Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ASSESSORS FIX VALUES " I 8TATK BOARD OF HQUILIZATION TO MBKT SOON. ffV IbtUr ot Placing AH Property on Ilasfe of True Valuation Will Be Piwwed. It Is anticipated that Comptroller General Jonee will announce Boon the date for the meeting of the State board of eqnaliiWAtion. The meeting is held during the summer, usually, In the month of June or July, and the work of the board is to act upon the findings of the county boards and to take any action on tax questions that is deemed necessary. fThe most important resolutions that came before the board last year offooUnir thf> assessing of Welti lit a i auv/vi?**o ?. ? _ w property at full value. This resolution, introduced by Jeremiah Smith, of Horry, was defeated by a vote of 2 8 to 8. Ab this is the year for the reassessment and as the county board have been busy with the tax question In the several counties of the State, the meeting of the board this year is of special interest. It is thought that the tax question will receive more than ordinary consideration. The tax question has been brought into the campaign very forcibly this year. The Taxable Property. As shown by the comptroller general's report for the year 1910 the following is the amount of taxable property in South Carolina:, Total value of real estate $136,438,358 Yalue of personal ?? property 92,664,198 JRailrottd property.... 271,106,302 State tax, 6^4mllls .. 1,423,308 For county purposes, taxes 960,664 State Board of Assessors ( The State Board of assessors, con Mating of State officials, assesses railroad and like property. j The Southern Express company , property in South Carolina last pear was assessed at a valuation of $27 7,- ; ?67. Tbe.total value of the Pullman cars operated in this State was $140,292; the total valuation of tel- , ephone and telegraph companies was placed as follows. , Western Union, $52 2,4 27; Agnatic Postal Telegraph-Cable company, $103,613; American Telephone and Telegraph Company of South Carolina, $205,750; Southern Bell Telephone company, $571,848; local companies, $125,665. The actual value of cotton mills as fixed by the State board was $51,260.605. The actual value of cotton oil mills was placed at $2,853,418. A.The assessments for fertilizer plants was placed at $3,164,477. The value of railway property was fixed at a little over $44,000,000. ? ? | ORDERS AGAINST CLUBS. J , I Temporary Injunction Issued Aga'unI Tniec in Columbia. At oClubia Judge DeVore in Uie circuit court recently granted three orders on motion of Attorney Gen- ! eral Lyon, requiring th-^e social clubs in the city to show cause before him on July 1 why they should not bo perpetually restrained from the sale of spirituous liq The 1 o'uers were granted upon uft!.' avi;s < made that liquors had been purchased at the three places In violence 01 < the dispensary law. 1 Those against whom the orders are directed are the Savoy club, sit- i uated at 12 19 1-2 Taylor street, of l which P. W. Bessinger and Heyward i B. Smith are named as In charge, and ' J. L. Shall as the property owner; the Jackson Hub, at 914 Gervais street. L. B. Levin?and Everland be ing named as in charge, and S. L. '< Sweeney as the property owner; and 1 the third order being directed against G. H. Geiger, Harry Lehman and 1 William T. Thompson for violation 1 of the dispensary law at 912 Gervais street, G. H. Geiger being also the owner of the premises. Unless an adequate defense is made to the orders granted a perpetual injunction restraining the use of the premises for the illegal purposes charged will ha passed by the court. Death from Lockjaw. The little 8-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Langford died at the home of her parents in the mill village at Lexington Sunday evening from lockjaw. On las Tuesday the litle girl ran a nail in her foot, hut little attention was given, the parents thinking of course, that she would soon bo well. On Saturday she was taken violently <11 and Sunday morning lockjaw set in. The little one was the pride of her parents and her death has cast a pall of sorrow over the entire household. Her remains were laid to rest in the Hoxington city cemetery Monday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Smallpox Epidemic. Nelson oounty, Virginia, has a am all pox epidemic. Fully 150 casoa are now In quarantine in a territory five mllee long and tree miles wide. No deaths have occurred. * '* . % THE STATE CAMPAIGN HENRY. Schedule of Meeting** to Be Held in This State. The itinerary for the campaign is as follows: Winnsboro?Saturday, July 2. Lexington?Wednesday, July 6. Saluda?Thursday, July 7. Fdgefleld?Friday, July 8. Aiken?Saturday, July 9. Bamberg?Monday, July 11. Barnwell?Tuesday, July 12. Hampton?Wednesday, July 13. Beaufort?Thursday, July 14. Walter boro?Friday, July 15 Charleston?Saturday, July 16. HnAPcro TllOOfliav _T II 1 V 1ft. O I . VI^V7? fy V/ * v. f v ? v _ _ . Orangeburg?Wednesday, July 20 St. Matthews?Thursday, July 21 Manning?Friday, July 22. Moncks Corner?Tuesday, July 2 6 Georgetown?Wednesday, July 2 7 Klngstree?Friday, July 2 9. Florence?