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f CITY IS HIT HARD BY GOVERNOR BLEASE FOR FINING HIS NEGRO. HE RAN AUTO TOO FAST ? (>Vilunhiti ami Kictilniwl County Arc 1 t* ? * a 1 ? %_ _ ounicniHj dj iwrasc imthuso his ( Negro Chauffeur Was Finwl for FtKlnnKi'inK tlie hives of Women i and Children and Others. Mayor VV. II. Gibbes of Columbia, two days ago denounced in scathing terms the policy of the governor of South Carolina of punishing the city of Columbia and county of Richland for fining the governor's negro chauffeur. That policy was announced by ' the governor of South Carolina and published* Here is one of the published reports: " 'lie who laughs last laughs best,' remarked Gov. Bloase this morning in saying that as a result of the fining of his negro chauffeur by the City of Columbia for speeding he had added three more men to the Columbia constabulary, each of them drawing a salary of $1)0 per month, half of which is paid by the county and half by the city. The added expense, the governor explained, was put 011 Columbia for fining his negro chauffeur. 'I told them at the time it would he a dear fine and you can figure out for yourself just how much those fines are costing the city of Columbia,' continued the governor. " 'Kvery time they fine my chauffeur 1 am going to add another constable.' " It will be recalled that Harrison Neeley, the negro driver of the governor's automobile, was fined three times for racing through Main si mot on the testimony of policemen and numerous other witnesses, and that the pardons promptly issued him by his employer wore not recognized by the municipal authorities. In commenting on the statement t>y Please that lie had burdened the I city and county with three additional liquor constables, drawing in the aggregate $270 a month, Mayor Cibbes made a statement in which he said: "There are some things too unspeakably little and contemptible to be expressed in words, and this is one of them. "The spectacle of the viper gnawing the file would be only amusing, except that the file ought to bo put to . yonstructiyo uses, "Probably Franklin J. Moses in all ^liis career as Alisgovornor of South Carolina never descended to so petty a plane of official action as this. "If you desire my official comments oh this matter and the county dispensary situation, you will find them in the annual, now in tho hands of printer." Un Uid mayor's annual review, un'der the caption, "Recorder's Court," appears the following: "Correspondence between the mayor and the recorder, on file in the mayor's office, will show that perhaps the mayor has been extra- official in urging the recorder to consider very eeriously the importance of placing lines upon those who drive autoino biles and break the tratlic laws of the city. "I view it as a privilege for any one to be permitted to drive one of these dangerous machines on the crowded thorughfares of a growing city and that privilege ought to be valued by those to whom it is extended to the extent of their giving strict obedience to the reasonable ordinances enacted for the protection of the public as well as for the protection of the occupants of such maohines. "One who drives an automobile recklessly upon a crowded street is as dangerous a citizen as ho who might blind himself and stand upon a street crossing discharging a pistol in all directions, and as much loss of life Is liable to happen from the one cause as from the other. "The correspondence will show that this point of view lias been urged upon the Recorder for time to time by myself. It does not seem to me to 'lie possible to exaggerate the importance that they must obey the laws or suffer penalties, or in case of continuing to break the laws, that their privilege of driving must he taken from them. "It is unfortunate that I should feel called upon to mention any particular case, but since an issue has been made in the case of Harrison Neeiey, tlie negro chauffeur for the Governor of tlie State, I want the public to he fully Informed and to that end I herewith give all of the evidence which wan offered when the original fine was placed upon this