sun?Negro
Paper.
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Pernicious Activity Punished.
Washington, Oct. 22.?More official
heads have fallen as the result
of charges of pernicious activity in
- } the political campaign. The civil
service commission announced this
evening that John H. Fordham, a
deputy collector of internal revenue
at Orangeburg, S. C., had been re
primanded and suspended witnout
pay for 15 days for active participation
in the Republican State convention
at Columbia. Robert A. Stewart,
a temporary deputy collector of
\ Clarendon county, S. C., has been reprimanded.
R. O. Pierce, an employee
of the Mare Island navy yard,
who announced his candidacy for supervisor
in the first district, has been
discharged from the service. Clyde
Knook, a letter carrier at Independence,
Kan., who became a candidate
for the district court clerkship
resigned from the postal service to
avoid dismissal.
Fatally Wounds His Sister.
Liberty, Oct. 23.?John Hughes, a
1 white man, shot and fatally wounded
his sister, Mrs. J. A. Hunter, this
evening, the ball striking her in the
forehead, ranging upward through
her brain.
Hughes was intoxicated and had
gone in his brother-in-law's house to
get a pistol to kill the town marshal.
His sister with some others was trying
to prevent him from coming out
and in so doing she was shot.
Hughes was arrested.
BANK DYNAMITED.
Robbers Shoot One Man Through the
Breast and Escape.
Duquoin, 111., Oct. 22.?At the little
town of Hurst about ten miles southeast
of this city shortly after three
o'clock this morning the safe of the
: Russel Company's bank was dyna[mited
and $25,000 taken,
j At the first explosion Henry Pulley,
who was sleeping near the bank,
woke up and rushed out. Upon reaching
the street he was shot through
the breast by a man~ stationed in
front of the bank. He is in a critical
condition.
A second explosion quickly followed
the first and by this time the citizens
were aroused and tried to stop
the robbers, who were making away
with their haul. /
A battle followed in which many
shots were exchanged, but no one
was injured so far as known. The
burglars escaped and an armed posse
of citizens is in pursuit.
Should Stick to unites.
Rev. Richard Carroll, a prominent
negro preacher of Columbia, and who
is well known in this city, had the
following to say in an address to negroes
in Charleston:
The negro is here to stay. South
Carolina is the best State in the
South for the negro to live in. He
is treated more kindly in South Carolina
than anywhere in the South.
Ten years from to-day it will be proved
that the white people of the South
are the best friends of the negro race.
The negro should identify himself
with the interests of the white
people. He should vote with them
and vote for the best white men, men
who are the friends of the colored
man. There were sixty negroes of
Columbia who voted in the Democratic
primary and he was one of
them. The negro should' look to his
best interests even in his politics.
The Rev. Carroll touched upon the
almagation of the races. He was very
severe in his condemnation of this
evil practice.
Dispensary for Cope.
Last Tuesday a committee appeared
before the County Dispensary
Board and presented a petition asking
that a dispensary be established
at Cone. From the large number of
names on. the petition it appears that
the opening of a dispensary at Cope
would meet with general approval.
The county board will consider the
matter at its next meeting, Tuesday,
October 27, when those who favor
and those who oppose may present
their views.?Orangeburg Sun.
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Competing Line for Clio.
Clio, Oct. 21.?That Clio is to have
a competing railroad line is now almost
an assured fact. Capt. J. E.
Hancock was here yesterday and met
the citizens in an informal way in
Curry hall and discussed the new
line at some length. Capt. Hancock
came as the representative of W. H.
Bonsla & Co. of Hamlet, N. C., who
have leased the Gibson line to Hamlet
and have completed arrangements
Wltu we ovauuaru AH DIUO IUI micichangeable
service.
They have begun the construction
of the line at Gibson with McColl the
objective point at this time with a
further extension to Dillon by way
of Clio on certain conditions which
no doubt will be complied with, as
the citizens are very much enthused
over the new connection and will
meet any reasonable demands made
on them.
The opening of this line as now
proposed will traverse a section famed
for its excellent farms and the
most prosperous section of Marlboro
and Marion counties. The future oi
Clio and Dillon is most promising
and with a long, strong pull their
future success is an assured fact.
DISPENSARY CASE.
'Special Session of Supreme Court
Called to Consider Old Suit.
