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GRAFT CASES Called and Eleven Men Are Indicted by Jury i~ FOR ALLlGED FRAUDS In the Managt'niont of the State Dispensary?Sonne Damaging Testimony Drought Out?Joseph B. Wylie, Former Member of Board, and Three Whiskey Men Testify. The Stato says the dispensary graft cases have been brought Into court. Men once given commission of office by the State of South Carolina now stand accused of crimes and offenses against the State. Bribery, conspiracy to defraud and other serious crimes are alleged. Not all of the indictments have been handed out, but the prosecution appears to have considered well its case and to have made a move to got a conviction in the cases in which the State has the most conclusive evidence. The indictments were handed to the grand jury in the morning by Solicitor W. H. Cobb, representing the State of South Carolina. Attorney General Lyon, who has been at work on these cases for three years, is assisted by Mr. W. UV Rtpvpnsnn of Pthornw tnrnior speaker of the house or representatives, and by Mr. R. L. Abney, general counsel for the Southern railway in South Carolina, and a lawyer of recognized ability and force. The grand jury at 3:30 p. m. heard the witnesses and shortly thereafter returned a true bill in each case. The witnesses were Joe R. Wilie and Henry Hamuels of Chester, J. A. Valentine Schmidt of St. Houis, J. G. Thorpe of Aiken, T. W. Collins of Columbia and Jno. T. Early of Cincinnati. Wylie is a former director of the State dispensary and is alleged to have turned State's evidence, although, of course, the proceedings before the grand Jury were in secret session, Henry Samuels, now mayor of Chester, and close friend of Wylie's; Schmidt is bookkeeper for f'" the Anheuser Husch concern, long represented in this State by Jas. L. I Earn urn; Earley for years sold to the State dispensary the products of the Fleischmann Company of Cincinnati, and Thorpe and Collins were bookkeepers at the State dispensary. The Persons Indicted. The persons under indictment are: Jas. Farnum, who is alleged to have made thousands of dollars unlawful ly selling beer and liquor to tho State of South Carolina; John Illack, a former shipping clerk and lator director of the dispensary; L. W. Boyken, a former dispensary inspector and later member of the dispensary board; Joe. R. Wylie, who was a member of tho dispensary board; Jno. Rell Towill, a director of. the dispensary; W. O. Tatum, dispensary commissioner; Jodie M. Rawlinson, a dispensary director, and the following liquor salesmen: Jno. T. Earley, M. A. Goodman, H. ? n _ i j y~\ iir ^ i ..i c l^ee ooiomoiiH una ueuiua vv uiskupl. The indictments in brief are as follows: First, State against James S. v Farnum, bribery, the bribe being alleged to have been given to Joseph B. Wylie in the sum of $1,575. Second, the State against James 9. Farnum, bribery, the bribe alleged to have been given to Joseph B. Wylie in the sum of $1,125. Third, the State against James S. Farnum, J. M. Rawlinson, Joseph B. Wylie and John Black, being a conspiracy to cheat and defraud the State of South Carolina out of $4,800. Fourth, the State against John Black, accepting a bribe and rebate. Fifth, the State against N. A. Ooodman, John T. Fairey, Dennis Wel&kopf, L. Whit Boykln, John Bell Towill and W. O. Tatum, indictment for conspiracy to defraud the State of South Carolina out of $22,500 in the "labol deal." Sixth, the State against E. A. Goodman, James S. Farnum, John C. TSarley, H. Lee Solomons, J. B. Wylie, John Black and J. M. Rawlinson, indictment for conspiracy to defraud the tSate of South Carolina A^ and to accept and to pay rebates In the sum of $133,000. / Tho Label Deal. In tho renowned "label case" It Is charged that In March, 190r>, L. * Whit Boykin and John Bell Towill, members of the board of directors, and W. O. Tatum bought $35,000 worth of labels, which purchase, it is alleged, was illegal, fradulent and unlawful, and at a greatly excessive price, to wit.: $22,500 in ^ excess of the value whereby tho State was defrauded as tho result out of tho sum of $22,500. ^ Dennis Weiskopf, M. M. Goodman, . SUBSCI ii H -J WILL BE PROBED SHOOTING OF MRS. G. C. BIG HAM LEADS TO AlUtESTS. Coroner Swears Out Warrants for W. B. Avnnt, who Shot Mrs. Big* ham, and for Her Husband. A dispatch from Georgetown to The News and Courier says Coroner C. J. Fletcher Tuesday swore out a warrant for William B. Avant as principal, and for I)r. J. C. Blgham as accessory for the killing of Mrs. I G. C. Glgham, wife of the latter, a Murrell's Inlet, on Saturday night last. The verdict of the coroner's jury reads as follows: "That the doceased came to her death by a gunshot wound at the hands of W. 13. Avant and G. C. Bigham as accessory