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'f f ? _' ' ' ^ ?/?? ' Hjg? v HHHI) ' .77- / y?ai I' iSBN ' '. .V "a..--.! - n., VOL XXV. CUPID KNOV Under the Spreading: Wate With the $600 00 OR THE GIRL For the Pant Several Weeks a Band of J Children Have Been Camping in and A a Gypsy Boy Fell in Love With a Gypt Since Then There Has Been no End of and Gold Eagles are Now Plentiful as! Not Yet. Trouble of a legal nature arose hero last Wednesday night, among the various members of the tribe, who were camped in the old Muster Field, in the outer edge of the town. For a long time, Stephen John, the chief of the tribe, and his lieutenant Gregory John, the most intelligent one of the lot, wanted the young girl,a sister of wife of Pedro Paso, to be given in marriage to the young son of Stephen John. The girl bitterly refused the match, so did her brother-in-law, Pedro Paso, and her sister, the wife of Pedro Paso. This opposition was slight at first, apparently, but it grew stronger in tho wranglings cf the camp, as the matter advanced, arid the marriage was urged. BMnaUy Pedro Paso determined to leave the band, and ho made this announcement, not without trepidation and misgivings, fear in his heart of Gregory John, being strong in response to the traditions of the tribe, and natural superstition, I when a matter of going contrary to tho wishes of a chief is though* of. But he was determined aud made preparations to leave. At this point there was a row. The exact principals concerned in it were not found ^ out, and perhaps they will never be, outside of the Gypsy camp itself, \ but when Pedro Paso, his wife and sis er-in-law moved out and occupied a house last Thursday morning, which he had rented in the rear of the Horry Tobacco Warehouse, the leaders decided to put the matter into law. Alena Cata, the wife of Stephen John, came down to the authorities, her face bloody, supposed to be a result of the previous * nighfc'3 fraj, and Pedro John came with the crowd, showing upon his person various signs of bloody and rough handling, lie had a severe wound on the head that he claimed was put there with an axe by Gregory John, assisted by Stephen, and his wife Alena Cata. Too Magistrate found it almost impossible to w understand their broken English, hut finally issued a warrant at the instanco of Alena against Pedro, .and Pedro was locked up in the County jail on Thursday evening Bjfore night ho had put up a cash bond of $200 00 in gold coins, and was back in his house again. There was an investigation into the matter by the Magistrate on Friday af^ ternoon, and there was not sufficient evidence produced before him to make out a ease of auy kind Further than the signs on the principals " * All there was no proof to be made. A.11 at once the entire band seemed to g<^t on friendly terms again, laying % aside of oours3 the contention about the girl, which of course will never down, and Alena Cata withdrew her warrant, and Pedro Paso agreed that he would not have any charges made against her or any of her people. After the trial and all legal matters had been withdrawn and settled Pedro wont back to the house he 1 bad rented, and to the protection of the female members of his family. , He had not agreed to return to the a tribe, neither had ho agreed to sell ^ i'ne young girl to the son of Stephen John. He stated that ho had rented the house for a month and he intended to occupy it, and in ail respects be a iaw abiding citizen. That the J rest of the band could go, like the wind, "Where it listeth", and ib would not matter to him In the mean time there were mutterings among the band. Things were apparently settled, and in all probability will be, until in their wanderings they reach some other place, remote from this, aqd there no doubt, the trouble over this young Gypsy girl, will all come up again. After the matter had been settled as set forth above, things were .1..