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THE LARGEST Circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. 9 ^Jp*—**a*a0 d -****4ljtu l| 4frfar ' * The Ledger. SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. WE GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Adver tiser Who Uses the Col umns o r This Paper. A Newspaper in ail that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894 HAFFNEY. S. O., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER II, 1903. $1.00 A YEAR. /<* THE NEARING THE END. Bristow’s Report will Soon Be Ready. efforts to secure congressional action, (or any change means that some pet of a congressman loses a job, and I ^hat is the milk in the cocoanut. The remedy for the present situation i is an act of Congress providing fora delegate from the Indian Territory elected by the people to legislate for I the people,and the complete abolition i of the carpetbag regime.” Charles A. Edwards. MORE TROUBLE BREWING mcKORY HAPPENINGS. The Fotttofllce Has “About” Been Inventl- eateii and the Fourth Assistant’s “Report" Will Soon he Ready—Another Investlga tlou About to be Fulled Off. <Corr«SDOtidence of The .Ledger.) Washington, D C., fc^ept. 9.—It will be remembered that at the be ginning of the Post Office Depart ment Investigation the Postmaster General, Mr. Payne, said with a lofty air that there was ’ nothing in it,” and dismissed all the charges of ex- Cashier Tulloch with disdain. Well the general pub'ic no* knows how much there was in it, and how the deeper they dug into the muck heap the nastier it got. The Post-Office Department investigation is now nearing the end a.d the report of Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen eral Bristow will soon be ready for the public, but the chances are that the general public will soon forget all about the Post-Office matter because it will be eutertained with another investigation chat is now about to be pulled off, the noise of which will re- verbrate from Tadmor-in-the-wilder- ness to Yuba Dam. It is now up to the Interior Department to take a turn at the investigation grindstone, and the storm ceuter of this inves tigation will be in the Indian Terri tory. Mr. Hitch lock, the secretary of the Interior, had no idea, when he summarily dismissed from office with out a hearing Mr. Clarence B. Doug las, a olerk in the land department of the Indian Agent’s office at Musko gee, that 'the situation down there was loaded with dynamite. I have known Clarence Douglas ever since we were barefooted boys together in fc 1875, and there is no man of higher character or cleaner manhood in the Indian Territory or anywhere else. He is oot the man to rest under an imputation against his honor, and he has proceeded to get busy. He de manded a hearing, and a recitation of the reason for nis dismissal. He cared nothing for the measley job, but be wanted justice. He has got nothing, and now there are whole “♦gobs of trouble pestering the Secre tary of the Interior. Toe dismissal of Douglas was a signal gun that started the rucus. Douglas is a fighter from the headwaters of Bitter Creek, and is camping on the trail of the man who is at the bottom of a whole lot of nastiness in the Indian Territory, like a hungry coyote camping on the trail of a corpulent jack rabbit. He is now in Washington, where he is well known, and stands high among the newspaper men, in the fraternity of which ne is an honors 1 member, and he has been cutting loose a lot of facts anenb the Indian Territory sit uation that has blown the cap off the crater and let daylight into some cor ners that some people hoped never would be uncovered. The newspaper boys are printing what Douglas says because they know be knows what be is talking about, and they also know that he will not lie. He has been in- MerclisutH Anticipating Good Fall Trade. Store Robbed. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Hickory Grove, Sept. 7.