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jjjj I FELDER SAVED Br Cmritr Bnwa Tarn Dam Gmmr Bleut's Rcqaisiliaa FOR ATLANTA LAWYER ? The Decision at Hearing in Atlanta Thursday Based on Contention of Felder's Lawyers that the Papers from South Carolina Executive i Were Inadequate. Governor Brown, of Georgia, on Thursday refused to honor requisition papers, issued by Governor Blease, of South Carolina, for Thos. B. Felder, an Atlanta attorney, for whom a warrant has been sworn out in Newberry, S. C., charging him with attempted bribery of H. H. Ev aas, a former member of the old State dispensary board. The contention of Mr. Feldtr's ar* torneys, that the requisition papers were inadequate because they lacked affidavits to Indicate that any person had specific knowledge of the alleged offence, was sustained bfy Governor Brown. The papers merely Included a copy of a warrant charging that "one B. F. Kelly, from information presented to him, believed T. B. Felder, on the ? of October, 1905," offered or promised, "certain gratuities or gifts," to H. H. Evans. When Governor Brown told Mr Felder that he had denied extradition, the latter replied that he "probably would be going to South Carolina very soon" 011 his own accord. He declared his innocence of any attempt to bribe and asserted that the 1 warrant was merely a subtefuge on ! the part of his enemies to get him , into the State. "I would like to see your creden- j tials," demanded Mr. Felder, when v W. A. Holman, of Charleston, S. C., arose to address the Governor to argue for honoring the requisition. "I want to know who is back of tnese charges." I am here merely as a lawyer re ii 11? : ^ ^ e presenting soven^n oiaie ui South Carolina," replied Mr. Holman. "As to anything back of these charges, I know nothing. My credentials, as you will see, are signed by Governor Please.'' Mr. Holman asserted that the Con stitutlon of the United States left the Executive of a sister state no discetlon in the matter, when the Executive of one State issued a requisition upon the other for a person in another State. "I recognize that the Constitution of the United States is the principal compelling power," said the Govern? ttu..*- * u ~ r..n/,?tnn o. ur, uui tut? l uutiivyu wl c* iiui Is to protect the interests of citizens of his Statae when that State's laws are not complied with." The mere fact that the papers alleging the crime charged against Mr. Felder were accompanied by a certificate bearing the seal of Governor Blease, was not sufficient evidence of crime to warrant him, he said, to grant the extradition. Several prominent members of the Georgia Bar addressed the Governor in behalf of Mr. Felder, and cited numerous precedents in which courts In Georgia and other States had declined requisition because the papers 1 did not conform to the laws of the State upon whose Executive they were issued. The alleged cause underlying the j request for extradition?personal an- ^ Imosity between Mr. Felder and Gov. t Blease, resulting from differences in t connection with the winding up of r the old South Carolina State dispeneary system?was not brought out at the hearing which proceeded the 1 denial of the request. It was allud- f ^ .1 A. _ i i j i.n.. i ti . i 1 i eu to incidentally oy Air. reiuer, wno j declared that he had Intended to s make a statement baring the entire ^ matter, but the attorneys represent- ( ing him had found sufficient flaws in ^ the requisition papers as to make it v unnecessary to inject personalities ^ Into the proceedings. "It is not a matter in which personalities should enter," commented the Governor. George Was Alright. i And now comes the story that p George Washington could on occa- 1 eions stretch his blanket, and thus * would the delvers into the past shat- G ter another fond tradition. Coming 1 after the assertion that the old gen- c gloman would sometimes indulgd in N full round oaths, and that he was a f tax dodger, it will all come as a c painful shock to those hero worship- { pers who Imagined, or thought they I did, that Washington was superior to c any human weakness. We do not e believe all that is being said about s the Father of his Country, but if they are true sensible and level 1 beaded men and women will not t think any less of the great and no- 1' ble George Washington. Not that ^ they approve of moral infirmities, a but for the reason that in spite of b limitations, which all men to some P extent possess, he was so great, so c exalted and so noble, and that his t< service to his country and to &U * mankind was of so transcendent a tl character. George Washington was tl a true, unselfish patriot, his great- s< ness will grow brighter as the years b roll by. A V , . <Zr7vfA) ' > / . ' v'* y yic x?r ;T: "r vi :,7 1EADER OF BANDITS ? CHARGE MADE AGAINST