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* f MUST TOE MARK All At Ctaatj Ditftmij barfs Bear ^ Fraai Gareratr Bleatc. SUE VERY PLAIN TALE He Say* He Underatonds That They 1 Are Patronizing Liquor Houses That Defrauded the State, and That Thev Must Cease to Do So. or Suffer Removal. "It is my positive intention to remove members of County boards of control who have bought goods from houses that defrauded the State under the State dispensary system, unless these members can show some very sound excuse," said Governor Blease Friday afternoon, when asked about a letter he had dispatched to the chairmen of the six county dispensary .boards. Inquiring whether they were dealing with houses shown tip in an unfavorable light by dispensary investigations. Gov^nor Blease reinforced this letter, of date July 10, by a further ^ message Friday, which was forwarded by telegraph except in the case of the Richland board, to whom it was mailed. This second message reads: f "In my opinion you should not purchase goods from any house that ad) mits it defrauded the State under the "State dispensary system, and I request that you do not. 'A word to f the wise should be sufficient.' " Governor Blease said Friday: "I tiave called on Dispensary Auditor M. v II. Mobley to furnish me with the names of the members of the county boards of control, a report of their purchases and a list of those houses that admitted defrauding the State in | connection with the old State dispensary. The boards of Aiken, Rlcnland and Charleston have been heard from. iMembers of the Georgetown board called at my office Thursday, *%-* ? T ??n n TtrliVi tVl A Qf O f n j UIH X w?n nitu i,uv ututv board of education and could not see them. They left, saying they would f Teport by mail. I have heard nothIng from Beaufort or Florence. iMem* T)es of the Richland hoard say they have complied with the law and conducted their business strictly and honestly. The Charleston board says It has been guided rigidly by the law as interpreted by County Attorney J. N. Nathans and have 'conscientiously done their duty, having received no rebates.' If any further ^ purchases are made by any county board from houses that admitted defrauding the State and paid back the money, I shall immediately remove the members of such board unless sufficient excuse la given." The letter which first indicated the governor's attitude in the matter was as follows: Gentlemen: I am informed that t almost all of your purchases are made from houses which have heretofore been proven guilty of robbing or at least defrauding South Carolina. I know that some of those from whom you purchase have admitted that they defrauded the State of South Carolina and made good for at least a part of what they had defrauded her out of. I understand that you are purchasing from houses represented by Roy Early, Sigo Myers, Trager, M. H. Myers, Wylie and othes. If you make purchases fr^m these houses, knowing the facts, I feel that it Is my duty to remove you ^ from office, unless you can give a satisfactory explanation therefor. If these men defrauded the State and confessed it, why will they not rob vour county and confess it? If they rebated the State board, as some of them swore, will they not rebate you, if you will accept It? From complaints coming to nie, there are people who believe you will accept it. Why lay yourselves open to these criticisms, when it could be so easily 1 avoided? Why put my administrate in the position of being criticised, as it is being criticised, by such actions on your part? Please give me such Information as you have along this line, and I hope l that it will be satisfactorily to the * public. If you think it will not be satisfactory, your resignation will save your removal. Very respectfully, Cole L. Please, Governor. The Richland County dispensary board Is composed of Messrs. John J. Cain, Jos. D. Mlot and W. H. Gaston. The Charleston board is composed of Messrs. B. H. Rutledge, Arthur Lynch and John Marshall. ? ? t < Negro Died In Jail. At Bennettsville, "Son" Currle, a negro who was convicted at the recent term of court, charged with assault and battery with Intent to kill, and sentenced to the public roads for > 12 months, died in the county Jail, ^ Friday morning whth Appendicitis. ( His father took his body, which was buried by the county. t t t She Was Ijocked Up. Because she said she "wanted to discuss the hookworm disease with President Taft," and acted queerly, Mrs. Emily Peterson, whose home is believed to be in New Tork City, is held at Washington by the police for examination into her sanity. . V'-- ::y.