The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, October 16, 1913, Page 3, Image 3
BANKER UNDER ARREST.
Henry Dekay, of Providence, Held
j
in Tombs.
New York. Oct. 13.?Henry Dekay,
under indictment in Providence, R. I.,
in connection with a misapplication
of funds of the Atlantic National
a j
bank of Providence, was arrested by j
department of justice officers in Yon- j
kers, X. Y., today. Later, in default I
of $20,000 bail, he was committed to j
the Tombs.
Dekay and others under arrest are
charged with aiding and abetting Ed- j
ward P. Metcalf in an alleged misuse I
of funds while Metcalf was the bank's |
trvrloi- Flo. !
1/1 to? > ntn auMtvu IUUU,"
kay was at the home of Samuel Untermeyer,
lawyer. While before United
States Commissioner Shields Dekay
denied participation in the al*
leged bank frauds, declaring he was
in Mexico on the dates set forth in
the indictment.
URGE CATTLE RAISING IX SOUTH.
Department of Agriculture Issues
Bulletin to Farmers.
Washington, Oct. 11.?Shortage of
meat in the United States and the
way to increase the supply are dis\
cussed by experts in the department
of agriculture in a special bulletin
to-day, issued to the farmers of the
country. That there is a decided
meat shortage is explained by James
M. Pickens, of the bureau of animal
industry, while George M. Rommell.
chief of the animai-husDanarv division,
urges maintenance and increase
in the meat supply by revival of beef
cattle raising in the corn belt, its extension
in the Eastern States and increasing
the production of beef cattle
and hogs in the South.
"The high cost of meat is a serious
reality," says Mr. Pickins, "and it is
now obvious that the rise in prices in
recent years is the natural result of
actual shortage in production."
t s The bulletin points out that in the
last six years the number of beef cattle
in the country apparently has fallen
off over 30 per cent, while the
population has increased. The slaughter
of beef, it is set forth, has fallen
off approximately 780,000 pounds
from 1910 to 1913. Meanwhile the
country's export trade has greatly
decreased and Mr. Pickens offers little
hope for imports from Argentina and
Australia because of their great drain
by European markets.
Unlimited Possibilities.
The department makes the asser
tion that the farmers of this country
^r have almost unlimited possibilities
for live stock production and that all
the meat needed could be furnished
if the farmers could be shown how
to produce it and how to get a ready
market.
Mr. Rommel asserts that the nation's
meat suply can be increased
r- by:
Revival of beef cattle raising in the
corn belt and its extension in the
TToctorn States, where success de
pends upon the utilization of pastures
and cheap roughage, the use of dual
purpose cows on dairy farms, saving
the calves for feeders: raising sheep
more extensively in the corn belt
and Eastern States, increasing hog
production on the irrigated farms of
the West: increasing production of
beef cattle and hogs in the South, the
only section of the United States
I
I * where cattle can still be raised, fed
| and sold at a profit of from 5 to 6
cents per pound/'
PANIC AMONG MACON SHOPPERS.
k Two Men Engage in Pistol Duel on
L Streets.
r Macon, Ga., Oct. 11.?A panic occurred
here late to-day among shoppers
in the heart of the retail district,
when G. C. Bolton and C. A. Snipes
engaged in a pistol auei. duuuu, a
metal worker, received wounds
from which he is expected to
die. Snipes and G. C. Tittle,
who was with him, received painful
wounds, neither being dangerous^
ly hurt. Fifteen shots in all were fired.
Snipes and Tittle to-night are in
jail. It is said that Bolton and Snipes
recently engaged in a cutting affray,
which was not attended by serious
results, and that both were on the
lookout for further trouble.
MERCHANT HELD UP.
J. P. Waddle is Forced to Hand
Over $227 to Robbers.
Spartanburg. Oct. 13.?J. P. Wad-j
die, who conducts a country grocery
store near Riedsville. was held up by
three negroes near his place of business
Friday night about 0 o'clock, i
while on his way from Greer and re
lleved of $227 in cash. He gave the
alarm to the authorities at Reidsville
and the negroes, Joe and Gill
Griffin, and one Smith, were arrested |
' Friday night in that town. Xo money
was found on them. At the preliminary
hearing held at Riedsville today
Mr. Waddle identified the two Griffin
* " negroes, but could not identify Smith
as one of the robbers. The Griffins
were held for trial in the circuit court
0
and the Smith negro was released.
I
SABLKS NOW SC ARCE.
Russia Has Forbidden Killing of More ;
Animals I'ntil 191b.
