Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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,> BIG ROW ON " Bdbger ui Piodtot to Fifta t Oil Before a CMuuttee N ONE OF THEM MUST GO When (VmKretiH Convenes on Tuesday It Will (login a Thorough Investigation of the Controversy Iletween the Secretary of the Interior and the Chief Forester. A Washington special to The Mou'c o n/1 f Vutritia i2?iva <\n novt Titnu. f? O 11 1114 V"lll IV.| OU^ O \ril 14 V I A \l\ O*" day, when congress convenes after the Christmas holidays, a tight, tha equal of which has not been witnessed in all probability for years, will be commenced to determine who is right in the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy. The joint committee of investigation, to be composed of members from both the senate and house, will be given the fullest powers, and it will examine into all of the official acts of Clifford Pinchot, as chief forester, and of Mr. Hallinger, as secretary of the interior. It will cover two or three months, and at its conclusion the public will be able to know just what chance former President Roosevelt may have for another term in the White House, it having been charged that Mr. Pinchot is determined to keep Mr. Roosevelt before the American people as a probable candidate for the presidency four years hence by an insistence upon the carrying out of his policies regarding the administration of the national forests. It will be the first time in history that congress has placed a cabinet oflicer on trial at his own request. In making his request for an investigation, Mr. Ballinger stipulated that the administration of the forest service also he made the subject of inquiry. This has been acceded to by the leaders in congress and by President Taft. A 1 11 <r nrocno t nlnnn t R n rvv/Lv/1 viiii fa iv; |/j rouni |iiaunf iiic investigation will be sweeping, and every opportunity will be afforded both belligerents to make good their case. On Tuesday or Wednesday the joint resolution providing for the investigation will be presented by the senate committee on public lands, and the house committee on rules. It will be an administration resolution, and it is expected that it will be adopted with but little opposition. There niay be some objection on the part of anti-administrationlsts to the selection of the personnel of the proposed committee, by the vice president and the speaker of the - house, on the ground that the men they select would naturally be friendly to Ballinger. The administration * le'aders, however, have given assurance that the members of the committee will be chosen with the idea of an absolutely impartial investigation. There will probably be twelve meiiTbCJ'&j four Republicans and two Democrats from ?a('h house. Senator Koute Nelson, of ^Minnesota, chairman of the committee oh public lands, will probably be the chairman of the investigation committee. . ^ <r Sii bitter has become the dissension in the president's official family, and so embarrassing to the ad ministration, that it is generally predicted that either llallinger or Pin chot must leave the government service as the result of the congressional inquiry. The intensity of tlie situation has been accentuated by Pinchot's speech in New York last Monday, in which he criticised, without the use of names, however, the present administration of the interior department, and by the recent newspaper articles and interviews by former Secretary Garfield along similar lines. ? ? POLL TAX FATAL. J. J. Hemphill Misses a Good l'at Job for Paying It. The payment of u\a poll tax i)i South Carolina lias cost ex-Represen tative John .?. Hemphill a $5,000 dol lac position in the service of th< v government as a commissioner of th< District of Columbia. It is stated on good authority Mon day night that the president has do finitely decided not to send Mr Hemphill's name to the senate be eauso of the fact that his ellgibilit; is questioned. The Star Monday night said: "Th question of the eligibility of John I Hemphill lias been decided agains "Mi\ Hemphill. The president prefer lug to do nothing that will estahlis an unsatisfactory precedent thn > might cause citizens of the Distrk v trouble in the future." i ?? sri I Hot Supper, <" Two heroes, Rass and Joo Hor hrothe"kH> are dea.3, nnd three oth I'^'rooa, Henry Wharton, Wess Fifi p'r and Luther Lomax, are had