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I A / THE LARGEST Circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. The Ledger. fEMI.WEEKLT—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. WE GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Adver tiser Who Uses the Col umns of This Paper. •\ Newspaper in all thax the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. IB, 1894 GAFFNEY, S. C., Mil DAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1904. $1.00 A YEAR# 1 OUR LAW MAKERS AT STATE CAPITAL. “Labor Legislation” the Short ^ Session This Week. MILL MEN IN EVIDENCE. Th« Ten Hour Lmv for Cotton Mill Kni- ploye. Killed by Vole of 09 to liO - A Num ber of Mill I’reMdent* • I’reHenl in the Howie Ibis Werk-A lilcycie Bill. Corrwstiondence of The Ledger.j Columbia, Feb. 4.— Wimt th^ cupi-1 talisits c.tll ' I ib >i’ le^iHlitiiou” li'is j been the trenriul uPseoDbly’s short i session this week. If there sre eny labor aiTitHtors loose in this State they lire n >t accmnplisinnj very much if toeir voi < is ju lgnd by ihe votes of tins |ei»i(ilature. One >f the firsr tni-asures taken up when the house met luesciay'was the bill to limit to ten hours a day the servi3« of employes in cotton mills, and after a vigorous deba'e it was killed by a vote of 69 to 26 As was the case with the child labor bill, the strongest opposition came from the Piedmont counties, where the corton mills are most numerous. This would seem to indicate that if there is any antagonism between employers rnd employes the mill nwners'exert greater influence in the legislature than do the operatives A large number f f cotton mill pres idents were in the jity yesterday look log after matters concerning them. In the afternoon they appeared before the senate committee on corporatibns in opposition to the bill to apply the following servants’ law to the cotton mills. This law under the present constitution now makes railroads and other similar corporations responsi ble for injuries to one employe re sulting from the carelessness or in competency of a fellow employe The mill men argued that cotton mills should not be placed in the same category as railroads and their arguments apparently convinced the committee, as by a vote of seven to two an unfavorable report was order ed. It is a coincidence that this bill was last year fathered in the bouse by the late John McMaster in whose memory memorial services wire held yesterday. There are other bills in which the cotton mill men are interested, one of the matters being brought up by the report of the commission appoint ed last year to And a remedy for the present financial condition of cbe State. This commission has made a report and has submitted four hills. One of these will require the annual payment of license fees by corpora tions doing business in this State and will require them to report annually to the secretary of State; another is to amend the income tax law; a third is to impose a tax on inheritan ces and legacies; a fourth is to pro vide additional measures for the col- leotion of unpaid taxes. There are other biilis relating to changes in the tax system, one of these amending the law in reference to the State board of assessors and another in re ference to the local boards of Asses sors. Mr. Johnson has also intro duced a bill to provide a franchise tax of one mill on the capitalization of every corporation in the State, and another bill to tax the gross receipts of all corporations except textile mills and oil mills. One of the matters of most general interest came up in the house Tues day when Senator Herndon’s bill to amend the road law was considered. This bill has passed the senate and with amendments has now passed the bouse. As it now stands ic provides that all males between 18 and 50 years of age are liable for not less than two days’ labor, nor more than six days, upon the road, fixing the commutation tax at not less than $1 and not more than $8 The number of days and the amount of commuta tion tax is to be determined by the county boards of commissioners of each of the counties. This bill prac tically allows every county to fix its own road law to suit itself, it being claimed that a general law cannot be devised to suit different counties when the conditions here and there are so different. The automobile menace rode into the house on a bicycle yesterday. Mr. King bad introduced a bill re quiring any person riding a bicycle outside of town to dismount when be met a carriage