The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, January 14, 1909, Image 2
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?|g Thursday, Jan. 14, 1909
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* >: ;Onr enterprising neighbor, the
- . Orangeburg Times and Democrat, is
C;- l|W% published three times a week.
^Te wish Brother Sims much success
: with his new venture. He made good
With a semi-weekly, and will no
|k doiibt do the same with his three
times a week edition. j
Ifej The resignation of Chief Justice Y.
.*i. Pope has put a number of candi^
dates in the race for his place and
Other vacancies which might occur
on account of this election, and we
^ v took for a regular scramble over the
i job. Pity that this should be the
??. case over such a position as that of
judge.
It is said that Senator Tillman will
I apw turn his attention to the white
'house and do some investigating of
Boosevelt We wish him mighty well
<: In the work, and we are firmly of the
fp opinion that he will find-the president
; as crooked as a snake. In fact we
v have never had any confidence in
Sfe; him,, with all his posing as such a
great reformer. Senator Tillman can
? find some mighty crooked things in
xne posi omce aepanmeni n ue win
f>-' look.
1| J. R. McGhee, who has been advertising
manager of the Greenville
h} News for the past year or two, has
WT leased the Evening Piedmont, the afternoon
newspaper published at
J - Greenville. Mr. McGhee will be the
Ik editor and manager. Mr. G. Marshall
Moore is the owner of the pa3
per and has heretofore been editor
and manager. Mr. McGhee and those
? associated with him have secured a
purchase option on the paper, and it
v Is likely that they will-purchase it
!>; ' outright in a short time. Our best
p wishes to "Rut."
Sc-JL
President Roosevelt and Senator
Tillman are passing the compliments
? of the season just now, that is, such
compliments as gentlemen of their
:v disposition pass on to their enemies.
The president has had secret service
men on the trail of Senator Tillman,
and they have connected him with
the Oregon land grab cases. From
letters of the Senator, which he wrote j
to parties in the West, they have es- i
-J tablished the fact that Tillman did
if. want to take up several sections of 1
land for himself and the members of j
* b? family, also his private secretary, <
j. B. Knight. Senator Tillman re- j
plied to the president in the Senate ,
on: Monday, and in a bitter speech he
called Roosevelt a,liar and various
other things, but to say the least, we '
were not satisfied with his defense, j
In fact, his speech was not so much j
a defense of himself as abuse of ?
Roosevelt. The Senator admits try- {
! ing to get the land, and there may J
not be anything wrong in his trying ]
1ft Hft on hut at thp samp timp. it 1
would look a great deal better for a j
man occupying the position he does
not to have been mixed up in it, es- ]
pecially in view of the fact that he i
tried to have the Senate take action J
in the matter last year, which action ^
would have resulted in giving him <
the land at a nominal figure. Sena- ]
tor Tillman says he wants a full in- ]
vestigation, and we hope it will be J
had, for we want more light on the ;
matter if possible. So far we must
say the opening up of the matter has
not proved creditable to the president
or Senator Tillman. Everybody
knows that Roosevelt is a rascal and <
charges coming from him have little
weight, but we want to see Senator 1
Tillman prove himself to be absolutely
above suspicion. He has always
laid great stress on his honesty as a
public servant and has been quick to
accuse others of wrong-doing, and
for this reason more is expected of
him than other men in public life.
City council has made all necessary
financial arrangements for the
rebuilding of the citjrhall, and work
on the, building will commence very
soon. It is to be completed in three
months.
ROOSEVELT AFTER TILLMAN
Senator Was Mixed Up in Oregon
"Land Grab."
Washington, Jan. 8.?President
Roosevelt to-night made public details
of the investigation by postoffice
inspectors and secret service
agents of Senator Tillman's connection
with the alleged "land ^rab" in
Oregon.
As he presents the evidence to Senator
Hale, in response to the latter's
request to the heads of various executive
departments for a statement of
the operations of the secret service,
the President undertakes to show:
"That Tillman used his influence
as senator in an effort to force the
government to compel the railroad
corporation to relinquish its control
of land grants from the United
States, in order that he and his family
and his secretary, J. B. Knight,
might profit through the purchase of
some land."