-Saturday, July 30. Dillon?Tuesday, August 2. Marion?Wednesday, August 3. Conway?Thursday, August 4. Columbia?Saturday, August 6. Union?Monday, August 8. Spartanburg?Tuesday, August 9 Gaffney?Wednesday, August 10 Greenville?Thursday, August 11 Pickens?Friday, August 12. Walhalla?Saturday, August 13. Week off to attend reunion of Confederates and Red Shirts at Spartanburg, if desired, on August 17 and 18. Anderson?Monday, Angus* 22. Abbeville?Wednesday, August 24. Greenwood?Thursday, August 25. Laurens?Friday, August 26. Newberry?Saturday, August 2 7. COTTON MILLS CLOSED FRIDAY. Will Out Off One-Twelfth of Cotton Goods Output. \ The great curtailment movement among the mills of the Piedmont began Friday, July 1st. Mills in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia will close down until the morning of the 15th. Out of 3,000,000 spindles 2,7500,000 have signified that they would join in the curtailment which will be at least a month In all during the summer. The movement will mean a cutting off of from 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 pieces of cloth or one-twelfth of the output. Mr. August W. Smith, president of the Woodruff mills, wJien asked Thursday night about the closing down of the mills said: "There is a loss in every pound of cloth we are puttin out and we have to curtail to cover in part this loss and create a demand for our goods. I should say the output will be cut down one-twelfth by the curtailment which will be done this summer, and which will amount to in all about four weeks' time." Mr. John A. Law, president of the Saxon Mills said: "There will be the largest curtailmpnt amnne the cotton mills of Spartanburg county ever known. The price of manufactured goods is out of proportion with the price of cotton. A great many of the mills will close down on the first of Juiy and others on the 25th." "FAVORITE SOX" DKAI). Senator Daniel, of Virginia, Passes Away at Lynchburg. John W. Daniel, senior Senator from Virginia, and for more than thirty years Virginia's "favorite son," :lied at the Lynchburg Sanitarium at 10.35 o'clock Wednesday night, his death being due to a recurrence of paralysis. The immediate cause of his death was a cerebral hemorrhage, sustained at noon, in the right portion of his brain, involving the right side. This was in addition to the Paralysis of the left side, which was sustained last winter, while in Florida for his health. The statesman's illness began with a slight attack of apoplexy, in Philadelphia, last October, which kept him from being in his seat at the opening of Congress last December. Only once since that had he appeared before an audience, and that was for an informal talk in January. The end came almost without a struggle. Indeed, the family present could not notice the slight struggle which was noted by Dr. Waugh. TAKES HIS OWN LIFE. Prominent and Wealthy Citizen ol Charlotte Suicides. James W. Wadsworth, one of th< wealthiest and best known citizen! of Charlotte, N. C., committed sui cido Wednesday afternoon, at 3.3( oclock. The weapon used was a .31 calibre Colts pistol and death re suited within two hours after tin shooting. The excessive use of stim ulnnts and worry over business mat ters were given in a statement issuec by the family as the cause for th( act. A brother of Mr. Wadsworth 'ook his life in a Greensboro hote last year. ? ? Uilltiifv Cnfit Lieut. Adolf Hofrichter, of the Austrian army, has been sentenced to be publicly cashiered and to serve 20 years In prison for sending poison capsules to officers in the General Army staff. Capt Mader died from the effects of the poelon. 