Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BETS FORTUNE ON SHOWER. 9 Wagered S20,000 to $90,00 That It Would Rain, and It Did. "Jim" Fike, the Kansas wheat king, bet $20,000 during August and September last year that rain would fail on his 7,000 acres of wheat in Northwest Kansas before the middle of May, says a Topeka special. And he has won, almost 5 to 1, and his winnings may be 7 or 8 to 1. Fike never had such a wheat prospect in 15 years as he has at the present time. If he has only the average Kansas yieia 01 wueat ue suinus ou clean up more than $90,000 on the one wheat crop. If rains continued through May and the early part of June, he stands to beat this by $20,000 to $30,000. For five years Fike has been plunging in wheat, and he is now the big- ' gest winter wheat grower in the < country. Three years ago he had 180,000 acres of winter wheat that averaged eight bushels an acre, and j he made $30,000 profit. Two years ago he sowed 16,000 acres of wheat , and lost every cent he had put into 1 it. He did not harvest enough wheat to get seed for the crop that offers so fine a prospect at this time. Gambling on the weather has been Fike's method of chasing the festive dollar for years. He was once a Kan- 1 sas rairoad commisisoner, elected during the Populist days. He has } bet more than $250,000 in the last 4 10 years that rain would fall at the ( proper time, and ne never lost en- ^ tirely until last year. He had a j bumper crop on 2,000 acres in 1903, and a crop that earned him $20,000 ^ in 1908. Since that year he has not had less than 8,000 acres in wheat in any year. But last year, after the most disastrous season he had ever c experienced, Fike was forced to cut ~ down his wheat acreage just half that . of the former year. c Last summer Fike put in his wheat ) Ei"; - i with extraordinary care. He bought r the best Russian hard winter wheat seed he could get on the Kansas Agricultural college farms. He plowed ? ? two inches deeper than ever before. He has four 30-horsepower steam r plowing* engines, and two 20-horse- | power gasoline engines to plow his fields. He plowed five inches instead t)f the usual three inches, and used ^ two sets of harrows to smooth the i grounds after each plowing. x Every one in Kansas has been , c ? watching the rain reports from the ^ western part of the State. Kansas people are interested in Fike and his f weather gambling. They want him * to win and make a big "killing." j Everybody is pulling for him. There . were so many calls in the Topeka newspaper offices as to whether there had been rain at Colby, where Fike lives, that the correspondents there were directed to wire rain stories for j every shower. The Rock Island Railk-'-'v. I way general offices for Kansas direct- ^ ed its agent at Colby to report specifically every day on rain, and the ^ government weather offices loaned , c the railway agent some rain guages. ^ Fike is like the chap playing the "> - J faro bank. He has worked out his system and just keeps on gambling until he break the bank. Fike has not made a real "killing" since 1903, 2 although he made a lot of money in y 1908 and has made some money each s year until 1911. But this year he ] will hit the market in a way that < Kansas will be talking about it for j years. Incidentally there are a lot { ; of other Kansans who will make a < ! ' * lot of money from their wheat fields. J Mrs. Schley's Pension Increased. , Senator Rayner, of Maryland, told the senate on Monday that the fa- [ mous order for what is known as the 1 'v nT..,ieor Rrnnlrlvn in the * iouy uj. iuc vi uiovi ? ? battle of Santiago, given upon the * spur of the moment and in the heat of ba+tle, decided that conflict and ' saved the day for American arms. Senator Rayner sought to make this point clear, in a speech accom- ' panying an amendment which he of- 1 fered to the pension appropriation * bill so as to provide a pension of 1 $150 a month, instead of $50 a 1 month, to the widow of Admiral Schley. The senate adopted the amendment. * Senator Rayner said that the gov- ' ernment is now paying nearly $200,- ' 000,000 a year in pensions. He said that Admiral Schley's widow was in dire need of the pension and lacked even the means for erecting a suitable memorial at the admiral's grave. Only "Dry" Place. "Where can I get a drink in this town?" asked a travelling mau wn^ landed early one morning