thereto, both men laboring under great mental excitement and fear at the time of the deed." It is tho strong opinion of everyono in this neighborhood that the shooting was inexcusable in its gross carelessness, and deserves to be investigated to the bottom. It is reported that one of the probable causes of tho men shooting at tho unknown object was because Sunny! side house was said to be haunted, I and they thought it a ghost. The i deputy sheriff is expected to arrive with the two men tonight. Dr. G. C. Gigham, of Georgetown county, who was implicated by the coroner and jury in the killing of his wife at Murrell Inlet, was arrested at the home of his mother, Mrs. M. S. Bigham, at Forestville, Ufo/lnnn/lnif sv m fr ? M UUIIUOVKIJ ?UUI IIVIUU uy Sheriff Harrell. Dr. Glgham was carried to Florence and placed In 1 jail upon telegraphic instructions from the sheriff of Georgetown. PBM AI iK COLLEGE lJL'HNKD. Tlio Pride off the Methodist in the State Lni<l Low. The Columbia Female College, the pride of the Methodist of the [ State, was destroyed by lire at halfpast two o'clock Thursday morning. It was totally destroyed. It is supposed the lire was caused by defective electric wires. I The plant was valued at $2 50,000 and was insured for seventy-five thousand dollars. There was ten 1 thousand more on the equipment. The property was bonded for sixty thousand and twenty odd thousand more in floating debt. Liquidation would leave nothing i urn uare ruins and grounds, but J arrangements are going right ahead for the rebuilding and opening for the present session in the Colonial hotel property, the former plant of the college. The trustees are called to meet next Tuesday. Ij. Whit Hoykin, I,. W. Wowill and William O. Tatum alleged to have been In this conspiracy and to have benefited financially therefrom. Weiskopf, who printed the labels, was the proprietor of a glass and box factory, and the label transaction was something new for him, it is alleged. Scale of Rebates. The scale of rebates alleged in the larger conspiracy is: "That the said Jodie M. Wawlln ?oii, jos. r;. vvyno and John Mack were to accept and receive for every barrel of whiskey purchased at $1.47 per gallon, $1.59; for every barrel of whiskey purchased at $1.50 per gallon, $2; for every barrel of whiskey purchased at $1.50 per gallon, $3; for every barrel of whiskey purchased at $1.75 per gallon, $f>; for every barrel of whiskey at $1.85 per gallon, $8; for every barrel of j whiskey purchased at $2 per gallon, $18; for each barrel of $2.10 whiskey, $15; whiskey at $2.25 per gallon, $17.50 per barrel; at $2.50 per gallon, $20 per barrel; at $2 per gallon, $25 per barrel; barrel of beer, 10 dozen quarts, $1 per barrel; each case of ehampaigne, $2 per case; all wines, 50 cents per case. "That (in consideration of such payment and receipt of rebate and extra comnensatinn H won ?? . , .v T? U0 a^i ecu by and between the said Jodie M. Fawllnson, Joseph H. Wylle and John ITlake as chairman and members of said board of directors of the State dispensary composed as aforesaid, should award the contract to the persons, firms and corporations represented by the said James S. Farnum, John T. Eary, Morton A. Goodman and H. Lee Solomon and diverse other persons to the jurors unknown. "Tinder the schedule It Is charged that this board on March 22, 1006, awarded contracts for liquor, and that Wylle, Hlack and Kawlinson did accept and receipt from the said James S. Farnum, John T. Early, M. A. Goodman and II. Lee Anderson and others $24,000. 1IBE NO1 COOK'S HOUSE i Taken and Used by Peary Without Owners' Consent GOOOS STOLEN ALSO A Danish Physician Makes a Very Damaging Statement About Peary's Tuking Charge of a House , Huilt by Cook and Leaving One 9 of His Men to Guard it. A dispatch from Copenhagen, i Denmark, says a remarkablo letter giving Dr. Frederick A. Cook's version of the troublo with Commander !)?.? 1 - t cm j uyci Buj^iinuo, ujiyuai H in uiu newspaper Politiken. The letter was written by I)r. Norman Hansen, a prominent Danish physician, who several times visited Greenland to study eye disease of which he has made a specialty. Dr. Cook told practically the same story to one of his closest American friends just a week ago, before Commander Peary reappeared, but said that he did not intend to make it public. Dr. Hansen was with Cook for some time in Greenland and returned with him on the Danish government steamer llans Egode. in his letter he says: "Now that Dr. Cook has gone, I am no longer under any obligations to keep silence, and will exercise my right to publish the story about the house in Annatok, a story which Dr. Cook himself had too | much delicacy to relate to the world I wrote it according to my memory, in the same manner that Dr. Cook in