—Things around the Grove are quiet. The merchants are acticipatiug a good trade this fall and are already re ceiving their winter goods. We are minus a school at this time, but pros pects are good for one at an early day. Whooping-cough is in almost every family around here, but none has proved fatal up to this date, as far as we know Mr. Jno. D. Whitesides and Mr. Morgan Letch, merchants of this place, had their stores broken into a few nights ago The glass was broken out at a window and the iron rods bent in Mr. Letch’s store, and the door of Mr. Whitsides’ store was broken open. No goods of any con sequence were missing. A small sum of money bad been left in the cash drawer,and there was a five-dollar gold piece taken from Mr. Letch’s drawer that told the tale in a day or two. It was spent at Sharon and the thief was captured and jailed. One other that was implicated made his escape Farmers are gathering fodder and picking cotton. There have been sev eral bales ginned and sold here on the 5th for 11.15. The farmers are expecting a better price for the staple and we hope it may be so and no one hurt. The Baptist congregation at old Unity church have had quite a revi val, forty-two members being addet to the church, twenty-six of whom were new converts. That speaks wel for the church, and we wish them God-speed. Rev. Van Moss conductet the meeting and all went on smooth ly- Rev. P. B. Ingram, pastor of the Mt. Vernon Metjiodist church, has had a few days’ meeting and several have professed and been added to the church Bro. Ingram has been with us for three years and we are fearful that he won’t get bactc again for the fourth. We are more than anxious for him to be assigned to this part of the vineyard again. The music at Mt. Vernon church is just splendid— surely such music as they have there is heard in Heaven. Rev. J. L. Oats, pastor of the A. R. P. church, has been, and is still doing a splendid work at his churches. He is a young man, sincere, and a noble preacher—a man loved by all who koow him Toe gold mine ats Magnolia are working a number of bands at present and shipping a quantity of ore. The machinery has not all been placed vet; when that is done they expect to work a larger force of hands. I bear their expenses at present are about fifty to sixty dollars per day. They pay off once a week and that means more business all around in the country. Our townsman, J. N. McDili, is thinking of retiring from the mer cantile business, as he says he has served his time (forty-six years) at MROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE. Items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. 1TERBIBLE WBECK NEAB YOBKVILLE Trestle Goes Down with Pas senger Train FIVE PEOPLE KILLED. while broad smiles are settling on sour faces. Two of the Misses McConnell, of McConnellsville.who are visiting Miss Bessie Howe,attended the meeting at Salem last Sabbath, Mr. Vaney C. Comer, our accom modating ferryman. went to G*ff»ey last Saturday on business. Mr. and Mrs. R A. Foster and I family spent Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Estes. The young people, we learn had Events that Have Taken Place from One End of the State to the Other Culled from Kxrhangofl for Quick Reading; by Scores of Busy People. Clemson College has opened with 576 students. The case of Prof. R B. Pitts for the killing of Eddie Foster, one of his pupils, at Inman last February, will come up in Spartanburg court next week. Capt. W. S. Hall’s large and beau tiful residence at Mitford, Chester county, with the surrounding out buildings. was totally destroyed by fire on Sabbath morning about 2 o’clock. The fireTs thought to have originated in the boxing between the main building and kitchen. Loss $2,000, with no insurance. As the result of a negro fight at, or near George Mack’s store at Clifton No. 1 on Saturday night, Felix Dew berry, colored, was killed, and Asa Littlejohn, his slayer, is lodged in the Spartanburg county jail. Felix Dewberry received a fatal wound from the hands of Littlejohn Satur day night, and lingered until early Monday morning, when he died. The two had been on bad terms for some time. There was a $90,000 fire early Mon day morning on Main street in Col umbia, which destroyed the business of three firms and seriously threatened the up town ticket office of the South ern Railway. The blaze started in the building owned by Capt. J. S. Wiley and occupied by N. J. Xep- apas’ candy store. The blaze started about 1 o’clock and it was nearly six before the firemen stopped work and announced the fire out. There was only one serious accident incident to the hurry and rush of re building the Fishing creek trestle near Yorkville. The victim was Mr. Henry Hardin, a railroad employee* from Shelby, N. C. While he was employed on the ground, an axe in the hands of one of the workmen above slipped from its handle and struck him a glancing blow on the head. His skull was laid open and he was knocked senseless. Tlie Hattery Spreading; Out. Mr. J. C. Ratliff, proprietor of The Battery, intends to open up another establishment in town in a few days. He is still in