at a little town in the oil region of Oklahoma, of the 'bus driver. "See that millinery shop over there?" asked the driver, pointing to a building near the depot. "You don't mean to say they sell whiskey in a millinery store?" exclaimed the drummer. "No, I mean that's the only place here they don't sell it," said the 'bus man. * ..... ... TANGIER ISLAND. Where the People Do Without Jails, Lawyers, Horses and Cows. There is a little island in Chesapeake bay, 125 miles South of Baltimore, where the world has stood still for more than a hundred years. Tangier island is five miles long and much less than a mile wide, but more than 1,500 people live on it. There is only one street, nine feet wide, without side walks, and the houses are all built along this street with narrow canals of the deep water of the bay between each two houses. There is only one church, presided over by a Methodist minister, and only one doctor, and there is no cemetery, the dead of each family being buried in the yard. There is no . newspaper, no jail, no lockup and no lawyers nor any need for them. Ev- . srybody is deeply religious, and pro- ' Fanitv is nunished with a fine imDOS -v ? x ? sd by the deacon of the church. The men go fishing and crabbing in sailboats early on Monday morn- . ings and do not come home until Saturdays, when they .have marketed ' heir sea harvests in town on the , mainland. There are no gardens, . ao horses or cows, but plenty of j chickens are raised. Fuel is supplied to the islanders by sloops, which ' jome every month or so loaded with j ivood and anchor off Tangier, sending small boats piled with cordwood and vindlings to every house by means of ;he little canals. The women wear sunbonnets and go barefooted, and 1 ;here is an organ in nearly every ( tome. Tangier was first settled by 1 vhite people in 1666 and before that 1 ;ime was occupied by the Indians. 1 Seigler Guilty of Manslaughter. j Aiken, June 7.?"Guilty of man- < daughter!" is the verdict, returned i it 5:45 o'clock this afternoon, of the jury sitting on the case of James G. Seigler charged with the murder last 'all of Policeman Wade Patterson. The defendant was stunned by the rerdict, for as it was read his face p*ew stony and expressionless. It is itated on good authority that the irisoner and his counsel expected an icquittal or a mistrial, the latter beng equal in this country to an acluittal. The quick return by the jury of a rerdict created much surprise, for 10 return was expected until to-mor ow morning, and if even then it was jenerally expected that the result vould be a mistrial. The jury was out on the case just 'our hours and thirty minutes, the j ;ase having been given into their ] lands this afternoon at 1:15 follow- j ng a charge of an hour by the pre- ( liding judge, Hon. Hayne F. Rice. ] Attorney W. Q. Davis, acting for ( ;he defense, gave notice of a motion ] 'or a new trial. This motion will be leard by Judge Rice to-morrow ( norning, after the defendant has j )een sentenced. ] In the State of South Carolina con- ^ riction of manslaughter lays the pris- , >ner liable to a sentence of not less j ;han two, nor more than thirty, ] rears. ] Left $60,000 to Bellboys. * Albany, June 8.?Three gentle T A vnllfrxr Tn ^ Ilcllliy IlULtSJL UCUUUJO' aic AU wealth because of the courtesy they showed to an old lady, Mrs. Hannah Dwight Greene, aged 81 years, when she died a few months ago, expatiatnging on their friendship and affiability, divided her entire- estate of ?30,000 equally among the three roung men in her will, which was protested here by Surrogate Vandersee. The lucky bellboys are Edwin J. j Sreenwood, Thayed's Hotel, Littleton H.; George Hadenburg of Proviience, R. I., and Frank Donegan of :he Hotel Westminister, Boston. While an old resident of this city, Mrs. Greene spent the last years of tier life at the hotels where these poung men work. She was the aunt ? 