or other vehicle drawn by a horse or a horse upon which any one was riding, requiring the bicy clists to oome to a hault not less than twenty five yards distant from the horseman and remain stationary un til the other traveler had passed. The bill was so amended as to include automobiles and in debate much was ■aid about the dangers of the "Red Devils.” The bill did not come to a vote yesterday. A measure which has evoked a great deal of discussion in both houses it the bill prohibiting the giving away or selling of whiskey within three miles of the polls on election lays. The bill came over from the j house and was discussed in the sen ate Tuesday. It was proposed to | make the distance two miles instead ! d three and much was said about th* •urtail ng of the citizen’s rights end I orivileges which is involved. The 1 bill did not come to a vote in the sen ate. Both houses have agreed upon h | bil! giving the United States govern ment largi r rights in the acquire 1 merit of land in this State for federal officers, but it was amended in th*- senate su as to make the jurisdiction ! of the State equal to that of the j United States over the property so acquired It is seldom that a bill to appro priate money for services rendered goes through without opposition, yet this has been the history of the bill to pay Col. M. P. Tribble $1 500 for completing the Confederate records. Col. Tribble was appointed by Gov. Heyward to do this work under the provisions of the act passed by con gress providing for the preservation of the Confederate rolls. The act contemplates the preservation of the original war records aio»_e and it is no easy matter to secure the original company rolls as they were made out in this State, but Col. Tribble has given almost his entire time to the work for a year past, and has met with some success. A large number of bills have now run the gauntlet in both houses, but they are nearly all local measures, the biennial sessions bill is still the one important measure which has gone through and so far no action has been taken to provide for the changes in the system of government which its enactment would render neces sary. The sentiment of the house seems to be against lengthening the terms of the legislators and other State officers and unless this is done a member of the legislature will, if the biennial sessions amendment is adopted, sit for only one session. J. H. fHROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE, WAR IS DECLARED, A long distance telephone mes-age yesterday afternoon stated that war THROUGHOUT THE TAB HEEL STATE. [terns of Interest of Passing h » rt bet ‘n declared between Japan and F rom the Mountains to The Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. Russia, and as a result cotton had gone down 300 points SHORT LOCAL ITEMS. Thu I'enalou I.IhI. The following pensioners of Chero kee county died or moved last year Nathaniel Guiton, moved ; J. 8. Hig gins, moved ; J. M. Coyle, dead ; John Cook, dead; M. D. F. Coyle, moved; A. B. Goins, dead; A. Haas, moved; B. W. Lindsey, dead ; E A McDaniel, dead; J. D. Ruppe, dead; J 8. Blan ton, dead; Posey Gis*’, moved; Mrs. ArtillaHuskey, dead; Mrs. Elizabeth Kimbrel, dead; Mrs. 8. A. Ruppe, dead. Watch The Dixie. Mr. Morris 8witzer, proprietor of The Dixie Clothing and Shoe store, has returned from the northern mar kets, where he has been for the past fifteen lays buying goods. While away be visited the big houses of Baltimore, New York and Boston, and bought, besides many other things, the largest line of shoes ever shown in Gaffney Watch for The Dixie ad. in The Ledger. Meeting of Executive Board B. K. Asso. The executive board of the Broad River Association will meet at Gaff ney next Monday, Febuary the 8th, at eleven o’clock A full attendance is requested. Respectfully, J. D. Bailey, Chin, of Board. A Child Fearfully Scalded. The two-year-old daughter of Mrs. Emma E. Whittemore, of 30 Rector street, Asheville, was fearfully and, perhaps, fatally scalded by a pot of boiling soup Saturday night at the home of her parents. A pot of bran soup was boiling on the kitchen stove, and the child in playing about the room in some manner struck the pot. when the contents were overturned and the child badly burned about the head and face. Although the mother of the child was in the room at the time of the accident she does not exactly know how her daughter came to overturn the pot, and, was not aware of the occurrence until she heard the child’s