The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, April 01, 1909, Image 5
SCORES THEM
I
McMaster Takes Cooper and
Lacy Severely To Task For
OF THEIR ACTS
- 5
In CVmnecUon With the Southern
! .1 A* CI 1 <
*? ? uuu ui? svuiiiioio vompnuies
?He Ilevokes the License of the
Former und Shuts It Out From
Doing Business Here. /
Columbia, March 25.?Mj^nimiasioner
McMaster this aftern<*>n in a
letter to the Southern Lite insurance
Company, of Fayetteville, N.
C., revoked the license of this company
to do business in this State.
The time for the renewal of this
company's license was lixed for April
1, but the commissioner felt that he
should take immediate action in the
matter.
The facts in the case are generally
familiar. The controlling interest
in the Southern Life Insurance Company
was purchased by the Seminole
Securities Company, of th/sf city, the
price paid for the stock being in exoess
of its par value and alleged
to be far in excess of its market
value.
The transactions of the sale were
conducted through General Manager
C. J. Cooper, of the insurance company,
and 13. W. Lacy, the actuary,
and C. J. Herbert, one of the principal
stock promoters of the Seminole
Securities Company. It was chargthat
enormous commissions were
paid in the transfer. When these
matters came out in the proceedings
brought against the Seminole Securities
Company, Mr. McMaster ordered
the insurance company to show
cause why its license should not be
revoked. Two or three hearings
were held.
Mr. McMaster states in his letter
that he has no desire to alarm the
policyholders, but the evidence shows
that enormuos commissions were
paid those directly interested in the
deal, the other oflicers and directors
of the Southern Life Company being
In ignorance of the details.
The deal, he said: "Was permeated
with evidence of stock jobbing
and high finance," and both
Lacy and Cooper are condemned as
mm ,nnworthy of the management
|V of such a concern. Commissioner
McMaster says in his leter to the
Southern Life:
I The Commisioner's Letter. '
"Due to the fact that from the evidence
before me, and from the best
obtainable information, the policyholders
in the Southern Life Insurance
Company are protected by the
deposits in the hands of the insurance
commissioner of North Carolina
and other assets of the company, I
have felt that it was not necessary
to take more prompt action in this
matter, nor did I desire to alarf
the minds of the policyholders unduly,
which would have been done if
n nH rtn Iwwl l\iu\n f o Ir/ill /IllV*
pu^UiTU nuviuu uau uc^n tauuu u u? ing
the time of uneasiness caused
by revelations of the dealings with
the Seminole Securities Company and
the legal proceedings incident thereto.
But I do feel that it is a duty
this department owes to the public
to make a declaration on the subject.
"I make no criticism of the several
general officers, the executive com
mlttee or the board of 'irectors ol
the company, who were in ignorance
of the dealings between Mr. C. J
Cooper, treasurer and gemd'al manager
of the company, andffcMr. C. J
Hebert, appointed by hi-i^as sales
agent of the stock of the company
and Mr. B. W. Lacy, vice president
and actuary of the company, witl
the officers of the Seminole Securities
Comapny, these four parties being
apparently privy to the transaction
of each other and more or lest
concerned therein. Indeed there is
no conclusive evidence of the faci
that the o'ber officers of the com
peny had an> means of knowing >
the dealings of C. J. Cooper and B
W. Lacy, Jr., with the other parity
/ named. The evidenceyi4^B to prov<
that the executive committee an?
directors of the Southern Life In
Biirance Company were intentlonall;
kept In ignorance of the purpose an<
extent of the dealings of C. J. Coope
and B. W. Lacy with C. J. Heber
and the officers iof th^e Seminoh
Securities Company.
"Without going into the detail
of the matter other than to say tha
A the offering to make C. J. Coope
general manager of the Souther
Life Insurance Company; a contrac
W wltn U. J. neneri iur iuu naic *j
stock In the Southern Life Insui
ance Company before the same wa
authorized by the stockholders of th
Southern Life Insurance Compan;
and of the making of this contrac
with C. J. Hebert, and not reportln
the same to the execute commltte
m/' SUE
MANY LIVES LOST
BY THE SINKING OF A SMALL
SLOOP.
