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GET PAT BUT LOSE JOBS. Supreme Court on Greenwood Rural i Police Case. Columbia, June 14.?The supreme court this evening ruled in the Greenwood rural police fight, by ordering the payment of the salary for > two months of the two rural policemen appointed by Gov. Blease under the Act of 1911. The salary is 1166.66, for each of the two policemen. The opinion in this case is by Chief Justice Ira B. Jones, and all three associate justices concur. The case was brought by L. C. Elledge and R. L. Golden, the two rural policemen for Greenwood county, against J. B. Wharton, the foreman of the grand jury; T. C. Burnett, county supervisor; G. B. Riley and George Dorn, who, with the superU. visor, constitute the county board of H commissioners, and against F. Graham Payne, the treasurer of Green|5 wood. Appointment Illegal. The appointment of the policemen t is declared illegal, in spite of the | fact that they get the salary. The facts are set out as follows by Chief (Justice Jones: "The petitioners, claiming to be rural policemen duly commissioned by the governor and qualified under the Rural Police Act of February 18, 1911, seek by Mandamus to compel respondents to pay the salary,$166.66, alleged to be due I? each for the two months ending E May 7, 1911. By their treturn respondents deny that the petitioners had been only duly appointed and fr- commissioned and that they were H appointed by the governor without the recommendation of the legislative delegation of Greenwood county, I as required by the Act. I Approved on Last Day. "It appears that the Act was approved Saturday night, February 18, 1911, the last day of the legislative session, and. that the governor on X1 nalitinnors me same mgui a^j^uimcu j;cuuvuv.v | as rural policemen, upon the recommendation alone of the Hon. D. H. k Magill, one of the Greenwood deleIgation. It is stated by the affidavit of Senator C. A. C. Waller and Representative W. H. Nicholson and Representative J. W. Bowers, the other members of the Greenwood delegation, that the appointments were made without their recommendation before they had knowledge of the approval of the Act or opportunity \ to recommend." r* ' f _ _ ^ ^ (No Other Claimants. The court points out that the usual rule is that where the commission to Office is not legal, the claimants would not be entitled to compel payment of salary, and this rule is enforced where there are other legal claimants to the emoluments of the office. In the Greenwood case there were no other claimants for the right of salary. The two policemen were not usurpers of the office, nor a did they obtain it by fraud or force, the court points out. They exhibited commissions until now not declared invalid. i' "We think it not only just," writes the chief justice, "but consonant with sound law to hold them entitled to the salary" claimed." The court does not take up any other issues which the opinion states were ^ 4 withdrawn, except the issue as to the payment of the two months' salary. As the policemen under the Act 'would receive $1,000 per year each, the salary for the two months amounts to $166.66 each. County Ordered to Pay. The court orders the * foreman of $ ? the grand jury to issue an order that the county treasurer pay-these men accordingly. Just what further steps may be taken cannot be forestated * at this end. The supreme court decision makes clear the legal position that the men were not properly commissioned in accordance with the terms of the Act, but at the same time holds them entitled to their salary. Whether the remaining part of four years' salary will be paid is j a matter that was not considered, because it was not an issue in this particular case. The sole question decided by the court was the right of [' the. petitioners to have the two months' salary paid to them. [Fire Causes Heavy Loss. St. Louis, June 15.? Losses conservatively estimated at more than $1,000,000 were sustained in a fire that raged for hours to-day in a manf ufacturing district bordering far four blocks the terminal yards in the southwestern part of the city. The plants of the Huttig Sash *and Door company, Fathman & Miller Planing Mill company, Missouri Stair company, Koken Iron works (a subsidi ary of the American Bridge com? TlTniiTid Hitv IRny r>nm y<lli V | ) tu^ iTXVUUU VVAM pany were practically wiped out. * The fire is believed to have started in the Huttig plant from a spark from a locomotive. The tenants of more than 50 flats and dwellings left their domiciles carrying all they could of their possessions, when it was thought their homes were doomed. The exodus was found later to have been unecessary and veering winds carried the flames in another direction. I ^ Pfri . v / . f