*. r> A a. ,r rtd tarn nhnnk anH in qUIUb lui u uur wi WT.W - the camp, but the smoldering fires of contention, were only waiting a 1 favorable opportunity to blaze forth With the band were two young Russians, Frank and Steven Kaslo/, l * coppersmiths by trade. They had joined the band some months ago in . Wilmington, N. C,, for the express purpose of helping the Russian, Reester Juarker, the fat,herrin-law of Pedro, out of trouble. They were keeping their motives a secret from Steven and Gregory John, until the latter part of last, week, it seems that Steve?i and Gregory discovered the attitude of these Russians. Oa last Friday night Steven and Gregory John at the hour of lo'olook VS NO LAW ir Oaks Love Plays Havoc ; Gypsies J 'LOVE IS TOE DEMAND ;Twenty-Fivc Gypsy Men, Women and round Conway. All was Serene Until jyMaid, Then Satan Entered Paradise Trouble. Lawyers Have Been Consulted. Blackberries in June and the End is went to the house which was occupied by Pedro, his father-in-iaw, and wife and sister in law, and broke down a window, and went in, aud at the point of a pistol demanded the sum of $600,00 or the girl from Reester Juarker, the old Russian. Pedro set up a cry for help, and called the authorities, and when near-by residents ran to the place, Steven and Gregory had Hod without. being able to carry out their plans of robbery It wason the day before that Steven and Gregory bad discovered that Frank and Steven Kaslov had boon aiding and assisting the old man and his family, in resisting the demands that Steven made of them In the evening before Steven told Frank Kaslov that unless he caused the old Russian to pay him the $600,00 or surrender up the girl, that he, Frank, would he crying by noon the next day, On Saturday morning the Kaslovs, and Russians, with their families were making preparations to leave the band, and away from Conway, Frank Kaslov had $1600,00 in gold and paper money in bis tent. While he was temporarily away from his tent, and nobody in charge but a small boy of Frank's, it is alleged that Gregory ana Steven John entered the tent, and took not only this money, but a diamond pin worth the sum of $150,00. When the theft of this property property was discovered, the auihorties were informed and warrants issued. A search warrant was issued but the most thorough search of the wagons and tents failed to discover any money. Tho)principa]s Gregory and Steven John wore both arrested and bound over for a preliminary hearing on Tuesday, as well as several others who had been implicated in the matter. On Monday morning Frank Kaslov brought suit in the court of common pleas to recover the sum of $2700 00, and obtained an order of arrest against the Johns, also Alena Cata, the wife of Steven John. In the same proceedings a warrant of attachment was issued to seize the property of Gregory and Steven John; and hold it subject to any judgment that might be obtained in the action. Throughout Monday evening, until late in the night, and on Tuesday morning, the defendants were negotiating in the effort to make bond and thus avoid going in jxil under these proceedings. On Tuesday at 11 o'clock, the preliminary hearing on the warrant sworn out by Steven ECislov against Gregory John, Steven John, his wife, Alena Cata and her two daughters also one Fiias and his wife, was called for hearing before Magistrate W H Chestnut at the new court house The hearing was held in the largo court room, to accomo date the crowd of people who seemed to be interested in the matter. In the court was nearly the entire Gypsy band, on one side, and an the other the parties belonging composing the prosecution, the old Russian 1 man, Rooster Juarker, his daughter the wife of Pedro Paso, and the young girl, a daughter of the Russian, unmarried, and the cause of the whole trouble; the wives of Kaslov and Steven Kaslov. The witnesses for the proseoutioa told in their broken English about how the two Johns evidently arranged to get all the people away from the camp, on Saturday morning when the money was taken. Frank and Steven Kaslow, had decided that they could do no good in the cause of old Reester, by remaining longer in Stevens John's camp, and Frank loft the camp early to geb his horses shod preparatory to leave. Steven left late after eating breakfast They left their money 1 $2000 00 in two sacks generally furnished by thy banks, in charge of tho wife Steven Kaslov- She was left alone in the camp to watch tho tent, and her children. Finally the wife of Elias induced the woman to leave the camp and promised that her children would look af ter the tent, the property and the children. She fhn mrtnou nnHi)i?nonth 