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w pf \ 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., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBEB I, 1903. *1.00 A YEAH. ills ::::::::: NEAR Effective Work of Constables ^ and Revenue Officers. THE GLOOMY PROSPECTS PALMETTO STATE. OF COMING EVENTS stated in a former letter, the publi would be surprised if tbe names o those interested ir these blockade stills were made public. Posing as respectable citizens, they take advau- i cage of a lawless class who prefer to live in the woods and make blockade .. T x 4. r -n • ^ 1 oaj.ug. .tuulaj liquor, by furnishing them without- items 01 Interest 01 iraSSing Beneficial Legislation at Next Roosevelt is his enthusiasm ARE PROSECUTED fits, material, etc., and either sell the product or profit by its sale. As a general thing the politicians fear this class because they and their co partners take an active part in politics. Concessions are made to them by good men in public life, be- ; cause they would suffer politically if th ® they antagonized the crowd. Then again, these “backers” are prominent j in church and school matters. They are regular in attendance at church and never fail to contribute to tbe i preacher’s salary. In school matters they always try to get as much as pos sible from the county. What is tbe result? Fearing no interference from the politicians, peachers, etc., this they want it. That is one of the rea sons why Grover Cleveland lost popu larity while in the White House. If Mr. Roosevelt will continue in his present course he will very aptly il lustrate the point of “Tom” Reed’s sarcastic saying: ‘ What I like about over his ALL Events. Congress Doubtful. OVER THE STATE. THE LEADING FEATURE own discovery of the len ments.” Command- The Section SoutheaHt of lilackithurK lx Filled ivitYl Illicit I.lquor OuttitH—Strenu- oim Effort* are Itelng Made to Stop BuHlncHfl." tCorresDondence of The Ledger-) Blacksburg, Aug. 29.—During the | last month or two revenue officers! and State constables have been doing some effective work to the southeast of this place. As is well known, tbe branche« in that section of the coun try, are almost honeycombed with blockade stills or “stands.” The officers however, Lave destroyed a —not so conspicuous in church numbt-r of these illicit outfits, a uurn- sc hool affairs, but God-fearing, iCvcnta that Have Taken Place from One End of the State to the Other CuUed from KxchangeM for Quick Reading by Score* of Husy People. The governor has received from Spartanburg a request for the pardon of Myna Conley, a negro woman con victed of violation of the dispensary law. The petition will be taken up in its regular order. Sheriff J. D. Gilreath, of Green ville, has returned from Beaumont, * * * There is some rather severe criti- cism of tbe President here in political Of the Democratic Position Is That the Gov- CirC ‘ e8 iD the natlotlft l ca P ital ou eminent 1* Accumulating More Money Than It Can Use—Roo*eveltl*m and Post- office Scandal. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Washington, D. C., Aug. 31 — Prominent republican and democratic senators and representatives and well- informed students of financial sub sets agree that the prospects of Ira- gang attemots to run rough shod over ' TexaVwheVe he went' last week’ to ! P° rtttDt and beneficial legislation at law, order and society-while those briDg back j. DeDni8 Edwards, ‘he next session of Congress, viewed not so blessed with the worlds goods ‘ “ .... her connected with these outfits have been nrosecuted, and it is hoped and believed by tbe law abiding people of tbe community that by tbe persistent efforts of the 8tate and federal au thorities, this pernicious business of | making and selling whiskey illicitly, will be stamped out. The section of country referred to is the only pert of Cherokee county where such a busi-j ness is'earried on with what may be! called brazen effrontery. And while | a number of these “moonshine” out fits have been destroyed, as well as liquor seized, the strange part is that the work has been done by revenue I officers from North Carolina, or State constables and revenue officers not I stationed in the midst of these block- i adere J. Reuben Green, a school teacher living about eight miles to the south- taet of this ulace, was given a hearing I before the United State commissioner at this place on a charge of running . a blockade still on his place. From the testimony, it appeared that the officers had