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SCORES FELDER Blease Bit a Letter Exposing That Geatlemai to the Glare. TRIED TO CHEAT STATE The Letter Claims That' Felder Of^ fered to Form a Conspiracy With ^ II. II. Fvans by Which the State Would be Defrauded Out of a Darge Sum of Money. A letter which Gov. Mease says was written by Thomas B. Felder of Atlanta offering to frame up a $500,000 deal with H. H. Evans, former member of the State dispensary Jboard of control, now under indictment for conspiracy to defraud, was given out Saturday by Gov. Mease v as "his first grain of sand" on the dispensary investigation situation. \ The following is the letter: "Dear Hub: I have just returned from Peoria, 111. I have framed up our company in such a way that we will be able to make all the money out of it by the time your term as commissioner expires as we will reasonably need and you can then retire. 1 want you to think seriously of the vil'iti it'll t/-?li f on Km tf #iti/1 li i # i 1/ /i cin jua ii > > 111 11 i oil i/iji i i, (iiiu in it ivu iiii appointincut as soon as possible, either here or elsewhere, and I can discuss with you more fully and satisfactorily the details. The plan is sufliciently feasible to justify our taking your associates in on the ground floor. It is this: The capital stock of our company at present is $100,000, owned by you and I. It is .all paid for and I have the actual ens tody of the stock. Hull, the general manager of Clark Brothers & Co., wants an interest and we may need him, but not at present. If we can get for October, November and December large orders from Carolina, i can issue $5 0 0,0 0 0 of preferred stock of the company, sell it to parties who have already agreed to purchase; we can divide the proceeds from the sale of the preferred and then do one or two things?sell tlx* common and let some new company run it or run it ourselves. Meantime we will have in hand $250,000 eacn, less such sums as we may have to pay to others to secure business In the meantime. "Now, Hub, T want you to give this matter your serioua consideration and cooperation. If you will do it I will make you a fortune and that very quickly. Write me when and where you will meet me upon receipt of this. We have very little time 'to pull the scheme together.' % Have been working on the plan several months and now have it perfected. I have a brother-in-law in Indiana, a millionaire, who assisted me in working out the plans and will assist me in selling the preferred stock as soon as we can make a good showing. He has, as all other very rich men, accumulated his fortune by the manipulation of stocks. There is enough in the plan to justify us in paying more for business than any one else can afford, as you will perceive. Then, too, as Clark brothers & Co. are the largest distillers in the United States, no one can be criticised for giving them large orders. Whatever is done must be speedily done. Can you get your associates t*o meet us here in Atlanta or in Augusta right away? J Now, Hub, don't dilly-dally a,bout this, for after months of labor my plans are mature and we can make a killing." This letter was signed "T. P." The letter was dated "Atlanta, Pa., October 2, 1905." T. P. Colder yesterday when told of the letter that had been given out by Gov. Please said that "(t was a forgery." lie denied ever visiting Peoria, 111., and said that the letter had been "faked" up by the governor of South Carolina. II. II. Evans, when asked as to the . letter, declared vehemently that he had received the letter in question and many others and that T. P. Folder had tried "to frame up" with several of the members of the dispensary board of control. Gov. Please announced the letter had been obtained after months of hard work. lie said he knew the letim,i hnon written telling of such a deal to H. II. Evans and that it was not. until a few days ago that lie was able to secure the original manuV script. "If. If. Evans told nie that this letter was from T. n. Folder. ' This statement was made by (!ov. Blease. Gov. If lease declares that there is no doubt but that the letter is in the same handwriting as that of T. H. Felder. He placed the letter by several letters from T. 15, Feldci and he said that the handwriting was the same. Gov. Hlease said tha! t.ho original letter was locked np in one of the vaults of a bank in Columbia. Gov. Hlease said that several other persons had read the letter and declared the handwriting to be the same as the letters signed by T. It. Felder. At the conclusion of the letter the following signed by A. W. Todd, It. M. AfcCown and I/. M. Overstreot appears: "We, tho