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THE LARGEST Circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. The Ledger. SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. WE GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Adver tiser Who Uses the Col umns of This Paper. A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894 GAFFNEY, S. C., FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1903. 81.00 A YEAR. THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE, items of Interest of Passing Events. CROP BULLETIN. ALL OVER THE STATE. iCventa that Have Taken Place from One End of the State to the Other Called from Exchangee for Quick Reading by Score* of Busy People. An order instituting free delivery bas been issued for Anderson. Tbe annual reunion of Newberry College will be held at Little Moun tain on August 7 at 10 o’clock. Everything is quiet at Norwav. Tbe ? ailing out of the troops Satur-i day night is considered somewhat of a 1 fiasco. Tbe building contractors and tbe strikers of Charleston are still apart. The master tradesmen are importing mechanics and guaranteeing them steady employment for a year. Both sides are confident of winning out. On last Saturday Mr. Eli Williams and Mr. Sharp Kennedy, of the Cher okee Springs section of Spartanburg county, became involved in.a quarrel. As a result Mr. Kennedy produced a knife, and painfully, but not serious ly stabbed Mr. Williams. The Second Regiment of South Carolina militia will encamp on tbe Isle of Palms. Greenville wanted all three of tbe regiments; but on being assigned only the Second regiment decided that she did not want any. Tbe regiment has since been assigned to the former place. The intense heat in Charleston during tbe last few days affected the minds of two negroes, Edward Rob* nson and Janie Schubert. They were found running wild about the streets by tbe police Sunday, and sent to the city hospital, but neither of them could be accommodated and were re turned to the station house. Dr. William D. Crum, collector oi customs, who delivered an address in Chicago last week, has returned to () j Charleston. Dr. Crum was quoted in a newspaper interview sent out from Chicago as being an advocate of lynch law. He subsequently repudia ted the interview, declaring that he had condemned lynching in the south aud he would not condone it in Chica go- The Columbia police Tuesday after* noou arrested a white man named C- D. Shealey on the charge of larceny and cruelty to animals. Shealey hired a horse from a livery stable there and drove over to Saluda coun ty. He did noo return for several days and the horse was killed. The police arrested him as soon as he turned up and a warrant was taken out for him. Report of Condition of Different Crops Throughout the State. Columbia, July 7.—The week end-' ing 8 a. m., Monday, July 6th, had a J mean temper&ture^of about 81 degrees, which is 1 degrees above tbe normal. The day temperatures ranged from 86 degrees to 96 degrees,and the nights from 68 degrees to 75 degrees, both very favorable for crop growth and development. There was about the usual amount of sunshine. The winds were light, and generally southerly. The relative humidity averaged above normal. At the beginning of tbe week the ground was thoroughly soaked by the rains at the close of the previous week, and there were light scattered showers on the 2nd, and again on the last day, but the ground was gen erally dry enough to permit cultiva tion after tbe 1st of July, with the exception of very low lying lands, and where the rains on the 2nd were heaviest. A few localities need rain, { but generally tbe soil is well supplied with moisture. Hail that damaged tobacco fell in Horry county. With the exception of isolated and limited localities where tbe ground is still too wet to work, the week was tbe most favorable of the season on all crops, and afforded opportunity to clean fields of grass and weeds, and give them much needed cultivation, although complaints of grass fields* continue to be received from all parts of the State. Tbe warm, humid weather, and the moist condition of the soil, were conditions conducive to growth, and all crops responded, except on light soils that have been leached by the excessive rains of June, and of crops that have not been properly cultivated. The hot weather, following the heavy rainfall, scalded corn and cotton in Hampton county. Old corn has about all been laid by, and is earing well. Young corn bas a good color generally. On replanted bottom lands, corn is coming up