Nearly All Tl*?se Who Were
Drowned Were Women uiul
Children of Nicaragua.
New Orleans, La., March 2 8.?A
special to the Times-Democrat from
Ltluettelds, Nicaragua, gives the details
of the loss of the sloop Kearsarge,
on the night of March 13, bef
U'Pon MotiL'nv* P/\lnt n n<l n ervvi n
v tf vv k* *.?yy II I\v- J m. Wilt V UI1U Mi CJ VUTT U,
Nicaragua.
The report states that twenty people
perished when the boat went
down. The captain, cook, two sailors
and five passengers succeeded
in reaching shore in a small boat.
The following is a list of passengers
reported lost:
Mrs. Sofia Carter.
Mrs. Clida Hodgson.
Mrs. A. Cassiuova and daughter.
Mrs. Ersie (Jaro and four children.
Filimenia Blandford.
Imogene BlandfordAlverda
Howard and daughter.
Mrs. Newball and three children.
Mrs. Tereca Cassanova, all residing
in Nicaragua.
Two Columbians whose names are
not known.
The Kearsarge was a small boat
of about 25 tons. It went to Bluellelds
from St. Andrew's Island with
a cargo of cocoanuts and took on 25
passengers at Bluetields, it is stated.
bound for Bocas del Tore, Colon
and Jamaica. *
AXCLLS WKAK CLOT1IKH.
The Spiritualists Declare They Have
"Sensed" (lie Spirits.
Kansas City, March 2 0.?The progressive
Spiritualists of Missouri, in
session at Kansas City.say they have
seen, that is "sensed" the angels
and that these creatures wear
clothes, trousers if they're masculine
and skirts if they're otherwise.
"A lack of education letids lots
of people to believe things that
aren't true about the life hereafter,"
explains the Rev. Thomas Clrimshaw.
Spiritualist, of St. Louis.
"In all my life I never saw an
angel or any other kind of spirit
in beautiful draperies such as we
see in t lie pictures. And as for
wings and harps?well, they're ar
probable in tno after me as tuey are
here on earth.
"It would be as embarrassing to
go without trousers in lhe spirit
world as it would be to apear without
them in the flesh.
"As a matter of fact, angels don't
roam about in trousers and while
away eternity by playing on a harp.
They wear astral clothing?garments
like they wore on earth. If, as a
spirit, you wear an astral cellar,
you'll button it with an astral col'ar
button.'
Other spiritua'Ists attending the
convention support Mr. Orimshaw's
heroy that the angel life isn't a
mere matter of wearing wings and
playing a harp.
Humans who look forward to what
one Spiritualist calls "flowery beds
1 of ease," in the hereafter will be disappointed,
they say. In addition to
wearing astral clothing and keeping
it astrally neat, they probably will
: have astral work to do. *
LETTER FROM KIDNAPPERS.
I
? Hide's Family Cited to the Wliitla
Case and Warned.
New York, March' 20.?A letter
. from supposed kidnappers, in which
> the Whitla case is mentioned, has
, been received by tlie family of four;
year-old Tony Redes, who mystei
riously disappeared from in front.
of his home in Seventh avenue, on
February 12.
This is the letter, which has arj
rived: "Just because you have that
j foolish stubborn character and oft
fered $50 for your boy, you will nev
er seo him again. Think a little
f of that kidnapping in Sharon. After
. this you will hear from us."
3
5 and directors of the company; the
1 dealings between Messrs. Cooper and
- Lacy on the one side and Ilebert and
1 the Seminole Securities Company on
1 the other, whereby enormous com
r missions were to be paid and stock
t to be sold to the public at enormous
e prices, indicate an utter disregard
of the principles of fair dealing and
s were so far permeated with the est
sentlals of stock jobbing and disrepr
table high finance as to utterly conn
demn C. J. Cooper and B. W. Bacj
it as men unworthy of being entrust
if ed with the management of an in
> stitution of so sacred and conserva
,s tive a nature as a life insurance com
e pany.