undersigned, have read the original of the above letter and certify that this is an exact copy thereof." It. M. McCown, SOME GOOD JOBS MANY GOOD PLACES FOR THE FAITHFUL DEMOCRATS. Will be Distributed When Congress Meets in ^xtra Session First of Next Month. With the near approach of the assembling of the sixty-second congress the gathering of the office seekers has given the hotel lobbies at Washington an appearance of obi times. While'the extension of the civil service in late years has greatly reduced the number of official positions to lie distributed among the faithful, the new Democratic house will still have at its disposal 5 00 or more jobs, many of them of excellent salary propositions. The two best positions are those of clerk of the house and sergeantat-arms.' They pay $5,000 each a year. The doorkeeper's place pays $4,500, and is next best on the lisc, these being big jobs, and a few more of the $8,000 and $3,500 class are filled by party caucus. There are more good positions under the clerk of the house than in any other branch. The journal clerk draws $4,000, the chief clerk $4,000, the reading clerk $3,000, tally clerk $8,000, parliamentary clerk $3,000, printing clerk $2,500, disbursing clerk, $2,500, file clerk $2,750, enrolling clerk $3,000. In addition, there are more than fifty minor clerks under the clerk of tlie house drawing anywhere from $750 a year to $2,250. There is another set of employes under the sergeant-at-arms. The deputy makes $2,500 a year, the cashier $2,000, and nine or ten more, who make $712 a year up to $2,500. The house postmastership is a comfortable berth. It pays $2,000 annually, and there is an assistant who gets $2,000. Also there are twelve messengers to distribute the mail and receive for their work $ 1 200 a year each. The largest number of employes in any one branch works under the doorkeeper. There are no less than seventy-two of them. The assistant doorkeeper gets $2,500 a year, while the assistants and others in that department get paid from $7 50 a year up to $2,250. The superitendent of the house document room draws $2,500 a year, and his chief assistant $1,8 00. There are about ten other assistants who are paid $1,200 to $1,400 for their services. In all there are about sixty jobs in the house folding room. These employes fold and send out the speeches of the individual congressmen. The superintendent of the folding corps gets $2,500 a year, and the / >( 1w>pu 'i r/i rtai/i frnm t 111)11 a 49 OHO wuil I o ill V* |/U1U Ill/Ill V W v v I/Vy yM^v v v a year. The other house employes Include ten cloak room attendants, who get about $1,000 a year each, and there are twice that many pages who are on the rolls at $75 a month during sessions. * Workmen Find Skeleton. Workmen installing a heating system at Alvah S. Brainerd's house, near Hazardville, Mass., found a keg in an old-fashioned chimney containing a human skeleton. The remains were those of a child. Nothing was left but the bones and a few ashes. The Brainerd family is at a loss to explain the mystery. * ? Causes Sensation. A sensation has been caused in London financial circles by the suicide of It. F. Carnegie, manager of the Lombard Street branch of Parrs Bank, Limited, who shot himself at his residence Friday. The affairs of the institution are said to be in perfect. order. * secretary of state, and A. \V. Todd is a member of the house. II. If. Evans, when asked last night why lie gave the much-desired letter to Gov. Blease, refused to make a statement, stating that he was not being cross-examined. "Why certainly," lie said, "Tom Feldor wrote me several letters offering to 'frame up' a big deal. Tie came to Newberry with Hull and I told them to put their proposition in writing. The letter that CJov. Bloaso der which I turned down. 1 swear on gave out is the proposition of Fela million stacks of Bibles that Tom Feldor wrote me that letter and if you will come up to Newberry I will toll you some hot stuff about other deals that they tried to frame up. It is a bona tide letter and I swear it. I can prove by living witnesses that Tom Folder wrote the letter. You don't know half the inside business and if you will come up here 1 wih toll you all about it. (lov. Bloaso declared that he had many loiters wmon would cause sensations and that they will be given out at the proper time. "Have you any information as to the acts of the members of the old Stato dispensary winding-up commission that would show unfair dealings?" he was asked. "Not so far. I know they are all honorable men. I have heard rumors about them," was the reply. "Will you sign the measure authorizing an