^ '* IK TflE WAGES OF SIN VOUNG MAN WHO ROBS UNCLE SAM LANUS IN PEN. Stole Fort/ Thousand Dollars From Battleship Georgia, oa Which He Was Clerk. I After a meteoric career, Whose lavish expenditures rivaled the fabled prodigality of "Coal Oil Johnny," Edward Valentine Lee, erstwhile paymaster's clerk on board the United States battleship Georgia, having confessed his crime, will soon take up his residence in the federal prison at Atlanta to serve a term of several years. By a strange irony of fate, Lee, who only three months ago, startled Atlanta as a young Croesus, living in a palatial suite at Atlanta's best hotel, showering Jewels, dinners, theatre parties and auto rides on a pretty manacure girl, will now return to this very city to be clothed In convict gray and expiate in a cell at the federal ipenitentiiary the crime by which he obtained the gold thai burned his fingers. Lee's career as a spendthrift has few parallels in criinonology. Scarce had he looted the cruiser's safe on Feb. 17 and disappeared from the fleet before a mysterious individual of the name o A. W. Carmichael commenced a meteoric career as "prince of spenders" in the cities of "prince o spenders" in the cities of the Southern Atlantic seaboard. This seeming millionaire endeared himself to the hearts of hotel waitresses, bellboys and chauffers by passing out $100 bills as though they were cigar coupons. Early in his wanderings he turned up in Atlanta, Ga., where in a few short days he distributed sufficient money to make him known throughout the continent. He presented a lady manacuri8t with a $1,000 bank note for the pleasure of her company during a taxacab ride and tipped the chauffer with the comparative moderate sum of $100. The waiter who served his table received $50 after each meal as an incentive *o prompt service. A bellboy with a jug of ice water invariably drew a $20 bank note for his trip upstairs. The publicity that this lavishness brought him made a quick move nee essary, and young Lee, with the Government detectives one jump in the rear, changed his quarters successively to Washington, New York, Philadelphia and several Southern cities, .becoming acquainted on the route with a Miss Audrey Kelsey, who consented to share the young spendthrift's fortune. In March they went to Europe, where he was easily trailed by the readiness with which he dispensed his spoils. On June 8 he sailed for Quebec, where he and his companion spent several days in sight-seeing. A little later Miss Kelsey evinced a desire to visit her parents in Buffalo, and Carmichael, with a recklessness that had characterized his. course after the theft, accompanied her. He was arrested in Buffalo on June 21, and a few days later was married to the young woman who had been his companion during his extensive wanderings. HIDDEN MONEY FOUND. Gaynor and Greene Concealed Nearly a Million. Three quarters of a million dollars has been recovered from the concealed assets of Gaynor and Greene, who defrauded the government of two million dollars In Savannah harbor dredging contracts in 1897 according to a dispatch from Washington. E. I. Johnson, an expert accounta'nt, and United states JLMSlTlCl AUorney unarion Erwin of Savannah, Georgia, are responsible for the recovery. Most of the funds recovered were In bonds and stocks. More than $2,000,000 was In cash. These assets were found In New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Denver. Some bonds were located in Paris, but they could not be recovered. Johnson and Erwin have been searching for these assets for 12 years. * ? Booze Under Straw. Being suspicious of the looks of a wagon filled with straw which was passing his front gate, at Dalton, Ga., Tursday, Police Chief Fincher called to the driver to stop. He then made a thorugh examination of the contents of the wagon and found a goodly supply of old mountain corn whiskey covered up under the straw. * ? Honey Bee Wrecks Auto. While drivin an automobile near Hartford, Conn., a little honey bee lighted on the nose of George Steel and used his stinger to good advantage. Steel let go the wlieel with both hands and a moment later was lying under his car at the side of the road. ? ? Three Rescuers Drowned. The wireless operator at Surf, Cal., received a message at 10.15 p. m. Friday night from the Centralla saying that the second mate and two seamen of the Helen P. Drew were drowned while attempting to take a life line to the Santa Rosa. * WHAT WAS DONE Th* Citatii Tntttei Fils Vacua** ail Create* New Chair*. I CHANCES AT COLLEGE Board of V isitors -Elected and Other Itusin?w Transacted. . Financial Statement for the Fiscal Year. Branch School In the Pee Dee Section Referred to Committee. The annual meeting of the board of trustees was held at Clemson on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week. The budget of expenditures for the fiscal year beginning July 1 was acted upon and other business transact ed. Dr. R. N. Brackett, who has been, acting director of the chemical departmet during, the past year, since the retirement of Col. Hardin, was elected director. Prof. D. H. Henry was elected associate professor of chemistry. Prof. S. B. Earle, who succeeded the engineering department was elected director of the engineering department. Prof. E. T. Dargan, who has been assistant professor of electrical engineering, was elected professor of electrical engineering. The title of consulting professor of engineering was conferred upon President Riggs. Mr. J. A. Dew, a graduate of Clemso, class '11, was elected assistant in entomology. Mr. F. E. Tar.box was elected assistant to the agronomist of the experiment station, and Mr. W. B. Aull, who has been conducting the seed analytical work of the department of agriculture, was