7, "This department is of the oplnioi
;t that an institution in t>e hands o
g two such men is untafe and unroll
>e able." '
ISCRIBE I
COGENT REASON,
Why The South is Democratic
Given By a Georgian
WANTS EQUAL RIGHTS
Congrcssmnn Adamson on the Floor
of the House Says Joffersoiiian
Principles of Government Keeps
o tlio South in tlio Democratic O-'
vt
u 11111, Where Site Will Stay.
Washington, March 26.?Judge
Adamson, of the Fourth Georgia district.
is nitfl f!l?nnuln rmnornanonvnn
v v V*v V?. 0I?? vv/u^l VOOUIU1!
who takes his Democracy straight
and who has been able to give a
sound reason why the South Is Democratic.
It has been a rather noisy
claim by Republicans of the North,
and to a too large extent acquiesced
in by public men of the South, that
the South is Democratic because of
the presence of the negro and the
necessity of preserving white civilization.
Judge Adamson in his speech
in the house on the tariff gave a
more intelligent and a more accurate
view of it. Said he:
"The Republican party and protection
are so mixed up and interwoven
that the party could not live
beyond an election without the doctrine
of protection, and protection
could not survive a single session
of congress without the Republican
party. Sometimes through ignorance,
but oftener from malice, people
deplore the Smith's sectionalism
and partizanship, basing the slander
on our steadfast adherence to the
party of tli>? (constitution audi its
consist* nt and perainount demand
for local self-government and honest
taxation. I is true that we tire
more solidly and permanently Democratic
than some other States, hut
it is because from environment, education
and conditions affecting immigration
we have a greater per
cent of native, upright, intelligent,
honest voters than favor most other
States. (Applause.) Kererring
all questions to fundamental principle,
we not only vote right on political
questions, hut present the best
and purest type of Americanism now
extant. Our integrity, purity and
unswerving devotion to principle will
prove the bulwark of conservatism
and good government, the mainstay
of the republic in dark days that may
come when madness, confusion, malice
and reckless desperation destroy
peaceful conditions in some regions
and plaigue our country. (Loud applause.
)
"We have suffered most grievously
and without provocation the shafts
nf srw't inn!i 1 i?t>i nlniml nl "u /-?,???
cial conditions and our commercial
and political ascendency. It has afllicted
us with every conceivable
form of insult, indignity and robbery.
We have calmly, firmly, honestly
and bravely resiled sectionalism, and
for this have been called sectional.
We ask nothing inconsistent with
the good of the people of all parts
of t lie republic. We want no special
favors and advantages, but, in turn,
we object to their being conferred
on others. We support the only
national party ever prominent in this
country, the only part that offers
fair conditions and honest government
and equal protection to all
parts of the country alike. Wo do
not care what you call a party. If
other people prejudiced against the
name 'Democratic' would only open
their eyes and wake tip their conscience
so as to co-operate with us
in restoring the application of correct
principles to the administration
of this government, wo would, if necessary
to please them, he willing
even to go back and take up our old
name 'Republican,' which we discarded
long ago, though the practices of
the party in power under that name
have brought it into considerable
disrepute. (Loud applause 011 the
Democratic side.)
"The enormity of protection might
in some measure be mitigated
through some device permitting the
treasury to share the profits the
privileged class is enable to extort
from the people. Fifty per cent o(
the net profits ought to provide the
beneficiaries princely incomes; the
other half would keep the treasurj
I overflowing with money. The necessity
for further exactions upor
1 the people to replenish the treasurj
1 would be eliminated. The automatic
arrangement might prove more pop
ular and even remove the system
from partizan politics. For such i
' soft snap in perpetuity as the trans
ferred power to levy tribute on al
our people ad libitum the baron
- should be willing to divide profit
- with the treasury. In kingly coun
tries it used to be fashionable b
i farm out royal prerogatives, some
f thing being paid to the crown fo
- the concession. If it is competen
to transfer the taxing power gratuil
NOW TO
MURDER AND SUICIDE
MllS. CUL1JKHTSON TOOK llKlt
OWN LIFE AI TKll
ArritiiKiiiK u Orumutic Situation
Calculated to Throw Suspicion on
Another Woman.