investigation of the dispensary?" "I have not yet decided," was the answer. I ? PROVE FALSE Mrs. and Miss Bull Accused of Smuggling Valuable Necklace. BAGGAGE IS SEARCHED Th? Tip Given Custom House Oilicials Turns Out to bo Untrue?Oicr Zealous Customs Authorities Find Minor Undervaluation of Clothing. The Victims ure Very Indignant. - J J 1- * T K in? wire anu uhukiuci ui Mull of Savannah, Ga., one of the wealthiest and most influential men in the South, were required to disrobe in their stateroom aboard the steamship Lusitania at New York on Friday while a customs inspectress, acting on a mysterious tip, subsequently found to be false, made a vain search for a diamond necklace thought to have been purchased abroad. The search proving futile, Mrs. Mull and the daughter, Miss Eliza Lamar Hull, were allowed to proceed to their hotel, where another daughter, Miss Nina Hull, convalescing from an attack of typhoid fever, had preceded them without having been subjected to search. The necklace rumor dismissed, customs inspectors searched the fain 5ly baggage, and, charging undervaluation in the case of Mrs. Hull and Miss Eliza Hull, seized the articles in question. Mother and daughter claimed they had acted in good faith, but their explanations were not considered satisfactory to Collector Loch and the articles were seized. They consist entirely of wearing apparel and will be held until "the home value," that is the foreign cost, plus duty, is paid. Joseph Hull, the husband and father, was on the pier to greet his wife and daughter, as was a son, Daniel, a cotton broker in this city. All were indignant at the proceedings and threaten to carry the matter to the courts if necessary. "We were made to take off even , our stockings," said Mrs. Hull. "EvaHfnVi r\t nur f lnfllillP' W.IK , CI J Ol/i tCii V/ A- V/U4 vy.w j searched and even our hair did not escape. I consider this treatment an outrage and I had no idea such a thing could happen on American , soil." It was explained for the family , that the report concerning the necklace had probably come from Savannah, where there was jealousy over ( the fact that the Hulls were forcu nate enough to afford luxuries and j finery. As to the undervaluation i charges, Daniel Hull said: "My sister Eliza was the only one of the three who had previously < been abroad, so I and my father sent wireless to be very cautious and par ticular in making their declarations, i As to the alleged undervaluation, the ( total can be no more than $150 and that was due to ignorance of my mother and sister and was done with , 110 malicious intent." "My sister Eliza has a diamond ( necklace which she purchased five , years ago in Savannah. A customs inspector there heard of this and got the mistaken impression that she ] bought the trinket in Paris and was l bringing it with her on this trip. Of < course she had no such jewels." It was pointed out at the law do- 1 partment of the custom house to- < night that federal authorities have ; full power to search passengers sus- i pected of having dutiable articles 1 concealed about them, and it was added that there has never been a suit brought as the result of such a t search. ; Joseph Hull came on here from i Savannah to meet his returning wife and daughter. I-Io is president of i the Merchants' National hank of that l city, chairman of the board of di- ; rectors of the Savannah Trust company, a director of the Central rail- l road and president of the Prairie < Phosphate company. He is credited * with having made many millions out I of "phosphate properties. * j t Divorce ill Siv Months. i Nevada's popularity as a place for 1 quick action in divorce cases was in- 1 creased Friday night. The legisla- ( tare let. down the bars further. r?otn houses passed a bill making a resi- 1 dence of six months the only require- ( nient in divorce actions. The privilege of leaving the state "when necessary" will ho accorded all who establish their residence there. * Suicides After Five Trials. > At Hartford, Conn., Mrs. Sarah E. ( Ash bell tried four times to kill her- i self, and on her fifth trial was sue- i cessful. Thursday, she tried hang- , ing and her husband sat up all night to keep watch over her. While lie , dozed, Mrs. Ash hell drank carbolic , acid, and the husband woke to lind j her dead. + They Are Safe. American citizens held as prison- ' ers of war by Mexican author'tiea c at Caas Grandes, who have been re- ( ported in danger of execution, are ; safe and assured of fair treatment, 1 according to telegraphic advices re- 1 ceived by the state department from t Amereian consular officers in Mori- 1 co. * 1 LIST YOUR LAND i ? IF