ENJOINS OIL COMPANIES. Kansas Strikes Blow at Standard Subsidiaries. Topeka, Kan., June 15.?The Kansas supreme court this afternoon handed down a decision in the State's suit against three subsidiary companies of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, prohibiting them from combining to stifle competition. The three companies against which the suits were brought are the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, the Standard Oil Company of Kansas and the Prairie Oil and Gas company, all subsidiary ,to the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. Each of these companies is chartered in Kansas to produce, purchase and otherwise procure crude oil, to refine it and to market it. No one of the companies has been doing this, according to the findings. On the contrary each has been working as part of a system. It was brought out in the hearing that the Prairie Oil and Gas company is the transports tion company purchasing th? crude oil and transporting it to the Standard Oil company of Kansas, which is the refining company. The latter turns the refined products over to the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, which is the marketing: end of the enterprise. The State asserted that this division of the labor showed an illegal agreement between the three. The defendant companies are enjoined from owning stock in each other; they are enjoined from selling petroleum or petroleum products cheaper in one part of the State than in another to drive out competition, and from making contracts with any person to cause the latter to refrain from selling oil in Kansas. The Standard Oil Company of Indiana, the selling company, is re strained from selling under different brands of trade oils of the same quality and value. Wild Man Dead. Gaffney, June 12.?One of Cherokee's most valuable assets upon which it bases the claim of being the most interesting county in the State, is gone. "Wild John" Starnes, for years the great curiosity of this part of the country, Cherokee's wild man, is dead. Some days -- ' . , ago it was discovered that "wna John," as he was commonly known, was very ill with pneumonia. He was brought to the county home, where he was kept until Saturday, when death occurred. He was buried Sunday. Much conjecture has been engaged in concerning the wild man and he * *- 1 A _ /? nas long Deen an odjcci, 01 great curiosity to the curious of this county and State. Many have gone to his den in the wildest and most secluded portion of the county in the hope of getting a sight of him. Many have tried and failed while curiosity has prompted many to seek a photograph of him. It is stated that John Starnes, when a young man of some 20 years, took up his abiding place in utter seclusion far from the "voice of the maddening crowd" and has lived there since. All kinds of rumors have been heaTd as to what prompted this strange action, but it is commonly believed that the hermit was disappointed in a love affair and became mentally unbalanced as a result. It was almost impossible to engage him in conversation. He was as shy as a deer, never coming to town and never being seen. He lived by means of his prowess with the gun and fishing tackle. Practically the only means of ever tempting him from his hut was a pint or quart bottle of rye or corn, and then he was as shy as an awkward school girl. His eyes, piercing and keen as those of a hawk, were ever on tho alert, watching for some false move or treachery on the part of a visitor, and there is little doubt hut that he would shoot to kill in the days when he was physically at his best had there been any attempt to take him into custody. Good homes were offered him time and time again, but he would never accept. At one time he was captured and taken to the home of a relative, but he escaped and went back to his former mode of living, barricading himself in his hut like a hunted animal at last brought to bay. It is stated at the county home that when brought there it was much against his will and great trouble was experienced with him. It was impossible to keep him in bed, and when left alone he would leave the bed and crouch in one corner of the room as if being pursued by some dread fear, with head bent and hands clasped, there he would sit for hours. It is stated by the superintendent of the county home that the poor unfortunate would beg with tears in his eyes to be allowed to get out on the ground and left to die. He pleaded to be released from the home. He seemed to crave the feel of the earth and the house and its covering affebted him most deeply. Death occurred Saturday night and thus passed one of the strangest figures ever known to Cherokee county. Wild John is no more. MOTHER IDENTIFIES CLOTHES. Man Killed