The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, December 07, 1911, Image 3
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LIABILITIES OF STOC1
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Robert B. Scarborough,
H. L. Buck,
George J. Holiday,
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M. Burroughs, C. P. Qu
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jfi Horry County, and a pioneer
flp ly allied with the recent de1
^ Republic. Backed by the
United States Bonds, we are
toiueru any reasonable accom
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CONWAY, 8. C.
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Attorney at Law.
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(Pbjoiciaii and Surgeon.
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ME WORLDS GREATEST SEWING MACHINE
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battle or a HIngle Thread f Chain &titohl /
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IVHBTMnrmff mRcntnes are maaetoaeu mawtaw
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|k ' Ottfr ffuaranty never runt out. '
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One Dead, Another Injured.
f At Waynesboro,x Ga., Tollen Law
rey was fatally and .Tale IL Reynolds
very seriously hurt when tfieir auto
niobilg tin no 1 a somersault near thai
phie&* Wednesday. Reynolds, while
driving, attempted to light, a cigar
etto and lost control of the car. Lowrey
lived several 1 ours. Reynold}
was injured about the head and sev
eral of his ribs were crushed in i
Lowrey originally was from Colum
Ma, S. C., but recently has resided
in Augusta, Ga.
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A news dispatch from Demarest
Oa., days:' "A McCoy, 22 a basebal
player, who was on the Johnson Cit:
(Teun.) team in tho Appalacliiai I
League last season, was accidentally I
hoi and killed .it that plaoo Thurs
day. No details of tho tragedy art 1
available." <
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any bank in Horry county. More
plus of all other banks in the county.
$60,000
12,600
CHOLDERS .. .. 60,000 |
TORS 112,600
C'lORS I
D. V. Richardson,
W. A. Johnnou,
Will A. Freeman.
:ommodation which their account}
solicit your business.
3. V. Richardson, will a. freema;
Vice President. Cashibj
=?r cent, on vearlv deposits.
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125,000.00
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C. Spivey, D. T. McNeill, #
liuck, W. R. Lewis, D. iji
attlebaum, D. A. Spivey.
f Conway, the oldest Bank In xjjj
In Eastern Carolina. Cloae- ^
/elopment of the Independent W
Government and secured by it/
prepared to extend to our cu?~ ^Iinodatlons.
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President.
DiVi KtlPik'S WILL
ONCE NOTORIOUS WOMAN GAVE
BIG SUM TO CHARITY.
Six Months Ago She Gave Her Former
Itcsort to City lor an Emergency
Hospital.
Miss Anna Wilson's gift of practically
$500,000 to charity, the acJ
cumulation of 40 year's profits from
| the most notorious dive Omaha, Neb.,
I has ever known, has brought out
nor0 reminiscenscB and caused more
.alk than any single event in the MidHe
West in years.
Miss Wilson was sixty years of age
.vhen she died a lew days ago, and
.n her will slio makes no individual
git'ts, except of a trust fund, but
.eaves all that she had- saved to the
jity as her greatest possible restitution.
It is the second largest gift
to charity ever made by an Omaha
i*?sl(lf>nt Six months aero Miss Wil
son closed her dive and presented tho
building, with $75,000, to the city as
ati emergency hospital.
Anna Wilson went to Omaha when
it was a frontier town several years
before thG Union Pacific railroad was
completed in 18 07. Iler first appearance
was on a music hall stage.
She was bright and pretty. Also she
was well educated. Just who she
really was has always been a mystery.
She frcoly acknowledged that
"Anna Wilson" was not her true
name, but her real identity has never
been revealed.
The young girl remained on the
stage only a short time. When the
music hall went to the wall she was
without an engagement. In the emergency
fliho took lip with a noted
"square" gambler, Dan Allen, and became
his common law wife. This
relation sho sustained for 20 years
until Allen died. Allon is said to
have furnished tho money with which
Miss Wilson opened the most notorious
divo in tho city. In tho 40 years
of its existence, however, there wero
few arrests made there.
When Allen died he left a $10,000
policy, made in favor of Miss Wilson.
[She notified his brothers that at her
death the money would bo handed 1
over to them. Some years ago one
of them 'asked Miss Wilson for a
portion of the money and was given
$1,000. In her will $9,000 is left to '
Dan Allen's brothers.