"That Senator Tillman used his
government franking privilege in
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numerous maiauv/co mi wu?>uw.
of private business."
Senator Tillman will not* permit
the fact of the president giving out
the charges against him to alter his
determination not to make a statement
until Monday. No effort was
made by the senator to conceal the
fact that when he learned of the
facts concerning the railroad grant
he made an effort to obtain portions
of land in the names of himself and
members of his family, but he declared
that as at most he could get
possession of only a few hundred
acres, his efforts were, after all, on
behalf of the public and not especially
in his own interest.
The communication to Senator
Hale is nearly three thousand words
long, and in addition there is appended
numerous exhibits, including
copies of letters written by Senator
Tillman and his agent, William T.
Lee, showing they did make an effort
to secure several quarter sections of
Oregon land, and reports of postoffice
inspectors who investigated the
transactions of land agents.
It is through this situation that
the alleged interest of Senator Tillman
is brought to light, and fatefully,
it appears. It was at his instigation
the inquiry was begun.
"Enclosed," the president says,
Hale "will find photographic fac
similies of letters and envelopes
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rrom iiiimiui auu mu
T. Lee, bearing on the matter."
Tillman After Them.
Washington, Jan. 12.?Immediately
following Senator Tillman's vigorous
attack upon President Roosevelt in
the senate yesterday, the senator inaugurated
a campaign of "purification"
in regard to the white house.
Since the president's attack the
senator has received much correspondence
expressing sympathy and
volunteering much information,
which will serve materially in the
foundation which the senator has
laid in his campaign as he announced
in his speech yesterday, that he was
determined to "show up" the president
in what he termed was his "twolights."
He has already gathered a
sufficiency of data, it is understood,
to start with, and some interesting
developments may be looked for as
regards the political relationship of
these two strenuous politicians. It is
understood that the post office and
its methods is one of the targets at
which the senator is to aim his pitchfork.
It is also highly-probably that he
will direct much of his activity to
ward an inquiry miu auauo . ?0
to the Panama canal.
FIRST VETERAN FOR HOME.
Rowland, of Pendleton, Came Down
to Rest.
The first veteran for the Confederate
home arrived here yesterday. He.
is William Riley Rowland, of Pendleton,
70 years of age and gray and
grizzled, who had. read accounts of
the home for the veterans and wanted
to come to Columbia and rest. He
went up to the home and not finding
it open, went to some house in the
neighborhood for 'dinner and then
told his troubles to Dr. Babcock, the
superintendent of. the Hospital for the
Insane.
Rowland said that he had entered
the service at the age of 18 and was
in Evans' brigade. He was in the
crater explosion at Petersburg and
afterwards taken prisoner and carried
to Elmira, which he says is somewhere
back of New York. Afterwards
he made his way back to this
State and went to work. Now he is
tiomeless, has few relatives and by
manual labor?he cut wood for his
aeighbors?he earned enough money
to bring him to Columbia and had
about $11 left when he reached the
city.
Dr. Babcock, after listening to the
Jtory, took him in for a day, although
tie had no authority to take any action
in the matter. The story just
touched the superintendent and he
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Qau LU yiuviuc <4U.CLI tviO IV. ,
Many veterans are ignorant of the
law in such matters. The home is
not yet ready for occupancy. The act
provides that two veterans shall he
taken from each county and these
two must bring with them the enforcement
of the county board of
pensions. The veteran from Pendleton
had none of these and it is probable
that he will have to be sent back
to his home and secure the necessary
papers.?Columbia State.
Savannah Balks at Prohibition.
Atlanta, January 9.?Because of
hatred of the prohibition law, Savannah
is in practical secession from the
State of Georgia, and so flagrant has
the rebellion become that it is asserted
that Governor Hoke Smith intends
to send State troops to enforce
the law.