wounded, as a result of a genei row and. fight at a "hot supper" nc Verdery, in Greenwood county, ca Wednesday morning. _ . \ A MONEY MAKER THE STATE PENITENTIARY IN MOST EXCKIJJCNT SHAPE. Superintendent Griffith Will Show ? Profit of Eighty Thousand IH?1lara for tli? Year. The Columbia Kecord says the high price of cotton, coupled "with good management generally and with the further fact that the Institution produced a greater quantity of cot ton this year than usual, will enable Superintendent Griffith of the penitentiary to niaae a reeord-nreakIng financial report to the legislature this year. The report has not yet been draft od, but it will show a surplus and net profit for the year's business of $80,000, which the superintendent has on hand to turn into the State treasury. It is likely that about a third of the amount will be used to put up a modern brick stockade for the DeSaussure and Held farms, which adjoins each other and which together are located partly in Sumter and partly in Kershaw county. Since Superintendent Critllth assumed oflice, practically the entire penitentiary plant lias been built. These improvements include a big granite building for the interior arrangement of modern cells, a costly guards' quarters, the finest tuberculosis hospital In the South and various improvements around the | grounds and 011 the three farms op erated by the penitentiary manage- 1 ment. The Lexington farm has a line brick stockade and boiler plant worth about $17,500. Superintendent Griffith this year produced over 1)00 bales of cotton and will get an average of over $00 a bale for it. litis other money crops were 2 8,0 00 bushels of corn and 20,000 bushels of oats. The price of oats this year has been about the same as last year, but corn was much more valuable than it was last year. It is understood that the position of Superintendent Grifilth and the board of directors with respect to I t i iic n-^inirti ii l w Its i Ilill II1U IllUIlUgement will bo grateful to tlio lawmaking body for the privilege of being allowed to continue the good work without any change in the law as it now stands. Superintendent Griffith's report will probably carry no recommendations, but will merely lay all the facts before I lie legislature. There has been some talk and there were some resolutions proposed at a recent good roads gathering to the effect that the legislature should bo induced to provide for Toad building by the penitentiary convicts. The management does not look with favor on this proposition, as it looks upon this as a dangerous departure from the present method of handling convicts, and would, it is argued, lead to all the abuses of the lease system. Convicts would be poorly fed and cared for in many cases, it is said. Though Superintendent Grifllth is firm and a fine disciplinarian, those who havo watched his administration have been impressed witl; the fact that lils SilCOess lias been due 110 little to the fact that he uses kindness and consideration whenever it can bo used to advantage. It is said I there ai4<> at least 385 convicts win* ' f-oiild not anfolv ho nllnwoit to wnrl out in this way. Many of those are dangerous men, and not a few of them have to be kept in chains oven on the grounds and watched with great care. Many of these are not now even on the farms. There are many objections, it is claimed, to the present law allowing the leasing of certain convicts to the county authorities at the rate of $1 a month for each convict. Less than 200 are let out in tills way. eleven ships lost ? And Sixty Persons Head as a Result of Rig Storm. a dispatch from St. Johns, N. F., says sixty lives were lost in the ter i ritie storm that recently swept thf - Northern Coast. Eleven ships went - down, according to reports received ? Wednesday, and the general damag* ) was great. Reports from the IP terior are delayed as all wires \ver< - felled by the hurricane. The storm lasted with. Intense fur; for nearly h. week. Vnr three Onv - PlAOOllUa was ohder water. V Tides wore unusually high an flooded many other points. Severn e hamlets wore almost demolished an t. the village of Blackhead narrowl t escaped being destroyed. Blackhea is three miles from St. Johns, h It. Is estimated that the loss t it fisheries alone is $7f>ft,000. Tt 4t? winter so far has broken all recort for severity. ? Parts Hair With Rullet. n. At a Christmas