RESPECTED PHYSICIAN. In the Daytime a Highly Respected Citizen and Doctor and at Night a Burglar. IBy day a respected practicing physician and mayor of a Minnesota city. By night the brains of an incendiary and robber band and using his scientific knowledge in the preparaton of explosives to be used in felonies. This the Jekyll and Hyde personal lty me ueiecuves ueneve nas ueen revealed by the arrest of Dr. T. T. Dumas, mayor of Casn Lake, Minn., and owner and manager of the Cass Lake baseball team. The mayor has been arrested, the warrant charging "wilful, malicious and felonious destruction of property." This followed a battle between a posse and two men caught blowing open a safe at Puposky, near Cass Lake. It was then anounced by the detectives working on the case and the assistant state fire marshal that Dr. Dumas was suspected of leading a gang which has operated in Minne sota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, and other northwestern states, and said by the police to have been employed by merchants to rob safes and set iire to buildings for the insurance. It is declared to have included several men of prominence in northwestern communities. The mayor obtained his liberty by giving bond. He asserted that he was the victim of a police conspiracy and declared "some one" should suffer. He was present when the safe at his oflice was opened and found to contain six sticks of dynamite and four dynamite caps. He had hastened from the bedside of a patient to give up the combination of the safe,, so that an expert who had arrived from St. Patul would not have to blow the safe open. He joked at the discovery. "The worst is tey to come," was his comment. The opening of the safe was pre ceeded by a cuase mrougn uie woous near Puposky after "Mike" Davis who with "Billy" Bean, was trapped by detectives at Puposky. Bean was wounded and captured. Davis is also wanted on charges of having killed a policeman in Chicago and another at iMinnetonka, Minn., during robberies several months ago. Pinkerton detectives have a stenographic report of what they claim were the plans for the Puposky robbery, as given the two robbers in the John Larson saloon by Mayor Dumas. WILL REMAIN THE SAME. There Will be No Change in State Board of Education. Governor Blease, in positive language before the State board of education Saturday, declared that there will be no change in the personnel of the board. The statement was made at the session of the board this morning, and this evening the press was furnished with a stenographic report of what Governor ( Blease had said to the board at its session Saturday. Governor Blease, in addition to ' making the final assertion that the 1 members of the State board of education would not be removed, outlined his position with regard to :he adoption of school books. In ( his respect his statement was prarically the same as that printed in Phe News and Courier a few days ' i go. ( Governor Blease also reviewed \ he Waddy Thompson incident, re- ' erring to the adoption of history looks. Among other interesting itatements Governor Blease made re erenoe to the reported presence of . letectives in Columbia at this time vho, he asserted, were here "to vatch lis," according to the informaion Governor Blease has in the natter. Worse than Bull Fighting. The speed auto races like that held ecently in Indiianapo|is serve 110 ;ood purpose, but rather the reverse, t is notorious that many of the specators attended because they expectd to see any number of accidents, n all this a morbid curiosity and a allous indifference to suffering rerealed itself. It is a lamentable act that betting as to the number ?f deaths and other "accidents was reely engaged in and that many >eople were greatly disappointed beause .but one man was killed. Such xhibitions are deetitute of true port and they have a degrading in- x luence both upon those who partic- 8 pate in them and those who witness hem. We are in the habit of readng long lectures to the Spaniards, lexlcans and other Latin peoples t bout the cruelty and barbarity of ft ull fighting In which some of their h eople indulge. Sometimes this C ruel sport among them is attributed h j their decadence as a race. We p rould like to have the Judgment of L hese critics on the auto races and o tie thiret of blood manisfested by )me who attended them. Does such o.rbarities indicate the decadence of a: merlcans as a race? n WILL SAVE WIFE Seailir Like Lea Ofers Biisdf ai Sacrifice ti Rest#re Her GIVES HIS OWN BLOOD The Operation la Entirely Successful and the Youngest United Statef Senator and His Young Wife Arc Hoth Dioing Well After the Transfusion Is Made. United States Senator Luke Lea of Tennessee, to save the life of hie stricKen wire, neroicany sacrmcea a quart of his blood at Georgetown hospital