An ord^r for a special term of the
supreme court next Friday may
bring up some interesting complications
regarding the receivership oi
the old State dispensary funds.
It is alleged that on May 19, 1907,
the Louisville Distilling company secured
a judgment for $354.35
against W. O. Tatum, then State liauor
commissioner, and U. B. Ham
mett, then chief constable, with costs
taxed at $24, for the illegal seizure
and conversion of certain liquors.
At the 1908 session the legislature
passed an act (section 10) directing
that "the judgment heretofore
rendered in the court of common
pleas for Richland county,
against U. B. Hammett and W. O.
Tatum, on account of liquor improperly
seized by them and used by the
State together with the costs and expenses
of defending the said suit, be
paid by the dispensary commission
out of the assets now in their hands
belonging to the State and arising
from the assets of the dispensary."
The judgment was assigned to
Mr. A. W. Ray of this city borne time
ago and the mandamus proceedings
are therefore his. He is represented
by his brother, Former Attorney General
Duncan C. Ray.
Should the supreme court decide
that the money should be paid and
the commission refuse to pay the
sum demanded it will be liable for
contempt. On the other hand, should
the commission pay the claim according
to the mandamus, it will be liable
for contempt in the federal
courts. The complication is an interesting
one. The present commission
consists of Messrs. W. J. Murray,
Avery Patton and Jno. J. McSween.
?Columbia State.
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COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around
the County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt Etchings.
Ehrhardt, October 26.?Mr. Editor,
everything is so dry down here unti]
there is no news going around. Had
one or two forest fires near town
These gave us smoky days along witt
the dust. One of the fires nearest
town was set out by two small school
boys. Parents should caution theii
children about setting fire out in the
woods, as it might do considerable
damage during the dry spell..
Col. John F. Folk and wife spenl
Sunday night with her mother, Mrs
rt j ul.va.ji.
v^uurau jumuaiui.
Quite a crowd went to Carter'i
Ford church yesterday. Had an As
sociation there. From what we cai
learn they had an interesting anc
instructive meeting.
At a gathering for amusement
commonly known as a negro hot sup
per last week on the property- o
Conrad Ehrhardt Co. two negroes go
into a row, finally ending up witl
knives. Both darkies were cut?on?
on the hand, the other on his neck
Dr. J. H. Roberts stitched them up
Expect the town council will tel
them their dues for their disorderl;
conduct in its limits at their nex
meeting. It is said booze was use<
plentiful before the fight occurred.
Our town's inhabitants have in
creased two quite recently. Messrs
Joe S. Dannelly and I. D. Copelam
are the happy fathers.
Farmers are busy sowing oats an<
gathering potatoes. The sugar can<
crop is very poor as a general thing
Now and then there is a patch of fin<
cane, but the fall has been too dr;
for its growth.
Peas are quoted at $1.10 pe
bushel, Don t think there will b
many bushels bought or sold arouni
here at any price.
Mr J. F. Chassereau has opened u]
a fruit store in the Tom D. Jone
building.
tv? t t. rvmeinnrt tfor Jack
sonville, Fla., last night. Was calle<
to the bedside of his father-in-law
Mr. Farrell, who is very sick.
JEE.
NEWS FROM OLAR.
A Batch of Local Items from a Hus
. tling Town.
Olar, October 26.?The program o
the Simms literary ,society for th
last meeting was as follows:
Recitations?Misses Kathleen an<
Annie Laurie Kirkland
Composition?Miss Tassle Brown
Essay?Miss Hattie Bessinger.
Readings?Miss Agnes Kearse an<
Master Wyatte Cooke.
Composition?Mr. Elvyn Kearse.
Historical Questions?Miss Emmi
i Bessinger.
Miss Pauline Bennett left Sunda:
for Norway, where she will teacl
> SCIlOOl lor lue CUiliing scosiuu.
Miss Ettie Kearse spent Saturda;
' and Sunday at her home in th
Kearse section.
Misses Hattie and Emma Bessinge
spent Saturday and Sunday with Mi
1 and Mrs. O. B. Lain.
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Rev. D. L. Roton delivered an in
' teresting sermon at the Baptis
church Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Gunnells wil
leave this afternoon to attend th
State fair in Columbia this week.
We are glad to learn that Mr. Pur
dy Ayer, who has been sick for som
! time, is improving.
A Mute Printer Suicides.