3f the widow of "Lucky" Baldwin, 1 millionaire sportsman and mining 1 speculator, and of Charles and Sam- 1 ael Bowles, owners of the Spring- < Beld Republican, and her estate rep- J resents the savings from allowances ' which they made her for years previous to her death. Much of her 1 mnnpv was invested in New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad < and United State Steel stock. Preacher and Girl Arrested Atlanta, June 7.?Another scandal 1 involving a preacher and a pretty girl was unearthed yesterday when police officers entered a room at the Terminal hotel yesterday and arrest- 1 edthe Rev. William Lee Popham, of 1 Louisville, in company with Miss Maude Estes, also of Louisville. The preacher's defense was that the young lady was his fiiance, and that they had intended to be married, but had been forced to put off the ceremony until July. After being taken to the police station and put under bond, both of the parties left town. The Rev. Mr. Popham is the au- .. thor of a number of volumes of poetry, in which love and romance are said to figure prominently. BRAKEMAN CRUSHED TO DEATH Southbound Railroad Coal Train Wrecked at Cheraw. Cheraw, June 5.?At 12:30 to-day, as the first section of the Southbound Railroad's through coal train, going south, reached the switch at the northern end of the "Y" here, the engine struck the frog and jumped the track, carrying six loaded cars with it. They tore up the two tracks and ploughed up the ground for one hundred feet, and then the engine and the first four cars were overturned, and were piled up, a complete wreck. Conductor Moore jumped and saved himself, but Engineer Epling got caught underneath the engine, and was painfully, but not seriously, scalded. He managed to get himself loose from the wreckage and crawl out. The fireman jumped and suffered a sprain and a small fracture in the leg. Brakeman Eady, colored, of Florence, was caught under the overturned tender of the engine and crushed to death beneath the coal. Fhe wrecking train arrived from Florence at 4:30 and got busy, but the Southbound passenger train, due it 5:30, had to take the C. and L. ind Seaboard tracks in order to get by. To Pray 36 Honrs. Atlanta, June 6.?Nearly 1,000 people have decided to pray without leasing all night long and possibly :ot 36 successive hours without stopping for either food or sleep, in the lope of forcing upon the personal at:ention of God the terrible muddle n which the Tabernacle Baptist church of this city has recently found tself through a difference of opinon among members of the congregation. The congregation is so split on a lumber of questions, including that if whether or not the pastor, Dr. McArthur, should wear a robe or lot when he preaches, that they lave practically given up hope of ;oming to a peaceful conclusion by nere human methods. Consequenty they decided to appeal directly to ;he Lord, and in order that there nay be no uncertainty about His get;ing a full insight into their plight, ;hey propose to pray long and all ;ogether. Severs Child's Head With Knife. Washington, N. C., June 5.?Yes;erday afternoon John Gibbs, of Bath, N. C., near here, went to his lome and, taking his little two-yearild girl up in his arms, retired to lis bedroom and with a butcher knife" mtirely severed her head from her lody. nnv trronnoH thp UrlUUfcJb LUCiX taiciunj ?? * f ? ??? ;orpse in a sheet and hiding it under :he bed, fled from the room and the louse. His movements after leaving :he room, however, had created suspicion among the members of the family, and his sister went to the room to investigate and found the aeadless body. Gibbes was soon af:er apprehended. At the coroner's inquest Gibbes admitted the crime. Asked why he committed the deed, he declared it was the result of trouble which he jould not longer endure. Just a year ago Gibbes's wife, a tiride of one year, died in giving Dirth to the child. He has never recovired from the blow. Sunday his sister was brought home a corpse and was Duried Monday afternoon. The funeral evidently deranged his mind, is he killed the child immediately af:er reaching home from the ceme:ery. Gibbes was remanded to jail to an jwer the charge of murder. College Boys Heroes. Columbia, June 5.?Lucius K. Jennings, of Spartanburg, who graduates from the University of South Carolina in the law department next week and Leroy Bruhan, also a student of the university, were instrumental yesterday in rescuing from a watery grave several men, who were washed down in a flood at Dent's pond, near this city. Derrick Thomas, his two brothers and several other men were working on a dam at the pond when two flood gates gave way during the heavy rain. The men were washed down against a new dam that was being built below the old. They were pinned against the piles and would have been drowned had the college students not formed a human