Vincenuos, Ind., March 2G.?Mrs.
Jessie Lee Overton Culbertson, young
woman of mystery, a bride of throe
months, was i*ot murdered. She
slew herself after arranging an ar,ideally
dramatic situation to throw
the murder on another woman, ller
husband ami relatives tearfully acknowledged
today that their suspicions
that she was killed at the Instigation
of another woman for jealous revenge
wero unfounded.
The body of a mi nature skeleton,
which had been attached to a skull
found in the pocket of Mrs. Culbortson's
apron when she was discovered
gagged in a shed near her home,
last Wednesday, after swallowing carbolic
acid, was found late today m ar
the shed beneath a pile of debris.
This toy skeleton Mrs. Culbertson
had in her possession months ago.
Proof that the suicide wrote the
anonymous threatening letters to
herself was also established today.
A letter she wrote to her husband
ai miugepon, 111., is inscribed on
stationery just like that on which
was penned the aiionyomus notes.
When the wator mark of the letter
was shown to the husband and
his parents they asserted their belief
that no murder hail been committed.
It was Miss lOtta Dongwell of Chicago,
formerly of Vinctnnes, whom
the Culhertson charged with causing
the death of Mrs. Culhertson. Now
they wish it made plain that they
were mistaken.
"Her name should lie cleared by
all means," said Culhertson. "1 can
not understand why Jessie should
kill herself. She was strange,
though, now that till this has happened
to recall many things. She
never would tell me about, her past.
She said her father and mother were
dead. 1 have heard that she formerly
lived in Waco, Texas, and in Dublin,
Texas, where she is said to have
had a brother. I have tried to communicate
with relatives but can not
get any word from them."
WIND PLl'CKKl) DI CKS.
A Storekeeper Has Itrokcii Window
to I'rove Story.
Kansas City, March 2<?.?Jules
Kuermunn, constable of Meranee
township, and a storekeeper in 101lersville,
Mo., tells a wonderful story
.. i *?! I
wi ? iitu u iukii winu in i>iihsuu 11 niay
do. He says that he was sitting
in front of his store one day last
week watching a gathering storm and
that shortly after he went inside he
noticed feathers flying through the
air. A second latjar three ducks
broke through his display window
and lay breathless on the floor.
Bnermann says all he had to do was
draw the ducks and cook them.
After the storm had passed he found
two more picked ducks on the garbed
wire fence in the rear of his store.
They too were lacking of all feathers.
*
DKAI) AS KKSri/r OF KISS.
Nurse Is Infected From Kiss Bestowed
on Patient.
Cumberland, Md., March 28.?
Having become infected from a kiss
bestowed by request on a patient
dying of blood poisoning,
Miss C. Spier, a trained nurse, died
here last night. Miss Spier nursed
Mrs. Virginia Callan Carder, wife
of I)r. Geo. D. Carder, a prominent
society woman at the Allegheney
Hospital, and was so kind to the
sick woman that the latter asked
her to kiss her as she was dying,
i The request was granted and, in a
few days, Miss Spier was stricken
with the same malady. *
ously, it would certainly be equally
proper to farm it out on halves or
? some other reasonable per cent. It
is thought the steel trust could
' easily support the postfflce depart>
meat; the Standard Oil Company
> could finance the army and navy; the
r spool-thread trust and all other
thriving brood of protection
i could easily meet the expenses of
' all the other departments of the
3 government, improve all our rivers
- and harbors, connect them by canals.
i restore and maintain our merchant
i marine drive from the seas by pro
-1 tection, erect a public building at
1 every county site in tho United
a j States, dig Panama canal, in a few
h j months pay off the public debt, and
- leave in the treasury at all times
r> sufficient loose change for spending
- money. (Laughter and applause.)
r "Let those who at first blush ret
gard this as a joke analyze It and
> satisfy themselves." *
THE 1
READY TO FIGHT
The Greek Indians Are on the
Warpath in Oklahoma
TROOPS AFTER THEM
The Indian Forces, Composed of i
Indians, Half-llreeds and Negroes,
Lend by Crazy Snake, Are Making
a laist Stand Against the law of
the White Man.