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Union, Oct. 26.?R. O. Glover, i
deaf and dumb printer employed 01
; the Union Times committed suicid
yesterday.
The unfortunate young man hai
| been despondent for some time, bu
' his friends had expected nothing o
' this kind. He shot himself in th
mouth with a revolver and appear
to have died instantly. He was no
| in need of funds, as money and i
' gold watch were found on his person
Glover was from Spartanburg coun
ty, and a graduate of the Ceda
' Springs institute for the deaf am
dumb. He was a very bright youni
man and his friends are very mucl
worried by his sad end.
Negro Stabs Wife.
Orangeburg, Oct. 27.?A seriou
cutting affray occurred a few mile
? AU A Avivr no o rQPii 1
irum cue uu; j cdicj uqj , ao a i</oui
? of which Victoria Summers, colored
i is not expected to live. The womai
i was stabbed by her husband, Gar
. field Summers, the knife blade pene
trating one lung. Some months agi
these negroes had another difficulty
i when the woman sunk an axe in th
man's brain. In some miraculou
' manner he recovered, after a portioi
' of his "gray matter" had ooze*
. through the opening in his skull
Summers had not been apprehendei
at a late hour this afternoon, al
though a constable, armed with i
warrant for his arrest, is searchini
for him.
Get a rain coat from C. R. Brab
ham's Sons and keep dry.
OLD SAND BAR FERRY.
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In Its Time Has Been Valuable Piece
1 of Property.
The action of the Beech Island
Club at their last meeting in appoint[
ing a committee to investigate and
report on the subject of building a
bridge across the Savannah river at
the point where ndw the Sand Bar
Ferry plies between Georgia and
South Carolina and the general dis1
cussion of the desirability of a modern
1 bridge taking the place of the anti
quated ferry method of communicai
tion, created an interest in the his?
tory as well as in the present status
t of the ferry.
That a bridge will, in the not reJ
mote future, span the river at that
J point, replacing the flat boat propelled
by the current and cable?the
present method which has been in
t use for considerable over a century?
. la Tmw mnrs than a nrobability.
The well to do community of Beech
Island have taken hold of the matter
j and seem to be In earnest about sub
stituting the present inadequate and
1 uncertain means of communication
I by an up-to-date bridge.
On thte other side of the river, too,
the sentiment is strong and pro,
nounced in favor of a permanent
- structure connecting Richmond and
f Aiken counties.
t The only valuable place for buildi
ing a bridge in that neighborhood
3 being the points between which the
. ferryboat now plies, the project nat.
urally involves an arrangement with,
1 and a purchase from, the present
f owner of the ferry as well as the
t charter, rights and parcels of land on
1 both sides of, and adjacent to the
river.
It is learned that the present own
er is not unwilling to sell his holdings
i. for a stipulated sum, provided the
1 purchasers hold out the positive assurance
of erecting a bridge in that
place at an early time. The cash
1 consideration asked for the ferry and
q rights by the present owner.it is un4a
?innnn
i? uclotwu id yxv^vvv*
g As a revenue proposition Sand Bar
y Ferry is held to be a very fair investment,
though the rates are only half
of what they used to be 20 years ago
r before the opening of the road along
e the South Carolina side of the river
I between Sand Bar Ferry and Hamburg,
known as the Hamburg road.
Before the Hamburg road was
p built the rates charged for crossing
s the river on the ferryboat were: passengers
on foot, 5 cents; on horseback,
12% cents; in buggy, 25 cents;
- two-horse carriage or four horse wagI
on, 50 cents. These rates were
, charged for crossing each way. After
the opening of the dirt road about
20 years ago these rates were cut in
half, or rather, one fare for crossing
the river both ways.
At one period in its history the
ferry was regarded as an extremely
" valuable and profitable property,
commanding a purchase price as high
as $20,000 On the other hand it
' changed hands once for a considerae
tion as low as $500. At present its
J value fluctuates between $7,000 and
1 $10,000.
The first owner of the ferry was
> Governor Bull, who In 1739, while at
Fort Moore Bluff, the eminence overi
looking the river on the South Carolina
side, obtained a charter and permission
to introduce a ferryboat from
a the Colonial Government. Governor
Bull later transferred the charter and
the property to Colonel Pepper, who
y in turn transmitted to the Lamar
ti family.
The La mars conducted the ferry
business for a number of years and
y sold it to Colonel Abner Watley. It
e remained a Watley property until
the close of the Civil War when Mr.