Egendesminde told it to me, and I am fully convinced that in no details are my recollections wrong. "Dr. Cook had built his house for stores in Annatok, north of Etah, and it was this depot which lie started to reach in February, 1 909, crossing Smith sound. It was a pretty large house, the walls being built of heavily fi 1 loci provision boxes, so that Dr. Cook knew that when thi.i important point was reached everything was safe. Ho had, before tho start, arranged with a young friend named Whitney that he have the right to use the house while hunting musk oxen for sport in the winter of 19 0 8-09. "When Dr. Cook and his two Eskimos, exhausted and half starved, came within a shot's distance of the house in Annatok, young Whitney came out to bid him welcome, but inside the house was a stranger, a giant Newfoundland boatswain on watch. This man had been placed in Dr. Cook's house by Peary when the latter passed Etah with his ship bound north. Peary had given the boatswain a written order, which commenced with tho following words: " 'This house belongs to Dr. Frederick A. Cook, but Dr. Cook is long ago dead and there is no use to search after him. Therefore, I, Commander Robert E. Peary, install my boatswain in this deserted house.' "This paper, the boatswain, who could neither read nor write, exhibited to Dr. Cook and the latter took a copy of this wonderful 'locume.it. This copy, however, he does not intend to publish if Peary's courso does not force him to do so. Dr. Cook gave me a lively account of how the yung millionaire, Mr. Whitney, during the whole winter, was treated like a dog by the giant boatswain and how he had calmly witnessed the sailor bartering Dr. Cook's provisions for fox and hour 1 OIV I 11 D 1 Uf himself. Dr. Cook also had to put a good face on the unpleasant situation. He had to bog to got into his own house and had to make a compromise with tho boatswain with strong fists. "Dr. Cook made a present of tho house with all its contonts to his two faithful Eskimos, with tho provision that Whitney was to have the use of the house as long as his hunting trip lasted, but he was compelled to let the Newfoundland boatswain continue his watch. The boatswain, however, received strict orders not to exchange any more of the provisions or guns. "Now I suppose tho sailor will celebrate his triumphant entrance into New York harbor aboard Peary's ship while Whitney is where? Aboard his own yacht Jeannle? Or perhaps he has not wanted to wait for his own boat and has ironn nhrknrH Peary's ship. "To Mr. Whitney, Dr. Cook gave his instruments and his observations, as he thought those previous things were fafer there than on tho long sledge trip in tho spring across Melville bay, but all his notebooks and greasy and soiled record books which have been so closely written upon he kept and carried with him. To me, who understand only a very little astronomy, the records written W TO mills of the south l?8Kl> OVER TWO AND HALF MILLION BALES OF COTTON. I just Year, Being an Increase of Three Hundred and Sixty-six Thousand Bales. Supplementing his report on the , cotton crop for 1908-'09, as Issued an August 31, Secretary Hester of the New Orleaus cotton exchange Tuesday made a detailed report on the crops of the <}ifforont States [18 follows: Alabama, 1,428,000, against 1,171,000 last. year. Arkansas, 1,052,000, against 787,000. Florida, 75,000, against 60,000. Georgia 2,1 IS,000, against 1,964,000. Louisiana 185,000, against 673,000. Mississippi 1,672,000, against 1,4 96,000. North Carolina 7 17,000, against 689,000. South Carolina 1,298,000, against 1,226,000. Tennetrseo 4 2 6,000, against 3 35,000. T/iviim O O 1 n AAA o o o * i V7AU9 0|0IiJ|V/V/l/) | u ?i 1 pm 000. Oklahoma 7 10,000, against 950,000. Total crop 13,825,000, against 11,5 7 2,000 last year. He puts the spindles In the South at 11,255,787, including old, idle and not complete, against 10,661,2 08 last year, an lncroase of 5 9 4,17 0. Referring to the consumption by American mills, Mr. Hester says that North and South they have a season of unparalleled activity. In no past year, he states, have they consumed ao much cotton, and phenomenal as the extent of business has been, It has not reached the limit of their capacities. The money value of the past commercial crop, he states, is in round figures $683,794,000, showing that while the number of bales marketed was 2,243,000 bales more than last year, tho increase in money received was but $11,509,000, equivalent to $5.11 per bale for the excess, and yet Mr. Hester contends that considering all circumstances if ever a crop was sold at a good round price it was the one under i uv a:u . In (he South Mr. Hester makes the consumption 1160,596 more than last year and 1 2 0,765 over the year 1 before last. Twenty-one new mills are building in the Southern States, and including additions to old establishments, 10,000 new looms and 511,294 new spindles are under way. The increase in the number of mills over last year has been eight, making a total of 841. The year's consumption has been divided as follows: State Consumption. Increase Alabama 251,871 46,261 Arkansas . . . . 