visited Green’s place a short time prior to tbe raid in ques tion and found an outfit. They did *not disturb it, and returned a short time afterwards. The still was run ning. They eaw Green coming from the stiil and found hot still-house slop iu his yard which his son was trying to conceal. Furthermore, the guide -aid it was where he had gotten five gallons an hour or two before, and the officers found twenty-five or thirty gallons of liquor with gallon pot, syphon, etc., near the house. •^After the still had been destroyed, Green admitted to the officers that the still was on his land. He was re leased on bond for his appearance at • United States Court, at Greenville. J. Gad Dover, who had been a short time befote given a hearing before the commissioner for violation of the internal revenue laws and discharged because the testimony showed that the liquor had been bought from his wife, was brought before the magis trate. He plead guilty and sentenced was suspended, though a case for the Court of General Sessions, and although bis wife had not been arres ted, it is said she was allowed to plead guilty by proxy and sentence suspen ded. D. 0. Boheler was arrested and brought before the magistrate here. His case was transferred to Gaffney because, it was alleged that the magistrate had stated that he was going to uphold the dispensary law, and that showed “prejudice” against the defendant. “Doc” has, it is said, a record in both the State and federal courts for “monkeying” with liquor. Lou Douglass, a dusky damsel, was given a hearing before the magistrate and law- abiding citizens, dare not raise ob jection to this unlawful business for fear of either bodily harm or damage to their property. How long this condition of affairs will be tolerated in a county that prides itself on prosperity and on lightenment, is to be seen. charged with the murder of Frank fro® the present outlook, is extreme- m m m m. m m TAR HEEL STATE. From the Mountains to The Sea. ^ NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. BUFFALO BUDGET. Hot Weutlier itixl the I’eacli Fever .Struck the Feople. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Buffalo, Aug. 28 —Hot times ! around Buffalo. Scorching hot—just awful hot. It is seriously hot. It is a warning, a practical warning, to the people of the hereafter. The hot sun shine is a demonstration of God’s power to punish wicked sinners with fire and brimstone. The corn crop on Buffalo that was planted after the flood in June is ex tra fine. It has been estimated that “Cabe” Carlton will make two thous and bushels. Beach fever has struck Buffalo at last. Only three years ago 1 planted 40U trees and by doing so 1 was con sidered by my neighbors as a fit sub ject for the lunatic asylum, but peo ple who laughed at me are begiuir g to change their tune. Several thous and trees are to be planted this fall John D. vVilson will plant 1,000 Elbertas, LumJWebber 1,000, ‘ Bache lor” 1,000. Another mm wanted to plant his whole plantation and quite a number of others are thinking over the matter. I am now considering tfte matter of trying in the next few years to plant ten thousand Elberta trees to raise peaches to snip to Eu rope. This is no joke. I have it on good authority that peaches shipped from Marietta, Georgia, to England, about a month ago brought over four dollars per bushel, t^uite a number of men in Blacksburg are studying planting large orchards. Go it, gen tlemen. Don’t stop and hesitate too long. It takes hustling to succeedjat anything. Surround your little town with two million peach trees, and you will have a wide awake progressive city in less than ten years. Undreamedof prosptrity will dawn upon you. The Elberta is the peach to plant for the main crop. J. Van Bindley, who is a reliable man, and peach grower, says tiiat the Greensboro, Waddell, Carman, Gov. Bri^g Belle, of Georgia and Elberta, are the best market peaches for this section. The time is ripe for a change for better or worse. The worst is sure to come if something is not done for Neely, in February 1901, at the Poe mill village. Sheriff Logan, of Yorkville, went to Fort Mill and arrested Policeman R. G. Johnson of that place upon a warrant from Coroner Loulhian charging him with the murder of “ j Pope Norman, who was recently found drowned in the Catawba river. Johnson was lodged in jail. 1 A very sad double bereavement in 1 the Harrell family, at Howe’s station, occurred recently. Mrs. M. A. E. Harrell and daughter, Miss Mary Harrell, died suddenly at