elected assistant to the botanist of the experiment station to assist, in the new "Adams problem, The Cause and Prevention of Cotton Shedding." The following new positions were created: Military assistant to the commander at a salary of $1,000. Second assistant to the State veteinarian at a salary of $1,200. Assistant in agronomy and farmmachinery, salary of $1,200. Assistant in horticulture, who is to assist with the extension work, $1,200. Prof. R. E. Lee was appointed as the official architect for the college. The contract entered into by the president with the Farmer's Co-operative Demonstration Work for cooperative corn club work was approved and thereby made a permanent arrangement. A committee of the board of trustees, consisting of Messrs. Bradley, Evans and Hughes, was appointed to pass upon the scholarship certificates of financial inability. The matter of locating a branch exexperiment station in the Pee Dee sertion was referred to the agricultural committee of which (Mr. J. E. Wannamaker is the chairman. This committee, together with Prof. J. N. Harper, director of the experiment station, and Prof. W. R. Perkins, director of the agricultural department is to take under consideration the propositions that have been received, visit the various sites proposed, in order to judge (their suitability in regard to location, soil, and climate, and report to the board at a meeting to be held in Columbia during the State fair. The thanks of the hoard was extended to the Southern Railway, the Atlantic Coast Dine and the Seaboard Railway for (their assistance ifl Operating the live stock train. This being the regular time for the election of a board of visitors, the following were elected by the board: First district, J. Elmore Martin, Charleston. Second district, Wm. T. Walton, Johnston. Third district, J. J. Ballinger, Sen Fourth district, Thomas F. Parker, Greenville. Fifth district, George K. Laney, Chesterfield. Sixth district, David R. Coker, Hartsville. Seventh district, R. O. Murdy, Sumter. The appropriations for the public State work was increased In order to extend to the citizens of the State the hog cholera serum treatment and to f ive more service along veterinary entomological and botanical lines Apropriations were made to operate the live stock train again next winter, and to carry on the farmer's institutes during the summer. The appropriations for the year beginning July 1 are approximately as follows: For public state work, $99,320 from the fertilizer tax, and $30,000 for the South Carolina exepriment station from Federal appropriations. The budget for the operation of the College was approximately $155,000 and the amount to be expended for buildings and permanent improve*ments during the current year, about $50,000. The following financial statement was presented to the board, covering the fiscal year ending June 3 0, 1911. Extended for public State. ^ppjr1 ?. TRAIN OF COFFINS FOR FIRE VICTIMS IN THE PORCUPINE DISTRICT. The Awful Agony and Intense Suffering Experienred by Those Who Escaped Death. A dispatch from Toronto, Canada, says coincident with the arrival of more survivors of Porcupine's great disaster early Friday morning, a trainload of 350 coffins left for the northern country. The survivors brought additional stories of the horror and recounted many miraculous escapes. The number dead in the districts remain largely a matter of conjecture. About 90 bodies either have been burned or designed for shipment in the coffins now being rushed northward by the carload. How many of the hundreds living in comparative isolation have perished only days of work by the organized relief parties can reveal. Men, women and ohildren, thinly clad and bearing marks of the aw? ful fight aainst the flames and smothering smoke are still flocking into the large towns In this vicinity and at North Bay. Those escaping with slight injuries or none have gone through to North bay to be carried free of charge by the Canadian Pacific raliroad and Grand Trunk railway to their destination. The foreigners were put to work stamping out the smouldering fires at Golden City and Pottsville. One was shot at Pottsville when caught going through the clothes of a dead man. R. H. Webber, of Lock port, N. Y., one of the survivors, escaped from the Dome mine, where 100 were burned to death by wading Into the lake up to his neck. The wave of heat sweeping over the water burned his face badly. "There were 4 00 people in the lake" said he, "and I 3aw 20 drown." Several thousand dollars in currency was saved by J. J. Noss,, of Reno, Nev., by canoeing out into the lake. A. H. cramton ana josepn Meaiy, j manager and Suerintendent of the Imperial mines, escaed with IS employes by a run of six miles around the lake They stumbled over bodies along the route and saw a woman pick up a skull and put it in her handbag. George Disk, a rosector, near the West Dome, saw his brother and partner burn to death. Penned in by all sides by the flames they sought safety in a small stream. As the fire swept over the stream Disk saw his two companions die, while he rolled on his back in the shallow water near the bank. CARLOADS OF SNAKES. ? Shipped