Jaw-breaker: | "'Columbia, S. O., March 7, 1913. "'Policeman W. T. Kelly being sworn said 1 was standing in front of Hryan's book store on MOO block Main street with my watch in my hand when I seen this man (Harrison Neeley) coming In automobile; caught his time from Plain and Main to Washington and Main Streets; ran the block In 12 seconds; caught time from aouth aide of Main and Waahington to south side of Main and Br. I HUNG BODY ON TREE :;itri<:s<?n<: sk;iit on the (X)i ut, llOl SE HQl'AHK. Captors of I>csi?oratlo Welcomed Homo and Praised for Tireless iiii i nurre^iui nearcn. Sheriff J. R. Mcrria, of Barnwell County, entered Hampton County Wednesday night with the dead body i)f Richard Henry Austin, the negro desperado who has killed three white men and wounded two others, and attempted criminal assault upon the wife of a prominent Hampton county farmer, tucked securely away in an automobile. The Hampton populaco turned out in full force to welcome the return of the men who had fought so long and worked so hard to effect the capture of the negro desperado. Their welcome was truly royal and was merited by the able conduct of the search for A ust in. Thursday on the beautiful and spacious Court House square, the body of Austin with the head and right arm severed, and with the toes and fingers cut off, the skin of the body singed and burnt, swung from the limb of a large oak tree, a symbol of the spirit of revenge in the human breast of the white man when crime, such as those perpetrated by Austin, are committed in this country. In the early hours of Thursday morning, while Sheriff Morris was eating at Estill, the .body of Austin was transferred by unknown men from the machine of the sheriff into another automobile and was carried to Hampton, where probably two hundred men had gathered. Upon arrival at Hampton, about two o'clock, the body of Austin was taken from the machine and viewed by the waiting body of men. The toes and fingers were first cut off as mementos, men the head was severed from the body, the right arm was taken off, the body was placed on a fire, singed and burnt. Next ropes wore fastened to the body, it was suspended from the limb of an oak tree, All night long peopre came, viewed the body of the desperado, and then quietly went to their homes. The men were unusually quiet and orderly. No excitement prevailed. Sheriffs Morris and Lightsey arrived from Estill soon after this. Plain streets. (Signed) " ?VV. T. Kelly.' "Harrison Neoly being sworn said: 'I have nothing to say.' "In a communication addressed tc the city of Columbia the governor has seen fit to make threats that this fine which was justly and unavoidably imposed upon his negro employe will prove to be expensive in the long run to the people of this city. Surely a man occupying tho position ot governor of South Carolina must desiro, or should desire, that tho laws be tested and obeyed. Why then, will ho not give us an opportunity tc carry this case to a higher courts Failing to do this, if he attempts tc make an issue at the expense of the people of Columbia, ho should rehln ^ ~ I ~ 1 *..! -1 ~ ?Mi I1IUII1MCI nun inn npuciill I I ItHKlH Will suffer financial loss to just exactl> the same extent as those who do nol approve of him or his methods. "So far as the police department is concerned it will attempt to carrj out the laws against his negro em ployes as strictly as against any othei law-breakers and the mayor does nol consider that special privileges ought j to he extended to such a person mor( than to the most lowly and especiallj does not consider that the lives o the citizens of Columbia, men, womei and children, and their property should he permitted to ho jeopardiz ed hy the chauffeur employed by tin governor, Cole C. Blease, whethei such chauffeur be white or colored any more than, as has been state< before, such permit Should be givei to any other law-breaker. "The governor is invited to brlnj this matter to a tost in the courts If his pardoning power shall be es tablished in regard to petty offender against municipal ordinances, the po lice courts of the State will he de moralized