to good stands. Cotton continu’s email, and on light soils is yellow, but generally it has a better color than heretofore, and is growing rapidly. Lice have about disappeared. Some fields are blooming freely, in the eastern part the State, but in NEWS OF THE WEEK IN LOWER CHEROKEE From Our Correspondent Etta Jane. at PERSONALS AND LOCALS. blooming is many fields not yet have not other parts general, and put on any squares. Clean fields are the excep tion. Tobacco curing is in progress in all sections. Tbe crop has improved re cently, except where previous heavy rains caused irreparable damage. Rice is not doing well generally. Peaches and grapes are rotting ex tensively, and the fruit crop is less promising than are small, and pastures and gardens are excellent. The hay crop promises to be heavy. Interesting Paragraphs and Recent Hap penings In Lower Section of the County Gathered Up by Our Regular Correspon dent for Benefit of Ledger Readers. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, July 5.—We noticed onr first cotton bloom this (Tuesday) morning. Though there is a good deal of complaint of cotton being small and late, it only^remains for it to get warm sunshine, a little more work and good seasons to bring it up to its average with other years. We must remember that we have had an un precedented cool spring—nights espe cially, and cotton can’t and won’t grow to do any good until the weath er becomes warm night and day. People in this neighborhood, so far as we know, are very well up with their work and it will not be long until they begin to “lay-by.” Much I of the planted-over oorn on the creek and river bottoms is getting its first plowing and hoeing. We regrel, however, to say that much of both crops has been washed away with tbe soil and it will be use less to plant it over for this year, and it will be many years before some of these lands can be cultivated at all. The soil is gone on the one hand or covered with immense sand bars. We visited Gaffney yesterday and met with many of our friends from the country. AH seem to be in fairly j good spirits about their crop pros pects. We were glad to meet our young friend, Gibbs Pridmore, who has taken a position in the hardware store of R. M. Wilkins & Co. If he takes after either, and more especially both, of bis parents, be can’t help but make a success. No better people lived in this part of Cherokee county than Mr. and Mrs. Goodman Prid more. before they chose to move north of the railroad. Miss Grace Whieonant, of Wilkins- ville, is spending a few days with her friend, Miss Ray Macomson, of Mer cer. Booh of them attended preach ing at Salem last Sabbath. Mr. Lee Hammett, our young friend of Mercer, Springs, Ark., where he is being treated for rheumatism. With good seasons and health to work them out, we don’t see why this county won’t make as good crops as it bas made in tbe last ten years. The fact of their being late is no argu ment against the/prospect, as the season is anywhere from ten days to two weeks behind that of most years. Rev. W. H. White preached at Salem last Sabbith and Sabbath night. He announced that be would begin a series of meetings there on Thursday evening, 30ch inst., and he expects to have some help, of which the public will be notified later. We understand that the first Sab bath in August will be children’s day at Wilson’s chapel. An employee in The Ledger office sent your correspondent word last week by Sam Foster that if he didn’t write a better hand, when writing for that paper, that he would come down and straighten him ous. Come on, brother, our fighting lieutenant is ready for you. Mrs. D. R. Reeves, of Georgia, has been visiting her sister, Mrs. C. F. Inman. j l s THROOGHOUT THE TAR HEEL STATE. From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. FORESTRY RESERVE. Mr. C. H. Smith who live, .bout hl , ( b th6 hars he deh , ered miles southwest of Yorkville, had ^ ' , 6 , at the Tillman change of venue hear ing, has been hauled up with a short turn by tbe affirmation by tbe su preme court of a definition of self de fense made by him in a charge while he occupied a seat oo the bench, which definition could by ro possible twist be made to apply to J. H. Till man’s excuse for killing N. G. Gon zales. The learned judge (Buchanan) said: ‘‘Self-defense is taking the life of a fellow being where it is neccssaryto do so to protect your own person, and to make out a case of self-defense you who has been in the heretofore. Melons Citadel for three years, is spending late. Minor crops, his vacation