tree frolic in er negro church at Wentworth, N. ih- Dan Wooten, a half-drunk negi lly quarreled with an enemy and in i ral tempting to shoot him fired t1 ?aT shots. One bullet parted the color rly minister's hair on the side and t other lodged in a bystander's arm TOOK HIS LIFE , Yonnf Man Out on Bond on Mnrder Charge Commits Suicide in PRESENCE OF A FRIEND It In Possible Tliat lie Was llrooding Over the Charge Against IIim and Others for Killing a Colored Man Some Time During Last Or toiler. Joe Garris, a young white man, 2 8 years old, who was out on bond, charged with murder, committed suiI cide at the home of his uncle. Joe T. Garris, near Williams, In the upper part of Colleton county. It will be recalled that young Garris and two other young white men were charged with killing Israel Manlgault, a negro, at the Colleton Cypress Company's Mill on October 2 7, and were to have been tried for this killing in November, but the case was continued by the solicitor. It is possible that he was brooding over this affair and his mind became unsettled. The shooting occurred about S o'clock at the front gate of J. T. Garris, and from the report given by Mr. llebor Padgett, who was at Mr. Garris' at the time, throws no light on the cause of the tragedy. It. appears that Mr. Garris, in com| pany with Mr. George llrannon, had driven from Will tains, a short distance away, to go by Mr. Garris' for the ostensible purpose of seeing bis son, who was a cousin of young Garris. When they reached the gate, Mr. Itrannoh says he got out on one side and went to hitch t he horse, while Mr. Garris alighted on the other. A'most immediately ho saw Garris pull, as h? thought, a handkerchief out of his pocket and carry it to his mouth. Instantly there was a report and young Garris fell. llrannon called to the elder Mr. Garris to conic out, that young Joe Garris had killed himself. Mr. Padgett rushed out to the gate, but found young Garris breathing his last. IP4 went, ior nr. i\inBcy, who round tnai tho bull had entered the mouth and ranged upward, lodging In the brain, producing almost Instant death, ('.arris had evidently placed tho pistol In his mouth and fired. No reason can be given for the suicide, and no one suspected that the young man intended to do inI jury to himself. The only remark he made that was calculated to arouse suspicion was made to his sister, just before leaving home. She was brushing his coat and he said to her: "It is no use to brush my coat; 1 will not need it. after today." The affair is regretted, as the young man belongs to a large and highly respected family. NO IIKWAIID FOIl GOHDO.W Story That He Was Once Saught is i 1 ten led by the War Department, A dispatch from Washington says specific denial is made at the War Department, after a careful examination of the records of the story pubI lishod to the effect tliai a re\Vat'A of *10 , >00 had been offered for the capture of Col. James Gordon, appointed by the governor of Mississippi to succeed tin? late Senator Mc Laurin, for alleged participation in the the conspiracy to kill Presidenf I Lincoln. \\ hen the matter was brought to the attention of the officials of the War Department a search of the records was instituted. This i"voivod an investigation of the records of the civil war and of the advertisements for fugitives and rewards offered in connection with the assasRinalion of Lincoln. Nowhere \Yar, the name of Colonel Oordoi fou.i.l in the papers on fliQ In the department. Therefore, the War Doparti nient ofiicials declare that there was no basis for the story published con> cerning him. ??? I Murderer Caught. 'A dispatch from Hoanoke, Va. - says Tom Preston, a negro who three 3 years ago killed M. T. Custy, a saloon keeper, in the latter place ol y business at Hod ford City, Va., anc s escaped, was captured at Rich mom .1 -V .. .. n i.t* D.,11 IW.I/ /. fl/lto/l IV It'W lliiys it^U liy iviiiiuwnu m; vw> rt lives. When Custy refused to serv< il Preston ahead of a white customer d the negro shot him tlirough th y heart. Rewards amounting to $50' d were offered for Preston's arrest. :o Heater KxploricH. Ie One woman was seriously injure *8 and another painfully injured whe a water heater exi>loded in the honi of Mrs. Minnie Lotspeieh at Atlant Thursday. Mrs. Minnie Lotspeic a was the more seriously injured i C. the two. She was badly scalded ar *o, probably