from Fort Mill to Charles ton. It he should win such a suit the legislature would not ,be long ii submitting to the people a constitu tional provision limiting such indis criminate use of the pardoning powe of the executive head of the State. " ' O! it is excellent: To have a giant's strength; but it i tyrannous To use it like a giant.' "The Recorder's is a difficult an< thankless task, and it is not my in tention to add to his burdens by an; hostile criticism." Lover Killed by Her Side. Driving a mile and a half over i dark road eight miles in the countr; from Toledo, Ohio, with her dea< lover by her side and with a hullo in her own body was the exporlenc< Sunday midnight of Julia Probert sixteen-year-old daughter of Georg< Probert., a farmer. The girl was drlv ing with George Steele, nineteer years old, when they were held uj by a foreigner who demanded money ? The Democrats have determiner to give the people a genuine down ward revision of the tariff. OILS ON WAY BACK AUSTIN, THF FIEND, SUCCUMBS TO HIS WOUNDS PLEADED FOR HIS LIFE Large and Determined Crowd Waited for Austin's Keturn to Hampton, and Had He Beached There Alive Would llvae Been Killed by the Kn raged People. The fiend Austin, who was badly wounded Tuesday afternoon by Sheriff Morris and Oflieer Stavinger, near Xewington, Ga., and carried to Savfor troatmont V?.?o ~ c . V ?.?. V 1.1 V 11 V , 11 CIO V. 1HJU HJU t II U law by dying aboard the Attaquin, a boat, between Savannah and Bluffton, Wednesday afternoon about four o'clock. The officers had decided that it was safer to move Austin from Savannah and were also in hopes of getting him to South Carolina soil alive, but he died half way between Savannah and Bluffton. It is said that he would have been killed had he lived to reach Hampton, where a large crowd had gathered. A dispatch from Hampton says that ; Richard Henry Austin, the negro des- ' perado, wanted for murders in South ! Carolina, who was captured Tuesday evening near Newington, (la., after being desperately wounded, had died on board a boat on the Savannah River between Savannah and Bluffton, was the news received there at about eight o'clock Wednesday night over long distance telephone. The report that Sheriff Morris, of Barnwell County, and Messrs. Stavlnger and H. '.M. O'Neale had left Sav annah for Hampton at about one 1 o'clock p. m. with Austin in an automobile, was received at Hampton at about four o'clock Wednesday after1 noon. In less than an hour a crowd of determined men began to gather i from various sections of the county ' to await the arrival of the oflicors 1 and their prisoner. From the nature ! of the threats heard on nvorv aidn ' appeared certain that the crowd would make short work of the des1 perado if lie arrived alive. Sheriff Lightsey and three or four men left Hampton in an automobile at eight o'clock Wednesday night to meet Sheriff Morris and the body of Austin and escort him to Hampton. It is expected that the ofllcers will > arrive with the body of Austin about ' eleven or twelve o'clock Wednesday i night. The men composing the crowd gathered at Hampton are sober and ! quiet. Wednesday afternoon, howev; er, somo of them appeared excited and various threats as to what would be done in case Austin arrived alive were heard. i D. T. Padgett, one of the commis, sloners of Hampton county, wha was ? at Newington, (la., and who saw the ' capture of Austin, told the story: > According to Mr. Padgett's story it > seems that Sheriff Morris and Mr. Stavinger were at the homo of Mr. I Marvin Jarrell, about seven miles ' above Newington, on Tuesday event ing. Mr. Jarrell was not at home. About dark a negro came up to the I rear of the house and asked for somer thing to eat, stating that he was wet, . cold and hungry. Miss Jarrell recogr nied the voice as that of Austin, he t having worked for Mr. Jarrey in the t past. The young woman at once > communicated with Sheriff (Morris, r who answered Austin, telling him to f wait, that lie would bring him the i food directly. { Proceedinir rniitlnnalv ornun.i *i? _ n ?? v.vy J Ul WUUU nil" - house to the rear .Sheriff Morris 3 caught sight of Austin by the back r fence. The ollicer and the negro , raised their guns in deadly aim at the i same time, but Sheriff Morris proved 1 quicker on the trigger and the desperado fell desperately wounded in r the stomach with a load of buckshot. 