YTOU HAVE ANY YOU WISH TO SELL TO SETTLERS. Many Letters From the North and West are Flooding the Office of Secretary Watson for Information. The department of agriculture is receiving hundreds of letters from investors and business men in the west and north relative to the farm lands of this state and as a result a revise list of lands for sale will be issued. Commissioner Watson lias made the following statement which shows the tide of immigration is turning southward: Watson's Statement. "In view of the provisions of Section 6, of the act creating this department and in view of the hundreds of inquiring prospective purchasers of agricultural lands?farm people in other states of the south, in the east, middle west, and even n? the northwest, the department has determined to immediately issue as complete a revised list of available properties as can he collected. We are now prepared to furnish to all land owners, real estate concerns and real estate agents, blanks upon which to list properties with the department for publication in the 1 !> 1 1 land list and enter upon the land list books of the department, the keeping of such hooks being required by law. The blanks referred to clearly designate the information desiren and should he promptly tilled and sent to the commissioner of agriculture without delay. It is my purpose to issue the published land list immediately and a post card from any one asking for blanks, indicating the number of pieces of properties it is desired to list, will bring to him necessary number of blanks. ' 1 T 4- h hnrvti iif t ai?1 tr i t^AC! o l n f n XI Ilcin UV\JII ill lUl I J I ill I'v/om wiv/ ?-v adequately answer all of the specific inquiries that have heen received during the past few months without a great deal of extra work and hence this list is to be issued at the earliest possible moment." In accordance with the terms of Section G, of the act creating this department, information is wanted from land owners desiring their lands to he advertised through the department on the following points: 1. Location?Stating fully portion of county, distance from railroad line and centers of population. 2. Number of Acres?State wheth er capable of being divided into small f ? r> o c_. Alcrk atnfn vl? Vi n f Jirnnnrtinn l/l U V/ LOl n tuv UWUI.V/ TV <4 ?? V i'm " | ' XX m V? vr>a is cleared and what woodland, and the character of the woods. 3. Nature of the Soil?State fully also for what the soil is best suited, naming the crops and setting forth the average yield per acre for > the different crops, together with the average amount of fertilizers us- ; ed in past experience. , 4. The Lay of the Land?State ; whether level or rolling, and indicte drainage facilities. 5. Water Supply?State whether j creeks or .branches are on the prop- , erty and average depth at which . water is secured in wells. , G. Give a rought plat of land, if possible. (This may be done on the ] back of the descriptive sheet on j space for that purpose.) 7. Prices?at which you will sail Hie land, in bulk or broken into small farms, and terms upon which | rou soil. The prices quoted must be lived up to for a period of three months from the date of listing. 8. bands for Settlement Purposes ?Quote terms for tracts of not less Ihan 1,000 acres and up to 10,00?> icres, or more. The larger the tract the easier handled. In giving the information asked for, till the blank spaces under number corresponding to the questions on , accompanying sheet. Tracts of land which the timber lias been freshly cut, which would be , suitable for farming operations, dock raising and fruit growing, particularly such as can be divided into tracts of 100 acres or less, are paricularly desired. If your lands are n the hands of a real estate agent, lote the fact in filling the accompanying sheet, and give tlie address pf the agent. Prospective purchasers will he isked to communicate direct with pwners or agents. E. J. Watson, Commissioner. * ^ i ltohhcri Mrs. Hryan. Mrs. William Jennings Hryan was ( obbed at the Maiectis Theatre Xew ifork of a handsome seal hand hag, ;ontaining $7.") and valuable souvelirs collected by her and her hus)and In their recent (ravels, last. Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Stephen lb \yres, wife of the Congressman, vhose guests Mr. and Mrs. Bryan vere in the Bronx, made the fact. \n lil Sn ? ? Hoscucd Alive. At Kansas City for fifteen minutes I'hursday lOrnest Iloldinger, a laborer, was buried under eight feet of lirt in a well, but he was rescued ilivo and physicians say he suffered 10 serious injury. lie was at tho bottom of a sixteen-foot well when he wall caved in. Workmen heard bis cries and dug him out. He was unconscious. THE PRESS MEN Ye Editors Will Visit the City ot New York Very Early in June. WILL TRAVEI BY WATER This Trip Preferred to Editor Foolilm'u (liitin <r Stufp I'l-rsti Association Meets in Columbia? Incentive Committee Passes on Plans for Annual Convention. In order to suit the convenience of Governor Wood row Wilson, who will be the chief guest of honor, the dates of the annual convention of the South Carolina Press association in Columbia this year were changed from May 30 and 31 and June 1, to May 3 1 and June 1 and 2, at a meeting of the executive committee, held Thursday afternoon in President August Kohn's office. Governor Wilson delivers June 1, at noon, the baccaulaureate address at the University of North Carolina, in Chapel Hill, and speaks on the evening of June 2 to the editors of this State, in the Columbia theatre. After his address Dr. Wilson will bo complimented with a reception in Flinn hall, at the University of South Carolina, on which occasion the former Columbian will bo greeted in person bv many who knew Woodrow Wilson the boy during his fathers residence here as a professor in Columbia seminary. Sentiment being strongly in favor of a trip to New York by water, the committee regretfully declined an invitation strongly urged upon it to have the editors, before or after their meeting in Columbia, take a "Seeing South Carolina trip," of two clays, including visits to the Winnsboro granite quarries, to Winnsboro itself, to Chester, to Wintlirop College and to the Great Falls hydro-electric plant of the Southern Power company. It was deemed impracticable for the association to undertake both outings this year. The "Seeing South Carolina" trip was urged by a delegation headed by Mr. J. Frank Fooshe, editor of the WinnsDoro inows ana iterant, ana including besides Col. Jas. Q Davis, the Winnsboro banker; Manager J. C. Thorn of the Winnsboro CJranite corporation, Rion, and Dr. D. D. Johnson, president of Winthrop College, Rock Hill. It was said, among other things, that the Winnsboro quarry is the largest commercial undertaking in the utilization of monumental granite in the world and the only plant of the kind in the United States the product of which has an international distribution. The mechanical plant alone represents an investment of about $300,000. Mr. Fooshe said that few ot the editors of the State had any adequate idea of tho magnitude of the Southern Tower company's operations. Mr. Fooshe credited Col. Davis with being the originator of the Southern Power company. Dr. Johnson said Winthrop earnestly desired in opportunity of entertaining the newspaper folk and he would particularly like to give the editors a din? * -? i\ our /I 1 nl n cv 1 1 /\f II 1*1, III Lllt^ U(ll liuiiiih nun \f I ho college, which comfortably seats 1,2 00 persons. Fifty dollars will cover the necessary expenses of the Now York trip. The usual rate of $2 2 from CharlesIon to New York and return, this including transportation, meals and berths, has been cut in half for the editors by the Clyde Steamship company, and for $l.r>0 per person each group of four people in the party will have, at the Woodward hotel in New York, a suite of two bed rooms, a sitting room and a bath room. A club breakfast will cost 7cents. The visitors will take their luncheons and dinners wherever they like, paying for them what they please. The party will sail on the (lrst Clyde boat leaving Charleston northbound after the adjournment of the convention, which will end on the night of June 2. Half rates have been se mired for the editors from a sightseeing automobile company of New York. The committee informally expressed its appreciation of the efforts of Messrs. F. Barron Gricr of Greenwood, Frank it. Gary of Abbeville and Howard B. Carlisle of Spartanburg to put .just libel laws upon the statute books of the State. Mr. Crier cave much of bis time and attention to preparing the bill and Mr. i Gary in the house and Senator Carlisle had it passed. Governor Blease has said he will veto this measure. The addresses and essays by members were planned, but announcement will not be made until the sec-j rotary, Mr. It. L. Freeman, hears from the persons so Invited. It was decided to invite as special guests this year Messrs. .John \\\ | Holmes of Barnwell ami Charles Pet- , ty of Spartanburg, veteran editors, who were members of the famous Wallace house in IS7t>. Col. It. A. Thompson, surviving member of the Secession convention, will also be invited speoiallw Three members were added to tho roll yesterday. Messrs. W. H. .lones of Columbia, editor of School