at home. He will re turn to Charleston October 1. We are glad to note that Lee has taken a high stand in his studyies aud hope : he will continue to do so. The Ledger, or especially this correspond ent, is proud of any boy or girl who honor on Cherokee county. On Pikes Peak—Bureau to Restore and Pro tect the Forest, The Pike’s Peak Forest Reserve of Colorado will receive this summer the special attention of the bureau of forestry. A party of seven men, un der Wesley J. Gardner, a graduate of the Yale Forest school, will make a study uf that part of the reserve lying Brooklyn south of the cogwheel railroad up pending Pike’s Peak in order to determine whether the great damage done the land by fire may be overcome and what may be done to improve the drainage conditions. This part of the reserve is of the greatest impor tance to Colorado Springs and Pueblo, which derive their water supply from lakes and streams within it. All of | the water for Pueblo comes from the Seven Lakes region. Nearly the whole tract has been burned over and the destruction of timber bus result ed in a very great reduction in the water supply. ThH purpose of the bureau in mak ing this study is chiefly to determine what may be done to improve the drainage conditions of the reserve. Colorado Springs and Pueblo are growing rapidly and require every • it f year a largernmount of water. Tbe ;i„_l„. supply, scanty enough now, is likely sooo to prove inadequate unless the forests, which conserve the water, are restored and protected. A study will be made of the burned areas in order to learn what trees are coming up on them and bow such reproductian may be hastened. It may be necessary to plant trees on much of the land; if so, forest nurseries will have to be Interesting Items Concerning Oar Neigh bors Be-’oml the Line Which May Frovt Entertaining Reading for Hundreds of Ledger Readers John Myers, if Dilling Mill, King’s Mountain, diea f smallpox Saturday night. He was bout 65 years old and had had the t .ease about three weeks. He leaves several children. J. T. MeHaffey of Newton decided Tuesday, just before time to leave for Raleigh, that he would pay the $3 000 fine rather chan se ve a seven years’ sentence in the pe itentiary. The Piedmont Summer School for teachers opened at Davidson Wednes day morning, wii h about 75 teach ers in attendance. All the instruct- I ors are on hand save three, and they will arrive next week. Charles G. Latta, president of Raleigh cotton mills,' was paralyzed Monday. He was idj Ted in a street car accident in New York city a year ago and has never recovered. A suit for !ji50,000 damages against the Rapid Transit Co. is now The Raleigh it Pamlico Sound Rail way Company stockholders Wednes day organized, aud elected J. M. Tur ner, president, and Claude B Barbee, secretary. Arrangements were made with a New York firm to take $1,200- 000 first mortgage bond. Late Monday afternoon John Ma son, a negro,in the deiiiium of typhoi J fever, was found waucering aimlessly about in Latta Park in Charlotte. He escaped from the boarding house of James M. Good, colored, during the morning. When found oy Chief of Police Irwin, Mason whs nail clad and bad been in the water. Morganton voted in favor of the proposition to establish graded schools Tuesday by a substantial ma- the registered vote. The number of votes registered was 441. The vote for schools was 244, and against schools, 17. Under the act the schools in aedition to the tax levy will get $2,000 per year from the license tax Lucy Cole, the nine-year-old daugh ter of a poor but industrious widow, was perhaps fatally burned in Salem Wednesday morning. The child was establish^! >nud planting plans made, building a fire under a wash pot for \ wi •*/% arm i an *-\ iL' » » ., m 4- t l. I " 1 I _ r\ s-i t t-a ■■ W 4% s-v wv - . M s-v D „— .. I - Bacimnan on Helf-Defense. [Spartanburg Journal.] Ex-Judge Buchanan, who madr J what good opinion thinks a fool of reflects SIX two cows killed by lightning during an electrical storm last Monday evening. Five cows were chained to a wire fence. Tbe bolt struck a tree near by, and passed thence to the fence. All five of tbe cows went down as if shot. Two arose to their feet al most instantly and a third recovered several hours afterward. The other two had been killed instantly. The Excelsior Granite Co., of Lan caster county, has applied for a com mission to open books of subscription. The company will be capicalized at $55,000 and proposes to quarry, manufacture and sell granite and other stone. The corporators are