1# Austin, recovering from the shock, _ reached out and grabbed his gun, s which had fallen two or three feet _ from him. Pointing the weapon at . Mr. Stavinger, who had approached _ with Sheriff Martin, the negro was about to fire, but again he was net ! quick enough, and before he could _ fire the arm that steadied his aim _ fell limp at his side, almost severed r with a bullet from the 4 4-calibro Winchester in the hands of Mr. Stavinger. s Austin, as he fell the second time, shouted, "Don't shoot any more; I surrender." Tie was immediately dis1 armed. The negro held conversation - with members of the posse who gather ered around him, giving details of his wanderings as a fugitive from justice. Austin admitted killing Mr. Victor Powers, hut declared that the other men had been shot by 1 accident by members of the posse. v lie said that the reason he had taken ' Magistrate Edenfteld's gun was bo' cause the South Carolina folks had taken his overcoat. Austin said that ' he had moved over to South Carolina from Georgia, had secured a piece of land and had intended to settle down 1 to farming. Austin was taken to Savannah * Wednesday morning about ten o'clock and lodged In police barracks there, 1 according to reports from men who - have returned from the scene of the man-hunt. Your I ; and loved ones should be p ; aches and pains by always NOAH'S LINIMENT?the NOAH'S LINIMENT is external application. Absol | made in a modern laboratory ; as a physician's prescription NOAH'S LINIMENT dc I ammonia, alcohol, naptha, b< ? - Noahs iH an excellent remedy for rh backache, neuralgia, strains, sp and side, sore teet, etc. Pent rubbing. NOAH'S LINIMENT Is or throat, coughs, colds, colic and sugar will usually relieve the toothache there is nothing bettc I applied externally. Look for Noah's Ark?trac age; beware of substitutes. NOAH'S LINIMENT is sob the cities and out In the count! $1.00 a bottle. Send for book Noah Remedy Co., Inc., II CLASSIFIED COLUMN AND FARMERS EXCHANGE PLANTS. "Carolina Rice Meal"?The fine stock food. West Point Mill Co., Charleston, S. C. For Sale?Lookout Mountain Seed Irish Potatoes, $2 per bushel. J. R. Thackston, R. 1, Powder Springs, (J ci. Nancy Mali ami Southern yucen potato slips, $1.2.r> per M. Satisfaction guaranteed. TurlYlin Farms, Salisbury, N. C. Eastern Yam Potato Plants, $1.50 per M; special price to dealers. Can till your orders promptly alter May 10. W. J. Deal, Maiden, N. C. Sweet Potato Plants?Early Triumphs, Nancy Hall, Porto Rico, Norton, and Providence, $1.75 per 1,000. H. II. Thomas, Karleton, Fla. For Sale?Crystal White Indian Runner duck eggs; stocks direct from Fiscliel and Patton; the all white egg strain, $2 for 12. O. Bw Hartzog, Greenville, S. C. Baft's Four Fared Prolific Swd Corn ?pock $1, bushel $3. Indian Runner Duck Eggs $1 per setting. O. P. Stallings, Enfield, N. C. Pens?Clean mixed peas in good sacks. Best for hay. Your last chance to buy at $1.90 per bu. f. o. b. Address D. W. Watkins, Granite Hill, Ga., or T. E. Watkins, Belton, S. C. For Sale?Nancy Hall and Dooly Yam Sweet Potato Slips. $1.50 per thousand. Missionary and Ecelsior Strawberry Plants $2 per thousand. Write or wire. Southern Plant Company., W. J. Hawkins, 'Mgr., Plant City, Fla. Nancy Hall Potato Plants. Buy direct from grower and get fresh plants. Orders filled in any quanity. $175 per 1,000 10,000 or more. $1.50 per 1,000. A. G. Lancaster, Pine Castle, Fla. Sweet Potato Plants, Nancy Hall and Triumph, $1.75 per 1,000. I can fill your orders in any quanity. Give ine your orders for prompt delivery and choice plants grown under irrigation. G. D. Moore, Hawthorn, Fla. Immediate Shipment of genuine Nancy Hall and Porto Rico sweet potato plants at $1 per M, or $1.25 delivered, We ship nothing hut good strong fresh plants, and guarantee entire satisfaction. The 'Bear's Head Farms, Pine Castle, Fla. POUT/TRY