Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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. j { BE IN THE SWIM Give uni your clothes to elent), press or dye and you will always look nice and stylish. Old suits made to look like new. Experienced workmen and prompt ser vice rendered. W. H. ROBIHSON, Tailor. Over W. U. Telegraph Office. Another Murder tn Town. “Come to’the"sale. For this week only I will offer 13 lbs. Green Coffee for $1.00; lOti lbs. « Flour, $3.75; 3 plugs Schnapps and Kite icco, 25c.; Arm and Hammer Soda, 1c. per package. Don’t forget, good people, to CO^yto this sale; and don’t forget, good ladiig. that the Parlor Market still keeps plenty of good things to eat. Save your money and come to the Parlor Market. W. J. MANESS, ’Phone 23. William S. Hall. Jr. James A. Willis. HALL & WILLIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. STAR THEATRE BLDG. OA.l- r P r HS'V, ». c;. Notary Public in office. Prompt attention given to all business. J. EMILE HARLEY, Attorney-at- Law, iGaffney, - - S. C. Notary public. All business receives prompt ["’and careful attention. "MONEY.TO LOAN ONlUEAL ESTATE Dr. D. P. THOMSON, Dentist. lyOffice over National Bank. J. C. OTTS, Attorney and Counselor. Office upstairs, between R. A. Jones and Davenport. Office and Residence .Phone. Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, 13 IS X 1ST Office in Star Theatre Building. Phone No. 20. J. F. GARRETT, (Dentist. Office Over The Battery. ’Phone 82. Ninety Per Cent of all chronic headaches are due to eye strain. Go to Dr.JOriffith at the Chero kee Drug Co.’s and have the defect in vision corrected, and thus be QUICKLY AND JPERMANENTLY CURED. Glasses Fitted WithJScientiflc Accu racy and all the diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat treated according to the latest and most approved methods. Building and Plastering Lime, Ooa), and Plaster Hair. Plaster Pans Shingles, Portland Oement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse and Dynamite Caps, call on Limestone Springs Lime Works CARROLL & CO., Lessees. Telephone CLAIMS] PAID By jrTUA Life-Insurance Ik I WH Company For Accidents and Sickness through this agency since January: W. D. Kirby, $ 32.14 W. R. Pearson, 7.50 W. H. Harrison, Jr., 127.14 A. h. Peeler, 25.00 A. W. Clary, 12.86 H. It. Spears, 70.00 H. A. Littlejohn, . 75, 00 Wm. T. Gaston, 27.86 L. Baker, 32.14 Why not insure YOUR time against acci dent and sickness. For rates and other formation call on or address JONES J. DARBY. District Agt. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS, j People Yon Know and People Yon Don’t Know O. E. Wilkins left the city yester- day morning for a day or two out on business. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Abbott, who have been spending some time at Greers, returned to their home in the city Saturday. Mr. Abbott was on a business mission and reports a good trade. Their many friends in the city are glad to have them home again. Miss Mattie Mast, of Lenoir, N. 0., who has been spending some time in the city with her friend, Miss Ada Crocker, returned to her home the last of tae week. R. A. Hawkins came to the city Saturday morning. G. W. McKown spent some time in the city yesterday. Mr. Wm. Caldwell and bis charm ing daughter, Miss Sallie, of Kings Creek, were in the city Saturday and attended the meeting of Jake Car penter Camp U. C. V. While in the city Miss Caldwell was the guest of Miss Ethel Sarratt, and Mr. Caldwell of Sheriff Thomas. W. M. Wheeler, of the Wheeler Wall Paper Co., Charlotte, N. C., spent some time in the city yester day on business. Magistrate R. W. Lee, of White Plains, spent some time in the city Saturday. John Thomas Ruppe, of Maud, was a city visitor yesterday. ,, ~ John Pridmore came to the city Saturday. Our old friend, Wm. M. Ross, from across the .Broad, was in the city yes terday. He called on The Ledger and renewed. W. C. S. Wood came to the city Saturday. E. D. Darwin, of Smyrna, York county, was in the city yesterday. He called on The Ledger and sub scribed. Chas. E. Smith, of Goucher, came to the city Saturday on business. J. L. Strain, Esq., and his daughter, Miss Ethel, of Etta Jane, were shop ping in the city yesterday. The ’squire paid The Ledger an appreciated call. Mid Maner, of Cowpeus, was in the city Saturday on business. Reuben Huskey, a successful farm er of Wrights, was in the city yester day. He called on The Ledger and subscribed. John R. Webster, of Cowpens, at tended the meeting of Jake Carpen ter Camp U. C. V. in the city Satur day. Lee Patrick, of Wilkinsville, came up to the city yesterday. M. C. Lipscomb, of White Plains, was among bis many friends in the city Saturday. Davidson Mitchel, of Grindal, brought cotton to the city yesterday. John R. Godfrey, a prominent farmer of