Governor Smith yesterday summoned
State's Attorney Hartridge, of
Savannah, to Atlanta for a conference;
it is stated that the governor
will warn Hartridge that unless he
and other officials of Savannah begin
to prosecute the men who are openly
selling whiskey and beer the governor
himself will take control of the
situation and will use the State troops
to raid the drinking joints.
Savannah has treated the prohibition
law with contempt from the
very first.
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POUR LARGEST BATTLESHIPS.
Secretary Newberry Wants Congress
to Authorize Dreadnoughts.
Washington, Jan. 11.?If congress
accepts Secretary Newberry's plan for
the new navy this country will have
the four largest battleships afloat.
Each of them would be 4,000 tons
larger than the biggest ship ever authorized
for the American navy and
they would cost from $8,000,000 to
$10,000,000 each.
Mr. Newberry impressed the house
naval committee with the necessity
of an ammunition ship to accompany
the fleet on a long voyage similar to
that of the Atlantic fleet around the
world. This vessel would require an
appropriation of from $1,000,000 to
$1,500,000.
Mr. Newberry did not express any
willingness to have the appropriations
made for the smaller vessels in
preference to the four large battleships,
but coupled a number of auxiliary
vessels with each of the four
battleships.
House Committee Agrees.
Washington, Jan. 11.?The house
committee on naval affairs to-day
agreed to the $29,000,000 increase in
the navy program. This includes two
battleships of 20,000 tons, five torpedo
boat destro3Ters, three colliers,
four submarines and one sub-surface
boat. \
NEGRO DESPERADO CAPTURED.
Man Accused of Seven Murders
Caught in Alabama.
Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 11.?In the
arrest of Jim Poweil, a negro, local
officers believe they have captured
one of the most desperate criminals
that have operated in Alabama. He
is charged with seven distinct and
separate murders and numerous highway
robberies. When put through
the sweating process this morning he
confessed to killing two negroes in a
crap game, one known as "Fat Boy"
and the other "Bill" Sherman.
Other murders with which he is
charged are: Jim Crow, a negro grocer
at Ensley; R. A. Cummings, a
grocer at North Birmingham; Tony
Alvoli, Italian peddler at Ensley;
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jonn ^ones, ageu ciuzeu ,ax <iuuud,
Ala.; white farmer near Kelleyton,
Ala.
Why Was It.
A party of Northerners was touring
Virginia, some years ago, and
as the crowded train . was crawling
through Stafford county, near Fredericksburg,
an old and wizened woman,
with a basket bigger than herself,
came aboard and edged with
difficulty into the vacant place beside
one of the men, says Harper's Weekly.
After a while her seat mate decided
that it could be no, harm to
draw her out a little for the benefit
of the rest of the party.
"This is very poor land that you
have around here, madam," he began.
^
"Mighty pore," she assefited
humbly. j
"I never did see such worthless
soil."
"No, suh," with an air of deep dejection.
"Don't- you ever sow any crops at
all?" he kept on.
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head.
"Naw, suh," she drawled. "This
hyer land around hyer was sowed
'bout three foot deep with Yankees,
'long 'bout forty years ago, and we
ain't been able to raise nary crap
since." Courtship
in Ireland.
An Irish boy marries when he has
a rid house and an Irish girl just
when she pleases. Sometimes she so
pleases while yet her years are few;
at other times she is content to wait
upon wisdom. In the latter case, of
course, she makes a wise choice, but
in the former almost always a lucky
one, for luck is the guardian angel of
the Irish.
"You're too young to marry yet*,
Mary." the mother said when Mary
pleaded that she should grant Laurence
O'Mahony a particular boon.
"if i*ah nniv havfi natience. moth
er, I'll cure myself of that fault," was
Mary's reply.
"And she's never been used to
work, Laurence," the mother said to
the suitor discouragingly.
"If you only have patience,
ma'am," was Laurence's reply to
this, "I'll cure her of that fault."
And he did too.?Seumas MacManus
in Lippincott's.