S. W. Heath, E. D. Blackney and H. Gould, of Kershaw, and J M. Heath, of Lancaster. This company has must show he was not guilty of any wrong in bringing about tbe difficul ty. He must have no means of escape; there was no necessity.” If the Lexington jury and the su preme court should take the same possession of the fine granite beds • view of the Tillman case he might as formerly owned by Congressman we n pj ea( i RU iity now. Strait. There was a general row and fight in a negro boarding house at tbe Ca tawba dam near Rock Hill Saturday, in which two negro women, one of them the proprietress of tbe house, were seriously cut about tbe face and bands with broken plates, tumblers and other tableware. The artery and leaders of the forearm of one of the women were severed and had it not been for the presence of some who knew how to stop tbe flow of blood, she would have bled to death before a physician could arrive. John T. Phillips', of Norway, the old Confederate soldier, who was shot five times while at his supper table by tbe negro, Charles Evans, lynched for tbe crime, died Sunday morning at 6:50 o’clock, after having suffered mortal agony for but little less than a week. That be lived so long is con sidered by tbe physicians of Norway but little short of a miracle. Three of tbe wounds administered by tbe negro fiend were said by the physi cians to be fatal, and bow tbe old man managed to live all this time has puz zled tbe doctors not a little. New Welching Machine. The Southern Railway company have established a new weighing- machine at tbe depot. Drop a nickel in the slot, step on the platform and the job is done. A table on front of the machine also gives the amounts wanted, besides that men of different heights should ' they wanted. Alonzo Hammett, his brother, has a very good position in Richmond, Va., since he finished his course in the Massey Business college, and AlLert is doing well in Beaumont, Texas, where he is engaged in a lumber busi ness. There are other boys and girls, too, we have an eye on and will be glad to note any success they, or any one of them, may make. J. H. Fowler, W. C. Sparks and C. F. Inman are the board of trustees for this 21st school district. Some of tbe ^fishing parties going out from Gaffney lately seemed to throw off on Mr. R. O. Ballenger as if he was always provided with a reme dy for snake bite, which might be used as -w^reventative as well as a cure. We have little doubt that had R. 0. been along he would have been about the only sober man in the crowd, except it be Henry Ross, who we don’t think ever touches it: but we won’t say that much for Doc, Lee Little or Ed. DeCamp. A party from Hickory Grove went up on a fishing tour to the ninety- , nine islands last week and made a very good haul. They caught, cooked, ate and brought away all they they had all the fun A prominent part of the work will be a scheme of fire protection. It is absolutely necessary, if anything is to be done for the reserve, that fires should be kept out. Only recently have conditions become so favorable that fire protection is practicable It will be useless to plant, and use less to improve the natural reproduc- tiin, unless the provisions for keep ing the fires under control are made effective There is good promise of success in the task the bureau has undertaken. The importance of the water supply to the adjacent cities guarantees pub lic interest in the protection and im provement of tbe reserve. The coun try is accessible, mines are numerous, and timber from the reserve is easily marketed. Mr. Henry Michelson, supervisor of the forest reserves in central Colorado, first called atten tion to the need of this work last winter—it was at his request the bureau of forestry took it up. Con gressman F. E. Brooks, of Colorado ■Springs, in whose district the Pike's Peak Reserve is situated, bas offered to do all in his power to assist the in vestigation. Mr Gardner will be in tbe field this month, his party follows the first week of July. her mother. She poured some kero sene on the wood to make it burn, and a flame flashed up, causing the oil can to explode. The girl was hor ribly burned and there^ is little hope for her recovery. Harry Marsh, the seven-year-old son of Mr. S. B. Marsh, a well known county, goods horrible The lit- the Sea- citizen of Marshville, Union had a n trrow escape from a death Wednesday morning, tie fellow was playing about board Air Line tracks near Marsh ville station, when he was struck by a shifting engine. He was knocked off the track and his body