screams. This week has generally been clear and cold. There is not much doing in the mayor’s court these days Congressman Finley has introduced a hill in congress for a public build ing in Gaffney. The hotel at Cownens was burned Wednesday, We have not been able to get particulars. If the ground hog came out Tues day according to bis rule, he soon went back into his den. We will see now if bad weather follows. City politics is warming up and the general interest is centering on the race for mayor, with four candi dates in the field for that office and several other prospective ones. The Epworth League has elected thefollowing officers: Mrs. Pratt Pier son, president; Miss Louise Sarratt. vice president; Wells Littlejohn, 2’id vice-president, and Miss Laura Duff, 3rd vice president. Events* that Ifave Taken Place fr'*m One End of the State to the Other Called from Exclmngeit ,for Onlck Reading by Score* of Bnny People. Randolph Gordon, colored, one of the hands at the paper mill at Harts- vill?, fell through a hole in the upper floor of the digester room Friday night and broke bis neck. It was clearly an accident, and the coroner’s jury so found. The police department of Charles ton has seized and confiscated nine sloe machines found in stores about fhe city, under the ordicance forbid ding gambling devices, which the de Dartment is now enforcing. The ma chines have disappeared from the counters and show cases, and the dealers in cigars are especially feeling the loss of the machines at which men would be playing all day long. The dead body of Tandy Wilson, colored, was found in a tract of woods about three miles from Greenville Saturday night by W. M. Brockman, i he negro had been employed by T. C. Martin and was engaged in haul- iug. Saturday morning ho went for load of wood and was not seen again until his body was found near tree on which he had been chop ping. It is thought his death was caused from heart disease. The Secretary of State, Tuesday, chartered the Columbia Coco-Cola Bottling Company, capitalized at $3,000 H. D. Crosswell is president, .-ecretary and treasurer, and J. K. Crossweil vice-president. A charter was also issued to the Lee County Granger Company, a general merchan dise concern of Bishopviile, capital ized at $5,000, and a commission was issued to the Darlington Dry Goods Company, capitalized at $15,000. Capt.Tvv M. Mauldin, of Pickens, . , . who was elected a member of the der favorable auspices. The company The Lltmetone Uoarda. The muster roll of the Limestone Guards, containing fifty names, rank and file, has been sent to the Adju- tand General and the company has been accepted. The commissioned officers are:J. 0. Otts, captain ; Stowe Mauoey, 1st lieutenant, and D. A. Young, 2nd lieutenant. The non commissioned officers have not been appointed yet. Capt. Otts and his officers and men have gone to work in a businesslike way. They have rented an armory, the second H ior in the Littlejohn building on the corner of Limestone and Birnie streets, which is lighted by electricity, and are negotiating for the construction of lockers for their uniforms and arms. The Limestone Guards start out uo Escaped an Awful Fate. Mr, H. Haggins of Melbourne, Fla , writes, “My doctor told me I bad Consumption and nothing could be dons for me. I was given up to die The offer of a free trial bottle of Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consump tion, induced me to try it. Results were startling. I am now on the ruad to recovery and owe all to Dr. King’s New Discovery. It surely saved my life.” This great cure is guaranteed for all throat and lung diseases by Cherokee Drug Co., drug gists. Price 50c & $1.03. Trial bot tle free. It takes a lot of cold cash to melt a marble heart. Killed. There is not an ache or pain that ;au be reached externally that cannot be ‘ Killed” in a few minutes by the use of Elliott’s Emulsified Oil Lini ment. Rub it on the affected part and the pain will soon disappear. Full 1 2 pint bottle, 25 cents. Gaffney Drug Co. —All the best grades of Shoes at prices below their real value, at Car- roll, Carpenter & Byers. board of trustees of Clemson College, notified Governor Heyward Tuesday that he could not serve in view of the fact that be was elected under some misapprehension. He is under the impression that owing to a blunder be was put on instead of Mr. J. E. Tin- dal, of Clarendon, although he is mis taken, as Mr. Tindal is a life memot-r of the board, having been appointed by