1.hf? p i 19VUVA VUV ftM V/ U WJ v? u v*w> bed oloth3. When she returned the things in the tent had been torn topsy-turvey, and the money was gone, In the morning old Steven John had made the threat to Frank and Steven Kaslov that unless they made old Reenter pay them over the sum of $600 00, or otherwisegive the girl in marriage to his eignt year , old son, that he (Frank Kaslov) and CONWAY, S. C., THUR h>8 wife and family would be crying by VI o'clock All this was refused and it was only a short time before the money was missed, and the officers applied to for the search warrant. This resulted in nothing No money was found in the camp , except a silver dollar or two. Several witnesses testified that they had heard Gregorv John and Stevou John tell the t ? Kaslov boys that if they would t have and not take , . 1 ,1 ,_j out a warrant i y wouiu giv?3 uuolu their money bac- . when the $600 00 should be fort.hc* ? nti^ from "Rees er." Frank Kas v told him to take $600.00 out of the money ho stolen and give him the rest, and this ho refused saying that he would take it to the court ard have all the proof he needed against for the remaining $600 00, and staled that he would have t) give tbem $600 00 of other money liivt Several citizens heard : these statements and told it in court 1 on the side of the prosecution. Robbie Brown told how he saw Steven John on Monday bebweon 12 and 1 i o,clock, go to a place near the woods where a tree had been felled, and J take up two sacks of money from tne ground and carry them ofT uu- i dor his coat. It was two sacks that j had been stolen. It took a long time to get down the testimony. The prosecnt on wis reoresented 1 b3' II Ft Wood ward and tbo defendants by Roht B Scarborough. At | the conclusion of the arguments, j the Magistrate bound Gregory John j Steven John and his wife and two daughters, and also the wife of , Elias over to the higher court, ] under bond in the sum of $3000 00. After a time the bond was arranged ^ The other charges brought by Pedro Paso against Gregory John and Steven John for breakiug into his ^ house last week in the night-time, was continued until today when s this will be investigated. When the trouble first arose, it was only old Reester and Pedro Paso, his srn-inlaw, and his tiro daughters that occupied the house near the tobacco warehouse. After the robbery on Saturday morning the two Ka*lov families moved into the house with the others and they have been there ever since. The bonds in the civil case were arrang ed on Tuesday morning, and the property that had been takeu from the camp bv the sheriff, including about $2000 00 in gold and silver ingots, was returned to old Steve t. The matter concerns an alien people, who happen to be in our midst, much agamst the wishes of our peoplo, but there is great interest?a human interest?attached to it, by reason of the fact that the life of a young girl, just now in her 'teens, is the center around which all of these contentions whirl. Her father "Reester" is a Russian, and is said to be old. His daughter does not want to go into the family of Steven John, especially as the wife of a boy only eight years old. Her father does not desire to sell her even at the price which among these people is considered adequate. For a girl of her class, she is beautiful, showing all the signs of the good health which comes from out-door life. Through the proceedings of above chronicled she sat silent lookin if nn uiit.h internet nt. Ill ^ V'U w* I WM fy ^/Uit V l* w t u vt> & v/k7 v w v things, ihe half of which, she could not understand. For the reason that there is an element of human interest in the matter, the Herald has endeavored to get the full particulars for all of its readers, many of whom have been in town and seen some of the incidents of the trouble, and who had no opDortunity to understand the causes underlying the alTair. Jessie,the little son of R L Stanley of Vina, S. C., tripped and fell break ing his arm. He is idoing well at this time. O. E. Todd, a member of the firm of Loris Supply Company, of Loris, wS. C., was in Conway a few days ago on business, spending several hours between trains. If the'price and quality of fertilizers is an object to you, it will p*y you to see me before you buv. T B Smith, Manufacturers Agent. Taken Up: At my place, one black aud white pided cow with young calf. Mark: Smooth crop in right ear and split in the left. O .vntr can get same by proving and paying charges Hocea M Elliottf Nichols, S, C. R. F, D. No. 2. Taken ri?: ?There has taken uu at iny place one steer yearling wilh black neck head and feet.,don't know his mark owner can get same by proving and paying charges. t James Carroll. (?