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SIMS DISBARRED BY COURT. Former Spartanburg Lawyer Indefinitely Suspended. Columbia. April 2.?C. P. Sims, the former Spartanburg attorney, was to-day disbarred by the Supreme court. The suspension is indefinite, but there is a qualifying clause that Mr. Sims may come before the court in two years, and if he has reformed and can furnish satisfactory proof he will be readmitted to practice in the courts of this State. The charges sustained in a general way were the one relating to soliciting business, the Baxter Thomas pardon case and the general allegation in the petition that Mr. Sims's character and reputation as an attorney were bad. Opinion by Gary. The opinion disbarring Mr. Sims is by Chief Justice Gary, and is made a unanimous decision or tne nignesi court of this State by the concurrence of the four Associate Justices, Hydrick, Watts, Fraser and Gage. The court did not pass specifically upon all the fifteen- counts, or charges, contained in the petition of -S. G. Finley, member of the Spartanburg bar, in whose name proceedings to disbar Mr. Sims were brought, holding that this would "subserve no useful purpose." It has been charged that Mr. Sims deceived the Supreme Court in the John Shelton case, and Finley also, asked to have statements as to himself investigated, but the court ruled that the matter be confined to the charges against Sims. Solicited Business. "C. P. Sims is unquestionably guilty of the charge of soliciting business," writes Chief Justice Gary in the opinion to-day, "as an attorney in a manner in violation of the profoodnnai pthics. It is only necessary to refer to the testimony taken upon L _ the trial of this case (which, of course, will be filed with the clerk of the Supreme Court) to show that this finding is fully sustained." The court finds that the charge contained in "f" of the petition is. sustained. This is the charge relating to the Baxter Thomas pardon case. Itj was charged that Mrs. ?1. E. Thomas had employed Sims to secure a pardon for her son, and that he had "aoublecrossed" her by telling the governor not to pardon her son. Sustained by Testimony. The court says this charge is sustained by the testimony of John F. Floyd, who testified that he told Mrs ) Thomas not to let Sims look after the case. Mr. Floyd testified he would cal Ion the governor when 1? ? ot-?A -fKo-f V)o I lie came lu wuiuuiuta, auu uiui u>u so, asking the governor what he was going to do about the Baxter Thomas case. The governor ran his hand through his hair, Mr. Floyd testified, and said: "I got a letter from , . Sims saying not to pardon Baxter, ilV and he is a sort of a bad case." Mr. o Floyd further stated that he saw a letter to the governor advising the governor not to pardon Baxter Thomas. Floyd said he went back to Spartanburg and told Mrs. Thomas that Sims was doublecrossing her, and after explaining the term she had stated: "I am going to take a stick and whale him out of his office," referring to Sims, and Floyd said: "That would be a pretiv good way to treat him." On question of Justice HydricK, Floyd said he knew Sims's handwritK : ing, and that the latter telling the governor not to pardon Thomas was in Sims's own handwriting. Quoting this testimony, the court sustains the charge as to the paruon case. Sims's Character. Section "n" of the petition, had to do with the charge that Sims's character and reputation were bad and that he was unworthy to be a member of the bar. This' allegation, subscribed by pprominent members of the bar at Spartanburg, was sustained by the cpurt with this explanation: "We feel, however, that the conduct of the respondent was due in a large measure to his misconception as to the nature of the legal profession and of his duties to the court, to his brother lawyers and to his clients, as will be seen from the testimony of Robert T. Gantt, Esq." Gantt had testified that Sims was a man of decided character, that his friends were very loyal and his enemies very bitter toward him; that Sims had come to the Spartanburg bar after attaining manhood and didn't have the advantage of a legal education, and his ideas of judicial ethics were crude; that he regarded, it seemed, the practice of law as a trade rather than a profession, and that this was Sims's defect through the practice. Unfit to Practice. Concluding, the Supreme Court says: "The foregoing findings of fact show that C. P. Sims. Esq., is unfit to