Jonathan Miller, who, by the way, is
r still in the land of the living and with
>. faculties unimpaired, at an age close
to a century, purchased it from H.
H. Hickman, administrator, for $20,000.
Mr. Miller held it for about'ten
t years and sold it to Warren Fair,
who a little over two years ago sold
it to Mr. Paul Dunbar for $7,000.
j In course of a year the ferry again
e changed hands and is now the property
once more of Mr. Warren Fair.
For a number of years before and
after the war'the annual income oi
e the ferry reached to a sum as high ps
$25,000. The annual income at present
is said to be between $3,000 and
A J AAA
$s,vuu.
The ferry ownership includes pars'
eels of land, 10 to 15 acres, on each
a side of the river, taxes on which arc
e paid to Richmond county and Aiken
county respectively.?Aiken Journal
i and Review.
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& The Open Season for Game.
s According to the act of 1906 the
t season for shooting partridges, wild
a turkey, woodcock, Mongolian oi
> other pheasant is made from Novem
ber 15 to March 1, with the excepr
tion of the following counties:
i Beaufort, Hampton, Dorchester,
5 Colleton, Charleston, Barnwell, Berti
keley, Aiken, Oconee, Fairfield, Saluda,
Georgetown and Clarendon.
These counties have from November
1 to April 1. Lexington was fors
merly among the excepted counties,
s but has been taken off and the season
t there is from November 15 to March
I 1a'
The deer season is from September
.. 1 to January 1, but the law applies
j_ only to Georgetown county. The rest
0 are from August 1 to February 1.
The act of 1906 makes it a misdeg
meanor to sell, or offer or expose for
s sale, to pothunt, net or trap, or by
Q firelight to pursue with intent to
j catch, kill or injure any of the game
[ birds named in that section. The
j handling, possession or ownership of
these birds is prima facie evidence
~ that they are being offered for sale.
5 ?Rev. R. A. Yongue, of Barnwell,
was in the city Monday.
k Buy your over shoes from C. R.
Brabham's Sons.
MACK PREDICTS SUCCESS
NATIONAL CHAIRMAN LOOKS
FOR LANDSLIDE.
Claims at Least 301 Electoral Votes
for Bryai^ 59 More Than
Enough to Elect.
j New York, Oct. 24.?National
Chairman Mack authorized a statement
today in which he claimed the
election of William J. Bryan by a
landslide. Mr. Mack announced that
j his reports showed that Mr. Bryan
j would receive at least 301 electoral
; votes, or 59 more than necessary for
i a choice.
Mr. Mack's forecast of the election
follows.
"The rumblings and thunder of
the Brvan landslide in ,the West are
already heard in the Eastern States,
| and to-day I can confidently predict
i the election of Mr. Bryan. That landt
slide in the West will extend to the
| shores of the Atlantic. It means the
' Democratic national ticket will carry
| every doubtful State in this section,
. and in rock-ribbed Republican districts
the majorities of that party in
recent years will be reduced to a minimum
Basing my forecast on the
most conservative lines, in view of
the optimistic reports I have received
from all sections of the country, I
figure that Mr. Bryan will have at
least 301 electoral votes, or 59 more
than necessary for a choice. This
comfortable majority will be increased
rather than decreased when the
vote is counted.
"In addition to the 166 votes of
the solid south?and in this I include
Maryland?I am confident that Mr.
Bryan will carry New York, New Jersey,
Connecticut, Idaho, Montana,
Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada, Indiana,
Ohio, Delaware, Kansas and South
Dakota?a total of 301 votes. All
over the country there is a change
of 25 to 50 per cent, from the Roosevelt
vote of 1904 to Mr. Bryan.
"The result is no longer in doubt
Maw, VawIf 'TVa 0 0 WAfne nf fh O
( ill i'NCW 1U11V* 1UC U ?/ T VVVO VJL vuv
State are assured for Mr. Bryan. He
will win by a substantial plurality.
The Empire State can no longer be
included in that territory called the
, enemy's country. I speak from in,
formation gained from a thorough
canvass and reports from every coun.
ty in the. State.
"From Connecticut I have received
very encouraging reports. Judge
, Robertson, the Democratic candidate
, for governor, will carry the Statjp by
. about 20,000 plurality, and the national
ticket, backed by a united parI
ty, has the best chance in years for
winning the seven electoral votes.