the home of the latter’s brother, Sam Joe Harrell, at whose home she was in attendance upon the death of her mother. Columbia is to have an infant in dustry iu the nature of a demijohn factory. The Columbia Glass Works will this fall begin the manufacture of demijohns. At first this will re quire tbe employment of about six expert glass blowers and 20 coverers A building is being erected for the purpose. State Constables Bateman an i .May, who were arrested in Charleston Wed nesday on warrants sworn out by A W. Wieters charging them with as sault. and battery with intent to kill, were bound over to the court of gen eral sessions Thursday morning by Magistrate O’Shaughnessy. The con stables waived a preliminary trial and gave bond in tbe sum of $300 eich for their appearance at the next term of the court of sessions. With impressive ceremonies, viewed by crowds of earnest and enthusiastic citizens, the lirst spade of earth was turned Thursday afternoon at (} o’clock jfor the foundation of the ly doubtful. It is freely predicted ! that the republican senators cannot be made as unanimous for the Aldrich bill again as they were at the close of the last session of Congress, when i the bill was defeated merely because there was not sufficient time to allow j a few of the opposition senators to give their views. Not only is there less unanimity of republican senli ment for what was known as the Al drich ideas, but the democrats prom ise to oppose these ideas, although declaring that they will welcome fin ancial legislation that will be of real benefit to the country. The leading feature of the demo cratic position, however, is that the government is every day accumulat ing money that it cannot use, and that to prevent a financial crash by reason of the accumulation of this sum outside of trade channels, the Treasury Department is compelled to do something vuth it; that one of the ways of putting ihe money back into circulation is to deposit it in national banks. Another contention is that the placing of this money in banks encourages over-speculation and th putting out of endless stock of all kinds. It will be claimed by the democrats thet if the banks are not burdened witn money the.V will not make loans on anything except legi timate business, but that if they have a p’ethora of funds, including those of the government, they will lend on stocks that are not gilt-edged, and therebv encourage over-speculation and dangers that might menace the business of the country. The republicans are all tangled up on this money business, and the count of the recent naval review. That review ordered by the President to be held practically in his back yard in Oyster Bay, partook very much of the autocratic methods of the Czar of the Kaiser. No previous President ever ordered the ships of the American Navy to come to his home in order to review them and make a war like speech to the officers and men of the Navy. That review, for which there was no need or war rant, except to make a hoodlum holi day for the inhabitants of Oyster Bay and vicinity, cost the taxpayers of the country not less than fifty thous and dollars for powder burned in sa lutes to the Commauder-in-Cbief of the American Navy. He may next take a notion that he wants to review the American Army. If he does it will cost the people not less toao a half million dollars to concentrate the troops for the review. The people need not be surprised at anything. Chaki.ks A Edwards A Colort-d ViraKM. Sunday evening a while alter dark ’Cilia Jones one of those negro vix ens which infest most towns, was ub served on the streets by the police iu a drunken condition and was prompt ly arrested. She resisted arrest with all her might and created a scene on tbe street that was disgraceful even to negro women of her character. ISlie was finally landed in tha city prison from whence she sent a vol ume of yells and screams that wou'd have startled u <’ ■ .. die Indian, and disturbed the q.,.