News; McDavid Ilorton of the Columbia Record, and Leon M. Green of the Columbia bureau of the Charleston ' WILSON A WINNER COL. HARVEY POINTS TO HIM AS i WINNING HEAD. Declares That Only Progressive Dera* ocrat Has a Chance to Carry Ran* tier in Triumphant Campaign. I "Careful diagnosis of the present temper of the people clearly indicates that, if an election were to be held tomorrow, a Democratic candidate regarded by the people less progressive than President Taft would he defeated, and that candidate generally recognized as being more progiessive, mo?'e liberal, more radical, if you like, than President Taft would almost as surely win." So declared Col. Harvey of New York, in regard to the next presidential campaign, in the concluding address at the 00th annual banquet of the Hibernian society at Savannah Friday night. Then he said: "Let the apportionment of responsibilities be even. The West has rut nished the party, as well as the opposition, with the majority, thougn not tlit' greatest, ot its issues. l to South is to enforce harmony and amalgamation. The East presents the man ? Wood row Wilson, tho highly Americanized Scotch-Irishman, descended from Ohio, horn in Virginia, developed in Maryland, married in Georgia and now delivering from political bondage the Stato of New Jersey." These two statements from the framework of Col. Harvey's address on "The Problem, the Solution and the Man," or, reduced to plain English, the chance the Democratic party has of electing a president in lhl!2. With Gov.( Wilson of New Jersey as the candidate, Col. Harvey sees the party's success. The Hibernian society banquet was the climax to an unusual celebration of St. Patrick's day which, began with a military parade, various Irish society meetings and church services. In addition to Col. Harvey's addresses were made at tho banquet by Michael J. Jordan of Boston, Mass.; Congressman William G. Brantly of Georgia; Murphy G. Candler, railroad commissioner of Georgia; Georgia Supreme Court Justice Joseph II. Lumpkin; tho Rev. Dr. Charles H. Strong of Savanhah and Thos. W. Loyless, editor of the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle. * GALLMAN HUGGKD GOVEltNOIt, Please Personally Delivered Parole to Convict. J. W. Gallman, who was paroled from the penitentiary by Governor Please Thursday, came up to Jonesville Friday morning and then went to Lockhart, where hie family resides. Gallman was serving a fifteen-year sentence for killing Sims Gilmore, in Jonesville, on tho 16th of May, 1 907. Gallman says that day before yesterday afternoon, about three hours before the time for the work at tho penitentiary to close, Governor Hleaso drove down in his carriage and called for him, and he was brought out to the ofhee and the Governor asked linn if he wanted to go home. He told him he "sure did" and the Governor said: "Here is a parole for you." Gallman says he hugged the Governor till he hardly knew when to let him loose. Gallman said he never felt so good in all his life, and he was shaking hands with his friends and was happy, indeed. He went down to Loekhart on the mid-day train, to join his family, a free, happy man. * Klertric I at tups Cheaper. As the first direct result of tho Government's anti-trust, suit against the so-called "lOlectric Lamp Trust," flw\ /lutui ih nit t < \ t' i tud i tie It u o i in i#i juoiivr iitio i vi'Vi * od intimations that the prices of all electric bul.bs will be reduced 33 1-3 per cent all over the I'nited States. By such a cut in present prices, folks who buy the electric lamps will savo more than $6,000,000 a year. The* department, continues to receive word that the various pools in the so-called trust are breaking up, in anticipation of suits. * (touted by Women. One otllcer fatally wounded, another with a finger shot off antf a third frightened from the scene, is the result of a battle between threo women on one side at Long Fork, near the Pike and Letcher County border, in Kentucky, Wednesday afternoon. Two Killed. A special from Selina, Ala., says:! At Jones' switch, near here, two chil < l rt'ii wrir i\ n n'w tiuii iv i io, v. ouU* dors and Mrs. 10. G. Gossett, their moihers, and a third child wore lnjnrod. by being caught, under a pilo of lumber, which fell on them as they were walking by. * News and Courier. The members of the committee present were: Messrs. August Kohn, William Hanks and W. 10. Gonzales of Columbia: 10d 11. DeCamp of Caffney and .1. C. M ice of Marion. The visiting members went out to the Colonia in the afternoon and were much pleased with the headquarters of tho association. Manager Whistler showed them all over the hotel. *