Sunday, and Monday night hope for Mrs. Lea's recovery, which had almost been abandoned, is practically assured. The anxious youngest senator of the nation, as he lies near the bedside of his wife, is recuperating his strength. Mrs. Lea's condition, serious for some time, became alarming Sunday after an operation the day before., ller strength, because of lack of blood, was gone, and vitality was fast ebbing away. Senator Lea, upon learning of her condition, demanded that a transfusion operation be per formed and prepared at once to submit to the ordeal. At his entreaty physicians and surgeons made arrangements immediately, and the operation which followed was declared to have been very successful. Senator Lea withstood the operation well, though it left him so weak that for hours he could not stand alone, but his gratification over the reviving effect it had upon his wife was inexpressible. Surgeons assured him that, without the sacrifice which he made, 'Mrs. Lea could have lived but a few hours. Both are now in Georgetown university hospital. It will be two or three days before Mrs. Lea is altogether out of danger. At present her symptoms are favorable, although she is still very weak. Senator Lea is confined to his bed at tho hnanitnl hlo vUnHtv ho i n c ro. ? ? VV*1?V^ f ^ duced by the transfusion operation. It is expected, however, that he will be able to leave his room in a few days. When heroric effort in Mrs. Lea's behalf became imperative and the transfusion operation determined upon, Senator Lea, athletic in statute, would not consent to anything, but that a sacrifice of his own blood to renew her vanishing strength be made. Tint because a prime factor in transfusion operation is that the blood be fusible, tests were hastily ordered. Before analysis was completed by the eiirpr#ir*n? Tlrs TT D Frv a n rt rjonptrp Tully Vaughn, fearing that death might be swifter than they, became alarmed at Mrs. Lea's condition, and derided on the operation anyway. Just as the Senator's arm had been bared, and a tube inserted in an artery word came that the bloods of the husband and wife were fusible. The other end of the tube which had been inserted in Senator Lea's arm was connected with an incision in Mrs. Lea's arm and the blood began to flow from his veins into those of his wife. The transfusion continued for about an hour and a half. The patient responded to the treatment from the first. Gradually the color was retored to the lips and cheeks of the frail sufferer. Rut as Mrs. Lea's color was restored the flush faded from the cheeks of her husband. When the transfusion hau continued an hour and a half, he imnoi tuned the surgeons noi to arrest he operation while there was the possibility of a doubt as to the out ome in Mrs. Lea's case. Rut the lurjreons, realizing the weakening ei 'cots of such a drain on the senator's system, eventually staunched the low. After the operation Senator f,ea fell to the floor in a faint. He ;vas (mediately placed in bed, and ?. A #1 UIm rw n /I Li t?AAAirAH1f A f >5 iiuw :n ??i\ i iih oinciiuiu iuwuvui j ui lis strength. New Trains on the Southern, Mr. W. F. McGee, division passonver agent of the Southern Railway vith headquarters in Charleston, re ently gave out information to the efeet that the Southern had inaumi ated two new traiftif between Heniersonville, Brevard and Lake Toxiway. Tlie morning train will leave lendersonvllle at 9.20 A M., arrive t Brevard at 10:30 and at aLnke Tox iway at 11.40 A. M. The afternoon rain will leave Ilendersonville at 6.10 P. M., arrive at Brevard at 7.4 0 ind Bake Toxaway at 8.40 P. M. It s announced for the information of Orangeburg patrons of the Southern hat the Carolina Special trains will nake close connections at Hendersondlle with these new trains. The new chedule went into effect last Monday. Tx>st In Canyon. Five English tourists are believed o be either lost or have perished on fount San Bernardino. The party eft ten days ago to explore the Frost Janyon, where ice is perpetual, and ave not been heard of since. The arty included Gus Jordan, Mark andon, George McDonald and two there whose names are not known. see 1 Lorimer is on the rack once more, i nd we believe this time he will be 1 lade to walk the plank. < T ? f?vfr 1 WILL WORK WONDERS I NEW STORAGE BATTERY PER 1 FECTED BY EDISON. Con Be Used in Care, Automobile | and All Kinds of the Ordlnar; Vehicles. Edison's new storage battery which he is now perfecting, will sure i ly work wonders if all that Is sai< of it is true. In speaking of it th< ^ Manufacturer's Record says: Just when the storage battery el ectric car is establishing itself ii favor with street-railway men foi service comes Thomas A. Edisoi with the anounceinent that he has 1 designed a new type of storage bat tery, which is a wonder, and it maj further