will lose her eyesight it- she recovers. Mrs. Jessie Lotspelc wo her sister-in-law, was struck by fl ed ing fragments of the heater and si he tained a painful injury In t 8ld0* *' i I AWFUL STORY The Atlanta Stockade Is Declared to Be Dirtier Than Pif Pen SOME HORRIBLE TALES A C?irl TcHtithnl That She Was lluii? t'p on Wall of IV1I lloom, as m? I- / * ii?" * * iikmi^ii i nicnuu, wnii I'Aicniird Arms ami That Attempt Was Made to Whip Another (Jirl. That white women were hung up on the wall of a cell room, as though crucified, with extended arms, that at least an attempt was made to whip a woman, and that prisoners were us^d to do work for private citizens were some of the th'ngs testified to Thursday in the investigation by the Atlanta City Council in the stockade matter. Charges that the city prison, to which men and women convicted of misdemeanors and unable to pay a money fine are committed, is a lilihy place unworthy of holding even animals, that there has been graft and that barbarous cruelties are pi noticed there have been made. The grand jurors recently indicted S..peiintendent Vining and two guards for cruelty and made pu >1 ; a scathing report which resumed !.\ this investigation. Ruby Caither, a country g'r', who said she was 111 years old, was the star witness of the day. After the grand jurors had described t h * prison as "the dirtiest, foulest place on j earth, dirtier than any p i 'g pen," the girl was called. She told how she was sent to the stockade a Her her mother remarried, because the fought with her stepbrothers, audi how one day she was struck by another woman prisoner. She struck back and fencing to be punished, went to Superintendent. Vining and reported her infraction of rules. "Mr. Vining grabbed me," she said, "and sntipped a handcuff around my right wrist. lie and another guard dragged mo to the a 11 in the cell room and hooked my arm to a ring in the wall. The ring was so high that I could not stand on my feet but had to stand on my tip-toes. F told Vining that I was ill and suffering, hut he paid no attention to inc. I was hung there for nearly au hour in agony before 1 fainted. I do not know how long I was hanging but I was down and the doctor was attending to me when I recovered consciousness." The witness told of seeing another girl, also white, hanging by both wrists. A third girl was hung up, but her hands were so small that she slipped through the. handcuffs. This same girl, the witness swore, was put in tlie whipping machine, a big wooden chair, Invented by Vining, iu which the victim Is placed, fastened and then turned fiver for tho application of the lash. The I lash is .a heavy leather strap with I large metal rivets studded in its surface. This girl, Pear Ryan, was so small, however, that she slipped through the chair, and the guards gave up the attempt to heat her. The s uperintendent at d the guards are indicted for cruelly heating n negro. Another negro died a few days ng? from blood poisoning caused hy shackles rusting on his logs and cutting into the flesh. When prisoners arrive^ at the stockade shackles were rlvited on over their clothing and no matter how long they were held, they could not remove their clothing. Only a lye j soap was furnished the prisoners and I they got no towels. t t t ' ATTACKED IIY A FIEXI), ? Iti'avo Voimg Woman Kurcd Death to , fiuvn llei* Honor. With both feet so frozen that they probably will have to be amputated and suffering from shock, Miss Nellie Straver, twenty-two years old, Is at tho home of an uncle in Eau Clair, Rutler county, Pa., following a desperate experience in which she braved death to save her honor. The young woman arrived at Parker station during the night and oti, gaged a young man to drive her to ? | her uncle's home. Instead the man drove in an opposite direction, and r when in an isolated spot attacked I Miss Straver. 1 After a fight in which she says she - was divested of nearly all her clothes ing, including her shoes, she escaped . and fled down a hill, through deep e snow to the river. After wanderinu around all night she was discovered in the morning and given aid. Officers are searching for a young mai who is said to have disappeared fron d his home in Parkers. n ? is Murder and Suicide, a A carefully laid plan of a love :h sick and discouraged man, involv of ing robbery, murder and snteld< id culminated In the slaying of Mis if Dora Chapell, 21 years old, a wa h, tress, in the dining room of tli y- Dear's Hotel at Pern, Ind., by U< ?