> of the city until mniuight lor mocks around. Yesterday morning sin wms c ir ried before the mayor and sente ced to pay a fine of leu dollars or spend twenty days in prison. She took ttie days, in which she will liavi tune to gloat over her beastly conduct and Interesting Item* Concerning Oar Neigh bors lieyond the Line Which May Frov« Entertaining Reading (or Hundred* of Ledger Reader* Alex Riggin, colored, aged about 21 years and employed at the Ashley- Bailey silk mill, at Fayetville,became entangled in the belting of the ma chinery Thursday morniag and was so badly injured that he died in about an hour. Gov. Aycock in bis proclamation just issued, calling for the observ ance of September 7th as labor day urges tout in every possible way em ployers cooperate with employees in worthy recognition of the dignity of labor in tue becoming observance of Labor Day. William Baker, the 11 year old boy from Indian Trail, who was run over anil seriously injured by a Seaboard Air Line train about 10 days ago, is recovering at the Presbyterian Hos pital, in Charlotte, where he was brought after the accident. One leg was amputated at tbe knee. Tne Park Heights Land Company, of Goldsboro, was chartered Friday with $00 000 capital authorized, $20,- 000 subscribed. It will do a general real estate business The incorpora tors are Senator F. M. Simmons, Congressman Edward W. Pou, W. T. Dortch, Win. Rand Sanders, C. H. , Martin. Another big cotton Greensboro, which in mill is to be has recently as a cotton The new mill come into prominence manufacturing center, will be built at a cost of $250 000 and will manufacture fancy fabrics. The promoter of tbe enterprise ic M r. W. I. Young, of Atlanta, a fotn.e i sident «f Greensboro. Andy Miller, charged with the mur- dt r of Robert McKane, and tried in Charlotte, gets 30 years ‘in the peni- t* ntiary. The jury brought in a ver- the light puni liment she is receiving *liet of guiity ot murder in the first for it. She richly deserves indict ment for resisting oflict rs and the punishment that that grave offer ce carries. \V e hope she will be prose cuted. Williamston Female college of Greene democ.ats will take ad vantage of their woort. The spade was sunk into tbe earth by Dr. Samuel Lander, the be loved founder of tbe college and for years its respected president, and the earth “turned” up by Mrs T. C, Turner, the “oldest daughter” of the Williamston Female college. This ceremony came as the finale of the programme. While alighting from the down Southern train in Greenwood Friday at noon Prof. Frank T. Dargan of Greenville fell and had his right foot so badly crushed that it bad to be ampu tated. He was on his way there to visit his sister, Mrs and also his mother, demoralized condition. It giv< s the tlie d mocracy the best posnble op portunity of giving tbe country an object lesson on the blessings of tariff reduction hs h means of keeping all tnis surplus in tbe pockets of the people, instead of fighting over plans for getting it back to the people after caking it away from them for the be hoof of the trusts and monopolies of the country. * * * | T Mrs. Watson. In a few days he ex pected to go to Cornell university, Ithaca, N. Y., where he had just been elected to an important position as an assistant professor of physics. For some time he has been a member of tlie Clemson faculty, but had de Since Mr. Roosevelt became Presi dent of the United States and has been in the limelight, tbe people of H. L. Watson, the country who want to keep up who lives with with the times and keep themselves posted on all the things that can be said for and against a man iu pulic life, have been reading the many Saturday afternoon, and books that have been written by the fecund pen of the man who now oc cupies the highest office in the na tion. Some of the students of this Runuintf AkhIii. The dummy engine of the Lime stone Springs Lime Co., which has been laid up about a month for re pairs, is now in running order again and has been put back into regular service. The engine received a com ple^e overhauling and repainting, many new parts were added, and the machine is equal in, quality and ap pearance to a new one. The repairing of the dummy was done under the supervision of Mr. L. Y Randall, of the Cherokee Foundry and Machine Works, and Mr Dock Lavender, the overseer at the lime kilns. Mr 1.ik«ii liiHtHlled. Mr. (.diaries P. Ligou, of Spartan burg, who recently accepted the po sition of bookkeeper at the Merchants and Planters hank, arrived in the city yesterday duties at on a charge ofselling liquor and con- : t0 m y K irl Tner « uever Wtts a b;ush on a peach as pretty as the one on her cheek. Bachelor the better. We’ll say more on tlie subject c ‘ded ,0 g ive that up and had accept- city have found that a peculiarity of of peach growing after I write a letter ed the position offered him at Cor- Roosevelt's writings is that he has ducting a nuisance under the dispen sary law. Failing to give bond, she was commited to the county jail for aopearanee at Court of ‘General Ses