Six years ago Miss Wilson leased
her home, purchased a $15,000 residence
in Krountzo place, an exclusive ^
residential district, and went to live ?
in her new homo. With her, she t
brought ono of the best Shakespear- 1
ian libraries in tho Weat. r
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Among her books is an illustrated r
Hible, which cost many thousands of 1
dollars, and which Miss Wilson is 1
said to have been fond of reading and a
studying. Her library ran into thous- t
andfl of volumes, and pictures and i
works of art fairly filled her home. ^
Her flower garden anci home were the *
wonder of the town. ^ ?
Wise or Otherwise.
Some peoplo are always talking of
rense but somehow the supply neve) i
becomes exhausted.
People would never known yoj I
lad a temper if you didn't lose It \
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PAR1Y UNITED
(lump Clark Says Hope Succeeds Dispair
io D mocralic Hearts.
TARIFF IS THE ISSUE
After Years of Ijuhor, Declares Speaker,
Replying to Bryan's Criticism,
Efforts of Himself anil Other Leaders
Have Entirely Eliminated Discussion
Within Party's Hanks.
Speaker Champ Clark, who is in
Washington, declared Monday that he
had devoted the last three years
chiefly to getting the House Democrats
together and holding them together,
and that, after seventeen
years of factional fighting, the Democrats
are "united, and, by the blessings
of God, will remain so."
"1 did not do it all by a long shot,"
he added. "I had lots of help, and
every Democrat who participated in
that troublesome, laudable work doserves
his full share of the honor.
Wh'lle there was once despair in
Democratic hearts, there is high hopenow."
In this way the titular head of the
Democratic lower no use 01 vyuiigret>&
made indirect reply to criticisms of
former Presidential Candidate William
Jennings Bryan, as to the Speakership
no longer carrying the leadership
of the House. Mr. Clark referred
to the great importance of unity
and wisJom among the Democrats to
draw voters not belonging to the
Democratic party.
"The most important feature of the
extraordinary session of Congress
from a political standpoint," said 1:?
"was the fact that wo pulled together,
worked together, fought together
and won together. We replaced the
old habit of defeat with the new habit
of victory, the bad fashion of quarrelling
among ourselves with the better
fashion of taking counsel together
and then presenting a solid front to
astonished enemy.
, "The trend of public opinion Is toward
the Democrats. President Taft's
long trip seems to have left things
in statu quo."
The speaker says the recent election
proved that, wherever the tariff
was the solo or the principal issue,
the Democrats won, and that when
Mr. Taft vetoed the tariff bill3, it was
inevitable that the tariff would be
the leading issue next year.
"One of the most preposterous
canards put into print since Guttenberg
invented movable type," added
the speaker, "is the charge that 1
am in favor of the forcible annexation
of Canada. There is not a fact
in the universe on which to base such
a slander. I never at any time or
place stated, or even hinted, such a
wicked and kuixotic scheme to any
human being. 1 have never dreamed
of such a thing, and would oppose it
to tlio uttermost.
"I havo frequently for years expressed
the hope that there might be
a union of the two countries by mutual
consent and for the good of
both. It always seemed to me a
friendly suggestion, because wo are
neighbors, of the same blood and
speaking the same language, but as
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LUC L/auauiuuo kx\J IIWL ouuiu tu n am
that, there is an end to it."
HANGED HIMSELF IN BARN.
Lifeless Body of Oconee Cohiity
Youth Found. (
Th? body of a young 16-year-old J
son of John F. Pice, who lives several
miles from Walhalla, was found '
hanging from tho end of a rope in
the barn on Mr. Pice's place Saturday
afternoon. Young Rico had ncv- '
cr been strong mentally, and it is 1
thought that in a temporary fit of in- :
panity ho ended his life, ills body 1
was found bv his brother, who went (
to the barn late in the afternoon and 1
tho body was still warm, though life J
was extinct. Tho body was taken
down with tho assistance of neigh- 1
bora, who were callod in. Tho rope
used was a long one, and when found *
the unfortunate youth's feet were 1
touching the floor. 1
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Cuts Coats ami Pajamas on Fowls to
"Keep Them Warm."
Rather than seo her chickens, r
;vhich had molted late in tho season c
md were running about featherloss cl
hoHo frosty mornings, suffer, Mrs. s
0. Stocker of Colorado City, Col., has c
nado neatly fittings red coats, which v
>utton under tho wings, and soft p
flannel pajamas and caps tastily fas- e
ened with ribbons under tho beak, v
nd now Her flock gives "Jack i^rost" n
ho laugh. The chickens strut about,
pparently proud of their clothes.