**- McKinney, who then committed su he ride. McKinney was an all rour jb&d man. ? FKOZE OUTSIDE THE ( Alt. Young Teacher Couldu't Get Inside the Vestibule. A dispatch from Greensboro, N. C., says: Swinging to the outside of the vestibule of a swiftly moving passenger train, L. D. Surratt, a young teacher of high standing, was literally frozen to death and fell as the train came to a standstill, ills body was stitlly frozen and was picked up by the crew of a southbound freight. Passengers on the northbound train reaching Greensboro Thursday afternoon reported that a man, now iuiMi11nod as tsurratt, boarded t li train at Lexington, but just before the train pulled out lie ran back to get a package lie left in a buggy at the station. Ho was seen to catch the closed vestibule. No one paid particular attention to the incident, supposing the trainmen had opened the entrance for the passenger. Hanging to the steps, the man met the terrific gale blowing in the face of the fast moving train. His position subjected him to the only resource, to crouch on the steps of the car until the next station was reached. * NKW I'OST < \m?s Are Now on Sale and .May lie llad at All Olllces. Distribution was commenced Frl day of the new design postal cards, and it is likely that they were put on sale in many postolllces New Year's Day. While the new card bears a head of McKinlev, a better likeness of the late president has been selected and tin' border design has been improv ed. On the new small card, intended for index purposes and for social correspondence, the head of Lincoln will appear. The two-cent international postal card will bear a portrait of (Son. (Srant. The double or reply card will contain a new feature. On the original message half will appear a likeness of (Jen. Washington, and the stamp on the reply half will contain a pictil Pi* of rt hti V\'nulii?nrton v.i . - w? in ii i ? ? iioiiui^i vru, Postofllce department oflielals say that the borders of the stamps on nil tho different cards will present an attractive diversity of design. On all the cards the words "Postal Card," required by the Universal Postal Union Convention, will appear in the border of the stamp instead of a separate inscription. * FUK.MAN ADDS KNDOWMKNT $10,(MM) is liaised to Clinch the $50,000 More Offered. Prof. II. l'i. (Jeer of Furmaii University said at noon Friday: "The success of the campaign for forty thousand dollars for Ftirman University is assured. Not nil of those who have been at work on the subscription have returned to the city yet, but the amount raised we know of so far is within a thousand dollars of the required amount, and I l'eel sure that Furinan will win." This forty thousand dollars is necessary to secure twenty-live thousand given by the general educational board and twenty-llvo thousand by Andrew Carnegie. Of the total, if raised, it is stipulated that fifty thousand dollars is to be used in building a science hall and the remainder shall go to the university endowment fund. DIED A LITTLE IIEKO. <* ?? llescues Infnlit From Flames and is Mortally I turned. Although loss than four years old, Hazel Doty, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Doty, of Middletown, N. Y., saved the life of her baby sister, : Elizabeth, a few afternoons ago and I was herself so badly burned that she j cnnnot recover. Hazel, playing with matches, set on tire a bed on which | the baby was lying. Hazel could have escaped unharmed, but would not leave her sister. As she pushed the baby out of danger Hazel's own clothing caught fire and was burned off. Her screams brought her mother, who extinguished the flames. The baby apparently was unharmed. ?ar- I Horses and Mules Itimiril. The barn and stables of J. I). ; Moore, near Cokesbury, were burned Thursday night, together with 26 I head of horse and mules, all his coi n, lomge, wiiKiiim <inu ii^i inunii al implement*. The loss is estimated i at about $10,000. The mules prob; ably eost $200 each. The barn and I stables were new and very large, the . building being 200 by 00 feet am i three stories high. There was onlj i $500 insurance on the building, am nothing on the stock. Holler Explodes. i. By the explosion of ft boiler a - the new plant of the Mertopollta i, Electric Company, In Heading Pa (K five men met instant death Wednei 1- day. The men were thrown sever; io hundred feet from the boiler hous ?y Martin's body was blown through t- high tree, and was found about 2< id feet from the scene of the ex pi 1 slon. SOUTHERN EDUCATORS DR. I). II. JOII.