Henry C. Hibbard, of Seattle,
whose firm onerates a trading steam
er to the coast of Siberia and buys {
furs there and in Alaska, says that !
sables have been difficult to set this
season, owing to the fact that the
Russian government has forbidden j
the killing of more ahimals until
1916. Mr. Hibbard is on his way to
Europe with 300 skins collected by
his steamer on her last trip, says The
New York Times.
"Our boat goes from Seattle to
Unalaska and thence to Petropavivosk,
and then up the coast to Anidir
around to Kotushin Bay and thence
back to Nome." said Mr. Hibbard at
the Astor yesterday. "She takes
$100,000 worth of merchandise and
between $35,000 and 345,000 in Russian
money for the purposes of trading
and bartering for furs, whalebone
and ivory. This year she made a
specialty of sables, and if the boat
had been more liberally supplied with
money we could have got a great deal
more, in spite of the scarcity of the
supply.
"Petropaviovsk is the center of the
sable industry in Siberia, traders and
hunters bringing their skins there to
sell or exchange. The London market
is usually a great deal better for
undressed skins than any in this
country, and Leipzig is good also. The
selling markets that are the best are
Paris, Vienna and St. Petersburg. Yet
if women knew it who buy their furs
over there, they might be able to do
a great deal better in this country.
"I know a New York woman who
purchased a sable coat in Paris that
cost her $15,000, and presumably she
had to pay 35 per cent duty to get
it into this country. Her sister, who
lives in Seattle, wanted to get a similar
coat, and she asked me what I
thought it would cost. I told her I
could save for her at least 50 per
cent. She gave the order, and there
was made up for her in this country
a coat that cost a little under $7,000
and which was a far better garment
than the one her sister had paid
$15,000 for in Paris.
"Of course, Americans are big
buyers of furs. But the fur game is
funny. We have brought furs from
Seattle to New York and offered them
to all the big dealers, who have absolutely
refused to buy. Then we
would ship them to the London sales,
and in many cases American buyers
would purchase our furs and bring
them back here, though if they
bought them dressed they had to pay
duty on them.
"Silver foxes are rather scarce
this year, especially choice skins. I
sold two skins the other day for
$1,000 apiece which the retail customer
will probably pay $2,000 apiece
for when they are made up.
"After our boat gets back from
Nome she makes a trip to Herschel
Island, at the mouth of the Mackenzie
river. On her last trip she took
a big cargo for the Stefansson party.
She is the only craft that makes a
regular annual trip up there, her
main purpose being whailing. This
time she is carrying a moving picture
camera with 15,000 feet of film and
is looking for the bowhead whale,
which is of considerable value because
of the whalebone it yields. As
against the $700 value of the sperm
whale, the bowhead is worth $8,000,
though its value has dwindled tremendously,
because women nowadays
wear so little whalebone in their corsets.
Formerly a bowhead was worth
$20,000. Last year in four months
we caught 11?a phenomenal number.
"The ice up there is closing in already.
We had news a while back
that all the boats were frozen in and
would not get back this winter, but
I think ours will return. She carries
o nf niPTI and. W8S built fOTI
d VI V M Vt * v - bucking
ice.
"Business conditions in Seattle are
excellent. Everything is going ahead
fine. The big gold strike at Shushana,
Alaska, has drawn lots of people
through Seattle of late.
"By the way, owing to the government
restrictions against the killing
of polar bears, those skins are getting
scarcer. We had 150 skins come
in not long ago, which I imagine is
about half the world's supply of the
| skins this year. They have to come
from the Siberian side.
"Sealskins are showing a marked
decline. They are going out of style
and muskrat is taking their place. I
could get real seal skin a lot easier
I than muskrat."
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j THE KAKTH Ql'AKKS AT MESSINA !
| According to Observatory Reports j
Shock was Local.
j .Messina. Oct. 12.?An earth shock,
accompanied by distant rumblings,
was felt here to-day. The disturbance
continued about ten seconds. It
caused much alarm, but 110 serious
damage. Acording to records of the
observatory the shock was local.
Full line of blank books at The
Herald Book Store.
BEEF IX THE SOUTH.
How Southern Farmers Can Help in f/ii
I'i-eventing Shortage. Ill/
Enough has been said to prove the
existence of an alarming shortage of
beef cattle. To allow depletion to go
on unchecked must ultimately mean
a meat famine. The remedy, of
course, lies in increasing the supply,
but the vital question is how that is
to be done.
