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FELDER REQUISITION REFUSED BY GOV,BROWN HELD THAT PAPERS WERE FATALLY FAULTY-FELDER BACKED BY GEORGIA BAR. Saturday's issue of the Atlanta Constitution gives the following report of the hearing before Governor Brown in the matter of requisition for Attorney Felder: If the State of South Carolina wishes to secure possession of Attorney Thomas B Felder of Atlanta on the charge of attempted bribery, it will have to come again with another requisition which at least bears the earmarks of regularity and legality. After attorneys for Mr Felder had shot holes through the application for requisition until it looked like a sieve at the hearing before Governor ^ ? **? fn rn. ?>ru\vn iuui Mia\ ,iuc vju^duui tui **ed down the application and sent the representatives of Governor Cole L Blease and the State of South Carolina, Attorney W A Holman and Sheriff M M Ruford, on their way discomfited. f The Governor sustained the contention of counsel that the requisition is fatally faulty in many particulars,and he was sustained by Attorney General Hall. Among the most notable defects were that there was no affidavit alleging what bribe Mr Felder offered, for what purpose it was offered, the specific date on which it was offered, or that Mr Felder was in the State at the time the offense is alleged to have been committed. There was one affidavit offered from one Kelley, who stated on "information and belief" that Mr Felder had, in October, 1906, offered a bribe to H H Evans, a member of the board of control of the South Carolina dispersary, and thereby conspired to defraud and cheat the State of South Carolina. The attorneys for Mr Felder produced court decisions to show that affidavits based on information and belief are not worth the paper they are written on; that there must be specific charge? based on the knowledge of the affiant, so that persons so accused may have recourse to prosecution for perjury when such charges are proved groundless. Mr Felder has publicly charged that Governor Blease had an ulterior motive in making the application for requisition. He has charged that it was based on personal malice and vindictiveness, and was designed to get him out of the way along with evidence which he claims to have, . and which he said connects the Governor of South Carolina with a numi ber of questionable financial deals which proved costly to that State. Mr Felder was not lacking in able defenders. Not only did the Atlanta bar association delegate a coterie of its most distinguished members to see that his rights as a citizen were not invaded, but from several cities in Georgia, and even from South Carolina, attorneys were present and volunteered their services in his behalf. The defense was conducted bv Attorneys Spencer R Atkinson, former Judge of the supreme court; Alex King, Luther Rosser, P H Brewster and J D Kilpatrick. Lending advice and assistance were Attorneys Reuben R Arnold, John W Moore, Eugene Black, Albert Howell, Stiles Hopkins, George Westmoreland, Harry Alexander, Virgil Jones,Henry Peeples, Sanders McDaniel, Shepard Bryan, Robert Alston, Lewis W Thomas, Judge A E Calhoun, John E McClelland, C L Pettigrew, E P Upshaw and others of Atlanta; Frank McLaughlin, T T Miller and Henry Goetchius of Columbus; John R Cooper, Roland Ellis and Andrew Lane of Macon; Bar\ tow Willingham of Forsyth; William Kimsey of Jonesboro; Ernest Smith \ of McDonough and Howard Cornett \ of Knoxville, Tenn. One of the r.ost convincing speeches on behalf of Mr Felder was that by Attorney George Johnstone \ of Newberry,S C. Col Johnstone is a former member of Congress from his State and is an able lawyer and. while he expressed the pain it caused him to disagree with his fellow-citizen, Attorney Holman of South Carolina.he very skilfully,very effectively added a few more holes to those which had been blown through the application for requisition by the local attorneys. | "Governor Buown Dip Right." Governor Brown's refusal to honor the extradition proceedings brought against Hon Thomas B Felder, of the Atlanta bar, by Governor Blease, of South Carolina, will be very generally approved. At best it appears that Governor Blease's whole proceeding grows out