"New Jersey sounds an optimistic
note and there is every reason to believe
that that State will be in the
Democratic columns. Few if any
| States in the Union have a better or
! more effective organization than
i New Jersey.
"Mr. Bryan's tour of the State on
Friday .last and thd ovation he rei
ceived spelled victory to my mind.
; The internal dissension in the Repub!
lican party in West Virginia and the
. swing of the labor vote in that State
. to Mr. Bryan are powerful factors
l for his success.
imnl.nAM ?TA QTmAnf f A T4 TllP
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i people are hot with resentment
i against a party branded with Du
Pontism. Thousands of Repuulicans
there will either vote for "Bryan or
' not vote at all.
I ' "In Ohio and Indiana every ele.
ment is working for our success, and
despite the great Republican majori,
ties of previous years, I am confident
i that both states will be in the Demoi
cratic column. They are for Bryan
> to-day, and there is no reason foi
. believing that the next week will wit
ness a change of sentiment. Eight;
i per cent, of thb labor vote In both
, States and fully as large a percentage
1 of the German population are foi
, Mr. Bryan.
i "Illinois is doubtful, with the
chances in favor of Mr. Taft, but ii
he wins, it will be by a greatly rel
duced plurality. .
! "The Pacific coast states all sho-w
i a trend toward Bryan and a disgusl
of the extravagant, destructive polli
cies of Mr. Roosevelt. In each, particularly
in Oregon, state issues are
an important factor.
i ' "The mountain states, from infor>
mation I. have received within 48
i hours, will, I am confident, be count1
ed in the Democratic column.
"In fine, I figure at the present
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timte, Mr. Bryan will nave at i^aai
300 electoral votes. I Include in my
estimate the following states:
"Solid South, 166; Idaho 3; Mon1
tana 3; Colorado 5; Nebraska 8; In'
diana 15; Ohio 23; Delaware 3; Kan
sas 10; New York 39; New Jersey
12; Connecticut 7; South Dakota 4;
Nevada 3. Total 301."
Fires at Mullins.
The town of Mullins, .in Marion
county, was hard hit by fire this
week. Monday morning about eleven
' o'clock the large three-story tobacco
1 stemmery of J. P. Sale & Co. was dei
stroyed by fire, and it was only by
the hardest sort of work that much
' other property was saved. There
1 were about two hundred negro men
: and women at work in the building,
and some of them came near losing
their lives in escaping from the burning
building. The loss is estimated
at $40,000, mostly covered by insur1
ance.
1 Tuesday night the stemmery of W.
; C. Scott was burned, this alarm being
given before the flames from the Sale
! fire had died down. The sales stable
of J. B. Raysor was also burned. Mr.
Scott's loss is about $30,000, with
1 $16,500 insurance. There was no insurance
on the sales stable building,
but most of the stock was saved, this
however being covered by insurance.
THOSE ARCHBOLI) LETTERS*
Stolen by Employees and Sold to
-I
Hearst for $12,000.
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The John D. Archbold Standard Oil
letters involving Senator Forakeiv
/Congressman Sibley and others which
W. R. Hearst has read in public recently
were stolen from the Archbold
files in 1905 by a negro employed la.
Mr. Archbold's office and sold by him
to the Hearst papers through a white
man. a confidential messenger of the
Standard Oil Company, according to ; M
an article in Collier's Weekly for *'..p
October 24. The negro and the white .\-jgj
man are said to have made a trifle
more than $12,000 out of the deal*
The white man in his interview with
the writer for Collier's hints that the *(|
best of the letters are yet to be used
and that some of those held in reserve
have to do with Senators Al
drich and/ Penrose. . ' r$jgi
The article is headed "Mr. Hearst's ;i$3
Thieves" and is written by Arthur
H. Gleason. One of the men, who, . \?j
according to Mr. Gleason's story, got
the letters for Mr. Hearst was Wflliam
W. Winfleld, a negro file clerk,
messenger and doortender in Mr,"
Archbold s office, and stepson of Mr. ' 31
Archbold's butler, James N. Wilkins,
who has been with Mr. Archbold's frffi
family for twenty years. William
Winfleld's brother John, is porter in efi
the National Bank of Tarrytown. /Mt&k
Winfleld had been in the Standard
Oil office for ten years when he was ffilpH
dropped in 1905.