Wants Tillman to Pay Postage on
Typewriter.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 8.?Senator
Tillman is affording an illustration
of the old adage "that troubles
never come singly." In addition to
the difficulty about the Oregon lands,
Postmaster Barnes is trying to collect
from him a bill of sixteen dollars for
carrying through the mails a government
typewriter which the senator
had "franked" from his home in
South Carolina to Washington.
As the typewriter is government
property Senator Tillman replied to
Mr. Barnes by saying in effect that
he could collect from its owner. Following
is the full text of his letter:
"I have your letter notifying me
that the typewriter mailed at Trene
^ ""/'oi' TY-Iir franl? and fld
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dressed to me here is held for postage.
During my service in the senate,
typewriters have been franked to
and from Washington the same as
public documents, and I was not
aware of any new law or ruling on
the subject. The typewriter belongs
to the senate and not to me, and has
been used in my public correspondence.
I cannot understand why this
demand is made on me for postage.
Under the circumstances I decline to
pay the sixteen dollars demanded, because
it is not justly due. You may
sell the typewriter, or deliver it to
the sergeant at arms of the senate as
you see fit. Had I known that it was
not frankable I could have shipped it
by express or freight. But in this
case it would be one department of
the government selling the property
of another part of the government
for the collection of postage on matter
that has always been franked
heretofore."
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Salary Account
Miscellaneous Account
Supplies Account
Merchandise Account
State Dispensary Commission
S. Grabfelder & Co
Consumers B. B. Establishment
Wm. Lanahan & Son
Strauss, Pritz & Co...
Garrett & Co
The I. Trager Co
E. A. Saunders Sons & Co
Mallard Distilling Co
Meyer, Pitts & Co
Rosskam, Gerstley & Company
Jack Cranston
Falls City Distilling Company
Dispensers' Expense Account
Estimated Ware House Profits
N. H. Fire Insurance Company
Furniture and Fixtures
Cash Balance on Hand
Profit and Loss Account
Net Profits
DISTRIBUT
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Olar
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Sworn to and subscribed before me
Sermon by Child Preacher.
New York, Jan. 11.?Michael Ruc-j'
ci, a b.oy of twelve years, is perhaps Ii
the youngest preacher in the city. j
He delivered a sermon last night i
in an East Side Roman Catholic
church, taking for his text: "Behold, ]
I bring you tidings of great joy." <
The child composed .the entire ser- '
mon himself and was well received.
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I. J. BRAIN
Successor to Armstrong-Johi
Jt .Announces to his fi
and the public genei
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Bamberg on or abo
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He will" carry a first-clas*
Merchandise and cater to 1
trade. Also makes a sped
furriishiners. Watch this s
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it will surely pay you.
several hundred bushels
xas Seed Oats at 80
Also a few genuine App
market for Peas and Cornshuck?and
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Months Ending Janqary
TBIAL BALANCE LOSS ANI
1 792.711 :.... $ 792.71 "
332.56 332.56
2,595.14 $ 19.53 2,595.14
25,343.25 28,953.07
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1,663.85
516.51
1,358.72
1,464.18
142.00 . 179.75 /
742.50
377.29
455.00
650.88
1,537.75
139.00
924.00
1,114.81 1,114.81
4,744.24
917.18
572.38
11,403.92 '.....
511.68 511.68
8,507.76
$43.726.29 $43.726.29 $13,854.66
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this 9th day of January, 1909.
On the plantation the dairy hands
were accustomed to do the milking,
3quatting down in a primitive fash- ,
[on until the owner introduced milking
stools along with other modern 0
improvements, says Uncle Remus' t
Magazine. The boy who first sallied <;
forth with the stool returned bruised
md battered and with an empty pail.
'I done my best, sah," he exclaimed. 11
'Dat stool looked all right to me, a
but the blamed cow won't sit on it. f
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??n???tCapt.
Minus Retires.
Clemson College, Jan. 11.?-Capt-J|
'. C. Minus has sent to the chairman ' ^
if the board of trustees his resigns* | >
ion as commandant of the cadets at
/lemson College. He has not yet :
sked the war department to relieve^
ds as professor of military science
,nd tactics, but expects to do so to n
ew days.
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