the northern markets “scooping up bargains” for both places of business. A message from him to Messrs. Coffee and McAllister announces that he is “buying a heavy stock” and authorizes them to rent immediately the storeroom on Lime stone street recently vacated by Car- roll, Carpenter & Byers. Mr. Ratliff is a mover, and we wish him all kinds of success in his new venture. terviewed.not only by the local papers this place. He is quite a gentleman here, but by the correspondents of in every respect and we hope if he papers in 8t. Louis. Kansas City, and does quit selling goods he’ll stay nearly all the big New York dailies, around and give us a word of comfort I saw Douglas and talked this mat- all along the line. ’’Ran ” ter over with him. What he said to me about it is substantially as fol lows: “It is only just to eay that Mr. Hitchcock is honest and that he is doing what be believes to be for the best interestsjof the people of the Ter ntory. The trouble is that he is af flicted with a serious case of too much J. George Wright, and it is a question if any satisfactory result will ever be attained by the Interior Department in tbe management of Territory affairs so long as Mr. | Wright officiates as the white Czar, defacto governor and personal poobah of tbe administration in that country. As the official ice man for a north pole supply company, Inspector Wright would be a frozen su6cess, his presence alone being sufficient to pre vent loss to stock by rising temper-, ature. He has administered misin- ^formation to tbe Secretary in large Vaiopathic doses, and tbe Secretary, acting on this has made himself very ridiculous at times. Until there is a radical change in the management of affairs there will be no relief for ths six hundred thousand people in tbe Indian Territory from tffe deplorable conditions existing at this time. From information received since I have been In this city my opinion is a radical change is imminent and H^at tbe pulse of tbe people of tbe Territory will no longer be taken from tbe wrist bitberto used for this purpose. With almost a thousand appointees placed by tbe Secretary on tbe recommendation of tbe House and Senate members having in charge all Indian legislation, it can jreadily be seen wbat opposition a Territory man must encounter in bis Macklen’H Arnicit Salve. Has world-wide fume for marvelous cures. It, surpasses any other sulve. lotion, ointment or balm for Cuts, Corns, Burns. Boils, Sores, Felons, Ulcers, Tetter, Salt Rheum, Fever Oscar Wicker, brother of Mrs. J. P. Kinard and Mrs. J. C. Witherspoon,of Rock Hill left on a bicycle on Tues day of last week for Hampden-Sidney College neat Farmvllle, Va.,and while on the way was killed by a train at Drake’s Branch, near Farmville, Sun day morning. He was 15 ytars of age and would have been in the Sopho more class at Hampden-Sidney. He spent the summer in Rock Hill with his sisters. No particulars further than this. Mrs. Wicker, mother of the young man,and Mrs. Witherspoon left Monday for Farmville. John Dixon, colored, who in the past has been a familiar figure at la bor on tbe Spartanburg county chain- gang, and who was recently released, decided that life was too short not to have all tbe fun his way that “was coming.” Accordingly on Monday night be broke into the store of Can non AO’Shield, at Laudrura/in Spar tanburg county.and stole $5 in money and a number of |articies of clothing. Tuesday he was arrested for his thieving devilment, and taken to Spartauburg and lodged in the county jail. He is regarded as a bad negro. The large three-story company store of the Laurens cotton mills was completely destroyed by fire at mid night Tuesday, together with the en tire stock, fixtures, tbe regalia of two or three lodges, and ail other contents of tbe building. The origin of the fire is unknown. The stock carried by tbe Company was valued at, about $20,000, and tbe handsome brick building was worth at least $6 000. Nothing was saved. The building and stock were fully covered by insurance. Tbe fire originated in in the grocery department, where some changes and repair work had been going on in the past few days, but how tbe fire started is a mystery. On Monday Policeman R. G. John son of Fort Mill with his :ounsel,Ma- The Railroad 'tridge Over Fishing Creek on the S. C. & G. E. Division of tlie Southern Fell in Thursday Morning Carrying a Pas senger Train with It. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, Sent. 3.