- , , ? ,| Notice. Taken up at my place one cow, about seven or eight years old, owner can got same by proving property and paying all charges. M to Grainger, Agent. Zoan, S. C. Twenty or more gypsies arrived in Conway Wednesday. SDAY, JANUARY 25, 1912 PROGRESS!1 Out of the Soughing: Pines IN A THRIVING AND PROM Some Interesting News From a Coming T ? / xl x fi _ ?x MM Herald.?The I'eopie 01 mai oauun The ir time and Opportunity in a way t The people of Galivants Perry township could live like Kings even if a Chinese Wall was built around her borders. There is not a county in South Carolina that is Horry's equal, nor a township in Horry that excels Galivant's, This is not an idle boast but the ptain truth. There has never been a crop failure in this county, This statement may sound extravagant but is absolutely true. There is no bank at Ay nor y^t, there is plenty of money for all purposes in this section. A. P. Johnson, of Con way, was seen on our streets last week. David Johnson, a prosperous farmer of Gilivants Perry, who hIs seen engaged in business in Conway ror the past year, has returned to lis farm. Mrs. H. M. Timrnons is very sick it this writing, but her friends have sopes of her speedv recovery. Mr. and Mrs. Kale Edmond, of Uhadbourn, N. C., are the guest )f Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Jordan Jordan & Shelley are away on a jusiuess trip. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Skipper are spending the remainder of their brilal tour with Mr. and Mrs. Jim Gasque. Mayor Gabriel Edwards has resigned his position with Jordan ct Shelley and has accepted a position , with George Holiiday. Hainp Moore, the popular contrae>or of Aynor, now has the Masonic i 3all near completion. Mr. Lafie Martin spent the snowy . lavs with his parents at Jordanville. B. A. and Marion Skipper, two )f Gallvants Ferry's hustling farm- , >rs. were in town Saturday. ' S. J. Lewis ana J. W. Dawsoy , were in town last Thursday. Hardey Dawsoy has a bad case of , i,he mumps, his brother W. W., :ook his place behind the counter. , Charley Gerrald and H.M. Davis, )f Zion, were seen on our streets a9t Thursday. , J. M. Kirten, a prosperous farmer, who lives a couple of miles from :own, was here last week and while talking of the success of himself and )ther Galivants farmers he stated jhat his son, Furney, raised 954 pounds of lint cotton on one and me-eighb acre of land. The section around Aynor is well supnlied with church and schools facilities. At Aynor we have the Aynor school four miles south-west You find the Dog 131u(T school which is in charge of Mr. George Gannon. Dog BlotT Baptist church and Pisi^ah Methodist church three miles west of here. We find Red Hill school and a Methodist church four miles north. We fiud Zion school, which is taught by Misses Tincie Yarbor and Lonis Adkinson and Z on another Methodist church. A little farther North-east about four miles we tind Galivants Ferry Baptist church. A little farther to tho North-east about five miles we find Sandy Plain school taught by Miss Myrtle Adkinson r.nd another Methodist church and about four miles from here wo find Rehoboth school taught by Mr. Julian Perrett and Rehoboth another Methodist church and about one and one-half mile from here we find Antioch another Baptist church and Chapel school, and three and one half miles S >ut.h of here we find Cool Spring school and Metnodist church. Mr. Editor, I was up in the Sandy Plain section one night last week and called at Mr. William B >st who has a very pretty home about one mile from the little village of Galivanls Ferry and while at Mr, Bests he and I talked a considerable time about his success as a farmer and I will give you his story to the bost of my recollection: The reader will boar in mind that Mr. Bost was in the race for Supervisor in 1008, he says that was the best for him that he was defeated. For the first year after the election he put away $700 hard dollars, the next year $1300, and that much or more last year. Mr. Best says that he went on the place where ho now lives soveral j 4. 