chain and drawn them to earth. Derrick Thomas had his leg horribly mangled, and to-day it is said, he will not live. His leg will likely be amputated The other workmen were slightly injured and bruised. The students were at the pond fishing. One of them brought Thomas to a hospital in the city while the other stayed and tended the injuries of the men at the pond. Boys' suits and pants, also children's wash suits, a full line, prices low. F. G. MERTINS, Augusta, Ga. * BIG BUSINESS DEAL. J. T. Shuler Acquires Oil Mill at Aiken. Aiken, June 6.?J. T. Shuler has closed a deal involving several thousand dollars by which he acquires the property in Aiken of the Southern Cotton Oil company and the plant and business of that concern, which has been operating the Aiken oil mill for a number of past years. The deal has been on for some time, but has just been confirmed by the head office of the Southern Cotton Oil company, Mr. Shuler being notified to-day that as soon as the papers are signed the property will be turned over to dim. Mr. Shuler stated that it is his intention to organize a stock company and enlarge the plant. He has just returned from Swainsboro, Ga., where he inspected Jesse Thompson's new process of making cottonseed meal. This process will be employed at the Aiken oil mill in the future. The company which Mr. Shuler is to form will also put in two new system cotton gins and besides making cottonseed oil will mix and sell fertilizer. The Southern Cotton Oil company will be given until July 15 to move their stock and wind up their business affairs in Aiken. The new company will be operated independently. This is one of the biggest business deals that has been put through in = Aiken in a number of years. Gives Million Dollar Bond. Cooksville, Tenn., June 5.?Mrs. v v J. C. Barnes was arraigned to-day before Squire J. R. Douglas in the circuit court room in this city. Mrs. Barnes shot and killed Mrs. W. W. Judd Saturday evening on the platform of a coach of the Nashville shopping train, jealousy being responsible for her deed. Mrs. Barnes said her home had been wrecked by Mrs. Judd. Mrs. Barnes was accompanied by her husband, J. C. Barnes; her brother, H. T. Hearst, of Evansville, Ind.; her counsel and a number of friends. The defense announced ready for trial. The prosecutor, W. W. Judd, husband of the victim of Mrs. Barnes, announced that he was not ready for trial, as he had not had all of his witnesses summoned. The defense agreed to a continuance, but insisted upon bail for Mrs. Barnes. \At first the prosecutor refused to agree for Mrs. Barnes to make bond, but later consented to her giving bond in the sum of $50,000. The case was then set for Thursday afternoon at 1 o'clock. When Mrs. Barnes's bond was prepared she and her husband signed it and immediately a stream of citizens and business men of the city and county crowded around the desk and the bond was signed as long as there was enouah sDace left on the margin to contain a signature. The bond is worth a million dollars. May Not Pass Through. Atlanta, Ga., June 5.?While the friends of Thomas B. Felder do not believe he has ever violated any criminal statute in South Carolina, neither do they propose to let the governor of that adjoining State get his hands on Felder if they can help it. They figure that it would be a bitter pill for Mr. Felder and a triumph for Cole Blease if he could succeed merely in jailing Felder over night. Therefore they are going to advise and try to persuade Mr. Felder not to go through South Carolina at r all on his way to the Baltimore con- J vention but to travel around by Chattanooga and Cincinnati. ^ It is believed that Mr. Felder will accept their advice, as he has been J - ? ~ rrV? OrmfVi Porn. avuiumg unuugu uvum. ^ lina ever since Blease first issued the warrants against him. Mr. Fel- e der is now in Chicago. . Death Saves Woman from Trial. Spartanburg, June 6.?Mrs. Ade- b line Tessiner, who was awaiting trial on a charge . of being accessory to murder, dropped dead at her home c at Drayton mills this afternoon. As she was sitting on the porch talking a to neighbors and exhibiting no symptoms of illness, she suddenly clutched at her heart and with a deep groan, toppled over. A physician, who was tl hurriedly summoned found life ex- n tinct. Mrs. Tessiner was recently released q from the county jai on bond. She t was accused of