1 / INJURED BY AUTO WHICH WAS BRING DRIVEN BY THE PRESIDENT'S SON. Italian Laborer Struck by Aatomo bile Being Driven by Robert Taft ?Slight Chance for Recovery. The serious condition of Michae Thistowolla, an Italian laborer, wh< was struck Monday by an automo bile operated by Robert Taft, son o President Taft, at Beverly, Mass., hai caused a hurried change in the plan; of the Taft family, who were prepar ing to depart 011 the Sylph for Nev London to attend the Iiarvard-Yal? regatta Thursday. Instead of attending the races tin family will remain in Beverly un less there is an unexpected changi tor the better in the man's condi rion. The report from the Beveri; Hospital was that he had only 1 slight chance for recovery. Dr. J. S. Mixter of Boston sen - A ' /\P * Y% r\ Drnoirl^nt i\ V H L uue requcoi w 1 tUC A. I ^Oiuv??V| m* . rived and Ib working with the hospi tal authorities, doing all that car be done for the injured man. Robert Taft is badly broken u] over the affair, and spent much o . the afternoon at the hospital. Chief of Police has received in structions, through the Taft at torney, to see that the wounded mai is given every attention. Presiden Taft arrived in Beverly early Wed nesday morning. A dispatch from Washington sayt President Taft was greatly distressed when he learned through the Associated Press dispatches, of his son't unfortunate accident at Beverly, Mass. He immediately sent a long telegraphic message to his son, which, it is said, contained instructions to do everything possible for the injured man. The following telegram was sent to an old college friend of the President: "Samuel Carr, Boston, Mass: By an unfortunate automobile accident at Beverly my boy, Robert, struck a street laborer, fracturing hie skull. He is at Beverly Hospital. Will you not call up by telephone the best surgeon in Boston and have him visit the hospital at once and tender services to the resident physician and do all he can for the injured man." The President then sent a personal telegram to the injured man, expressing his profound regret over tiie accident and conveying to the victim his earnest wish for a speedy recovery. KILLED IN DUEL. Two Cubans Meet in WoodLs and End Differences. Armed with knives and keeping their word to meet at sunrise in the woods near MacFarlane park, in the western part of Tampa, Fla., Tuesday morning, Marco Adalo and another Cuban, whose identity has not yet been established, fought until both had fallen from loss of blood, Adalo dying after proceeding a short distance from where the bloody duel took place. The unknown man was able to make his way to a nearby street, where all trace of him was lost. Two men were seen going into the woods a short distance from the park at an early hour, both gesticulating. The demeanor towards each other was such as to arouse suspicion among the cigar workers who saw them and at the noon hour a search was made with the result the evidence of a bloody struggle was se n, and later the body of Adalo. RIOTOUS SCENES. ? Police Charge Oarlists and Nationalists in Spanish Town. A dispatch from Bilbao, Spain 011 Thursday says there were further disturbances growing out of tin strained relations between the gov eminent or premier uanaieias nim of the Vatican. A crowd compo*ec' of Carlists and Nationalists sui rounded the palace of the Governoi of the province and shouted: "Dowi with the Governor!" The police were summoned an? charging the demonstrators will fixed bayonets, wounded a numbel f of them. The capitol .has been tin scene of many civil clashes. li 1 874 It withstood a long seige b: ? the Carlists. 3 * Auto Ditched. ) Hev. E. B. Lashly and Ralph Hied I ler a hardware man from Fostoria - O., were instantly killed Friday, am 5 M. A. Stoneburier and James Mc - Oonnell were probably fatally in - jured w.ben their automobile jump 1 ed into a ditch near Sandusky. Th j steering gear got out of order am , the chauffeur lost control. I ? Joy Hide Ends in Death. Harold Hackus, a chaffeur, age< 2 2, and two companions whom lu i took on a Joy ride at 3 a. in. Satur ? J J 1 1 iU- ~ i . [ uay were iiijureu wuwu iuu iuuuiuin > jcrashed into a telegraph pole ai i Smcyfhort. Harold McCarthy, on< I of the party is in a critical conditio! i and Frank Purtell, the third mem ber bears severe cuts and bruises. STATE AUTOMOBILE LAWS. Provide for I've of Cars on Country , Roads.