1...1 .I., ir. ,.f years agn ana icuueu iiiu uvrco ui land, which he has not yot increased, with one old mnle named Joe and raised in thoso days from two to three hundred bushels of corn from 5 to 7 bales of ootton and one or two hundred bushels of potatoes. Now he works four mules on the same land, raises from 28 to 30 bales of cotton, from $1200 to $2000 worth of tobacco and from 600 to 1000 bushels of corn, and from 2000 to 25000 bushels of potatoes and from 1000 to 1600 gallons of syrup. Mr. Best said that this past year be J I II AYNOR a Magic City Has Sprung :Rh7l5 SPfiTinN flF HARRY >IIUUV WbV I I Vi? w own Written Especially for the Ilorry e Progressive and are Making Use of hat Should be Imitated by Others. made 1500 gallons of syrup on 21 acres and that he planted last year 4 acres of potatoes and raised 2000 bushels aud he said that he had killed between 3000 or 4000 pounds of pork this winter. He said that he had one Jersey cow that give five gallons of ruilK daily and that be had refused $100 dollars for her and for the 15 acres of wood land and 45 acres cleared where hilives which making sixty acres in all he said he had been offered $100 dollars per acre but he refused it. and further said that he would not take $10 000 dollars nor swap it for nine miles square like the land in the Cool Spring section. Mr. Best said his boys went outhunting one day during the snow and killed one hundred and five turtle doves and that they had plenty of birds for supper and for breakfast. The next morning before returning to Aynor, T went over to see Mr. A. C. Moody, a neighbor of Mr. Best. Uncle Ab though 70 years old is very active and jolly. He came to Horry about six years and is makmv food success as a farmer. He says he was not one of the corn club boys, yet he made ono hundred and fif by bushels of corn 011 14 acres. While in the Sandy Plain section I learned that Messrs Walton Hosier and Dunk liuggins were in the Pee Dee Islands deer driving but I don't know what success these gentleman had. I found that Messrs. T. A. Vaught and sons, Birt and Miles GasKins, Newbert and Curb Huggins, Lemon ( and Baker Jones, LeJand, Claud and Batie Best. Stanley Barnhill and E. D. Huggins, John Moody were all nut on the snow bird hunting. The Cook boys and Lewis boys and others must have been weather bound as they did not get in sight of the writer. , Before leaving Sandy Plain, I call- , ed in to see the preacher of the Galivants Perry circuit, the Rev. D. H. Everett whom I found to be very entertaining, and among the manythings that he and Mrs. Everette talked of, were their ouly child Mig? Clare, who's at Lander College. The Deacons of Mr. Everetts churches have showed their appre- 1 ciations of his work by the fact that hey have raised his salary $100. i The circuit formerly paid $000, it now pays $1000. Below I will give Mr. Everetts appointments beginning with January. 1st Sunday; Z >an at 11 a. ra., Ployds in the af'ernoon and Magnolia that night. 2nd Sunday, Zion at 11 a m.. Re- 1 hoboth in the afternoon Sandy Plain at night. 3rd Sunday, Ployds at 11 a. m., Zoan in afternoon. 4th Sunday, Sandy Plain 11a m. ' Zion in afternoon and Rehoboth that night. JL ne auuvw was jauunry uu |jv/i u imonts now you will notico how thc^ j ro'ate. Preaching; Sandy Plain, Z'on < and Rehobotb, 2nd and 4th Sundays i morning service followed by after- i noon service. Afternoon service ' followed by night service and rotat- 1 ing around. Mrs. D M. Maultsby, of Bladen, N. C,, is spnuding sometime with \ her mo her Mrs. S A. Jordan. MUs Lena Jordan stated the other day that her mother Mrs. S A. Jordan was going to leave her farm and would probably move to Aybor and opoL up a hoiel. Rev Albert P Johnson and son, two prosperous farmers of Red Hill were in town Thursday. Marion and his brother M. M Skipper, two of Galivants Perry's hustling farmers, were in town last Thursday. Mr Daniel Graham one of Galivants Perry most suecessful farmers was in Aynor last Thursday. Mr Graham savs he has teu sons, seven of them married, all living in Galivants Perry, and the writer is personal acquainted with the most of them if tint all, and know them to bo prosperous farmers. Pee Doe B oy. Notice Tobacco Growers. I have a good variety of fr^b tobacco seed at rav old stand, Farmers Warehouse, and any one wanting seed can get same free of charge by calling at Farmers Warehouse or writing J, S. Neal, at Mullins, S, 3. 