at King's Mountain was Spartanburg Painter. Spartanburg, June 15.?The body of the man who was killed by a Southern train near King's Mountain, N. C., on last Sunday morning, was identified to-day when the clothes taken off the corpse were shown to Mrs. Mary Sellars, who stated that they were those of her son, John Sellars. A bunch of keys in the pockets, which unlocked the door of a blacksmith shop where Sellars was scheduled to go to work on Monday morning, also assisted in the identification. He disaoDeared on Satur day and when his mother learned that a man had been killed on the Southern she started an investigation through the press, which revealed this information. Couldn't Put Negro Over Indians. Washington, June 13.?When Greek meets Greek, there follows a tug of war, according to the classic allusion; but when Indian meets negro there are explanations to be made, and sometimes they are not such satisfactory or explanatory explanations. This has been the case in the past few days in re the announced appointment of W. T. Vernon, the negro who was until recently register of the United States treasury, to the position of superintendent of Indian schools under the jurisdiction of the "Five Civilized Tribes," in Oklahoma. It was stated at the White House a few days ago that Vernon had been given this position, and the colored voters of Kansas, Vernon's State, were pleased by the action of the president. But within a couple of days the dispatches from Oklahoma indicated that the Republican voters of that commonwealth were not so much pleased. The two Republican representatives from Oklahoma were up in arms in a short time, and things began to look blue for the black man who had been named as overseer of schools for the red man. Then it was that explanations began to take place. It was said that there was something wrong about the announcement that Vernon had been appointed to the Oklahoma position. As this did not seem to be a completely explanatory explanation, or at least did not seem to go far enough to suit some of the Oklahomans, it A " -a At A TT t J was men announced mat veruou una not been given the appointment, and that the whole thing was an error? that the whole story was wrong. And so Vernon is not to be supervisor of schools for the Indians, according to the latest announcement? unless this announcement, too, is an error. What he will do is not known. He has been separated from the payroll as register of the treasury, and he is not exactly atached to anything just now in the way of employee. His political friend, Senator Curtis, is ex pected to look out for him, as he was supposed to have done in this Oklahoma matter, but the senator does not know just yet where he will place Vernon. Politically, Vernon is "in bad" in Kansas. He was a number of years the head of a big negro industrial school in that State, a State institution, for the organization of which he deserved most of the credit. When he came to Washington to take up his duties in the treasury, at the appointment of Mr. Roosevelt, it is said that he retained the presidency of this school, and allowed it to be run by an acting president, Vernon expecting to return at thG end of his political service in Washington. He kenw that his political job was a Republican reward for his political services in Kansas, and he knew that political rewards do not always last long. But while Vernon has been in Washington, things have changed in Kansas. Joseph L. Bristow has succeeded Chester I. Long in the senate, and Governor Stubbs has been holding down the gubernatorial cushion for some time. Neither of these gentlemen is a friend of Vernon, and he (Vernon) has been compelled to give UJJ Ilia clUDClllCC px^oiuciiv;/ vi lUC LU1lege. Besides Mr. Taft has seen fit to reward J. C. Napier, a Nashville negro, with Vernon's federal job, and Vernon is out. The decision to make him superintendent of the Indian schools in Oklahoma having resulted in such a fizzle, it remains to be seen just where he will land. The office of register of the treasury has been held by negroes for a long time. Judson W. Lyons, of Georgia, held the place before Vernon, and J. C. Napier is now on the job. The long service of colored men in this office has given rise to the statement.. whir.h is true in a sense, that the paper money of the United States is "no good" without the signature of a negro. Mr. R. B. Hartzog, son of Mr. and Mrs. V. J. Hartzog, is now living in Atlanta, Ga., where he has charge of the Atlanta office of the Sheridan Teachers' Agency. He has a fine position, and is well pleased with his work. 1 -i.v-' MB M li|Iftlll iiSI CM C. & O. ROUTE TO SEACOAST? Believed Course will "Not be Continued from Spartanburg. Darlington, June 15.?Developments of