practice law as an attorney. The court, however, is of the opinion that the respondent should be allowed the TORREOX CAPTURED. Fall of Stronghold Officially An- ] nounced by Rebel Chief. Juarez. April 2.?Torreon fell completely into the hands of the ( rebels at 10.30 o'clock to-night, ac- \ cording to announcement made here ] to-night by Gen. Yenustinao Car- j ranza. j The news first was announced to j the world when the bugler in front 6 of Carranza's residence blew the ] staccato notes of victory. The nean. Carranza said, was sounded here even before it was heard in Torreon. Villa delaying out of compliment to ^ his chief. , The meagre bulletins excitedly an- ^ nouncing victory after the bloodiest 1 series of battles known to modern Mexico said that Villa captured a large number of prisoners and that the fleeing Federal remnant was be- j ing pursued. Whether Velasco, the Federal com- , mander, was captured was not stat- J ed. There was heavy fighting today, it is understood, and the end , came when, after capturing the three remaining barracks held in the city . by the Federals, the rebels stormed , the trenches and barbed-wire entanglements of Canyon De Guarache. The prisoners captured are believ- . ed to have been the defenders of the barracks, while the troops in the canyon, which forms an egress from < the hillgirte'd city, were able to * escape. ' . Moved With Rapidity. f The rebel commander moved with ? a rapidity hitherto unknown to Mexican warfare. He worked his men in ( shifts, and as one shift became ex- ? hausted he sent fresh hosts against t the enemy. The number of small T towns of lesser importance in a mili- j tary sense fell first, Mapiami and ( Sacramento, where a bloody battle f was fought. This opened a path for j the main attack. j T J -J ? TDrtlr. isext came i^eruo anu viume^. jraia.- c cio, populus suburbs of Torreon, and all three connected by a belt street car line. Lerdo was -not defended, but it took three main assaults, in which the rebels lost heavily, to take Gomez Palacio. ) In the final attack on the city troops were withdrawn from Lerdo, whereupon the Federals occupied it and another sanguinary conflict was necessary to retake it. REBELS HOLD AMERICANS. Consular Agent Charged With Passing Counterfeit Money. c ] Chihuahua, April 2.?Edward A. t Powers, United States consular agent e at Parral, was arrested to-day on a c charge of passing counterfeits of the \ rebel fiat money. Mr. Powers tele- t graphed to Marion Letcher, American consul here, of his plight, and ( Letcher said he would demand the c immediate release of Powers. \ E. E. Johnson, cashier, and F. A. t Hawkins, assistant manager of the i Alvarado Mining and Milling Com- t pany, both Americans, were arrested j on similar charges yesterday, and i Consul Letcher is looking after their t interests. It is asserted that the.< i men are not guilty. The fiat cur- i rency was cheaply printed and soon i a large number of counterfeits ap- ( peared. For a time even officials f could not tell the genuine from the f spurious. \ The Americans who are arrested, j it is said, bought the money in good c faith for the purpose of paying employees, and Mr. Letcher expects lit- t tie difficulty in straightening out the c trouble. i opportunity to reform and be rein- * stated upon proof that he has be- ^ come duly qualified in every respect to practice law as an attorney. ( "It. is. therefore, the judgment of , this court that C. P. Sims, Esq., be indefinitely suspended and forbidden to exercise the rights and duties of an attorney in the courts of this State with the privilege, however, to move before this court for re-instatement after the expiration of two years, upon satisfactory proof that he has reformed and at that time is duly qualified in every respect to practice as an attorney at Jaw." Mr. Sims is now in Atlanta, it is understood, and is engaged in the practice of law there. Third to Be Disbarred. He is the third lawyer of this State to be disbarred in the last few years, but prior to the John T. Duncan case, within the memory of old lawyers it had^ been many a year since such a nm/ioaHino- mtiio in flip Snnrpmp Court of this State. The Sims dis- 1 barment is different from the other ? two of recent years. .Mr. Duncan c was disbarred. .Mr. Barnard B. B. Evans was disbarred with the f privilege of showing that for two i years he had moved in the path t pointed out by the court and upon t satisfactory proof he can come