sions. Now while the events stated above were taking place, the blockadersand their friends were active. They had attempted to reck their vengenance on a mao they believe had caused their outfit to be destroyed, but, fail- North Carolina’* Flr*t Kale, The first bale of tbe new crop of Mecklenburg cotton was sold on the Charlotte market Friday for the handsome price of 15 cents a pound. The cotton was grown on the farm o' Mr. J. A. Bltkeuey, of Providence township, who took it to town for sale. The purchase was made by Mr. ing to give him the chastisement they C> jj. Bryant, a manager of Mr. J K' intended, destroyed all his household goods in ‘he presence of his sick wife and aged mother,—poured his corn and meu! together on the floor with which they mixed all the broken glass they could get. Not satisfied, they carried away some Hoor and then shot into the house, as they departed, years. Sloan’s Charlotte cotton house. Letter to N. MiihcoiiiIi. Gaffney, S. C. Dear Sir: Lead-and-oil is not good paint; don’t wear; the rule is, as everyone knows, repaint in three Warrants were issued for these men, , and yet, but one has been arrested— one of the least guilty, In a way, as the proof was that he was only pres ent and did not assist in the destruc tion of the property. Since that another outrage has been committed. Warrants have been is- •ued but no arrests have as yet been made. Home of the same gang of ^oonshicers involved in the above referred to matter, placed several ^barrels of liquor on the place of a re- -gpectable, law abiding resident of tbe section of country in question. The owner of tbe land went to remonstrate with them and was fired upon. There Is another strange thing in oooDeotion with this matter. As way— state- Dovoe lasts six, in the same allow wide margin in all such ments. What does it mean, to last? It means the same with both. As for covering: that’s another. Here’s an instance. Mr J J Hall, Sheffield, Pa, painted two houses, lead-and-oil; took 40 gal lons. Last summer bought 40 gallons Devoe for the same two houses; re turned 10 gallons The paint, that covers, lasts; it’s all paint, true paint, and full meas ure. Lead-and-oil is all paint but not pood paint; the lead wants zinc. Better paint Devoe. Very truly 15 F W Devoe & Co nell. The residence of Capt. E G Evans, in Anderson, was partially destroyed by fire Thursday morning about 10 o'clock. The fire is thought to have started from a defective *tove flue. The flames were discover*d bursting from the roof of the kitchen and quickly spread to the roof of the main building. The firemen extin guished the fire after considerable damage had been done. Cap 1 ;. Evans bad $1,350 insurance on the dwelling and $400 insurance on the furniture U is estimated that it will take all of the insurance money to put tlie house back into as good condition a“ before the fire, and the furniture was great ly damaged by water and breakage in moving it out of the building. A box car on the Southern road got awav from tlie freight crew at Rock Hill Wednesday afternoon; and, striking the down grade, rati for about four miles south on had very few kind words to say of any man who ever occupied t. hii;h place in this country; that on the contrary he has lambasted the life out of most of them. Take, for in stance, his opinion of Thomas Jeffer son expressed in bis “Naval War of 1812.” In volume xi., page 198, of that work from the pen of Theodore Roosevelt, he was intemperate enough to say that Mr. Jefferson “was per haps the most incapable Executive that ever filled the Presidential chair.” That seems to be pretty- tough on the author of the Declara tion of Independence, the man who acquired the Louisana territory, who was twice President of the Uiited States, both times elected by ballots and not Dy bullets, who was the founder of the University of Virginia, and whose teachings has ever been the bulwark of ponular government in this country as*gainst the rule of the classes. Mr. Roosi-velt seems not only to be an iconoclast, but of Yhe main lino. Ihe conductor, Mur- late years he seems to have become a key, at once started bis engine after painfully pragmatic preacher. He the car, and for this distance there defends and proclaims the axiomatic was a fast race. Another freight was at the slightest provocation. He is almost due at Rock Hill, and it was showing a reprehensible tendency to necessary to catch tbe car before an | lecture the public on self-evident propositions, and to do it with a sus picion of