Jrs. Stoker says that the hens, to
how their gratitude, >iv. lying o?gs tl
very day. fj
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f Kills His Wifo and Self. g,
While his five children, the eldest d;
god 11, lay asleep in an adjoining T
oom, O. C. Allison, a farmer Mon- w
ay shot and killed his wife and shor cr
imself to death in his home at Ne- m
ada, Mo. 01
T1IK DYING PINE?THE KEMEDY.
Hquiroments for Success in Protecting
tlie Living Pine.
'The requirements for success In
any effort to protect the living pino
from tho destructive attack of the
Southern pine beetle is the destruction
of the broo Is of the Southern
pmc beetle in the bark of tho main
trunks of the dying infested trees before
they leave tho bark. This is
accomplished by clio adoption of one
or more different methods of direct
utilization of the infested trunks or
treatment at direct expense in cases
where the wood cannot be utilized,
us specified in Part IV. of this.
The attachments of the best success
from the practical application of
any of these methods will depend
on their adaptation to local conditions
and requirements lor disposing or the
infested timber and strict adherence
to certain details which are absolutely
necessary to the destruction
of the broods.
The period in which to locate and
mark the trees that are actually infc
sted and in which tho marked trees
should bo utilized or treated to kill
tiie broods is between tho 1st of November
and the 1st of the following
March, but in some cases the period
may he extended to the 1st of May.
The adoption of the method of destroying
the broods,, which in each
case is the most economical and effectual,
can be determined by tne owners:
in erich oonimunitv if they arc
sufficiently informed on the essential
facts.
Detailed advice, recommendations
or conclusions as to the most economical
and effective method of procedure
for any given area should be deferred
until certain information is at
hand in regard to the local condition
is to : (a) the character and extent
of the infestation; (b) the interest
manifested by the people of the community
in tlie value to them to the
pine and the Importance of protecting
It as the source of future revenue;
(c) tho assurance of tho majority
of the owners that concerted
action will be taken according to a
definite plan and purpose, and finally,
i* a demonstration is desired, that
local facilities will be offered for its
successful prosecution.
If the owners of pine will consider
the protection of tlieir timber from
tho standpoint cf a common interest
and will realize the necessity for concerted
action in the control work,
success will bo assured.
MOH LISTENS TO REASON.
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Delivers to Sheriff Laurens Boy
Charged With Serious Offense.
Tho prompt action, Wednesday
night, of Sheriff Ow'ngs, Deputy Ueid
and Rural Policeman Sullivan, and
the cool conduct of the olllcers after
arriving upon the grounds, probably
saved Robert Moody, a 16-year-old
negro boy from the hands of an angry
crowd of citizens bent on meeting
out ot tlio negro summary vengeance
for bis alleged conduct towards two
girls of Laurens. Tho trouble occurred
in tho vicinity of Watts Cotton
Mills, near the city, and after an appeal
to tho crowd to let the law take
its course, Moody was delivered to
the oilicers and by them lodged in
Jail.
It coems that Moody late Tuesday
afternoon accosted the young girls
as they wero returning home in a
buggy from the mill, where tho older
of the two is employed. Springing
from hiding on the roadside the negro,
so tho story goes, seized the
mule by the reins and bringing the
team to a stop, sprang to the side of
the buggy and demanded with oabhs
that the young ladies get out. Without
waiting, it is said, tho boy then
nade an effort to force them to alight,
when the sareams of both frightened
him away.
Driving hurriedly to their home,
iho1 girls reported the matter.
Cjuickly, tho news of tho alleged attempt
of the ngero spread and soon
i crowd collected for the purpose of
running down the offender. Suspicion
pointed to Moody and he was
Found at home and promptly taken
p hand by the members of tho man
muting crowd. The negro was taken
beforo the girls and positively <
dentified as their would-be assailant.
Woody denied anything, but it is said i
hat there is strong proof that he is ]
hn rlrrhf man NIm n( hnr rr^nhlr* lu
^xpectod, and tho law will tako its 1
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Frozen to Death.
A flock of ducks, their feet frozen ^
o the ground, was found in a Hold
tear Williams, Ind., during the re- j
ent blizzard. It is believed the .
lucks had alighted in tho field to \
peiul the night and that tho sudden (
hango in temperature caused the j
^et ground to freeze holding them y
rlsoners. Many of tho birds were
aught by farmers in the vicinity, j
ho cut them loose from tho ground f
rith axes. t
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Kludos Dogs and Men,
Though all the county officers and s
irco nunarea volunteers searched
ir and wide Wednesday, T. H. Walk- 1
r, the negro condemned to die on the
allows at Washington, Cla/, Wednes- j
ay, but who escaped from oflicera s
uesday night, is yet at large. He a
as handcuffed securely when ho osiped.