of political promptings in which Mr Felder figured as a mere incident. The Governor has been charging up and down the State like a roaring bull, attacking everybody and everything, and when Mr Felder got in ! his u'sv hp went at him iust as he | had done against many of the most prominent citizens of South Carolina. It is now reported that the next ; act of this interesting drama may , take place before the Legislature of ; South Carolina on impeachment pro| ceedings.and if one-tenth of the evidence is gathered that The Constitution hears is available, it can be taken for granted that the next ses; sion of the South Carolina Legislaj ture will be one of the most interesting in years. A remarkable triubute was paid to j Mr P>lder by his associates of the j Atlanta bar,many of the most prominent lawyers of the city appearing in his behalf before Governor Brown to protest against the extradition asked for by Governor Blease. The incident leaves the Governor of South Carolina in an unenviable predicament. He has made a number of unfortunate and glaring errors while in office. But this one is particularly pointed in its brazen attempt to bring into play the machinery of a sovereign State to vent a personal spite growing out of political difference. As for Mr Felder.he emerges from the affair with his public credit and I i f (if I (tl_ A / caiccin ?" ?"*?i ? lanta Constitution, Juno 24. Was the Division Just? A Chinaman, dying, left eleven sheep and three sons; and making a will, left one-half of his estate to his oldest boy, one-fourth to the next and one-sixth to third son. They wished to divide without killing a sheep but could not see how to do it, so they sent for a wise lawyer. Sending to his own fold for a sheep, he put it in with the eleven. Now take your half?six, said he to the eldest, and he did so; the second, take your fonrth?three; the youngest, take your sixth and begone?two; and they did so, when the wise lawyer drove his own sheep home. Was the division according to the will??Air. r 1 _t tl I.. tara ui maims. Eeitor County Record:? Please permit us through your columns to try to express in some measure our gratitude and appreciation to our neighbors, friends and the good people of Kingstree generally, for their help in saving what was saved of our property during the recent tire which destroyed our homes; also for their sympathy and kindness expressed both by word and deed since the fire. Burned'out of house and home and most of our worldly goods destroyed, then it is that we feel most deeply those acts of sympathy and kindness that shine brighter along life's pathway as the way grows darker and steeper. Sincerely yours, B F Patrick, A M Snider. Kingstree, June 26, 1911. Offer Extraordinary. For a limited time only we offer the Atlanta Constitution three times a week from now until January 1, 1912, and any one of the following magazines or agricultural papers as a premium: Uucle Remus' Magazine, McCall's Magazine, Southern Poultry Journal,Home and Farm, Southern Ruralist, Southern Cultivator. Any one of the above with the Thrice-a-Week Atlanta Constitution till January 1, 1912, only 50 cents. 6-lo-4t ] AFFAIRS AT ANDREWS. Lightning Destroys Valuable Property?At Last the Rain. Andrews, June 26:?Last Friday afternoon lightning struck the Urge i barn of the Atlantic Coast Lurr her j corporation in town and set this im-; J mense structure <>n fire, causing a || loss of several thousand dollars. All i the oats- raised on 180 acres of land \ was burned, together with several ; drums of gasoline and all the farming implements. Had the tire not | happened during work time while j there were about 100 men on hand, ' the entire place would have been destroyed. We understand no insurance was carried except on the bi.ild- J ' ing. The writer and quite a large crowd from this place attended the Clemson-Winthrop demonstration at j Georgetown last Friday. The in- J struction given the farmers on this I occasion was very comprehensive. 