popularize cars without trolleys. A few days ago he told a reporter of the New York Times aboul the new invention, saying that, although It will run a car or automobile, and, in fact any kind of vehicle, it can be put in a suit case, bei 11 -i i * - t. i i. f ing sniau ana ngnt, yai cuiiiaiiiuie sufficient power for a 50 or 60 mile trip. Moreover, it can be recharged in three or four minutes, whereas the first storage battery he produced required a long time for recharging. Furthermore, if necessary, it can be partly recharged in a minute or loss should time be pressing. He is working along the same line to produce a .battery for heavy services on railroads, doing work as efficiently as steam locomotives do now, and is also quoted as sayin? that one of his storage batteries is working on a butcher's wagon in West Orange, N. J., where Mr. Edison resides, running for 17 miles at an expense of 2." cents. The battery is under the seat, and it is recharged by connection with an ordinary feed wire. He referred to the street car now beiner onerated at Concord. N.C ., saying that the people there were laughing at the rest of the country for using trolley cars. This implied promise of Mr Edison to give the world street-car service at lower operating costs, and without the disadvantage and disfigurement of trolley wires and their accompanying overhead structure, Is most encouraging when read in connection with the reports of success attending the operation of storage battery-cars on cross-town lines in New York, where they have proved so satisfactory that the Third avenue railroad has ordered 35 more of them, which, with 3 0 now in service, will give it a good supply of the new vehicles that are to take the place of horse cars on short routes across the city between the Hudson and the East Rivers. The battery equipment will be furnished by the Electric Storage Battery Company, of Philadelphia. It appears that the railroad has now a little less than 10 miles of line operated with storage battery cars, the rest of its lines being equipped with electric cars of the usual type and a few horse cars. The storage battery vehicles are reported to have worked well in all kinds of weather, and the operating expense was low, while the life of the batteries is greater than anticipated. The cars have also gathered more business for company, as many people would not use the horse cars. S' much has already been accomplished by storagebattery cars that the efforts of Mr. Edison and others to extend their field of usefulness will be observed with deed interest, and reports of greater achievements are anticipated. STORIES ARE UNTRUE. Confederate Veterans Condemn Tliem as Misleading. Atlanta Camp, No. l.r>9, United Confederate Veterans, has passed strong resolutions severely condemning the civil war articles now running in papers all over the country. At a meeting held this week the camp heard a paper by Professor 13. M. Zettler, a member, who denounced the series, as unfair, inaccurate and misrepresenting the truth as regards the confederate side. The paper was received with enthusiasm, and was endorsed without a dissenting voice. A resolution was then introduced and unanimously passed condemning the publications as damning the Southern cause with faint praise, and magnifying everything concerning the union side, it was pointed out that the harm of these articles lay in giving the younger generation of the country an entirely false conception of the confed eracy, and doing terrible injustice to the brave men who fought for a cause they believed in. ? ? Killed at Saw Mill. Ed Culbreath, who lives in Landrum, but who runs a saw mill several miles from that place met his death Friday. It is not known exactly how the dog which held the log struck the saw which sent it with great force, hitting Mr. Culbreath in the forehead:, -crushing the Bkull afcid causing death in a few hours. + Fatal Kleotlon Rlota. A cable from Vienna says it is now known that 18 persons were killed And 25 injured, some of them fatally, when troops ftred a volley Into a ;rowd of election rioters at Dropobcs. " BANK OJE Conwa Hat largetl capital and surplus of i than the combined capital and surf h capital 8took.. .. , surplus f liabilities of stoch security of deposit DIRE( " Robert b. Scarborough, i h.l. Buck, George J. Holiday, " We offer our customers every acc r will justify, and we * ftOBRRT B. BOARBOROUGH, ? I'D va iiicuT A U B4.1 Ai/Ctll ?? Wc continue to pay 5 pe | FIRST NATO i 3k conwa ? CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS PROFITS TOTAL ASSESTS a? DIREO . TO J. A. McDermott, John C , AV B. G. Collins, H. L. E ( M. Burroughs, C. P. Qut /h Successor to the Bank of 1 JL Horry County, and a pioneer TO ly allied with the recent dev M Republic. Backed by the ( United States