Maud, was iu the city some time Saturday morning. Moses Goforth, a prosperous Thick- ety farmer, was in the city yesterday. James Byars, of Algood, was a city visitor Saturday. Julius Hammett, of Lawn, came to the city yesterday. He called on The Ledger and subscribed. Magistrate J. W. Alexander was in the city Friday. Rev. J. D. Bailey, of Cowpens, spent some time in the city yester day. Wm. C. Thompson, of Lockhart, came to the city Saturday to spend a few days with friends. J. J. Allison favored The Ledger with a call yesterday and subscribed William McAbee,of Grindall, came up to the city Saturday and called on The Ledger. J. E. Foster, of Gowdysville, was an appreciated Ledger visitor Satur day. Magistrate A. J. McCraw came to the city Friday and paid The Ledger an appreciated visit. Wm. Worthy, a young farmer of Gowdysville, came up to the city Saturday and paid The Ledger an appreciated call. M. M. Tate, a prominent Chero- keean of Webster, was in the city Saturday. J. C. Jefferies, Esq., spent Thurs day in Spartanburg. W. P. Love, Esq., of Love Springs, a prominent farmer, came to tne city Friday on business. Summy Alexander, of Love Springs, was among bis many friends in the city Friday. H. 1. Hullender, of Antioch, was a Ledger visitor Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. B. K. Humphries re turned fromElberton, Ga , yesterday, where they had been visiting for sev eral days. H. D. Mathis, of Ravenna, made a business trip to the city Saturday. Landrum Clary, a prominent far mer of Algood, spent some time in the city Friday. Sando Nortbey, a Cherokee creek OUR. Men's $™3 Shoes. It is the strongest line ever shown in Gaffney. j| | IS* R. S. Lipscomb Shoe Co. Next door to Cherokee Drug Co. farmer, spenc some time in the city Saturday afternoon. Hamlet Crocker, of Ravenna, spent some time io the city Saturday. Goodman Pridmore, a progressive farmer of Grassy Pond, was a busi ness visitor in the city yesterday. John H. Wilkins, of Gowdysville, came to the city Friday on businese. So^tt Hill, a farmer, came ;to the city Saturday afternoon. John M. Daniel, of Tbickecy, a vet eran of the Confederacy, left yester day for Columbia to attend the re union. Hon. W. Judsoo Sarratt came up from the farm Saturday and spent Sunday In the city with his sister, Miss Inez. :‘~- j . Jbi3NP F. G. Stacy went to Spartanbuarg Friday. Mr. and Mrs. C. Cash and their charming daughter, Miss Nettie, of Ezells, were shopping iu the city yes terday. Miss Sallie Caldwell, of King’s Creek, one of the maids of honor of Jake Carpenter Camp, came to the city yesterday to accompany the camp to the reunion. She is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Thomas. E. P. Richards, a prominent farmer of Macedonia, was in the city on busi ness Saturday. Vaud Smith, a young Tbickety far mer, was in the city yesterday. Mr. Gillen, of Chicago, 111., travel ing representative of Sears, Roebuck & Co., was in the city Saturday buy ing carpets from|the Gaffney Oarpet Mill. M. B. Vassey, of Tbickety, spent some time in the city yesterday. He favored The Ledger with a visit. W. W. Holland, the energetic rep resentative of the Spartanburg Jour nal, was an appreciated Ledger visi tor yesterday. Miss Daisy Harmon left the city last week for a visit of several days to friends at Pacolet, Spartanburg, Union and Buffalo. W. M, Webster, of the. .Gaffney Manufacturing Company, returned Saturday from a business trip to Philadelphia, New York and other points. Prof, and Mrs. R. 0. Sams spent several days the past week at Glenn Springs. A NEW MANUFACTORY A Gaffney Mmi-Invento m Plow that Saves the Farmers Work. ~ A Ledger representative, hearing of a new plow that had been invented by Rev. W. T. Thompson, called on that gentleman last Friday afternoon at bis shop on Rutledge street, in order to get a short sketch of the in vention. Mr. Tuompson received The Ledger man graciously and showed him around. The whole front of the shop was literly strewn with plows painted red and blue. In answer to enquiries Mr. Thompson said: ‘‘This plow is adjusted from actual tests made by myself in the field, It^is so set as to enable the horse or mule to walk in the middle of the furrow and at the same time allow the plowman to guide the plow as close to the cot ton as he may wish with the least possible exertion.” Tbe implement is a combination be tween a plow and a barrow. There are three small plowshares attached to a cross piece set at right angles with the beam. One share cuts the soil from the plant and the other two throw fresh earth to the plant. When the cotton becomes high enough to worn you run around it two times with this implement and then it is ready for the hoe It saves barrowing and running round, as it does both at one operation. Mr. Thompson is making these plows on alarge