AND KGGS. Single Coml> Rhode Island Keds, exclusively, eggs $2 for 15, $2 for 2 0, $S for 100. Mrs. K. H. Hill, Washington, Ga. White Indian Runner Ducks?For 10 (lays will soil for $1.25 per dozen This ad will not appear again. S, A. Lowranee, Mooresville, N. C. 100 White Indian Runners?To make room for 3,000 young stock, will sell for $10 a trio for next thirty days. Alabama Leghorn Farms Co., Mulga, Ala. I legist ered Berkshire Figs?Ready to ship. From prize-winning stock. Rig hone, short nose type. Write for prices. W. II. Hudson, Tlmmonsvllle, S. C. White Indian Hunncr Duck Kgga from prizo winning CarllsleFlshel-Patton strains. $1.50 dozen; from Imported Penciled, $1 dozen. W. O. Brownflcld, Opollka, Ala. ? / M ss Home rotccted from the every-day ? having on hand a bottle of nic Best Pain Remedy. ['"r for internal uses as well as for *cl 11 i "lv utely pure and clean to use, i r and compounded as carefully ^ cat jcs not contain any chloroform, B"t inziuc or poisonous dru^s. 1 Liniment t i eum.itism, lameness, stiff joints, 1111 rains. cuts, bruises, pains in chest itrates and requires very little st. Hi< le of the best remedies for sore i cramps. A few drops on a little tt ise troubles immediately. For IM, !r?a littio on cotton in cavity and an drj lo-mark?on every genuine packd by all dealers in medicines in fer ry, in three sizes, at 2 5c, 50c and i>" lots and testimonials. ichmund, Va. Co Sweet Potato Plants, express prepaid to South Carolina, 1,000 to 3,000 at $1.75 per 1,000, 4,000 to 10,000, $1.65; Nancy Hall, Triumphs, Porto Kico yams. C. F. Wliitcomb, Umatilla, Fla. White Leghorns, Hurt Orpingtons., White Plymouth Hocks. Vigorous, hardy stock. Eggs for hatching and baby chicks. Mating List Free. Bacon & Haywood, 205 Springfield Ave., Guyton, Ga. ... .ml Kcductioii oil Barred Hocks llamburgs, and Runner ducks. Eggs at half nrlro hk thi<t ml will not ait. , ? a again. Write for circular. Valley Head Poultry Farm, Ilig Itock, !' nn.. Route 2 H. "Special Egg Sale" from Jlrst prize Winners White Orpingtons Imported direct from England 1.00 for 15. Black Orpingtons 1.00 for 15. White Wyandots 1.00 15. J. P. Kollctt, Fountain Inn, S. C. MISC10 L1 i A X KOI'S. Hart ford's Koupo Cure?Guaranteed 50c delivered. Poultry Remedy Co., Kneads, Fla. 1 buy all kinds of empty barrels and bags. Try me. Walter A. Moore, 8 George St., Charleston, S. C. Ask for Our Specials in Dinner Sets? Rig money saved by our "factory to buyer" plan. Carolina Novelty Co., Box 4 74, Raleigh, N. C. Broken Auto?Crank cases, cylinders, transmission cases, or any-' thing made of metal welded back as good as new. Prices reasonable. The Bridgers Co., Florence, S. C. Personal?Ladies, when delayed or irregular use Triumph Pills; always dependable. "Relief" amd particulars free. Write National Medical Institute, Dept. 5., Milwaukee, Wis. Piles can be relieved at once?-Send 15c for liberal sample, ''Lino Pile Remedy," and bo convinced. Large size, 50c, 6 for $2.50. H. M. Knight and Co., Manufacturing Pharma v-inia, Willi easier, 1'CTin. Marry if you are lonely. The Reliable Confidential Successful Club has large number of wealthy eligible I members, both sexes wishing early marriage. Descriptions free. Mrs. Wrubel, Box 2 0, Oakland, Cal. tier Married ? Matrimonial paper containing advertisements marriageble people from all sections; rich, poor, young, old Protestants, Catholics, mailed sealed free. The . i "Correspondent," Toledo, Ohio. Prize Winning White Indian Runner I duck eggs, 11 for $3; 22 for $f>. Rronzo turkey eggs, 11 for $3; 22 for $5. 5 Toulouse goose eggs, $2.50. White Orpington eggs, 1.50 for 15 and up. Fawn and White Indian Runner duck eggs, $l.i?0. M. B. Orant, Darlington, S. C. I will teach you bookkeeping and the collection business. Appoint you my special representative in your own town. In your spare time. And help to make you prosperous. Write to-day for this offer. Brown's Correspondence School, Wilcoxon Building. Freeport. Illinois. RF/AL ESTATE For Farm Lands?South Georgia; open or out over. Write J. H. Barfleld, llox 22, Atlanta, Ga. They Sure Shot to Kill. John Walker, a British mine owner, and his wife, fighting shoulder to shoulder, recently killed seven and wounded three men out of a band of 1 1 employees at the mine near Villa Oarela, Mexico. The employees attacked Mr. Walker in the office of the mine heonuse of his inability to raise money with which to pay their wages. k sHH. < r<xr llkmoMtUm ud If rural arft? '1 have been ualng Noah's Llnl111 for mora than a year, and il It the heat I hava evor tried : rheumatism, neuralgia and all : les and pains of any kind."