Bonds, we are P TO tomers any reasonable acoomr fH. A. SriVEY, Cashier. PROFESSIONAIj CARDS. H. H. WOODWARD Attorney and Councelor At Law. CONWAY; S. a K, B. SCARBROUGH CONWAY, S. O. Attorney at Law. D D DITDDATmaa mmm u? AfvmivwiiJP Physician and Surgeon. S^, AWL OONWAT, 8. O. B. WOPFORD WATT. Attorney at La;? Bank of Horry Building. CONWAY, 8. . ?E WORLDS GREATEST SEWIN8 MACHIKI M X X tffuu want el ther a VI bra tin g 8h uttle, flotaif Shuttle or a Mingle Thread [Chain 8titch\ Be wing Machine write to m iCW NOME tiWINO MACHINE COMPASI Orange* Mais* 1 NhWeewfnr machine* are made to tell refttdteatf filhjr, but the New Home U made to wees Oat guaranty never runs out. jMi If authorised dealers eaffw res sals ar j | BURROUGHS A COLLINS OOh I Conway, S. O. ( ~ I He Was Strung tTp. i Wm, Bradford, a negro of Annap- < olltta, tMlss., was hanged by a mob "! near the lawn of Sussky Mitchell, a c farmer of this section. Bradford was enroute to jail In the custody of 5 a sheriff when the lynching party f made its appearance, and after some t argument took the negro. He was a charged with attempted assault on a fl white woman of that county c t F?tl?er Sees Daughter Drown. t Miss Myra Humphries, the 18-year- n old daughter of'Mr. and Mrs. J. d. Humphries, was drowned In Broad River, Just below the Drave Dam, late Friday afternoon. Her father at- a temtped to rescue her, but being a e poor swimmer, was unable to save * her. n "r ^ HORRY, y. S, C. iny bank in Horry county. More Jut of all other banks in the county. tso.ooo 12(501 [HOLDERS .. .. 60,tOO OR8 112,600 ;iors D. V. Richardson. W. A. Johnson, Will A. Freeman. ommodation which their account* solicit your business. >. V. Richardson, will . freema* vlok president. ClflHIBB r cent, on yearly deposits. )NAL BANK| Y, 8. C. X 125,000.00 ^ . . . 2,500.00 fn 125,000.00 ^ TORS: ^ 3. Spivey, D. T. McNeill, /fS tuck, W. R. Lewis, D. iji ittlebaum, D. A. Spivey. ^ 1 Conway, the oldest Bank In Mk in Eastern Carolina. Close- 2? elopment of the Independent CTy jovemmeut and secured by repared to extend to our ou?- 2K nndations. B. G. COLLINS, T President. ? 1 CLARK DEFIES TAFT. As to Taft's Proposal to Veto Any Tariff Legislation. Speaker Champ Clark issued a deft to the Administration Saturday at. Washington, on learning of reports that President Taft had proposed to veto any general tariff legislation at the extra session of Congress. The Speaker in a formal statement, declared that the whole tariff ought to be revised, and that the Democratic party would rest Its case with the country. "The tariff ought to be revised from top to bottom," said Mr. Clark. "The people of the land so decided M last November. That is their latest mandate. The House decided that it was best to revise it schedule by schedule. We have made a good start on that plan. We will continueas we have begun. The country endorses what the House is doing. If the Republican Senate beats our bills, we will appeal to the country, and it ^ will sustain us. We believe we are right. We are not afraid of a contest." ? COSTS LOTS OF MONEY. A ikon Has to Pay Her Share 011 New County Project. Treasurer Wesley Yonce, of Aiken,. County has just paid to 1). V. Heeves anu A. K. jNichoison, surveyors, $10,<18.75, which was their bill for Aiken county's portion of the expenses, of surveying the proposed Heywara ^ county last winter. The bill was presented to the county commissioners .vho refused to pay it on the ground of exorbitant charge, the charge being the full amount the law -allows, 52,500 for both counties, this being about $40 a day for the time con sumed in the work. When the commissioners refused to pay it the surveyors drew on the county treasurer, who held the matter up until the controller general was consulted. The / Comptroller general referred the matter to the attorney general, who advised the treasurer that he would have to honor the draft. TWO fllllhS PKH1SH. V ? Houseboat Destroyed by Accidental Fire at Nantucket. At Nantucket, iMaRS., on Saturday ;wo young women, Henel Wilson, of ^ew York city, and Mildred PeHaven, )f Drooklyn, lost their lives in a fire vhich destroyed a house boat owned >y William Williams, Jr., of New fork. Several others were injured, >ne of them, Thomas Kean, of New fork, so badly that he may not resover. According to the story told by the roung people who were saved, the Ire started by a match thoughtlessly hrown on a recently oiled floor. In f in instant the room was filled with lames and those who escaped did so nly by jumping overboard. The >odies of the dead were recovered, iut both were burned beyond recognition. Killed by Lightning. During an electric and rain storm C t Great Falls near Chester on Friday vening, Robert Wilson, colored, was truck and Instantly killed by light- ? ing while at work In a field.