3*43. Fertilizers of ad kinds mixed goods of every analysis and all materials cheap for cash. T B. Smith Manufacturers Agent. W* II No 42 I WWm Gathered by a Herald Man on His Rounds. CAUGHT 0N~m BOUNCE. Strav Bits of News Gathered by the Wayside for the Informa tioii and Instruction! of Herald Keadcrs'-llappcnlnirs of Interest About the City.' Light at last! "Praise God from Whom all Blessings flow. F M Porker was in Conway one day recently on business. II iLSharon, a progressive colored farmer was in to renew his subscription recently. S F Bourn, fa leading farmer of Bucks township, spent last Monday in Conway on business. W F Lupo, of the Green Sea sec tion, was among the progressive farmers visiting Conway last week on business* W M Martin has decided to move to Pomona, Fla., where be and family will make their home 'in the future. G:m J Hoiliday, of Galivants Ferry, arrived in Conway last Monday evening and spent Monday night in Conway on business. t .. ?.. n t a:l: 1 UU UUb SHU LWl lK.I^L S UI1 U U1C but for cash, I undersell the other man, see mo. T 13 Smith Manufacturers Agent. Mr and Mrs George F Nissen arrived in town one day last week and are at home to their friends at the residence of Mr and Mrs EJ Sherwood. The cottage occupied by Mr and Mrs 11 L Holt, will be occupied by Mr and Mrs VV H Moore after the first of Fobruary. D O Rowoll is now engaged in the turpentine business at Co'tmdale, Fla., and his friends say th^o he is doing well. H C Gjre, Magistrate of Longs, 3. C., was iu Conway one day last week, accompanied by Mr G W Hardee. Jr. COTTOiN SEED:?All parties with whom I have contracted to exchange meal for seed will please see me at once. T B Smith, Broker. Mr and Mrs H L Holt, who have been residing in Conway for the pastyiar, have decided to move to the country by about tho eud of January. T B Smith went Wilmington N. C., tais week to make arrangements about handling fertilizers at this point this season. Mr Smith sold large quantit.es of these at Conway last year. Lecture Friday Might. The Rev Sam T Creech will lecture at Epworth Hall Friday night, January 3Gth, in interest of Tno Conway Puolic Library, Those who heard him last year on "why marriage life is sometimes a failure*' will be anxious to hear "That Young American." Admission a .ults 33o Particular Notice Owing to the very inclement weather it was impossible for me to meet my appointments for the week commencing at Cool Spring on January lath and ending at Klondike January 20th. In lieu thereof, however, 1 will attend the following places at the time and hour mentioned: Cooi Spring Monday, January 20th, 10 a m to 12 in Kelioboth, Monday, January 29th, 2pm to 4 p in. Paso, Night, Monday, January 20th, 7 p m to S p m. Lilnson & Ward, Tuesday, January 30Mi. 10 a ni to 12 m. W anamaker. Connelly's Tuesday, January 39th, 2 p in to 4 p m. Kloyds X itoads, Wednesday, January 31st, 10 a m to 1 i m. Taylorsville Wednesday, January 31st 2 p in to 4 p m. Galivauts berry, Thursday, February 1st, 10 a in to 12 in. Ay nor, Thursday, February 1st, 2 p in to 4 p Ml. Gideon, Friday, February 2nd, 10 a in to 12 m. .loraanvr.io, Friday, February ana, v p in to 4 p in. Donuolu, Smart's. Saturday, February 3rd, 10 a in to 12 m. Klondike, Saturday, February 3rd, 2 p m to 4 p ui. All other appointments stand as announced. The balance of the time at the Audi tors ortioe in Conway. All aide bodied males capable of earning a support between the ages of 21 and (10 ye us shall be deemed taxable polls. The number of your school district is important. Transfers of real estate must be noted with care. Executors and administrators will make their returns according to law. Ail persons between the age* of 21 and 55 who are liable to road duty will make return of same to the county Auditor as required by law. Failure to make returns within the time specified subjects the delinquent to a penal'y of 50 per cene. S C ADAMS, Auditor.