—Mesdames Jane Carroll, of Chester county, and Amanda Lee spent the day with Mrs J. L. S. yesterday. Report has just reched us that Mrs Lizzie Mitchell’s little daughter Jemima, is very sick but is getting better. Mr. IJempbill Bigbam and family, of Sharon, who have been spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs, T. J. Estes, returned home this morning. The people of this and the lower section of Cherokee county, are very anxious for the bridge at Skull Shoals to be put up again. Id’s a great .in convenience to be without it. The ford at that place is not, by any means, a good one, and often it is too deep to cross. The weather has been cool for the last few days and cotton is opening fast. A few persons have commenced picking it out. A rain is very much needed to bring up the turnips and help late corn. There will be several changes among the farmers in this neighbor hood next year, so we understand. Mr. J. E. Foster left yesterday with his saw mill for the south side of Pacolet river, where, we understand, be has a large bill of lumber to saw for Gray Gault, We are having a first rate time for making bay. • We are always anxious to get items of neighborhood news to fill out our letters and trust that our friends will remember that when they have any thing that will interest our readers. Dr. and Mrs. Mason W. Smith, of Gaffney, are visiting friends and rel atives in this and York counties The North Pacolet S. S. Conven tion will meet at Mesopotamia on the fourth Sabbath of this month. Mr. W. R. Walker was at his farm at Sunnyside last week. He has been spending some time at Hot Springs. Ark , where he has been under treat ment for rheumatism. Crops are generally late this year, but with a fair season and no disaster there will be a fair yield of both corn and cotton, we think. an ice cream supper at Mr C. F In man’s last Saturday night Mr. C. F. Inman and Dr L. R. Black went over to see the wreck at Fishing Creek trestle on the 3 C’s railroad last week. Our people will begin making up their molasses this week. The cane crop is fine and of an extra quality. Mrs. Sallie Whitesides, of Hickory Grove, came over to Salem last Fri day to visit the graveyard and see the newly repaired church building. More than three-fourths of those buried there are York county people. Mr T. Jeff Hughes passed here this a. m. with a load of chickens for the Union market. Mr. Jimmie Strain went to Gaffney today on business. We learn this a. m. that Mr W\ T. M. Beard died last night at his home at Hoodtown, in Yo.k county. j L s THBOUGHOUT THE TIB HEEL STATE. From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. THE GAME LAW. Etta Jane, Sept. 8.—The Union county authorities have taken out their part of the Skull Shoals bridge which was thrown into the river by the June freshet. This has been done a month or more. Tnere is nothing done towards putting tbe bridge back that we know of. It’s a great in convenience to be without it. A prominent citizen of the fork section of tbe county, |in speaking of it said, “I don’t think they need fear our breaking out of the new county, even if a few of us did oppose it at tbe time it was organized. We are recot* oiled now and expect to live in it and do our duty as a citizen, and will be thankful for any and all favors shown us.” o j it j ui . , jor Jas. F. Hart, appeared before Ac- Sores. Chapped Hands. Hk.n Lrup-• sociilte Juatice Ira B Jone9 at Lan . lions; infallible for 1 ^ ure caster for bail, which was granted in 25c at Cherokee the8Umo( jj; 500 Johnson it will be Piles. Cure at Cherokee infallible guaranteed. Only Drug Co. Flour Higher. The late government report makes the wheat crop thirty-five million bushels less than last year.. This means very much higher flour until another harvest in 1904. AM flour is higher now, but the advance on Bransford’s “Clifton” baa not yet been as great in proportion to other flour. However, it is a mighty good time to but a supply betore it goes still higher. Fresh flour constantly reoeived. W. J. Wilkins <fc Go. —Where to The Gaffney Drug Co. opening up at? remembered, is the Fort Mill officer whose blood bound ran Hoke Nor man into the Catawba river on the 10th of August and who followed tbe dog,to tbe river. Norman’s dead body was found in tbe river next day. Johnson was arrested upon tbe find ing of the coroner’s jury, bolding him responsible for the pursuit of the dog beyond the town’s limits and for tbe consequent drowning of Nor* man in the river. Mr. Johnson will be tried at the approaching term of court. —Who and Drug Co? what la The Gaffney Messrs. Blackwood & Hughes have completed the work of putting up tbe approaches to the Owen’s ford bridge. The job seems to be a very good one. Mr. “Bud” Neal, who has been gone from this country for more than thirty years, and is now living in Mississippi, is here on a visit. He spent the night with his cousins, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Inman, last night. The farmers are getting ready to gather cotton which is opening fast on account of the dry weather There is a good deal of speculation as to what tbe price will be this season. If it should hold' at ten cents, or up wards it will be a considerable relief to the farming communit7 and en courage the planting of a larger crop next year. The dry spell has been against the turnip, crop aod if it continue long the crop will be a failure, completely. The young people’s picnic last Sat urday at Thompson’s mill did not materialize for the want of patronage. What’s wrong? Nobody was fooled. Rev. T. F. Boozer, of Gaffney, preached at Salem last Sabbath and Sabbath night to large congregations. Mrs. Boozer and son, Master Johnnie, came down with him and returned yesterday morning. Mr. S. F Estes’ folks are putting up a new crib. From the way things are stirring about we are more than ever impress ed with tbe idea that there will be some wedding* on hand tome time in tbe not far distant future. So mote it be. Tbs matrimonial fever is running pretty high at present and seems to be spreading considerably. Ah Applied to Hunting and Trapping in tlie State of Soutli Carolina. Some time ago we gave the law in this State against killing birds, catching their young and robbing their nests. Birds and game of all kinds are becoming scarce, and it might not be amiss for hunters and sportsmen to read up on the game laws of the State and adhere to them, thereby giving the birds and other game a chance to increase, as well as kteping themselves out of probable trouble: “Non-resident« tire required to pay a license ol $25 to ti e county treas urer of the county where the visitor may be for the privilege of bunting in the state Not obtaining said li cense before hunting or shooting, they shall be deineed guilty of a mis- cemeauor. and on conviction fined not more than $50. This act does not apply to persons who kill game on their own land. It is unlawful to kill deer or worry them with dogs between the first day of February and the first day of September, except in the counties of Clarendon, Georgetown, Colleton, Williamsburg, Marlboro, Kershaw, Horry, Darlington, Marion and Berk ley, in which counties it shall not be lawful between the first day of Febru ary and tbe first day ofJAugust. Fire hunting is prohibited. It shall not be lawful between tbe first day of April and the first day of November to kill any wild turkey, partridge, quail, woodcock or pheas ant; or between tbe first day of March and the first day of August any dove or at any time during the year to fire-light any of tbe birds named. It shall not be lawful for any per son, except upon ’bis own lands, or upon the lands of another with the consent of the owner thereof, to net or trap a partridge, and it shall be unlawful for any person to sell, offer for sale, or ship or export for sale, any partridge, or quail, or deer, or wild turkey for the space of five years from the approval of this act; pro vided that nothing in this act shall prevent the importation for sale of any partridge, or quail. Any per son violating this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding $30 or by im prisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding 30 days.” Interesting Items Concerning Oar Neigh bors Beyond the Line Which May Prove Entertaining Reading for Hundreds* of Ledger Readers The Charlotte Chronicle’s Raleigh correspondent says that the corpora tion commission is to inspect the dan gerous Saluda grade and also the bridges aid trestles on the-S. C. & G. road from Marion to the South Caro lina line. r . After a stubbornly contested elec tion held at Elizabeth City Tuesday, that city went dry by 170. The women prayed in tbe churches while tbe men worked at tbe polls. The church bells were rung every half- hour to remind the voters that the blessing of God was being invoked on the battle against the sale of whiskey. Everything passed off quietly. George Stewart, a crazy negro, con fined at tbe Durham county home, attempted suicide Tuesday morning by cutting his throat. Three gashes were made, all painful, but none seri ous. Tbe negro has not been danger ous and was