Oklahoma City,, Okla., March US.
?"Chief Crazy Snake" and one
>1 II tl<l fixl f.O <1.?
.. U..V11 vu iuin/nvio it'Uunit'U UVtl I'OIIIpalnes
of Oklahoma, militia, deferring
an expected battle.
Hastily setting lire to his topees
and tents, the Indian leader, with his
mixed company of Snake Creek
Indians and negroes, lied from their
camp as the troops advanced. They
took up a strong position between
the North Canadian Kiver and Deep
Fork Creek, about seven miles east
of llenryetta.
Col. Hoffman, in command of the
State troops, decided it would be un
wist' to push the pursuit and engage
the Indians in tho darkness. Accordingly
he bivouacked for the
night. Karly tomorrow, reinforced
hv a company of cowboys, all crack
shots, he will lead his forces against
the Indians.
"Crazy Snake" and his braves will
have a chance to surrender. It' they
refuse, the battle will be on, unless
the red skins again retreat.
Six men have been killed and a
dozen wounded since the trouble began
on Thursday. This is the olllcial
report, but Dr. I. M. Wallace, of
Dustin, Oklahoma, who went to tins
Hickory Hills with the troops today,
declared more than twenty negroes
and Indians were killed on Thursday
and Saturday and were rudely buried,
without collins, in the held where
the troops camped tonight.
"Crazy Snake' is in personal command.
This was established by testimony
choked out of his collegebred
son by means of a nice new
inch rope. Young liarjo, strung up
by the determined deputies until
nearly dead, gasped out that his
father was in command; named the
Indian who killed the deputies, told
the oflieers luiw to trsiil tlu> ? ml
did everything which a stocial rod
man is supposed not to do.
This iirst real indication of the
uprising in years has held this region
on edgo three days. It broke out last
Thursday when several deputy sheriffs
went to HourycLta to arrest negro
cattle thieves.
They were fired on by negro halfbreed
friends and forced to retreat.
Returning with additional forces,
they were fired on by the band, then
augmented by some of Crazy Snake's
1 udians.
i nrt't* negroes wore Killed and live
wounded, according to tlio ofTlcial
reports, although it is thought thai
many more Indians were wounded,
This clash resulted in forty-one arrests.
After tho posse of deputies had
surrounded Crazy Snake's home last
night, they called on tho Indians
within to appear. They appeared
with repeating rilles.
Charles Coker killed Damn at tho
first volley. A moment later, he shot
Odom through the heart. The other
Indians fired repeatedly, but when
Coker shoots, something fails.
When Sheriff Odom saw the body
of his slain son, lie broke down and
wept bitterly. Sadly he directed thai
the body be placed in a wagon and
taken to Checotah, and then grimly
insisted on retaking charge of the
chase, deferring further display ol
his fatherly grief until some mort
opportune time.
"I'll g t them, though," he said
between his set teeth. "Those red
devils will pay for this with bif
interest."
A posse from Muskogee reached
Crazy Snake's house and search
ed the place. They found the recort
of enrollment of Indians whom Crazj
Snake has been organizing to figh
for what he regards as liberty. Th<
documents furnished Indisputable evidence
that the old chief was trylnj
to incite a general uprising.
No negros wero involved in yester
day's fight, and none could be seei
in the vicinity of Crazy Snake's horn
today.
Sheriff Odom tonight announce*
that he would attempt to arres
Crazy Snake, under the protectio
of the troops. He has a great de
\ slro to have this honor, he said, o
; account of his son's death.
Citizens of Honryetta declare th
trouble is largely due to negro ou
I laws from other States, chiefly Te:
' as, Arkansas and Tennessee, wh
I0RRY H
F WAR IN THE AIR
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CAST HO HAS PLANS TO START
A KKVOI/r.