From the Southwest to the East and Europe*. Southern Pacific freight officials have just handled out of Eastern New Mexico and Western Texas, a ehipment of five carloads of live snakes delivered to Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati and Boston and also to New York for reshipment to Eurepean points. The snakes numbered 1,700 and represented 24 different species. In length they are all the way from 5 to 25 eet. The majority of the reptiles were classed as deadly and were so marked on the boxes. The shipment represented about ten months work on the part of the consignors, who are said to be famous snake collectors of the valley of the Rio Grand. It cost $800 per car to ship them. SINKING OF STEAMER. Thirty-two Passengers Below Decks Go Down With Her. A dispatch from Port Limon', Costa Rica, the Times reports that 32 passengers and several of the crew of the steamer Irma were drowned or crushed to death when the vessel was sunk in a collision, during a storm in the Estuary of the San Juan river. The colliding steamer is given as the Diamante and the news is said to have reached Port Limon from Bluefields. Most of the passengers of the Irma were below when the collision occurred because of the heavy weather and to this fact the despatch says is due the heavy loss of life. The Diamante was damaged, it Is said, but l'ept afloat. A Deadly Stroke. During a severe thunderstorm Friday Frank Greeson was killed by lightning near the home of R. O. Robertson, about nine miles from Calhoun, Ga. Mr. Greeson was a young man and leaves a wife and two Children. work $89,598.09 For additional shop and labratory equipment .. 15,387.77 For buildings vand permanent improvements. . . . 42,7rl.36 For real estate 16,825.50 For operating expenses of the College 155,453.43 Total $312,056.15 PLANS PROBE ? Attcnty Ccaeral Wickerskaa, Afaiait WWa tkm Arc Charges. WILL IE LOOKED INTO Delegate Wickesham, of Alaska Charges That Department of Jus* tice Delayed Prosecutions in Alleged Criminal Cases Until Statute of Limitations Expired. Official circles in Washington has Al 1 ? 1 J L ? ?..k UHUlut'i HvnuuH vua 150 a^aiuoi a jiuulic official to speculate on until it is thoroughly investigated and decided one way or the other. After secret consideration of charges made by Delegate Wickersham, of Alaska, that Attorney-^*ueral Wickersham deliberately permitted the Statute of Limitations to run against agents of the Alaska Syndicate, the House of Representatives judiciary committee has determined to report favorably a resolution of inquiry offered by Delegate Wickersham. The Attorney-General, when seen Thursday night, denied all the charges. His friends intimated that the charges were old. The resolution would call upon the Attorney-General to furnish the House with all documents, affidavits and testimony in his possession relating to an affidavit submitted to him more than a year ago and sworn to by H. J. Douglas, former auditor of the Alaska Syndicate, In 1908. Delegate Wickersham startled the committee, when, in executive session, ho produced a copy of an affidavit relating to an alleged criminal act committed by Capt. D. H. Jarvis, of the Alaska Syndicate, as the one formerly sent to the Government service June 23, the day following the introduction of the Wickersham resolution. Through connivance of these men, it was charged that the Government was defrauded of coal lands and that evidence to that effect was permitted to remain unacted upon in the Attorney-General's office for more than a year, until the Statute of Limitations expired last (May. Delegate Wickersham furnished nnmmlHnn urlt li nnniaa r* f a lnttoi* ^ " C V/ 111 111 i 1/ l>V> TT 1 I 11 V> V/ J/ 4 V b^i V/ A. a V/ V V v a to D. H. Jarvis, admitting the expenditure of money to control Government witnesses in the Hazel murder trial, in 1908, wherein an agent of the Alaska Syndicate was accused of murdering laborers employed by rival interests. A photograph of an expense account for $1,33.40, of M. B. Morrissey, employed by the syndicate, it is claimed to entertain Government witnesses and jurymen in that connection, also was submitted to the committee. This evidence, Delegate Wickersham declared, also is in the possession of the Attorney General. Delegate Wickersham urged on the judiciary committee the Douglas affidavit, involving the representatives of the (Northwestern Commercial company, one of the Alaska syndicate concerns, and the Sesnon Coal Company. "On May 24, 1910," said he, "I sent to Attorney General Wickersham a copy of the affidavit, calling his astention to the fact that the Government had been defrauded of $50,000 by perjury and a combination o tli^e two concerns." "What do you mean by the Alaska Syndicate," Chairman Clayton inquired. "I refer to the Alaska syndicate, composed of J. P. Morgan, the Gug- j enheim brothers, Kuhn, Loeb and Co., Jacob H. Schiff and Graves." "What do you mean by the Guggenheim brothers?" asked Mr. Norris o? Nebraska. "Senator Guggenheim and his six brothers." I "Who is Graves?" "He represents Close Brothers, the English Syndicate, and other English concerns. "Capt. Jarvis," added the delegate, "was the confidential agent of