6,038 2,190 Cleorgia 556,11 9 74,757 Kentucky .. .. 36,290 1,694 Louisiana .. . 1 7,244 3,331 Mississippi . . . 48,691 3,529 Missouri 1 4,826 6,449 North Carolina . 7 59,295 130,414 South Carolina . 700,352 75,806 Tennessee .. .. 69,211 9,154 Texas 42,456 8,675 Oklahoma . . . . 2,568 954 Virginia 77,912 3,382 Total 2,559,873 366,596 T n pnneluola?% %,t ? tt ^ ... vu.,v.uniwii mi, iiuHior says the facts concerning this remarkable year in cotton consumption speaks for themselves, but It Is safe to say that had they been estimates Instead of plain unvarnished truths, even extremists would have been Justified in classing them as exaggerations. In the South, he says, "We have brushed 2,600,000 balos closely during the past year and this clo.se on the heels of the panic, with 21F> out of a total of 786 active mills from one to two months late In getting under headway. Most of the new not complete spindles will be In working order beforo the coming year's close and with these on the basis of the 1904-06 consumption per spindle, the capacity of the Southern mills will be something like O OAA AAA ' ~ " " *,ovv,v/uu 10 z.yuo.ooo." Shot in a Show. At Lowiston, Pa., whilo playing Wild West Sunday with a target gun James Lepley, aged 14 years, shot William Shank, killing him. down so closely and In all directions wero very hard to read, but what la the record to us? The two men, Peary and Cook, their character, their conduct, that Is what Interests us, and every little item throwing a sidelight upon their nature is valuable." THE HO THcOEMANOS Made by th? Democratic Con- 1 ferenco Friday. THEY ARE ALL GOOD ' The Mooting Adjourned After INv during for Strict Construction of F State und Nutiomvl Constitutions, i Support of Government, ll?ttor ( TaritT, Senators by Direct Votes. J ' C After adopting a declaration of principles, the Democratic conference, which mot at Saratoga, N. Y., I concluded a two days' session Frl-1 { day and adjourned sine die. The declaration of principles follows: "'Pho Democrats assembled In conference at Saratoga, September 9 and 19, 1909, announce the f?>l- 1 lowing as their undestanding of certain essential Democratic principles and policies: "A strict construction of constitutions, both State and federal. "Loyal support of the federal government in the exercise of all its constructional powers; eternal vlgl- ' lance in watching and detecting, and vigorous and persistent opposition to all extensions of federal power j that entrenches on those reserved to the States or to the people. For ltovcuuo Only. "A tariff for revenue only; no government subsidies to political interests, directly or through protective tariff. "lOqual and uniform taxation; covoring only the just needs of government economically administered. "The abandonment at the earliest moment practicable of our Imperialistic venture in the Philippine I Minn flu Ci?.o? f" 11 ... ...dv otiti-KUiiruiug Liioir independence by sulllcient guarantees. ; "Steady adherence to the princl-I pie of home rule and local selfgovernment by the State and its political sub-divisions. "Rigid economy in government expenditures. Senators l>y Direct Vote. "Election of United States senators by direct vote. "Reform in registration and in enrollment laws; in methods of election; and of nominating candidates for public oillce so that nominating conventions shall be composed of representatives directly chosen by members of the party. 6 "Reform in primary laws to give to every citizen greater direct influence in naming candidates. "Taxation of corporations by tho State alone. "A constitutional amendment authorizing a federal income tax. "Enforcement of federal and State lawH nimina* ? * _D .