allowed more or less free dom. He borrowed a knife from an inmate of tbe borne and began to slash bis throat. Dr. N. M. Johnson, county health officer, attended him and sewed up the wounds. A deputy sheriff arrived in Raleigh from Cumberland county Tuesday morning with three negro prisoners, Ed McLean and Will Bethen, to serve ten years each for murder in the second degree, and Icaiab McLean to serve five years for burglary. The lat ter was an esesued convict who com mitted another crime in Cumberland, was arrested hii.I had five years added to his unfioisii*-u term. The sheriff demands a reward from the peniten tiary authorities, but Supt Mann de clines on the ground that the negro now comes under the head of new convicts. The matter will be tested-. King’s Creek Items. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) King’s Creek, Sept. 7.—Mr. Hugh Caldwell,who has been on an extended visit to this place, has returned to hi« home in the Lone Star State. Mr. Haskell tVhiaonant is visiting his father and other relatives here. Mr. M. B. Smith, of Georgia, is on a brief visit to his father, M. M. Smith, and family. Mason is a fine young man of splendid reputation and we wish him success. Mr J. A. Cooper has returned to Lincolnton, N C. He has been j visiting Mrs Cooper and little son, Charlie, at th* residence of Mr. T. P. One of tbe Southern’s fast freights, No. 74, going north, met with an ac cident at Concord Monday, but no considerable damage-was done, be yond wrecking two or three cars and damaging the track. No one was in jured. The train was running in two sections. The first section stopped at tbe water tank, near the station, and tbe engine was taking water,when the second ran into it. The caboose and tbe two rear cars of tbe first sec tion were practically destroyed and the track was torn up for the distance of a few feet. The accident delayed No. 36, a north bound through pas senger train, over an hour. Tbe first case tried for violation of the game or bird law in Guilford county, if not in the State, was heard before Esquire Collins in Greensboro Tuesday afternoon. Game Warden W. J. Weatherby caught two colored men, Tom Wilson and Sen Borning- ton, on Monday shooting bull bats. They had killed two apiece when ar rested. Justice Collins fined the men $1 per bat ea:h, and cost; The tines and costs were promptly paid, and the defendants discharged, with a warning Warden Weatherby has in formation that two young white men of that city have been shooting bats, and is on the lookout for them. Ten miles from Raleigh Monday, while Rommey Poole and Herman Kirk, white boys about fifteen years of age, were playing with pistols, tbe weapon in the hands of Poole was dis charged, the bail entering Kirk’s ab domen. As Kirk staggered back from the shot Poole attempted to shoot himself. He then took a gun, placed the muzzle at bis own bead, and again attempted to kill himself, but Kirk, terribly wounded as he was, seized tbe gun and prevented Poole from committing suicide. When the peo ple near by ran into the house, they found Kirk lying on the floor entirely naked, the gun uoder-his body, and both pistols beside him, while Poole sat weeping in the corner. Kirk told the wnoie story. His condition is ex tremely critical. “Silver Creek” Sam Pearson was shot and killed in Tate’s bar room in Wbisonaut. c. Morganton at 6 o’clcok Tuesday even- Hernoon to the Youi)Qfl^o|ile. The evening 8erv *L‘^^ Buford S’reet (Methodist c')ujKo|fc{l begin at 8 o’clock on next SutnK^evening, Rev. Mr. Steauman will preach, spec ially to tbe young people, though par ents are also invited to be present. Death of an Infant. The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Mcllam, of this city, died Wed nesday night and wai buried yester day in Oakland cemetery. We deeply sympathize with tbe bereaved parents. —When will The Gaffney Drug Co. be ready for business? ing by C. F. Campbell There had been bad blood between the parties for a year or more, and they engaged in a fight last Saturday, in which Pearson was badly worsted. In the mayor’s court Monday Campbell was bound over to tbe next term of tbe Superior Court, and Pearson was dis charged. Late Tuesday afternoon Campbell entered Tate’s bar, where Pearson was drinking and a few mo ments later two pistol shots were beard io rapid succession. [.Camp bell walked from tbe bar to tbe street with bis smoking pistol in bis band, and remarked, “I have killed Sam Pearson; where is Sheriff McDowell?” He was taken in onetody and locked np. - :i.. ,