The other man Mr. Gistuson says fu
was Charles Stump, in the Standard^
Oil office for six years when he too-' '
was dropped in 1905. Winfleld is
represented as furnishing the brains
of the combination, while Stump wafc ^
used by him as a white go-between '5|||
to arrange the negotiations with the MM
Hearet people.
The white man and the negro are
represented as having played the *>J|j
races on Saturdays along in 1904 and r&m
thus having acquired an idea of what
money would do. Just after the pres1
idential election of. that year Winfleld
brought to Stump the first batch of
the Archbold correspondence, and
soon Stump began making visits to
the New York offices of the Hearst
newspapers. These offices the Collier's
article makes the natural mar
i ket for such merchandise at that
> time because "The Treason of the
Senate" was being compiled for the
Hearst Cosmopolitan Magazine. But this
material was of the sort which
could be used with greater effect at
another time and thef letters werei
put away in a safe in the Hearst dfcjfv.;
! flees.
Mr. Gleason quotes Charles Stump:
"Mr. Hearst hasn't begun to read ;
the best of the letters. He's begin- %
ning easy. Wait till you hear him
read the Senator Penrose and the S31
Senator Aldrich letters. Then there!U
be a sensation. What's happening
i now is nothing. He hasn't the originals,
you know. They were return- - ^aB
ed to the Standard Oil flies. Photo- ''l&i
graphic copies were made and those, ^
are the ones Hearstgis using.
hasn't originals except a few Hanne
letters, which may not^ome out ac^aag
all. After' the photographed copies .
were sold to the Hearst people some
i of the letters were returned to Mrv
Archbold by a friend of mine. Mr.;
i Archbold had offered us a thousand isgjj
dollars," but he didn't pay it after lie
, got his hands on the letters."
S-ump is also quoted as saying that
after Mr. Hearst began reading the
i letters he wro'.e to Mr. Hearst sug- %
. gesting that Mr. Hearst might send
him a little more money. He adds
. that nothing came of that letter. ; vg
Mr. Archbold discovered the theft t ':*?
early in 1905 and discharged Winfield
and Stump. They already had " - J?
; cleaned up some $12,000. A small .
t part of this they invested in a saloon
. on the southeast corner of 134th */|??
street and Seventh avenue. The rest'
the blew in on the races and such.
The two men are represented as clots 'Vi
, friends. Mr. Gleason says that MBa- ?
, ron" Wilkins, a brother of a ne- ?fs
gro whom they installed as manager
, of the saloon and who later bought ^
; them out, runs the little Savoy at
; 253 West Thirty-fifth street, and with ts
the crowd which frequents the Little v lj[
r Savoy Winfleld and Stump spent their
. money
Mr. Gleason quotes Winfleld as g
savine to him on October 9, 1908, at i
[ 35 Washington street, Tarrytown, 1
that he was mighty anxious to find
Stump. "There'll be a big thing for
' him and for me too if I land him in- [ J:
' side the month. After the next few *
weeks there'll be nothing doing.'* ^
, Stump, who Mr. Gleason says, is now V&a
: a desk clerk on the third floor of the
; building occupied by Yale & Towne
at 9 Murray street and lives at 108$
DeKalb avenue Brooklyn, thus talk- " %
ed to Mr. Gleason on October 12:
"What is there in it for me if I
r' see Willie? This game of Archbold'a *
getting us to swear one of the letters
was faked by Hearst so as to make
it look as if the whole correspond- ;
ence was a yellow journal fake?I
want to know the price for that. 1 ,
want guarantees before I lose a Job
L for that scheme. Anyway, i warn 19
1 see $25 before I talk It over with
J Willie." . *
Gets Warrant for Milliner.
t Spartanburg, October 26.?James
Henry Rice, secretary of the South .
1 Carolina branch of the Audubon So,
ciety, to-day swore out a warrant for
the arrest of J. McGoodlett, proprie
tor of a well known millinery store,
charging him with displaying two
hats trimmed with feathers from the
snowy egret, the most famous plumage
bird in the world.
The case will be investigated be1
fore Magistrate Coan. Mr. Rice art
rived here this morning from Columbia.
He inspected the display win.
dows of all the millinery stores in
the city.
He says that under the law he has .
1 the right to confiscate all hats trim- h ?
med with non-game birds.
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