badly bruised at several places. His in juries are not of a serious nature, however. weigh. —Just received nice Hoe men’s NegU- gee Shirts, 50o. ftDd $1.00. Neat pat terns. See tbsas. W. J. Wilkins & Oo. Cholera infantum. ThD bas King bet n regarded as one of the most dangerous and fatal dis eases to which infants are subject. It oan be cured, however, when prop erly treated. All that Is necessary Is to give Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and castor oil, as directed with each bottle, and a cure is certain. For sale by Chero kee Drug Co. The United States Consul at Can ton, China, reports that an American citizen has been captured by Chinese pirates and is held for ransom. No Pity Shown. “For years fate was after me con tinuously,” writes F. A. Gulledge, Verbena, Ala. "I had a terrible case of Piles causing 24 tumors. When all failed Bnoklen's Arnica Salve cared me. Equally good tor Burns ajdd all aches and pains. Only 25o at Cherokee Drug Co. Mrs. 0. F. Inman bas the thanks of Mrs. J. L. S. aud family for a mess of old-fashioned pole or corn field beans. We read with interest “Bland's” letter to The Ledger from Hickory Grove. We have heard of men hit ting their calling, and tbat’e what ‘‘Bland” has done—he writes an in teresting letter. When we asked a lady last Sabbath to go home with ue from church she said she couldn’t as she was looking for a rain that evening; and sure enough it came. But at tbe time she spoke there was not a cloud to be seen. Is Saul still among the proph ets? Mrs. Dr. MoCInney, who bas been living at tbe Wllkinsville academy, where Mlea Bonnie, her daughter, bae been teaching and her other daugh ter going to school, will move back to her home place. Mrs. J. F. Wright went to Patter son Springs, N. 0., last Saturday to sse one of her sick grandchildren. Mr. W. R. Walker is at Hot Picnic at Antioch. Grover, N. C., June 26.—^here will be a social oicnic at Antioch church on July 18th. The committee on arrangements is composed of three of tbe most charm ing belles of the Antioch neighbor hood, Misses Bessie Hambright, Cleo Dover and Carrie Dixon. By request of this committee we extend an in vitation to everybody to attend the picnic, and the editor of The Ledger and all friends of Gaffneyare especially invited. We hope this will be one most enjoyable events in the way of | picnics or social gatherings in the history of Antioch. The selection of tbe above named committee is an assurance of the sucoess of the occa sion. The Antioob brass band will famish masic for tbe occasion. T. 8. G. Oh, Vest You wish you had ordered Brans- ford’s “Clifton” flour for to-day, but you didn’t. It isn’t onr fault; we bad plenty of it ready to deliver at your order. Don’t get caught napping ne-tt time. W. J. Wilkins & Co. The local baggage handlers of the Southern Railway Company in Ashe ville Tuesday went on a strike for an increase in wages from an average of 75 cents per day to $1 per day. All of tbe strikers are negroes and it was thought at fi.st that there could be no help hired to fill their places, but finally all the labor necessary was se cured to fill the strikers’ places. The local colored baggage men of that city have no union and it is not very likely that any additionnl trouble will arise. There were only about ten men affected by the strike. A most distressing accident oc curred at Wingate, a staHon on the Carolina Central Railroad, six miles below Monroe. Wednesday morning, when Mrs. Martic Broom was over and Killed by a fast passenger train. Mrs. £|room. who resides in the community, was standing on the track near the station when No. 38, | one of the fast trains operated by the Seaboard Air Line between Atlanta and Norfolk, came thundering along 1 at a rate of 50 or 60 miles an. hour . . She apparently did not see or hear 0 16 the approaching train, for she made no effort to get out of the way of harm. The body was terribly mu tilated. FLAW IN GEORGIA. TblnkH AJtlanta the Noisiest Place He Ever Lit In. Well, when I got here, here 1 was. I raley do bleeve this here is tbe noisyest place that ole Flaw was ever knowd to light in. I’d lowed to fol low the crowd when we got off but it got mixt up so with the people that I lost sight of everybody that I had seed on the train, an’ as there was a half dozen railroads an’ mightennigh as many shiftin’ engines a puffin' an’ belcbin’ around thar under tbe great big car shed, an’ as many more police men what kept a eyin’ of me, I thought I had as well to git out from under that car shed an’ off them rail roads at any rates, so I made a break for down the railroad—anywhere be sides thar. At the first cross<n’ I turned to the right an’ went out to the first corner. 