-?Speed Limit. Magistrate B. P. Wilson, of An- 1 derson, said the other day that there were many people who owned automobiles and who did not know the state laws regulating them while on the country roads. It seems to be the impression of most people that | they can operate their cars as fast J . as they want to once out of the city f limits, but this is a mistake. FolB lowing are a few interesting bits of B law from the acts of the general assembly. v "No person shall operate a motor e vehicle on a public .highway at a rate of speed greater than is reasone able and proper at the time and place, having due regard to the trafdc and use of the highways as to the condition or so as to endanger the y life, limb or property of any person a or in any event at a rate greater than fiften miles an hour." I Upon approaching a crossing, bridge, step descent, or a curve a person shall have their machine una der control and operate it at a rate of speed not greater than six milee an hour, and in no greater than is f reasonable and proper, having due regard to conditions. "The driver of a motor vehicle shall give notice by blowing a horn, 1 bell or othrwise so as not to frightt en the animals and to use precautions to insure the safety of persons and property. It is also necessary , to bring the car to a stop if it is seen I that the .horses are frightened. "It is necessary to stop the car at . a signal from one who is in the highway and who is driving a wild ani, mal. The raising of a hand may be considered a signal to stop. It is al' so necessary to remain stationary until sucii an animal could be re moved. It is necessary for an automobilist to give the right of way to the driver of a horse or a mule , and he shall go to the right of he road. "Violators of these acts shall be fined from ten to one hundred dolara or Imprisoned not more than thirty , days." Before operating a car in any county it is necesary to secure from the clerk of court a certificate saying which is numbered and this number must be placed on the back of the l car. TJie owner's address and a . brief description of the car must be . given. The registration fee is $1. , Ten days are allowed an owner in , which to register his car. A TIME PUZZLE. Residents of Augusta Bothered by ' Four Times. Augusta, Ga., is the only city in the country having four differ! ent times and all of them in use. ! It is on the ninetieth meridian, and ?he railroads i Georgia use Central time, while the Carolina roads en meridian or Eastern time. To tryto avoid confusion the city .has a local time of its own, which is half way between the two. But what really adds to the complicated sitution is t.he fact that farmers in the surrounding country nearby all use "sun" time, which is different from all the others. This last named time is controled by the almanac that is in every Southern farmer's home, especially that of the colored farmer. A stranger has some diflicult and amusing experiences if he stops the average Augusta person on streets and asks the hour. He 's probably told, "It's ten o'clock by Georgia railroad time, .3 0 minutes to ten city time and nine o'clock if you are going out into Carolina." If the person asked i * a farmer th? stranger . if ho will wait until the calculations and an astronomical observation are made, probably w.ill bo furnished with an answer of, ' Well, f reckon stranger, it's about nig.h on to hailpast nine o'clock. A I'TO KILLS TWO. .Machine Collides With Freight With Fatal Itcsiilt. 1 ,f"~ A O T^?nnn.n<l n.1(! OAn 'I frf.fi iVl IS, /\. \j. rivciiian c?n\? iiv", ue?v> i 7, of Arcadia, Fla., are dead; Dr. 1 Robie, of Monticello, is injured to " such an extent that his recovery is & doubtful; L. L. Camp, negro chauf1 feur, will die, and the other occuV pant of the car, A. C. Freeman, husband of the dead woman, is seriously hurt, as the result of an automobile collision with a Central of Georgia - freight train, near Monticello, Ga., t, at seven o'clock Monday afternoon. :1 T.he train was en route to Athens, - and it was thought that the party, - on its way to Macon in a big touring - car, after picking up Dr. Robie, at e Monticello, did not notice the train j or else tried to beat it across the crossing, with fatal results. Three Will Die on Hame Gallows. I f.x,,,- naornao IVItl of thC J 1 in: 11/ll l iiv^i wv>i> v? ? . - ? 3 murder of Motor man S. T. Brown, - in DeKalb county Oa., on April 23, 3 .have been sentenced to hang by t Judge Roan, in the DeKalb county i jail. It is probable that all wili be i hung on the same gallows. The ne groes are: Charles Julian, Jim Black and Ed Weaver and Charley Walker. 1 Jg/9999 yyyyyW | FIRST NATI< A OONW ? CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS PROFITS TOTAL ASSKSTS T DIRE J. A. "McDermott, John ?B. G. CoJlins, H. L,. M. Burroughs, C. P. Q Successor to the Bank jg. Horry County, and a pionet ly allied with the recent d< /|y Republic. Backed by the mi United States Bonds, we are W toniers any reasonable accoi A H. A. SP1VEY, 9 Cashier. BANK O Conwi CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS LIABILITY OF STOCKHOLDEE SECURITY TO DEPOSITORS DIRE Robert B. Scarborough, H. L. Buck, George J. Holiday, We continue to pay 5 per cent inte 11 yuurnufuuui robert b. scarborough, President. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. H. H. WOODWARD Attorney and Councelor At law CONWAY, 8. O. EL B. SO A RB HO UGH CONWAY, S. G. Attorney at Law. H. H. BURROUGHS Physician and Surgeon. CONWAY, S. a B. WOF FORD WAIL Attorney at L? j> I lank of Horry Building. OONWAY, 8. O. m-mm " THE WORLDS 6REATESTSEWIN6 MACHINE teg Ifyou want either ft Vibrating Shuttle. Rotary Shuttle or a Single Thread [Chain atilch\ Sewlug Machine write to THE HEW HOME SlWIHI MACHIHE COMPAHT Orange, Mass. At t L! I _ .. II M ai scwinf mucinncs arc mauc m sen ickmiuichi m Quality, but the New Home is made to weax. Our guaranty never runs out old by authorised dealers oalyt* rOK bAUl IV BURROUGHS & COLLINS CO., Conway, S. O. Fierce llattle Fv pec ted. A clash between whites and btack in Simpson county is imminent a< cording to reports reaching Braxtor Miss., Friday. Posses of arme whites are said lo be scouring th section in search of several neg-oe while the negroes are said to b arming. Oftlcers have been sent t the scene. Shot Mother-ln-Lnw Dead. After shooting and fatally wound ing Mrs. A. E. Parish, his motliei in-law, C. H. McFall, at Moscow Texas, Sunday beat .his wife to deatl with the butt of a revolver. Hi then escaped. McFall Ji? said t< have been drinking. ONAL BANK | AY, 8. O. W ' $25,000.00 2,500.00 125,000.00 jfc CTORS: JP IW C. Spivey, D. T. McNeill, A I*uck, W. R. Lewis, 1). jjji uattlebaum, D. A. Spivey. ^ of Conway, the oldest Dank in Mk ^ ir in Eastern Carolina. Close- jL eyelopment of the Independent /IfliiornmniiJ ?1 *1H HAP.Urod -bV vruf ci liiuvnv v? >ww v WW^ prepared to extend to our cub- Jk amodutions. " B. G. (X)LIJNS, A Wat PieNidcDt. w F HORRY, ly. S, C. $ 50 00T * 10 (XX & 60 0(K 110 00* ACTORS D. V. Richardson, W. A. Johnson, Will A. Freeman, rest on yearly deposits, and we bolicD. V. Richardson, wiu a. frekmab Vice President. Cashier BIG STKAMKD JAMMK1). Six-Foot-Hole Made in Steamer Baltic in >lid*Or?an. With a six-foot bole in her side, the White Star Line Baltic docket Monday at New York while her passengers hurried ashore and congrut uateci themselves on their escape from what might have been a fearful midsea sisaBtcr '!'> < daltic last fhursday Dfght jammed into the oil tank steamer Standard from Philadelphia to Copenhagen. The shock of the impact aroused the sleeping passengers who hurried to the decks in grave ap? prehension. As the Baltic lay rolling in a swelling sea and the wateis washed into the jagged wound la her how. Captain Kaison and his wile - went among the passengers and quieted them. No help was asked for by the oil tank, which drifted off and disappeared in the mist. A patch was placed over the .hole in the Baltic's bow and after a delay of more than two hours she steamed away for New York. A seaman was reported missing after the accident and it wat thought that he was kuocked overboard by the impact. AMBUSCADK BATTLE. Prominent Hanker and Two Others Badly Wounded. J. H. Givens, a prominent banker and mill man, shot from ambush and seriously wounded, Alex Givens and B. F. Finley, shot with a Winchester and probably fatally injured and George T. Coxwell slightly wounded, is the result of tin ambuscade near Falco, Ala., late Thursday afternoon, according to information received at Pensacola. .T. H. Givens was in a buggy when he was fired upon and wounded, but be managed to reach Falco and gave the alarm. Bloodhounds were taken to the scene and took the trail, going to a store about two miles distant. A man named Olan Adair was barricaded in the store and refused to come out. ^ While the posse was preparing to ' make an attack there came several volleys from Winchesters and shotguns from out of the darkness and a farm house nearby, three of the posse dropping to the ground. The sheriff with deputies has hastened from Laurel Hill to the scene and arrests arc expected. ? ? ? WATTERSON IN JAIL. ?'? Son of tllstinguislicd Journalist oil Charge of Shooting. s Ewing Watterson, the son of Col. Henry Watterson, the well known Louisville, Ky., editor, was arraign(* ed Saturday on a charge of assault, e first degree. It is charged that WaiB terson, who is 4 0 years old, shot e and wounded Michael Martin, a ?a? loon keeper at Saugcrties Friday. The prisoner expected his father to spend the Fourth with him and it would bo wrong, said his attorney - in asking for bail, to ask a man of Col. Watterson's age to pass the day In a Jail. The request was later h withdrawn, counsel for Watterson o having decided not to make applicad tlon for bail until Col. Henry Watterson arrives from New York. 1