Morgan, In charge of the syndicate in Seattle." ? ? SHOT HTM TO DEATH. White Man Kills Negro Who Insulted His Wife. After follawing him for 4 miles a white man named Bragg put a load of shot in the breast and another load tore off the top of the head of Ed Brown, a negro, at Jimps, Ga., Friday night. It is said the negro wrote B.ragg's wife a letter and after handing it to her himself, started off in the direction of Jimps with a white man named Waters. Bragg was away from home at the time and when he returned his wife gave him the letter. He got his gun and started out after the negro and after following him for 4 miles found him at the station and later the negro was found in a pile of crossties with his head blown off. Snake from Clouds. During the hardest rain that has fallen 1 Ovett, Mo., for months, moccasin three feet long, fell from the clouds and was killed in the street. NEAR BEAR S01D_ CONDITION IN UNION AND DAR? LJNOTON BAD. Govenor Blwwe Says He is Doing All He Can to Uphold law, But Can't Do It AU. "Near' beer'saloons have been Introduced into the State and they *rn as bad as the fake social clubs/' said Governor Blease, Friday. "Conditions at Union and Darlington appear to be particularly bad. I am doing all I can to uphold the law, but I cannot do it all." The governor directed attention to a displayed article in the Union Times of Friday, which he said set forth the situation in Union as it was described to him. The arttcte fs headed "Governor Blease orders Sheriff Long to close down on nearbeer." The article follows: "Govenor Blease has ordered Sheriff Long to close down on the near-beer establishments in Union and Union county. Constable D. R. Kitchens has also received instructions from the governor to coopepate in this movement. It is to be hoped that this work will be thoroughly ! done by the officers. It is stated on good authority that the city council has issued more than a dozen licenses to near-beer establishments and of course the city council could not logically suppress the creations of its own hands. In the meantime the worst condition exists in Union now that we have eve* seen. Gambling dens and blind tigers, masquerading under the name of near-beer saloons are rife. It is rumored that cany young lads are patronizing these places. The tiger9 are not even blind. They are Arguseyed. For vulgar flaunting of lawlessness we give the palm to Union town. We have never seen anything like it. Some of the members of the police force are reported as being regular patrons of places of illicit liquor selling. It is certain that they make no effort to put down these Institutions. A blind man can see that. If Governor Blease will continue his effort to put down these places of iniquity he will receve the approbation of every law abiding citizen of this town. SEVKXTKKN YKAIt IiOCUSTS. +. Witli Voiceless Wives Appear After a Ijong Time. What is understood to be the 17 year locust has appeared in Crisp county in large numbers on the farm of Mr. A. C. Fraseur, near Cordele, Ga. The insects are devouring the * leaves of the cotton plants ana va* ! rious trees and there are also large quantities of them on the shade trees and shrubbery in Sunny Side cemetery. These curious pests emerged from little holes in the ground on schedule tinift. climed the trees and filled the air with deafening songs. It is doubtless known that when they have arrived they will lay their eggs and the larvae will burrow into tho earth for another long dark vigil underground until 1928, just as they have now waited since their last appearance in the year 18 94. Our records of the appearence of the locusts run back to the year 1634 when they were first observed by the pilgrims of Plymouth. Thejir appearence at periodcal intervals of 17 years was observed by the American Indians long before the coming of the white man and made known to the early settlers of this country. They were also known to the ancient Greeks. The male sings his song of love and dies first. The female deposits her eggs and also dies. It is all over in less than six weeks after 17 years of preparation. CAUSED BY WHISKEY. Two Drunken Men Get in Tussle and One is Killed. A secial dispatch to the News and Courier says Paylau Kelley, aged 23, of the Keeleytown neighborhod, six miles from Hartsville, was shot through the heart and Instantly killed at nine o'clock by his couscln, Lenoir Kelley. The fighting took place at the home of William Tyner, where the two young men had gone in an entoxicated condition and was the result of a lriendly tussle, which develoed into a fight In which a shot gun, a knife, and a pistol in the hands of the two parties were used. Kelley was shot five times; three times through the heart and twice in the left arm. His slayer was said to have been sut. He has surrendered to the officers. ? ? ? Hard on Horses. Twelve hundred horses died from heat in New York during 11 days. The total loss in horseflesh throughout the country as a result of the heat is estimated at $1,000,000. ? ? Hits Five Houses Ricochetting from house to house until five had been struck, lightning injured six persons in L/ouisviUe, Ky. The hilt shot a clear sky. * J vtvj