1 bet one could a stood across on tbe other corner an’ pitched peanuts into my mouth right square off-hand without rest or aim as I stood thar a lookin’ an’ rubber neckin’ at them high bouses—four teen stories an’ down—an’ street cars, an’ fancy delivery wagons, an’ fancy fixments along the street. I was scared to cross the corner for fear I would git run over, there were so dog gone many things a cassia’ on wheels, so I turned to my right an’ went down what a police called Decatur street—I was a huntin’ of somethin’ to pacify “an’ achin’ void,” as Mon roe Mize| is wont to call that hungry feelin’ what comes to a man after bein’ too felonious temperate about his eatin’ affairs for too loug at a time—an’ went into a Restaurant. Whilst I was a waitin’ on the waiter to fix up my lunch I was a takin’ in of tbe situationment. Electric fans was a buzzin’ all over the room an’ hit raley did look to me like there was a door entrance to b ,th ends of the room, as I could see people a passin’ along on tbe street outside at both ends from where I sot. After I had finished eatin’ my little bite the drotted fool notion struck me to go out at the other*door an’ likewise, I started. I was a run - .in’ at some thin’to my right uu jaji us I looked in front of me I ilmost made colli- ' sion with a felle;* an’ awkwardly- stepped aside to let him pass but with, the same notionment he stepped in front of me an’ I put out my hands to stop myself to keep from a run- nin’ aginst him an’ they struck a great big lookin’ glass what run clear across the back end of the room, an’ it was my own fool self what I'd ran up aginst. The crowd hadn’t quit laughin’ yet when I reached tbe onliest door in the room or I’d have told them that hit was only a hard proposition I had run up agiust. This here place you call Atlanta is too feloniously fancy to suit ole Flaw. Tbe sidewalks in some places are so nice that I actially won’t spit on ’em. All kinds of temptin’ things are spread out on the sidewalks, such as peaches, apples, pernanas, pine apples, beans, ingerns, barbecue meats, segars, cigarettes, tobacaer, jewelry, hardware, clothin’, dry everything you can think of to sell is piled out on the sidewalks. Ef the good people of Gaffney would pile such clutterments on the side walks they’d be pulled before they got out the last load. The streets are full of hawkers or peddlers; some a sellin’ of needle- threaders; some, patent or fake medi cines; some, stove jacks; some, shoe strings; others, matches; one blind nigger gal has a great big book with raised letters which you understand over an’ read off a few her hands for a nickel she will feel stanzas with or a dime. At nights an’ on Sundays the streets are full of preachers or speak ers of some kind. From the Salva tion Army on down—or up, which ever way you mought call it—you find them preaebin’, prayin’, shout in’, singin’, confiabin', or kickin’ up a rumpus of some kind—niggers an’ all. Thinks I to myself, “my, my, these here carryin’s on won’t do for ole Gaffney; they would’t more’n strike the town an’ read one stanza before the whole push would have the papers of compelment read to them an’ be pulled, judgin’ from the way run they done poor ole Uncle Dick Morse.” On every hand you can see bar rooms, beershops—devil holes in every available openin’. I want to git back home for hit’s to a dead certainty that this here place you call Atlanta weren’t built especially for Yours truly, Flaw Picker. A wise man doesn’t believe all he hears and a fool believes a good many things be doesn’t hear. WnrUHns Nlgbt Aud Day. The busiest and mightiest little thing that ever was made Is Dr. King’s New Life Pills. These pills change weakness into strength, list- lessness Into energy, brain-fag Into mental power. They're wonderful In building up tbe health. Only 25o per box. Sold by Cherokee Drug Oo. Edward McIntyre, of Moosic, Fa., completed a fast of 40 days, in an un successful attempt to cure himself of puralysis. Vour Guests Will Praise It. Why not try a sack of Bransford’s “Clifton?” You will never know bow good It Is until you use it. Your neighbor finds it tbe best flour in tbe market, and your home people as well as your gueeta will praise your bread, cake and pastry If made of ‘TUfton” flour. W. J. Wilkins <fc Co. We discontinue each subscription prompt ly at Its expiration. So watch your label and tbe date and renew before 'tis too late.