Dogs followed his trail for o
lies, only to lose It, and there Is no t
uq now as to where he is. t
BOUGHT TEDDY
Philadelphia Banker Tells a Sensations
Story Abool Election.
STARTLING STATEMENT
Says Roosevelt Made a Corrupt Bargain
With the Railroads and Big
Business for Their Suppoit in His
Race for President of tho United
Suites.
Wharton Barker, a retired banker,
of Philadelphia, sprang a sensation
on the State committee on Interstate
commerco Tuesday, when he
alleged that a New York financier
told him in 19 04 that tho financial
interests would support Theodore
Roosovelt for President, because
Roosevelt had "made a bargain with
them on the railroad question."
Mr. Barker's statement came in the
midst of a vigorous attack on the
"Money Trust," in which lie alleges
also that President Roosevelt had
been given the details of the impending
panic of 1 907 se\eral months before
it happened, hut took no action
to prevent it.
Mr. Barker also declared that the
Aldrich currency plan was the handiwork,
not of former Senator A1 .rich,
Ki?t r\ f \l t? YY 'irhii" f\ f fli.? 'm nlf i lie
firm of Kulin, Toeb &. Co., of Now
York, and that a fund of $ 100,000
had been started to secure its adoption.
"Three or four weeks before the
election in 1 904," said Mr. Barker,
"I was walking down Broadway when
I met one of the most distinguished
money kings in New York, a man now
dead. He said to me: 'We are going
to elect Roosevelt.' 1 expressed surprise
and asked if ho had given up
th0 support of Parker. Ilo said yes,
that they had frightened Roosevelt
so he bad made a bargain with them.
"lie is to holler all ho wants to,'
he told me, 'but by and by a railroad
bill will be brought in by recommendation
of tho President, cutting off
rebates and free passes, which suits
us who own tlio railroads, pt flitting
the railroads to make pooling arrangements
and providing for maximum
rates.' "
Tho railroad man added, said Mr.
Barker, that under the latter authority
it would bo possible to add from
$3 00,000,000 to $400,000,000 to tho
total freight charges paid by the
American public.
"I told h'im I did not b'ellelve
Roosevelt had made any such agreement,"
said Mr. Barker, "but when
the annual message of 1905 went to
Congress ho recommended most of
those things. I wrote to President
Roosevelt and told him what 1 had
heard, and that 1 had thought the
man lied, but now I must believe he
had not. It was the only letter of
mine iMr. Roosevelt ever failed to
answer."
Members of the committee asked
Mr. Barker to give the name of the
financial man who had told him that
Roosevelt was to be elected.
"1 cannot do it," said Mr. Darker,
"but subsequently somebody was alleged
to havo stolen some correspondence
between Mr. Harriman and
the President, telling of $250,000 put
lip for election expenses in the city
of New York."
Referring to tbo panic of 1507, Mr.
Barker said a man who was present
at a conference at J. P. Morgan's
house in May, came to him in Philadelphia
and wanted him to use his
influence with President Roosevelt to
stop a plan that had been mapped
out, he alleged, by the financial leaders.
This fnau was a captain In the
Rough Riders, he said, and had used
his own influence with the President,
but without avail.
"The plan," said Mr. Barker, "contemplated
the curtailment of loans.)
the withdrawal of credits, the putting
jrtvay of money by thoso interested I
where they could get it when they
needed it to stop the panic, and the 1
enforcement of the various State laws '
regarding the holding of cash reserves
by tho banks and trust com- \
panics."
Mr. Barker said that in October, (
when tho financial nnhoaval rcaehfld (
its crisis, ho urged President lloose- (
/elt to distribute the $145,000,000 1
if cash in the treasury among the "
ianks of Chicago, Philadelphia, Ros.011
and other largo cities.
"lie wanted to do it," he said, "but *
10 called in Mr. Knox, Mr. Cortclyou
tnd Mr. Root, and instead of deposit- (
ng in the outside cities, I10 plunged
he whole amount into Wall Street,
t broke the counry, but It saved the '
gamblers."
The Philadelphia man. whose bank- 1
ng house at one time was fiscal agent 1
or the Russian Government, declared '
hat thoso who backed the Aldrich
nonotary plan had been a "propaganda"
In which it was proposed to *s
pend $1,000,000 to secure the en- *
'orsement of the proposed currency 1
egislation.