before j the court to seek reinstatement. Re- t cently Mr. Duncan filed papers mak- t ing an unsuccessful attempt to be re- j instated as a member of the bar of i South Carolina. < MONEY, CORN, HAY AND HOGS. Vote of Prosperity Sounded by Marlboro County Farmer. Columbia, April 1.?C. P. Hodges, )f the Brownville section of Marlboro county, in a letter to the PeeDee Daily, of Bennettsville, gives an nsight into just how prosperous the nodern agriculturist in South Caroina is to-day. Mr. Hodges is a very successful farmer and here is what le tells his fellow farmers: "1 have had a fine trade this week uid I am feeling 'bully' over it, and nust tell my fellow farmers about it. rell all the good things you know and ceep the mean things you know to yourself and you will feel better. Try t. I have sold one man 4 00 bush ?ls of corn, and another one car-ioaa if hay and stover, and another five :ons stover, and another five tons lay, and another $31 worth of pork, md I have not started to sell yet. \Tow, boys, you had better get ready ror the boll weevil, and if it never jomes the South, as we all admit, las gone craxy on the subject of cotion and most of us are now producng it without a legitimate profit, md everything that man and beast jats is high and going higher, with he promise of a magnificent profit in n it and a nice job. I am preparing o plant 500 acres in corn this year md am going to make a dive for 10,000 bushels. I have 250 acres ilanted in oats. I am working for L0,000 bushels, and I am working or 300 tons of hay and 300 tons of itover. "You Marlboro farmers get hold if one corner of this proposition md let us pull the old ship back in he channel. We can do it and we nust do it, and now is the time to legin. Boys, I have felt the pulse )f this corn, hay and hog money beore, and I tell you it beats fine. Try t and it will electrify you. Don't orget that every dollar's worth of iuch truck sold at home means that nuch money kept at home and helps o make good business, prosperous imes and good 'feelings." The "hog and hominy" program of dr. Hodges will be of much interest o the farmers at this season of the ( ear just on the eve of planting time, dr. Hodges believes in raising his >wn bread and meat and having the :otton for a surplus crop. This propaganda needs spreading through rnt South.Carolina. Authority on Clover. \ Turning from the rich Pee-Dee county of Marlboro to the prosperous Piedmont county of York, he following advice on clover is tak;n from a letter to the Yorkville Enluirer, written by Mr. J. Frank Ashe, vhom the Enquirer says is an auhority: "While reading your article on >imson clover in last issue of En[uirer, I thought that a word of adrice just now might be of some help o beginners. I have had some experence with all the clover and hav goten all the information I could from )eople who have had success in raisng clover, and they tell me that if he stand is not good it is best to lurse what you have in order to get nnoculation in the land which will nsure success next year. Quite a lot )f clover was sown too late last all and has been thinned out by the reezes; but now as the weather gets varmer, it will show up better than rou think possible from the present >utlook. "I would like for more farmers o experiment with burr clover. It >nly has to be seeded once and then t is there forever; but you can only lave it where you expect to plant }orn, planting the corn after the ;lover is ripe. Then when the corn s laid by the clover comes up and covers the land, making a cover crop 'or fall and winter. It attains a vigorous growth in early spring and ipens about the middle of May. The >nly trouble about making a crop of ?orn is to get a furrow open through he rank growth of clover in order ;o get a stand. Then by the time the ;orn needs to be cultivated the clovjr is so decayed as not to be in the _ ?. > li ivay ai an. "I was talking to Mr. J. W. Bledsoe, of Saluda county, last fall, and ie told me that his first experience vith burr clover was a patch he sowid in his peach orchard. He planted ;he orchard in corn after the clover md his land got so rich that the reaches rotted. I have seen a vine )f burr clover 12 feet long. "Now. .Mr. Editor, this article is onger than I thought to make it. jut my excuse is that I believe that ;he clovers are to be our salvation igriculturally, and the sooner we get lown to business the better for us." 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