having assisted her b daughter, Mrs. Julia Taylor, to kill ? the latter's child. The two women 3 were arrested after the body of the e infant was found in an old well at r' * Drayton mills. Mrs. Taylor at first denied all knowledge of the crime, ? but after being in jail several days, g confessed that she was the mother of the baby and charged Noah Rabb a with having made away with the in- ~ fant. p A warrant was sworn out against r Rabb, charging him with murder, and ji he is awaiting trial with Mrs. Tay- ? lor. , ? Mrs. Tessiner was about 60 years old. Jr. \ "" ~ % II Information I . i:?M To" The Public:^ /M ^It is aometimesrfecessary'teV ^ ; secure information relative to the, financial standing or Integrity of business concerns and.individuals' at distant points;' . This hank has facilities for' securing such information for its* patrons at no 'expensed You are given special consideration when borrowing money, if you jd have an account at the bank and can S aiwava feel free to ask for advice or recommendation and the hanker is 1 ] glad to furnish either to the, test, I J of his ability. | m You are invited to make this* 1 hank your financial home and the m 9 .Officers are at your service'., I 1 lours very truly, I fl FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANE I H 4 per ct. Paid Quarterly on Savings Accounts. Elirhardt, S. C. I oH IjiSr toe best! 1 ||| We don't claim to have the best 'ifSB 1 H Horses and Mules ever brought to IM I 13 gl ^ this market in our stables at this \ _ ? |j|s ^ %? time, for we have had some mighty 11 good ones heretofore, but we do v M claim these to be just as good as any ; j 11 we have ever handled, and if you will F1 l JQi come and look we know we can (Qj please ->u. See ours before buying 1 JONES BROS J |j^MBERG, SOUTH CAROLINA, j J . gj Snotpflakes . .. I |f? ffjf A few Snowflakes do not make any impression, but a ^ ; ^ sufficient number of them will stop a locomotive. Your Sg ^ |g| small change may seem unimportant to you, but if you : open a savings account here, and constantly add to the g|S -L Bag amount, the accumulation will surprise you and prove j&x |ig a great help to you when WANT tries to run you down. m < We pay 4 per cent, on Savings Deposits. g|g ud6e for yourself! CHICHESTER S PILLS 1 y_?^v the diamond brand, a rag mclH^ or Profit by a Bamberg Citizen's J*"'* ^ Red *nd odd mmuic\V/ PvTiArionno boxes. ;.?]cd -with Blue Ribbon. \/ experience. ^ Take ?o Other. Bay cf your V , . "I ~ w hrniKiii!. AskfniCHI-(!rtE8.teb8 *''jp Something new is an experiment. I ? a ? ^ Must be proved to be as. represent- **? ?r SOiD BV DSSjQGfSTS EVERYWHERE | The statement or a manuiacturer ^__??. S 5 not convincing proof of merit. T" """"""""T"""""1 8 But the endorsement of a friend is. *v' -jfl Now supposing you had a bad ack, A lame, weak or aching one, Would you experiment on it? You will read of many so-called j Endorsed by strangers from far- "LOMBARD x It's different when the endorseimproved Saw Mils. lent comes from home I VARIABLE FRICTION FEED. Home endorseemeCn if tTpVoof ^ material and workmanship, light, Home endorsement is the proor . requires little power; simple, ^at backs every box of Doan s Kid- ^^[andle. Are made iii severa j Read this case s5zeB and are good, substantial money-! Read t s case. ( majsjng machines down to the smallesl ; D. J. Delk, Main St,. Bamberg, S., size# ^rite for catalog showing En-f, !., says: "Doan's Kidney Pills, ob-i ^nes, Boilers and all Saw Mill supplies4| .JL ained at the Peoples Drug Co., have; Lombard Iron Works & Supply Ca.*; een used in our family for kidney j e aucusta, ca. * J omplaint and backache and have w - ent that Doan's Kidney Pills arenan| FRANCIS F. CARROLL xcellent medicine and act just as presented." j Attorney-at-Law For sale by all dealers. Price 50 ; ents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, J Office in Hoffman Building few York, sole agents for the United i <: tates. . i GENERAL PRACTICE. J. ||| Remember the name?Doan's?! BAMBERG, S. C. nd take no other. j _______ Suits from $10.00 up, all wool; i j. Aldrich Wyman E.H.Henderson ? ' ants $2\UU up; ruDoer uuais, iur , ain or dust, $5.00 and up. Write j "WyiH&Il & il6Ild6rS0Il \ G. MERTINS, the clothier, Au-1 usta, Ga. AttorH6yS-3?t-Ij2;W ^ Highest prices paid for beef cattle. BAMBERG, S. C. [. G. DELK, Bamberg, S. C.' General Practice. Loans Negotiated.