scale tbii year. This is bis third year for manu facturing them and there is a greater demand than ever before, and that is quite natural, for it is a valuable in vention for tbe farmer. Tbe R. M. Wilkins Hardware Co., and the Smith Hardware Co., are both handling these plows for Mr. Thompson. The beam and cross pieces are cut with double mortise and braced so t as to stand any kind of land. These plows may be seen and in spected at either of tbe above hard ware stores or at Mr. Thompson’s shop. They are superior in quality and workmanship to any of tbe for eign manufaotnred implements of like character offered on this market, and Cherokee farmers will not only benefit themselves but be encouraging home industry by using them. FIGHT WITH KNIVES. Difficulty at White Platne Kenulta in Death of Mr. Geo. PhUllps. There was an unfortunate difficulty in White Plains township Saturday afternoon between a Mr. Upton and bis brother-in-law,Mr.George Philips, which resulted in tbe death of Mr. Philips. We can, up to this time, only get meagre accounts of the trouble, but from what we can learn the fight occurred in the field Satur day afternoon when no one was with them but Mrs. Upton, tbe wife of tbe slayer and the sister of tbe deceased. The rumor is that tbe fight began with knives, both were hurt and Philips lingered until Sunday after noon when he died. Magistrate Lee took Upton in custody and was hold ing him yesterday afternoon until the inquest was oonclnded,which was being held when this was written. Sines tbe above was written Coro ner Vlnesett informs ns that the ver dict of tbe jnry of Inquest was that tne killing was justifiable. Upton has been placed In jail. Two masked men required the s > press agent at Mason City, la., to open his safe, and they took $10,000 and departeil •—Hams, Lard, Coffee, and all the best groceries at W. J. Wilkins & Co. THE MERGER SUIT DISCUSSED Northern Securities Decision Is Sweeping, Says J. W. Griggs. HIS OPINION OF WHAT IT MEANS Former Attorney General Say« It Af fects the Natural Rig;ht to Acquire and Hold Property—Declares It Ap plicable to All Interstate Competi tion Consolidations Made Since En actment of S'nerman Law. Former Attorney General John W. Griggs, one of the counsel for the Northern Securities company, was in terviewed at his home in Paterson, N. J., by a New York Herald reporter on the decision rendered in the merger suit. Without saying a word as to his chances before th j highest court it was evident that the former attorney gen eral, though his disappointment was keen at the decision, believes firmly that the supreme court will uphold him. “I maintain,” he said, “that the ac quiescence by the government for nine teen years in the actual consolidation of many parallel and competing lines of railroads has given as a practical construction of the Sherman law that It does not forbid the natural processes of consolidation under modern meth ods. But the Northern Securities com pany, mind you, was organized to pro mote rather than to restrain competi tion. It was its aim to build a great transcontinental road that could com pote with the Santa Fe, Southern Pa cific and other systems. “I maintain that congress has the right to control the use, not the owner ship, of property. It has no business with the title of private property. It can tell an expressman how much he must charge, but cannot forbid him to sell his wagons or buy us many as he wants. If I own a steamboat on the Hudson, I must run a prescribed speed, charge a certain fare, make so many trips, but what power is there to stop my selling that boat to my competitor or any one else? I can blow it up if I want to, and that would restrain com petition equally. “I can give you the whole Northern Securities situation in a word. An en gine driver controls an engine, a super intendent controls the engine driver, but does not directly control the en gine. That is the position we held at St. Ixmls. The Securities company ex ercises a secondary, not a primary, power over the railroads. “We all know of many instances in which moral power is exercised by some financial institution over prop erty without owning a share of that property. How are you going to con trol every one who has influence? To say that one person or several persons cannot acquire stocks in companies that might restrain competition is to say that the power to commit a crime is equivalent to Its actual commission. “Nobody questions the right of con gress to regulate rates. If these com panies should use their power to re strain trade, congress has a remedy at hand by compelling them to run a cer tain number of trains and to charge certain rates and provide full and just accommodations. “Just think what the decision means to the development of the country. There is hardly a consolidation possi ble that does not touch competition somewhere. No law can compel rail road companies to compete; hostility or rivalry is not commanded as a corpo rate duty. “We thought the point settled for all time in the sugar decision. Chief Jus tice Fuller said in that case: ‘There is where the supreme court distinguished between acts which directly restrain commerce and acts which only indi rectly have that effect. There was nothing in the proofs to indicate any intention to put a restraint upon trade or commerce, and the fact that trade might be indirectly affected was not enough to entitle complainants to a de cree.’ ” Mr. Griggs was asked if he agreed with one of the counsel who was quot ed anonymously as saying that the closing phrase of the Judge’s order in the mergei case providing for the transfer of the stock to the present owners of the railroads “practically nullifies the whole effect of the deci sion.” “I do not see the point,” he answer ed. “The decision is sweeping. It af fects the natural right to acquire an 1 hold property. It is applicable to all consolidations of interstate competition made since the Sherman law was enacted.” Jade Found In Oregon. “Jade, the sacred and rare stone used by the Chinese in making bracelets, rings, vases, etc., has been found re cently In large quantities in the state of Oregon,” said S. T. Taliaferro of Portland to a Washington Star report er. “The discovery Is considered quite an Important one from a mineral as well as a commercial standpoint This find is said by geologists to be the first ef the kind In the United States. The Oregon Jade is tough and compact and varies In color from pnre white to a dark green.” Tmtrn Speed Record Broken. The Burlington road has pat out a claim for the train speed record. Re cently a special mall train ran from Burlington to Chicago, 206 miles, In 210 minutes, including stops. Tbe actual running time was 197 mlnnes. The eighty miles between Galesbnrg, 111., and Mendota were made In seventy minutes. NEW LIFE SAVING DEVICE. Kite neulsrned liy Which Hopes Con Be Carried Ashore From Ships. M. IMletun, tho French minister of marine, has placed a vessel at the dis posal of M. Zuchowieckt of La Rochelle for the continuance of his interesting experiments with a life saving ap paratus, says a Paris dispatch to the Chicago Inter Ocean. This consists of a large kite of oiled cloth with four air bags in the head to maintain its equilibrium. The kite’s tail consists of six cloth pockets in the form of fire buckets, suspended one above the oth er. At the end of the tail rope a strongly built paddle is fixed. The great difficulty in shipwrecks near shore always has been in getting a rope aboard to establish communica tion with land, A strong wind in variably blows inshore. Zuchowieckl suggests the carrying of a life saving kite on every vessel, as an inshore blowing wind would make it easier to carry a rope from a vessel ashore than vice versa. If rocks made it danger ous for the man with the rope and life belt to travel to shore steering with the paddle, a dummy could be substi tuted. Otherwise the man guiding himself with the puddle can reach the shore with great rapidity. Zuchowiecki threw himself into the water with the apparatus eight times a few days ago during a gale of wind and came safely ashore, pulled by the kite from distances of 500, l,0(Jo and 1,500 yards. One of M. Pelietan’s sec retaries, who witnessed the experi ments, said they were entirely success ful. The tests with the dummy were also successful. It is probable that the kites will soon be adopted by the French navy as well as by fishing and merchant ships. PORTO RICO’S PROGRESS. Attorney General Harlan Predict* a llrlftht Future For the Inland. James S. Harlan, who has been in Porto Rieo the last two years as attor ney general of the island, talks quite enthusiastically about its present con dition and its future, according to a Washington special to the New York Times. The government is out of debt and has a surplus in its treasury of more than $500,000. “If congress will leave Porto Rico alone for the next twenty years,” said Mr. Harlan, “the people of the United States will be astonished at the result. Porto Rico will be the garden spot of the country, supporting a well to do community of intelligent, peace loving and patriotic people. “Besides the tariff the Insular gov ernment has established a system of Internal revenue taxes, and the federal system of taxation has not been ex tended to the island, so that every dol lar collected on the manufacture of cigars, cigarettes, rum, spirits and oth er products, which in other parts of the United States pay a tribute to the fed eral treasury, remains with the island treasury. “The result is that we are enabled to carry on a system of government as complex as any other