sensational purpose, as accident should occur. When the the conductor started the race Main street crossing was blocked, and re mained so for nearly 30 minutes. The conductor was taken before tbe mayor on a charge of blocking the street, but when the reasons above stated were given the mayor dis missed him. notably, in his warning against race- suicide and bis recent: sermon on de cent living. Tbe people of this coun try, if I am any judge of every-day human nature, do not like to be lec tured. They thing they know what they want and how to get it when morning entered upon -his the bank. We warmly welcome Mr. Ligon to Gaffney and trust that bis stay in our rniost may be most pleasant and profitable. FftrilitMl i'lnv. Mr J. B. Garter, of Bow’insville, brought to our ( ffice Saturday a piece of petrified pine root which he found on tht Wright place, four miles be low Gaffney. It was found in a soap stone ridge and on high ground, away from water, which is something un usual. The piece is in a perfect state of petrification and is as hard as a brick Examine yourself whether you had rather be rich or happy; and <f ii)h, be assured tiiat this is neither a good, nor altogether in your own power: but if happy, that this is both a good, and in your own power; since the one is a temporary loan of Fortune, and the other depends on will. To love one who loves you, lo ad mire one who admires you, in a word, to be the idol of one’s idol, is exceed ing the limit of human joy; it is stealing lire from heaven. Flour HlKlo r. The late government report makes the wheat crop thirty-five million bushels less than last year. This means very much higher dour until another harvest in 1904 All Hour is higher now, but the advance on Bransford’s ‘‘Clifton” has not yet degree Friday morning, and when court convened that afternoon Judge N -al sentenced Miller to 30 years, the maximum sentence for this crime. Foreman J. W. McCane, of the con st ruction department of,the Southern Bell Telephone Co. is in Raleigh with a large force to begin work on a cop per circuit frotn Raleigh to Cheraw, H. C., following us closely as possible the S. A L. railroad. This will give Raleigh complete connection by tele phone with every part of the country. The Continental Chair Company’s factory at Mebanc was destroyed by fire Wednesday. Tne fire started within a few minutes after the whis tle had blown for quitting. It started in the finishing department, the cause being unknown. Within a few minutes the entire office fixtures, safe, files, books, etc., were all saved, even while the building was falling in. The trial of Charles Shuford, col ored, charged with the murder of Mr. Alexander Auten, of Long Creek township, Meckleniiurg county,in the the public highway, about seven miles west of Davidson, on Sunday afternoon, August 9th, was begun in the Superior Court at Charlotte Friday morning. Solicitor Webb, who is unassisted in the prosecution, will attempt to secure a verdict of murder in the first degree. Mr. Craw ford D B-noett, who was assigned by Judge Neal to defend Hhuford, is putting forth his best efforts to save his client. Ralph Elliot, a joung man who went to Charlotte from Hamlet ten days ago, died suddenly at the Char lotte Hotel, where be was stopping, Wednesday night shortly before 12 o’clock. The ini’icaiious were that lie deliberately brought on death by taking an overdose of some strong drug His last conversation indi :ated a desire to quit the game of life. 'The manager of tbe hotel was at tracted to Elliott’s room about 11 o’clock, but when he reached tbe room, his guest appeared to be rest ing easy. A physican was summoned, but d jath came before any relief could be given tbe sick man. Elliott died in convulsions. White Burgin, of Rutherfordton, was killed aarly Tuesday morning near tbe switch which leads from the maid line of the Houthern Railway to Murray Lumber Company's mills at Eberman, near Marion. It is not known at what time ir by what train he met his death. His body was found by an employer of tbe Murray Lumber Company and it is supposed that he had sat down near the rails and fallen asleep. His face was badly lacerated and his left arm and been as great In proportion to othtr ^do terribly crushed. The deceased Hour. However, it is a mighty good time to buy a supply before It goes still higher. Fresh Hour constantly received. W. J. Wilkins Co. was about 48 years of age and much liked ard respected by all who knew him. He is survived by his wife and several children.