~v. uiiiuumi irutHH." COTTON 1IAHVBSTER. To Ho Tried ut Hemiettsvillo in a Very Short Time. Mr. Augus Campbell, representing Mr. Theodore H. Price, of New York, was in Bennettsville Wednesday for the mimnao nf " ncvunilg U IlONl Of cotton to be used in the demonstration of a cotton harvester. Mr. Campbell found what he wanted, and has purchased one hundred acres from Ex-Senator John L. McLaurin. The cotton on this field will remain unpicked until the latter part of this month, or tho first of October, when Mr. Price and associates will go there and the demonstration will be made. Mr. Campbell is the inventor of this .machine, and Mr. Price and others are interested in promoting and backing the proposition The inventor is a native of Canada, though he lived for a number of years in Texas. DIIRAK OUT IN MACON. Five Pellagra Cases Are Discovered in That City. Pellagra has boen diseovorod In Macon, Ga., according to County Physician William C. C. Pumpolly, there are in that city Ave well developed cases of pellagra, all the patients being white. Threo of this number are very prominent people, living in a fashinoablo suburb, and they are In a very serious condition. The county physician was called several days ago In consultation with the attending physicians and has been in constant attendance upon the sufferers until Sunday, when he gave out the Statement that the cares were well developed. The patients were all taken ill about the same time the first of last week. The disease is said to have developed rapidly. US FRYING TO EXPLAIN LEAHY'S ACTION IN TAMPERING WITH COOK'S MAIL. Ilridgman, His Particular Friend. Admit* That I'earf Saw the Men Who Had Cook's Letter. A dispatch from Sydney, B. C., iay? Herbert L. Brldgraan, secretary >f the Peary Arctic club, who la to neet Commander Peary, arrived here Friday evening. Mr. Bridgman denies that he had veen any communication to Prfjf. Slelm of Dresden, but said that it svas perfectly evident that Commander Peary and Harry Whitney were h-- ' iw(s>'iuui ior several days and that It would bo a reuonable deduction that Whitney had Informed Peary J ot Cook's claims, and that Peary would gather all available testimony to refute the claim, having hoard tho Eskimos' stories th it Cook "had not been out of sight of land." "I do not think," continued Mr. Dridgman, "that Commander Peary is bringing Cook's two lOsklmo boy witnesses or he would havo mentioned the fact. It won id not he an easy tiling to bring them down, ns they might die. Their testimony would lie no moro valuable In tho United States than as given before the members of tho Peary party while north. It will he Impracticable for Cook or any one to send a steamer up for tho Eskimos before next year." With regard to tho offor of the United States coast and geological survey to arbitrate tho controversy, Mr. Hrldgman wild: "I know that Commander Peary will be perfectly satisfied to abide by Its verdict. Peary has a commission from the survey to take certain reservations and data, and will submit his results to that board. "Cook's two witnesses," continued Mr. Rridgmand, "are from 16 to 2 0 years old. Tho other six Eskimos who declined to go returned with Cook's letters to his wife, John It. Bradley and Rudolph Francke, dated Capt Thomas Hubbard. Commander Peary, In a series of conversations with tho natives, found that tho letters were not written where dated. Tho Eskimos tobl of the number of sloops passed since they parted company with Cook, but It may bo the natives did not tell the truth to Commander Peary. It will depend largely on the natives' testimony whether or not Cook was where ho claim** to have been." In further explanation Mr. Bridgman said he supposed Franoko show ed the Cook letters to Peary, whlc. naturally aroused curiosity to question ttwi " ' ? 1 * * "* ..uvifQD v*nu uruugni mom south. Pour Liquor Into Aiken. A dispatch from Aiken says the officers of that county have made a good deal of complaint because they allege Alkon has been made the dumping ground for Augusta liquor since the prohibition law went Into effect on August 3. Several days ago the constables were busy watching the trolley cars out of Augusta. and It Is estimated that in one day 500 yards of liquor were brought from Augusta. On one car there were 130 passengrs, and nearly all of them carried the familiar 1a?1> i -- ~ ? uumuk pucKagea. The constables succeoded In capturing 13 quarts of contraband goods. Augusta is supposed to be prohibition, too. Crew Massacred. The captain and crew of the French schooner Quality, engaged in recruiting laborers, have been murdered by natives of Mallicollo Island, in the New Hebrides. The vessel was driven ashore by a storm and while stranded she was attacked. In spite of their stubborn defense the crew were massacred to the last man. A British war ship is investigating tho occurrence. Finds Suicide's Body. While hunting muscadines in the woods near Columbus, Ga., Sunday, a boy came upon the lifeless body of Walter E. McCrary, a well known bookkeeper, who had been mining since Saturday. A bullet hole in his hoad, a .32 calibre revolver at hla feet, and a noto scratched on the back of an envelono. "T ? _ , ? %?til v?i fx&y VV. E.," told a story that the coroner's jury declared was suicide. Died on the Hall. Identified hy a letter from their mother, two young men, J. It. and P. H. Chastain, of Pelham, Ga., were killed three miles east of Lumktn, Ga., while asleep together on the Seaboard tracts. lALD i