Mr. Clemson. While young Cecil McGowan and Walter Rawliuson, son of Col. and Mrs. J. W. Rawliuson, of Rock Hill, were out in a field Monday bunting, young Rawlinson playfully pointed his rifle, of the parlor pattern, at his companion and pulled the trigger. A report followed. He was horrified to discover that the bullet had found a mark the shooter little meant. It entered the right cheek, passed into the mouth, cutting off a piece of his tongue, knocking out two teeth and came out through the other cheek producing a very painful wound, but the attending surgeon does not appre bend any serious cousequences. About 4 o’clock Sunday morning Patsy Elligan, a negro woman living on Mr. Josiah Hiatt's place about eight miles from Walterboro, went to the bed of her own daughter, Anita Eligan, and clutching her by the throat, choked her until she was dead. There were two other negro gir>s in the room but they seeiped to know very little abouv the horrible deed except that they helped carry the dead body of their sister into the adjoining room at the command of the'r mother. Anita Eligan war ulout 17 years of age. Patsy was committed to jail charged with the murder of her own child. She de nies killing her child, but says she has killed the devil and that she did so at the command of Christ. She is uo doubt crazy. For two days officers and other in dignant citizens of Bennetts-ville have been scouring that section in search of Joe Johnson, who is wanted for criminally assaulting the 10 year-old daughter of John Hooks, at McColl. The crime was committed on January 21, but the girl did not make it known till last Saturday, when she told a girl associate who was working in the Marie cotton mill with her The news soon reachedJMr.Hooks and he found that she had been seriously injured. She said she bad not re vealed her condition sooner because the negro threatened to kill her if she told. As soon as the crime became known Chief of Police Hays and a posse of citizens started to hunt Johnson but he had just left town by some unknown route. Blood hounds were put on his track and followed him for several miles, but finally lost the trail. is composed of worthy young men and should receive the hearty support of the county and city. A military com- dany is almost a necessity in every city and this one should be fostered. Mr. Kufaa Moss Dead. Mr. Rufus A. Moss, one of the county’s most highly respected and worthy citizens died at his home near Buffalo ou Tuesday the 2nd Inst, af ter an illness of only a few da;s. Mr. Moss was about fifty years o d and leaves a wife, one daughter and five sons to mourn their loss. He was a consistent member of Buffalo church, and his remains were buried there on Wednesday, in the presence of a large nnmber of sorrowing relatives and friends. The funeral service was con ducted by his pastor,Rev. W. C. Bos tic. Nearly Forfeits His Life. A runaway almost ending fatally, started a horrible ulcer on the leg of J. B. Orner, Franklin Grove, 111. For four years it defied all doctors and all remedies. But Bucklen’s Arnica Salve had no trouble to cure him Equally good for Burns, Bruises, Skin Eruptions and Piles. 25c at Cherokee Drug Store. The Sultan need not be surprised if we discover a "constmcUon” nec essity of taking Constantinople for a coaling station the next time an American consul is mobbed. —Go to The Gaffney Drug Co. for garden seed. —Big line Rubbers at from 10c to $1.00 at Carroll, Carpeuter <fr Byers. Ancleut and Modern Advice About How to Acquire Wealth. The ancient sages’ “sure road to wealth” was “be temperate in all things, be economical always.” Mod ern life, with its “rush methods” in business requires that ‘ keep healthy” be added to the old adage. Everybody knows how to be tain perate and most people how to be economical, but few know how to keep perfectly healthy. Over eating, irregular habits, neglect etc., derange the stomach, liver, and bowels, caus ing indigestion, torpid liver, consti pation, etc. Rydale’s Tablets are na ture’s beet ally when such conditions exist. The Stomach Tablets will di gest your food, strengthen your di gestive organs and cure your indiges tion. The Liver Tablets will arouse your iiver, stimulate your bowels and es tablisb a regular, healthy habit. Ry dale’s Tablets insure good health. Gaffney Drag Co. If you need a cough medicine boy the Gaffney Drug Go’s. Nature’s Her bal Cough Remedy. You get your money back if it d lesn’t cure. —All America Shoes—best on the market; worth $3 60 to $4.00 now $2 90 at Carroll CiMroentt-r & Byers. —Any of the advertised patent medioinescan be found at The Gaff ney Drug Co’s. —Watch our pri :es on prescrip- tious. Tbs Gaffney Drug Co. Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS IntureKtliiR Item* Concerning Our Neigh bor* Beyond the Line Which May Frov* Kut ainlng Reading^ for Hundred* of Ledger Reader* Gharles Psuiein. a well known tailor, of Wilson, died suddenly Tues day at 1 o’clock while seated in Barnes’ restaurant. He was 40 years old and leaves a wife and a young child. Charters have been granted the Washington Fish & Produce Com pany , of Washington, capital $10 000, W. P Brougham and others stock holders; J. W. Scott &0o of Greens boro, are authorized to issu»- $30 000 of preferred stock and to increase their capital stock to $10,000. A fire broke out Tuesday evening about 2 o’clock in the house of a colored man George Spears, in Con cord. The house was burned down and the flames spread to an adjoining building, but by the prompt airl of the fire department no more damage was done. Mrs. Edward Pierson dropped dead in the kitchen of her home, on East Hill street in Charlotte, about 10:30 o’clock Monday morning. Mrs. Pier son arose early, prepared breakfast for her husband and eight children and was about her household duties, apparently in her usual health, when the last summons came. The Ashevil'e Cotton Mills have de cided to curtail production by closing down one day a week. Beginning this week the mills will not run on Saturday. They wiljj, close at 4:30 every Friday afternoon and resume operations the following Monday morning This curtailment is due to the prevailing high price of cotton and will continue in effect until changed conditions warrant a return to a six day run. Mr. John Hargrove, a young farm er, living near Siler City, was acci- dentlly shot there Monday. He bad just driven to town, unhitched his horse and was in the act of tying the Worse to the rear end of the wagon, when a loaded gun, lying in the wagon bed, wis discharged, the en tire load entering the unfortunate man’e abdomen. His condition is critical. The twelve Asheville eports who were arrested last week charged with being implicated in the cocking main, which took place there Tuesday morning, and fined $10 and costs, have been fortunate in getting off lighter by the fines in each case being reduced from $10 and costs to $5 This ends the chicken tight affair, as the officers have failed to secure any evidence against a num ber of others who were alleged to have been in attendance at the “main.” Ex-Constable J. A. Dunn, of Char lotte, Monday night discovered a white man in the bands of two negro women, on South College street, in that city, near the city rock quarry. The man, whose name was Thomas Fronebarger, and who was from Bes semer City, was in a stupor and was almost rigid. The women appeared to be robbing him, and Mr. Dunn thinks that they had intended to shove him over the edge of the quar ry, a precipice of over 100 feet. The women ran when they saw Dunn, who then took the young man to his home and revived him with hot coffee. Before United States Commissioner John Nichols, in Raleigh Tuesday, there was to have been a hearing of Powell, the man charged with swind ling by using the name of a Raleigh firm. He waived examination and went back to jail in default of $1,000 bail. He said he could give this, but this is improbable, as be had been in jail several days in default of a $250 bond. Brooks, who was Powell’s agent in Ralegh, was allowed to go free, upon giving $400 bond for his appearanra as a witness agairst Powell. It is now the belief there that Powell is the whole firm ; that is. he had no partnen He says Jones is in Norfolk, but he iian’t be found there. Mj*t«reou* ClrcumHtHnce. One was pale and sallow and the other fresh and rosy. Whence the difference? She who is blushing with health uses Dr. King’s New Life Pills to maintain it. By gently arousing the lazy organs they compel good digestion and bead off constipation. Try them. Only 25o, at Cherokee Drug Co., druggist's. —Hanan and Reynolds’ fine Shoes at Carroll, Carpenter & Byers. Nuunaily’s delicious candy always fresh at The Gtiffoey Drug Co. —All the latest styles in Men’s and Women’s Shoes Carrol), Carpenter k Byers. ETTA JANE LETTER. UappuuIngH him! Movement* or People ia Lower Cherokee. Etta Jane, Feb. 3.