What better breeding place could
be asked for tnan in tne south : netween
Virginia and Louisiana are
millions of acres of cheap, well watered
lands that could carry cattle. Climatic
conditions would make the carrying
cost less than in the North. The
fever tick is being eliminated. North
Carolina, for instance, is now two_
thirds free from the pest. There is
room in that section (and need, too)
for thousands of cattle. j j
In the last census year the two ||
Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, ||
Mississippi and Louisiana, had 5,- |i
766,000 head of cattle, worth $72,- IJ
000,000. With their total area of 11
348,715 square miles that would ;
average 16.5 head to a square mile. ||
New York and Pennsylvania are by II
no means well stocked with cattle, I
yet on their total area of 94,330 II
square miles they carried that same II
year 4.010,000 head of better cattle, I
worth $140,000,000, averaging 42.5 I
head to the square mile. J|
In that same year these seven II
southern states spent $60,000,000 II
for commercial fertilizers, and their 11
crops were worth $916,550,000. I
Those of New York and Pennsylvania ||
(without counting animal products) II
were worm $ i ub,uuu,uuu. inis is
not because the northern soil is more
fertile. The enormous yields of cotton
on some of the experimental |
farms, and the extraordinary results
obtained by some of their boys' corn
clubs, show what the southern lands
can do. Less cropping and more cattle
would mean larger returns per
acre.
The census valuation looks as if a |
large part of the southern cattle is j
native "scrub," of which even New
York and Pennsylvania have too |
much. To prepare such a steer for
market is like trying to fatten a fence j
rail?and the product is about as |
juicy. But to establish herds of thor- j
oughbred stock is a costly undertak- j
ing. The North Carolina commission- j
er is trying to grade up the native :
stock by placing thoroughbred breed- i
ing animals in different parts of the j U
state. The plan commends itself to j \Xxj
common sense. X
If the farmers of the south will be
satisfied to raise more corn and for- j"
age, and learn to look upon well grad- j V
ed cattle as mills to condense that I E
feed for market, they can raise an j l|
equal amount of cotton on a similar
acreage, and save a part of their immense
bill for fertilizer. Incidentally,
also, they will be on the way to solv- j _^
ing the question of rural credit.? | ll
Wall Street Journal. | '
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FIYK CENTS CAUSED KILLING.
Chester Coroner's Jury Accuse Jack ;
Wherry, who Escaped.
Chester, Oct. 12.?The jury of inquest
Friday, with .Mr. H. W. Grant
as foreman, returned a verdict to the
effect that Crawford McCullough, colored,
who was shot Thursday evening ^
on the farm of James McCullough, about
two miles from Rodman, came
to his death from a pistol shot wound t* r
in the right side and that said pistol
shot was fired by Jack Wherry. Cor- !Go:
oner Gladden examined eight witnesses
from whom the testimony was ftl6
secured that resulted in the verdict.
From the testimony it appears that
Crawford McCullough and John
Stephenson were the hosts at a party
and dance, and a quarrel arose between
McCullough and Jack Wherry, %
when the latter persisted in dancing
more than one set after having paid
only five cents, the price of one set.
When remonstrated with by McCul- j
lough, it seems that Wherry took offence,
which finally resulted in his yyQ
going off and securing a pistol with
which the killing was done. Th,
Wherry made his escape, and up
to this time has not been apprehend- lmy
Pni-Anor Clo/1/lon -in enoatinc -w . .
CU. VU1 uu^l u ?UUUtU, 1U | 1 7^
about the homicide, said he was called
as coroner eleven years ago to
hold an inquest over the remains of
Frank McFadden, colored in the
same community, and that that homicide
grew out of a difference over the yoi
small amount of ten cents. ^
Horse Killed by Yellow Jackets. ,
A most unfortunate occurrence of
Friday was Mr. Moses Wood's loss of 'pK
his driving horse. Mr. Wood had
gone to his farm a few miles out of 2iVi
the city and hitched the horse near a
clump of hushes. lie returned in
probably two hours and found his
horse literally covered with yellowjackets.
As hurriedly as possible he
brushed them off and brought the
horse to town at once, where the animal
was placed under the care of
Mr. C. H. Robbins. but all the veterin- 1J
ary's efforts were in vain as the ani- 1%
nial succumbed about 9 o'clock.?
Gaffney Ledger.
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We received Tu
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our first load of s
We have in tli
brood mares as?
berg County,
from Ohio, and :
an animal of tbi.<
and see these. 1
also some extra 11
well as several
OUR PRICES AND
and everything;
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"Horse Clothes."
Buggies, we hav<
rubber and steel 1
to see me, I w
Railroad Avenue Near Pa
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Villi i Should Convir
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Here's a Bam
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Read and be
E. Dickinson,
S. C., says: "I 1
f backache and
and my kidneys
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Achat s John SO dressed up they benefited i
0 ^ . . i -t kidneys are now
'? Going to a wedding, neSs and sorer
left"
in? Picnic time is gone. | For saie by
, i i i cents. Foster-:
mg to some big church New York. soie
? States,
eimg. Remember tt
take no other.