1 and our people feel they were well | . repaid for their time. Can't our law-makers arrange that each fall | Clemson College shall send out men 1 who are experts with the proper im- \ plements to analyze our lands 01 *;oils and give our farmers the cor*eet analyses or formulas for our fertilizers for the following spring? Our farmers are spending millions of dol-l i lars for fortilizers.som? of which are 1. J , I detrimental to our lands. Clemson |? is receiving hundreds of thousands of 1 J dollars from the farmers in the fer- J tilizer tax and in this way the farm- { er would be benefited. Let the farm- } ers meet the experts at the county \ | seats with samples of their soil. * Harpers Lodge. No 225, A F M, 5 I gave a fish fry and celebrated St I John's day last Saturday, the 24th inst, at Potato Ferry We under ! stand that all who attended enjoyed I the occasion very much. I ... 1 Hnr i-nurn was visited with a verv ? heavy rain Saturday afternoon, the first heavy rain we have had this J ' year, but the soil is not yet wet by any means. All crops are badly dam- ? j aged by the drought, bu t farmers are ! rejoicing over what we now have and hoping for a continuance of rain. < Our friend, Rev S T Russell, spent a few hours in town one day ast ( week. Mr Russell has been in feeble (health for some time, but he still ( holds to his friendly jokes and pleasi ing smiles. He is one of the test men of our county aid represents . one of its old land-marks. We h ppe / , to see him speedily recover his health [j and vigor. V j Mr W E Snowden, of the Cedar Swamp section, has our sympathy in his serious loss by fire ast week, i Mr S S Skipper has l>een seriously ill for ten days. We hope to see him out again soon. Subscriber. ^ Editor Knight Lose s His Wile. Bamberg, June 23:?Yesterday afternoon the spirit of one of Bamberg's purest and lest women returned to its Giver, and the home of (' | A W Knight,editor anj proprietor of the Bamberg Herald, is bereft of a ^ ' fond mother and a loving wife. Mrs Knight was a member of the Methodist church ;ind for a number of rjyears, until her health began to give , way,was organist. She was a spleni did performer and took much interest in her work, rendering conspicu1 ous service to the church in that ca- ^ pacity. She was faithful in other de- ^ partments of church work as well, ^ and will be greatly missed. The ^ sympathies of all go out to Editor Knight in his bereavement. ^ The funeral and interment took Si place at South End cemetery this af- b ternoon, Rev W H Hodges, pastor of & the Methodist church, conducting q the services. A large crowd of sorrowing relatives and friends was present to show their respect and ^ love for the deceased. d Mrs Knight was a sister of Mrs R ^ R Jenkinson, formerly a resident of Y Kingstree. b A timely conversation was carried ^ CI on recently between a hostess and a fair young guest. The hostess was ^ entertaining the company with de- b scriptions of her trip abroad, and h mentioned the clock at Strasburg. "0, yes," said the girl, "I have heard all about that; and did you see the watch on the Rhine too?" -/.V. 6/ fMALARIA^ A headache, biliousness, inI digestion, rheumatism, pimphs, blotches, yellow complexion, etc., are all A signs of poisons in your I blood. These poisons should be driven out, or A serious illness may result M To g(t rid of them, use I Ey | Thedford's [Black-Draught I the (>ld, reliable, purely vegetible, liver medicine. I Mrs. J. H. Easier, of m Spartanburg, S. C., says: I u I had sick headache, for 5 years. I felt bad most of ?<-- * - i T*i i m trie nine, 1 irit:u incu* ford's. Black-Draught, and I now I feel better than 1 If when I was 16 years old." I A Your druggist sells it, in I 25 cent packages. ] fi 'r,?ist on Bedford's I -? -# > ; i-: FOR SALE ! Two-story brick store building > opposite the Kellahan Hotel ana ' on the corner of the Court House square, fronting 32 feet on Main street with a depth of 105 feet. | First flo^r handsomely furnished ! with counters, shelves, etc. Second floor divided into nine (9) confortable rooms. Second floor rents for $25.00 a month. Also lot in rear of building fronting 52 1-2 feet on Calhoun street, with a depth of 105 feet and fronting 521-2 feet on the Court House square. This is a great bargain, ] for cash or on easy terms. For price and terms of sale apply to J. D. GI LLAND, ; Attorney-at-Law KINOSTKEK, ... SC.. FlMTEBttL ?RMS Kingstree CAMP NO-27. 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