—The Washing ton correspondent of the Charleston News and Courier writing under date of 31?t, ult., rmkde this announce ment, which will be of more or less interest to the people of the 5'h con- gresional district: •‘Representative Finley is a happy man just now. He had fifty bales of March cotton in bis store house, which he has been holding with the expectation of getting fifteen cents per pound. The recent upward ten dency of the market has been very gratifying to him, and some of his friends advised him to hold on furth er, predicting that cotton would surely go to eighteen cents. Friday afternoon Mr. Finley could stand the pressure no longer, after he learned that it had gone to sixteen cents. He rushed to the telegraph office and wired his agent to sell out at sixteen cimts. His good luck was not con fined to his cotton. The same day he was notified by the Fourth Assist ant Postmaster General that fifteen rural delivery routes in his district, wnich were turned down some time ago, are to be surveyed and establish ed at an early day. These routes are in the counties of Cnenkte, York, Chester. Fairfield, Kr-rshaw, Lancas ter and Chesterfield. When Mr. Machen was at the head of the rural delivery service he denied the re quest for the establishment of these routes, because they did not show seventy-five white families to each route No account was taken of the negro families. “Mr. Finley has Deen working up on the officials of the postoffice de partment with great diligence and be has finally obtained a ruling that these routes will be established if it can be shown that one hundred fami lies, black and white, will receive the benefit of the delivery service. It is provided, however, that at least one member of each family shall be able to read and write. This educational qualification, in the. npir'.-.-i of Mr. Finley, is in no wit' • !->»»ble to the people proposed routes.” Mr. Finley,' uo doubt, is one of the largest and best farmers in the na tional house of representatives, and sa)s the least about it. For the first time in bis life Sam Strain attended the meeting of “the creeters exchange association” at Gaffney last Monday. He took notes of the proceedings and tells some good jokes on different mem bers—how they acted and what they said. Sam Lee, Bob Foster and some others had a fox chase last Monday morning. The wind was too high, however, and the dogs couldn’t trail it well. They were out about two hours. As soon as the weather gets more favorable for the business they will give it another race. Mr. William G. Fowler moved into bis new house Monday last. Only the lower rooms are finished suffi cient for occupancy. > Since the Wilkinsvilie oil mill started people are getting what cot ton seed meal and bulls they want \ Our neighbor, Mr. Jefferson Black- well. has moved to Rich Hill, in Spartanburg county, where he ex pects to farm this year. We understand Union county will have a woman candidate for county superintendent of education in the person of Miss Eliza Garner, of Mount Joy. Mist Garner ran for the same office several years ago and polled a good many votes. We took the hint, but it isn’t every fool who would have done so. Mumps is now added to the cata logue of afflictions and contagious diseases in our neighborhood. Mrs. Eliza Foster and children, of Hickory Grove, visited her parents Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Estes. Mr. J. Farrow Wright, who has been visiting his daughter, Mrs John Ponder, of Patterson Springs, N C., for some time, returned home yester day. The weather has been very cold for the last few days and making fires and sitting by them is what our peo pie can do with much satisfaction. Mr. Bascum Osment has reached his home in Arkansas after spending some time with relatives and friends in this State on a visit. His father writes that Ellen, (Bascum’s mother), has put Bascum through h rigid examination and cross examina tion since his-return home ; she wants to learn ail about her old home and people. j. l. s. Butter Thau Gold. “I was troubled for several years with chronic indigestion and nervous debility,” writes F. J. Grten, of Lan caster, N. H. "No remedy helped me until I began using Electric Bit tern, which did me more good than al! the medicine I ever used. They have* also kept my wife in excellent health for years. She says EUctric Bitters are just spletdid for female troubles; that they are a grand tonic and in- vigorator for weak, run down women. No other medicine can take its place in our family.” Try them. Only 60o. Satisfaction guaranteed by Cherokee Drug Co. 'J}