It In llollevwl That llo In on lib*
Way to Venezuela to I/oad a Rebellion.
Bordeaux, March 26.?"If I ata a
criminal, why haven't my accusora
the courage to allow mo to return
to Venezuela and defend myself?"
exclaimed Clprlano Castro this morn.
lug, when an agent of tho French
steamship Company officially Informed
him that he muat leave the steamer
Guadelope, on which ho sails today,
before the steamer reaches Venezuela.
The former Venezuelan president
was furious at the action taken by
the steamship company. Me entered
an automobile and was driven to the
otllces of the company, where ho
Indulged In a tlrado against Juan
Vicente Gomez, president of the republic.
"All I ask Is the right to a fair
trial," he declared. "1 am prepared
to accept the result. The refusal
of Gomez to permit me to return
to Venezuela Is overwhelming
proof that they have no caso against
me, but realize that if I set foot on
Venezuelan soil their game Is up."
Castro's protestations wore all in
vain, however, and ho had to accept
tickets to Port of Spain, Trinidad,
only. His words here leave no doubt
<)f his! Intnnll/.n ? ? '
?.? ii-v u) organize
a revolution to overthrow his enemies
and reestablish himself at Caracas.
After Castro returned to his hotel
from the steamship ofTlco he had a
long conference with a Mr. Itov, the
agent of a Paris company engaged
in the manufacture of arms. It Is
believed that the matter of a shipment
of arms was discussed.
As the party was leaving for Pau11
lac, where they will go on board
the (Juadaloupe, Carmol Catsro,, the
former president's brother, said the
"president" was waiting important
telegrams which might affect his
plans.
Castro then asked the Associated
Press to announce that ills brother
desired to enter a worldwide protest
against the refusal of tho French
Steamship Company to convey him to
Venezuela, declaring that the world
appreciates t lie llagrant violation of
international law involved.
FAT 1110 It l>i:ili:i> KIPXAPPFItS.
Will Not l>eal With Pluck Hand or
Others.
Now York .March 2 0.?Six weeks
have passed since the kidnapping of
Tony Redes who disappeared from a
group of children in front of his
father's butcher shop. In all that
time the family had not heard a
i word about the lad nor even has a
i demand been made on tho parent
i for money. Pletro Redes declares
that should tho Black Hand or any
> other band of kidnappers write him
I and dictate terms ho would turn
. the matter over to tho police and
. urge them to take the outlaws. "I
am nearly crazy," ho says. "So Is
my wife; but what can wo do? The
I boy has not been hurt and taken
to a hospital. No accident has he\
fallen him so we can only think that
1 someone has stolen him and wait to
see what will happen."
NEGRO PREACHER HELI).
Charged With Asnulting I.lttlc? Girl
in Cherokee.
I
Gaffney, March 20.?Sheriff Thom[
as has been notillod that a negro
' preacher named Elijah Jackson has
i been arrested in Greenville county
[ and is being held for him. Jackson
j Is charged with an attempt to commit
a criminal assault upon a little
I girl, the child of respectable whit*
I parents, who reside a few miles from
; Gaffney. The attempt was made last
fall and Sheriff Thomas has been
I unremitting in his attempts to lo
cato Jackson since that time. Jack1
son fled immediately after the comr
mission of the crime and it is thought
t that he has been in hiding in Ander3
son and Greenville counties ever
- since.
5
Father Grief Stricken.
_ riLi, ?
- | ^nicugo, March 26.?That WUi
llain McDermott, a retired member of
e the Chicago fire department, la the
father of "Mrs. James H. Boyle,
d who, with her husband, Is charged
it with the kidnapping of Willie
n Whitla, was confirmed today by the
J- grief stricken father. A son of Mr.
n McDermott is a bank clerk.
ie are wanted in their homo States for
t- various crimes. These negroes readlx
ly fell in with tho dissatisfied Ini
r> .11? ~ ' -? * *
ukiua lutjus oi insurrection.
i
ERALD