\SO\, OF WINTIlOP. KIJXTKI) I'KKHIDENT. I>r. II. N. Snyder, I'r^idcnt of Wolford ColU'Kr, One of the Elective IHrecUtr*. f f With the electiou of officers Thursday afternoon and a scholarly addross from President Emeritus Eliot of Harvard, Thursday evening th; Southern Educational Association, which had boon in session several days at Charlotte, adjourned sin* die, the place of the next meeting being left with the executive committee. Chattanooga, .IncksonvilH Mirmingham and other cities presented invitations. The newly elected officers: Presldonf, l)r. 'J If. Johnson, o* Winthrop Colicky Soufn Caroli ?.?; first vice president. Chancellor J. I#. Kirkland, of Vaudcibllt University, second vice president, C. K. Qlem>. of HirnilnKham; third vice presid v?? J. S. tlrahbo, of Kentucky; treasure 10. P. Iiurns, of Atlanta, (Ja. The elective directors chosen by the association arc: Alabama?Prof. C. C. That h Polytechnic Institute, Auburn. Arkansas .1. .1. Doypo. Florida \V. M. Hollo way. (ieoi'Kia .1. M. Pound, Atlanta Kentucky M. A. Cassidy, Lexincton. Louisiana T. II. Harris. Mitryland? F. 10. Puckner, Halttinore. Missouri 10. 10. Todd. Mississippi L. II Whit Hold North Carolina 10. C. Urookt Trinity. Oklahoma 10. I) Cameron. South Carolina 11. N. Snyder, president WolTord College. Tennessee ?T. P. Hailey. Texas It. It. Cousins. Virginia? J. L. Jariuan. West Virginia?M. P. Shawkoy. District of Columbia ?D. J. Crothy. Dr. Charles \V. ICiiot addressed the association on the subject, "lies'. Directions for Immediate Educational Efforts,'* and he was follow* b hy President. .Itidson, of tho Culver sity of Chicago, who made a short talk on agricultural education. Other speakers of the day won Dr. James 11. Dillard, of New Orleans, president of the Jennes Foundation, whose subject was "Extension Plan for Kural Schools," and Former State Superintendent O. B. Martin, of South Carolina, who talk ed on "The Boy on the Farm." * PltOP. llltEWEIt DEFENDS COOK. Says Powerful Interest** are at Work to I'ndo lliiu. Prof. William If. llrrwcr, of Yale, a member of the Explorers' Club of New York, had thife to say about the action of that club in throwing out Dr. Cook: "I'm a member of the club and know everybody in the club, and 1 know perfectly well with whom that sort of tiling originated. There ar* powerful interests at work against Dr. Cook. "I myself have climbed many mountain, and I know what the" judgment of a number of men at the green table in the committee room amounts to in attempting to decide whether a man actually climbed ' * mountain or not." j . The professor later in the conver! sation returned to the subject of the many and strong interests which h? believes are at work against Dr Cook, said: "And do you believ. that there Is anything left undone by interests friendly to Peary for professional or other reasons to prove Cook a liar if such a thing is possible? You know yourself what the navy sentiment is. Thee there is a New York newspaper and various personal friends of Peary'?, the reasons for supporting him be ing both financial and sentimental." statu sews state. Mueh Ante Helium History und Civil War Incidents Revived. An argument bristling with ant* helium history and later incidents oi the Civil War In Virginia and West Virginia, involving a claim of $50,000,000 on behalf of Virginia against t lio I'ittoi* uftifo ti'ttu lion rwl Sri York Tuesday before Charles E. itittlefleld as special master In equity of the United States Supreme Court The case is to determine the question of the apportionment of the ipI terna! debt of Virginia at the time . when West Virginia was a part oi I the "Old Dominion." f A special report on the ease will i ultimately be tiled in the United States Supreme court by the master in equity. t Seven Children Hunted. o Seven children, ranging in ag& from 2 to 12 years, were burned t" a death and three persons perhaps fail tally injured late Tuesday night e. when a tire, followed by an explosion a of powder, destroyed the llom^jpt >0 Steven Hronosky, a miner of Syke*" o- ville, Pa. All of the victims art foreigners.