? s. A. M. Doylo, Richmond, Va. Air Colda iind lluarHennia? u.ih's Liniment quickly relieves da ami hoarseness, and 1 have tied a bottle with me for yours traveling."?W. T. Burton, Wil- f i, N. C. * or lluekaetir ??"?! s<Hl Jului*.? have used Noah's Liniment tor [ kaeho and Htiff Joints and pain* d lind it to be the best liniment ever used."?Mrs. SallL Young, gar, Va. ?,r Pain Following < hillf*.? "My Lie girl was st:i?> miik With chills it for the pain following I us> U ah's Liniment, and it gave uimt relief."?-A. I L. Greenwood, ihmond, Va. l<"or Sore Fet't.? "Suffering for month with rheumatism In my kle, Instep and toes, I commeed to use Noah's Liniment, d my foot has Improved wonrfully, and can now walk with little inconvenience."? C. A. rues, Portsmouth, Va. l-'or Pain In the It nek.?"I nuf od dreadfully for ten years with itis In back. Less than half a ttle of Noah's LtLnlment made a rfoct cure."?Mrs, J. LI, B41Uzijp?Point Eastern, Va. iii . I SEND BODIES TO CHINA + A (JKEWSOMK CAlUiO TO CROSS PACIFIC CKTKAN. The Rones of Nearly Six Thousand Chinese to he Sent to the Mother Country. Some time within tho next six months a ship will leave San Pedro with the most curious and grewsome cargo that ever left Southern California. The cargo will consist of the remains of between 5,000 and 0,0 00 Chinese, who have died iti this country during the last fifty years. It will he the largest single removal of human remains in the world's his lory, ?ina ine preparations nave neen carried forward so <iuietly that 110 comment has been occasioned, says the San Francisco Call. Nearly a year ago the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association of San Francisco, sometimes known as the Chinese Six Companies, took out permits for the removal of the remains of the Chinese who are buried in California, and up to this time more than f),000 skelttons have been exhumed and prepared for shipment. The bones are carefully wrapped, each in a separate piece of soft clotli, in order that they may not be defined by handling nor injured by undue friction, and are then placed in a tin box and carefully sealed. On the outside of the boxes are placed characters giving the name and the family of the deceased and the village, district and province from which I10 came. When a Chinese leaves home to enter another country and seek fortune he goes in a totally different way than does a man of any other nationality. There is in it the spark of adventure and the average Chinese makes no effort to maintain his station in the countrv tr? wUim. im ? .. ...o.. HO ftUOT. Scholars and poets sometimes work in kitchens and over laundry tubs in order to Ret the wealth necessary to return to China and hold his proper position there. Until late years there were no Chinese who did not fully intend to return, so their fellows feel that they are only doing their duty in sending the remains back to relatives and thus ending the pilgrimage. >. v .vj' . y s No More Registry Stumps. Postmaster General Burleson Wednesday issued an order dlsmn ' aiing v the use of ten cent registry stamps and providing that no additional registry stamps shall lie printed after the present supply shall have been exhausted. Hereafter ordinary postage stamps may be used for the prei payment of registry fees. Charged With Killing Wife. * At Cripple Creek, Col., James L. Bacon, member of the Legislature , from Teller County, was arrested j Monday on a warrant charging him I with the murder of his wifo, Ida ^ j Bacon, and his stepdaughter, Josephj ine Davidson. The women were klllI ed in an explosion that wrecked tho 1 Bacon home April 28.