state or territo rial government of the country. Al though Porto Rico can be classed as only an agricultural community, we are carrying on an elaborate system of road improvements, opening up new agricultural lands and inaugurating an extensive school system. There are now 1,200 schools in the island. In ev ery way we are maintaining beneficial public works such as are carried on in highly organized communities.” NEW DREDGING METHOD. The Tranaport Grant Will Be U*ed to Deepen the Columbia. A new method of dredging harbors Is shortly to be put into execution by the war department on the Pacific coast, and something of the kind may be tried on the Atlantic coast, says a Washington special to the New York Times. One of the government trans ports, the Grant, which is no longer needed for the transport service, is be ing turned into a dredge and is to be used for cleaning out the mouth of the Columbia. At the time this plan was conceived an attempt was made to get a trans port for use on the Atlantic coast, the Idea being to use it at New York and other points. It was found, however, that none of the transports on the At lantic coast could be spared. The Grant Is being fitted up with large bins and pumps. The pumps will suck up the soil and deposit It In the bins, and the vessel will then steam out to sea and drop the soil into the ocean. It was found that an ordinary dredge would be of no use at the mouth of the Columbia, where tbe sea Is heavier than at any other point on the coast. The transport will make an Ideal dredge In the opinion of tbe officers who have charge of the harbor Im provements. The cost is a great deal less than that <<f but, ling an ocean going dredge. The two that are building for New York will cost about $350,000 each, while the work of fitting np the Grant Will cost only about $160,000. Jnat Learned That He la Free. According to the SL Louis Globe- Democrat, an old negro named Ed mund Williams, who was born in Tex as, appeared In Eagle Pass, In that state, to see If tbe news be heard about the emancipation of the negroes was true. For sixty years he has been living on a ranch in the Interior of Mexico, and until a few weeks ago had known nothing about the events of 186148. April. A wind that blows from out ths south, A sparrow's song, a fleeting shower, lAnd where but now a snowbank gleamsd Ths sun lying warm in ths hsart of a flowsr. —Charles Francis Saunders in Idppla- oott’s Magaslns For April. Wanted. PW'Advertlsements under this head will tin. n “v t0< !i / or on,J cent a word each Inser- jlgh. No ad Inserted for lees than ten cents C*! ^ g’dlon part Jersey y Cow wanted at Coaunerelal 1 loteL tf. make straight loans ou city commissions. Several thousand dollars to loan. ^ pr2fl ' tf J. G. Jefferies. Road Tax Ivjiekffiel. SumCrvhair 0 Mily l5th ’ ^ J ’ V ’ Notice. ATOTlCE—lee ert-am moulds for delivering ^ cream. Lipscomb A Richardson. 5 i2tf "WfE will P^y 28c for cotton seed up to and ” Including May 15th. Victor ('otU)n Oil Oo. WANTED; To buy your milk, fat or poor cattle Will sell milk cows on installment or for cash, whichever you desire. Will ex change milk cattle for beef or yearlings. 4-7-1 mo W. D. KIRBY & CO. Money Loaned. I OANS on improved farms for a term of s- years at seven per cent, interest. No commissions. For information apply to J. 0. . efferies. Attorney at Law. 11-22-lyr REAL ESTATE AT 0 PER CENT. I G. W. SPEER, Attorney at Law. ^ LOANS NEGOTIATED FOR BORROWERS ON REAL ESTATE BUTLER & OSBORNE ATTORNEYS Our drugs are the finest obtain able ami our stock is in every way adequate. Our prescription work is marked by thought, care and thoroughness. We feel our responsibility to you and to your physician. Prescriptions are dis pensed by scientific methods, and the accuracy of the compounding is insured by the check system we employ. Our prices are al ways low, quality of service con sidered. For these reasons we ask to be favored by your pre scription trade. CHEROKEE DRUG CO. Prescription Druggists, Limestone ami Frederick Streets. Notice to Teachers. 1 here will he vacancies for a principal and four teachers in Gaffney Graded School No. i. Applications must be made in writing on or before May 22nd. 1903. T f» APR T'XX 5-1-8-15 Secty. Board of Trustees. Buy Your Fruit Trees, Vines, Etc. From the reliable KILLIAN NURSERY. Represented in this County this year by D. S. Hoover, a young man in whom we have full confidence, andj we assure patrons that they will be honestly dealt with by him. We have a large stock of trees of all kinds growing this year. PRICES REASONABLE. W. L. KILLIAN & SON, R. F. D. No. 1. Newton, N. C. Wears Now closing out our entire Stock of Buggies cheaper than they have ever been sold. :; Don’t fail to see us before you buy. Top Buggies at $40 and upwards. Gaffney Live Stock H. M. Johnson, Mgr.