the past few weeks make it a reasonable certainty that there is more than rumor in the report that the Clinchfield Railroad will not continue its course on to the seacoast by way of Spartanburg, as has been heretofore supposed, but that it will on reaching the Seaboard Air Line, at Bostic, N. C., make its way over the tracks of the Seaboard on by way of Shelby and Charlotte, N. C., to Monroe, from which place it will make its way to McBee, S. C., and from there over the South Carolina Western to Hartsville, Darlington and Florence. From Florence the route to the seacoast is uncertain. The only statement the officials would vouchsafe was that they "would not 5\J llirui lUCiC LKJ UCLl 11U5IUU. The South Carolina Western is now operating a regular passenger and freight schedule from Darlington to McBee, and the work of constructing the line from here to Florence is about completed. Several of the officials of high standing continue to frequent this community, wihch fact, together with persistent rumors, makes the matter a live subject of conjecture. Steamer Hornet in Custody. New Orleans, June 16.?The steamer Hornet noted for its filibustering expeditions, arrived at the mouth of the Mississippi this morning from Puerto Cortez, Honduras, in tow of the United States gunboat Wheeling. The Hornet is being brought to New Orleans for delivery to the United Sta-tes marshal in connection with a libel filed by the Federal government alleging violation of the neutrality and admiralty laws. The Hornet left New Orleans, on December 2# last, and at Ship Island, near Gulfport, Miss., Gen. M. Bonilla, Gen. Lee Christmas and others con nected with the recent Honduras revolution were taken aboard. The vessel was seized at Truxillo, Honduras, one month later by the United States gunboat Tacoma, and has since been detained by the United States government in Honduras waters. Gen. Bonilla claims the Hornet was unlawfully seized beyond the boundaries of the United States, and, it is said, expects to make claim against this government for the action taken. ACCUSES JUDGES OF BIAS. Prosecutor Has Not Quit Efforts to J J _J A * L/OHYici uDcinnau coss. Cincinnati, June 16.?In line with the decision of the second circuit court judges in Ohio in which he was conceded the right to elect upon which of the two perjury indictments against George B. Cox he would proseed to trial, County Prosecuting Attorney Henry T. Hunt made his first move to-day in the new legal warfare necessary to follow. He filed with the clerk of the court two affidavits of bias and prejudice, directed, respectively, at Presiding Judge Chares J. Hunt, now sitting on the criminal bench of the common pleas court, and Judge William B. Dickson, trial judge in the Cox case. Charges of bias favorable to Cox and prejudice against the prosecutor personally, are made in both affidavits. Judge Hunt was the target of one affidavit because, if only Judge Dickson were to be named, Presiding Judge Hunt's function of naming an alternate judge would not be impaired. Judge Dickson later quashed again the revivified indictment against George B. Cox, charging him with perjury. The action came after affidavits charging Dickson with bias and prejudice had been filed by the prosecutor, but the court held that this could not affect his ruling as it was taken on a motion for a rehearing filed before the affidavits. Not So Complimentary. George Gould was making one of his last trips as president of the Missouri Pacific. His private car was laid out on a siding for some reason or other, and he got out to stretch his legs. An old Irishman was tapping the wheels. Gould went up to him. "Morning. How do you like the wheels?" "Not worth a darn," said the Irishman. "Well, how do you like the car?" "It's good enough for the wheels." "What do you think of the road?"| "It matches the car." Gould looked at the old chap for a minute. "Maybe you don't know who I am." "Yes I do," retorted the Irishman. "You're George Gould, and I knew your father when he was president of the road. And, by gob, he's going to be president of it again." "Why, my father is dead," said Mr. Gould. "I know that," replied the Irishman, "and the road is going to hell." ?Chicago Tribune. . 'i, I;i "-y " ' .s; . . r ... w||^B 2 ^ They last a lifetime. They're Fireproof?Stormproof?Inexpensive. I Suitable for all kinds of buildings. Wy have local representatives almost Ieverywhere but if none in your immediate locality, write us direct for fl samples, prices and full particulars. CORTRIGHT METAL ROOFING COMPANY I 50 North 23rd Street Philadelphia, Pa. | A _ A Hag since 1894 given "Thorough Instruction under positively Christian influences at the lowest possible cost." 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