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winter now, you see. ; ^
ast wanted to see if you
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1 something that pleases |?
n Rentz & Felder will do j UFE.F1RJ
it every time. Just try' JJ?AITII ?
>m on anything you need, i
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j right. Always see i Agent for Slli
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esday of this week ||
tock for this season.
lis lot some as fine
jver came to BamThese
came direct I
if you are wanting
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lice driving horses as
extra fine mules. |
TERMS ARE RIGHT ]
we sell you is guarjst
as represented,
extra nice line of
ess, and Whips 3
:hing in the line of |
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tired Buggies. Come
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ssenger Depot Bamberg, S. ??T-n
r. ^nr COLORED COUNTY FAIR
BG riiOOF ?
' A colored county fair at Denmark
November 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th,
ice Every Bamberg 1913. This will be the sixth annual
Reader> fair of the Bamberg County Fair Asitement
of a neighbor, soc*^tioiV. , . ,, . . . .
. The object of the Association is to
ts oi a remedy, stimulate our people to a greater ipse
and believe. terest in agricultural, f mechanical
orsement and other vocational pursuits and
nger far away thereby in a tangible way lead them
? belief at all. to labor for the things pertaining to
berg case. the higher side of life. ;
lH_.n tpctififla The Association has purchased ten
. ' ! acres of land out from Denmark for
nAnvinno/i 1 _ . ..
^^"<3+ T3o w* lFair PurPOses and are erecting thereBridge
St., Bamberg, on an exhjbjt building thirty by
was subject to attacks . seventy-five feet. This of course
pains across my loins j brings upon us a pretty fair expense,
did not act regularly.; This we are hopeful of meeting by
Kidney Pi'lls, getting j the strong aid of our white friends,
People's Drug Co., and j who have always aided us in this
ne in every way. My Sreat industrial uplift
r normal and the lame- * President.
iess in my back has T g. NIMMONS,
Vice President,
all dealers. Price 50 R. w. WROTON,
Milburn Co., Buffalo,! Secretary,
agents for the United ( WALLACE W. CARTER,
Treasurer.
ie name?Doan's?and
TAX SALE.
?
mi State of South Carolina?CounV
By virtue of an execution to me
directed by G. A. Jennings, treasied
upon and will sell at public auc- '
tion before the court house door
tion before the courte house door
I I in Bamberg, S. C., on Monday, tne
h ! ^r(i day of November, 1913, the same
| being legal salesday in said month,
ICavat Rili 11 c ' during the legal hours of sale, the
D2Vif lYllIIde I real estate described below, to the
IMUFFFn Strong, Accurate^ highest bidder for cash, said sale
lull illU. and Reliable i being for non-payment of taxes due
id workmanship, lighti an(j 0Wjng the State of South Caro3S
little power; simple,, ijna an(j the county of Bamberg:
Are made in several one lot situate, lying and being
od, substantial moneyj in the town of Bamberg, State of
es down to the smallest south Carolina, containing one quar1
catalog showing En4 ter of an (M ) acre, more or less,
ad all Saw Mill supplies. an(j bounded North by lands of Alice
Works & Supply Co., Johnson; East by lands of G, Frank
cuata. ca. ^ Bamberg; South by lands of W. C.
- Brabham, and West by public road
E* fTTpprfi/x/iyr leading to new bridge. To be sold
! I VrS I III K as the Pr?Perty Maggie Christmas.
' Sheriff Bamberg County.
and ACCIDENT Bamberg, S. C., October 10, 1913
TDAlMrT NOTICE OF OPENING BOOKS OF
JKAINLL SUBSCRIPTION.
.erior .Monument Co. Notice is hereby given that books
oi subscription to the capital stock
loney on Tombstones. 0f tjie Rjzer Auto Company will be
opened at the offices of Carter & Car/
WAT kTFP I ter, Bamberg. S. C., between the
v TT hours of eleven ana tweive a. in.
ARDT, S. C. October 17th, 1913.
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>. HADWIN C. B. RIZER*
Corporators.
ER AND JEWELER October 1 3th., 1 913.
and Complicated Re- y0 ?ure a coid jn Qne Day
? a Specialty. Take laxative BROMO Quinine. It stops th<
rs EvDerience Cough and Headache and works off the Cold.
Druggists refund money if it fails to cure.
?ARK, S. C. I 2. W. GROVE'S signature on each box. 25c.
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