"Yesterday a banker in Phlladelihia
started to collect that city's
hare of the money, $100,000" he r
aid. C
He declared that the great "money s
llgarchy" of Now York controlled all a
ho lines of finance, industry and o
ransportation, and that no legisla- o
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ABOUT TWO IIUNDKED AND SIXTY
MILLION YEARLY.
Carelessness Is the Chief Cause, and
1*001)16 Should Be Taught How to
Prevent Fires.
Present indications are that the Are
losses in iiie miiea biates ana uanada
for 1911 will exceed $200,000,000.
The figures for the first seven
months of the year show a total of
$154,992,900, as compared with
$ 1 20,070,800 during the buui^ period
last year.
The losses for lulO were $234, 100,050,
and if tho present ratio of
increase continue throughout the
year, the 19 11 losses may approach
$3 00,000,000. This will exceed any
year in the history of the country, except
those of the San Francisco and
Baltimore con Hag rations.
Government otticials, underwriters
and firemen agree that the majority
of these fires are due to carelessness
and are easily preventable. All of
the recent fires, which have attracted
public attention because of the heavy
loss of life with which they were accompanied,
were due to the carelessness
and indifference of the owners,
occupants, or municipal authorities.
New York has been spending $10,000,000
a year for fire extinguishment
and only $ 10,000 for fire prevention.
The recent shirt waist factory
tiro aroused the public and the
authorities, and fire prevention is to
be made much more prominent hereafter.
The most Important consideration
is the development of a sense of personal
responsibility on the part of
property owners for the excessive fire
waste, which is daining the resources
of the country and weakening its
insurance capital. A score of tiro
iimiirnn nniniin n:na Iuiva
from th0 hold already this year, because
of the heavy losses last year
and the unfavorable outlook.
Disasters like the recent factory
fire at Newark, N. J., in which 20
girls were killed and 5 0 seriously injured,
are chiefly due to carelessness.
In this case both municipality and
owner are responsible. The city had
not seen to the proper tire escapes
I and exits, although the owners had
been frequently warned by tbo hazards
by the insurance men.
The public should be brought to
realize the excessive danger Involved
in the handling of gasoline and the
fact that the greatest caro is required
at all times. Its increasing
domestic use renders more important
tbo education of tlie public in this
regard, as there arc hundreds of distressing
fatalities each year in tho
smaller cities and towns u hich never
get headlines in the pape? 3, because
only one or two persons were burned
to death.
DRINK TOO Ml CI! LIQUOR.
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Remarkable Statement Mado by tho
Commission.
Royal E. Cabell, United States
Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
has mado some remarkable statements
in his annual report showing
that tho internal revenue receipts
last year were the best in the history
of the Government, amounting to
$3--,f>20,291). Another very remarkable
statement of Mr. Cabell is that
last, year the production of distilled
spirits in the United States was 175,402,395
gallons, or nearly 7,000,000
gallons more than in 1907, tho previous
banner year.
The production of beer, ale, etc.,
aggregated 03,2 1 0,851 barrels, or
nearly 4,000,000 barrels more than in
tho previous banner year, 1910.
There arc now in the bonded warehouses
of tho United States, ripening
for lire, 2 49,279,340 gallons of intoxicating
liquors. Still another very
remarkable statement in Mr. Cabell's
report is that there has been a very
largo increase in the illicit manufacture
of liquor in North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee
ind Virginia.
The first four of these States aro
supposed to bo prohibition and in
Virginia tho stuff is sold only in injorporated
cities and towns and then
Duly in towns in which tho question
)f tho sale of the stuff has been subedited
to tho qualified voters.
ion designed to break up the trusts
tvoiild strike at the root of the trouble.
"Few people appreciate bow, by
ontrol of the money of trust compares,
savings banks and Stato banks
his trust throttles individual enterprise,"
he said.
Ho urged a law that would compel
national banks to hold their legal
eserve in cash instead of having tho
lower to redeposit part of it in tho
Kinks of New York,
"Nothing but those immense roerves,
varying from $550,000,000 to
>350,000,000, makes New York tho
noney power it is," said Mr. Darker,
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Convict Sees His 1 v? ing Rnbe.
Thomas Edgar Stripling, former
ioIIco chief of Danville, Va., and now
leorgla convict and inmate df the
tate farm at Millodgeville, In bhatnft
nd under guard, reached t*?e home
f his wife at Columbus, oa., and
mbraced his dying baby.
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