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THE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850- 'Be Just and Fear not-Let all the ends Thou Aims't at be thy Country's, Thy God's and Truth's." THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established June,. 18?? .tic<n*olidated Aug. 2,1881. Cjje m? jSaatbrmi Published Every Wednesday, -BY QSTEEN PUBLISHING COMPANY, SUMTER, S. C. Terms: $1.50 per annum-in advance. Advertisements: ? One Square first insertion.$1.50 Every subsequent insertion.50 Contracts for three months, or v longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which sub? serve private interests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respects will be charged for. PROPHECY FULFTTiTiED. How the Dispensary Law is Not Be? ing Enforced, as Was Foretold By Senator Blease. Editor Herald and News: "It has even been said that Governor Hey? ward has said that he would not put on the extra tax. Heyward has nothing to do with it The legislature has al? ready put on this half mill tax, and the legislature by its act said if you vote out the dispensary this tax shall be levied. Therefore, by voting out the dispensary you vote on the tax. Also, you will not receive any part of the school fund." "He also spoke; of the fact that the ". country was not policed as was the town, and that it would be even more impossible to suppress blind tigers in the country than in the town, and said they would flourish from the day the dispensary was voted out." "After the dispensary, then what? Blind tigers throughout the county and social clubs in the town, with the card table, the social drink and the poker game." "Some say that they are voting against the dispensary to get rid of the clubs. If the dispensary is voted out the vote does not affect the clubs. ? They remain just the same, because they are chartered institutions by the State So if the dispensary goes, there remain with you the clubs, the blind tiger and other ways of illict liquor selling, with no revenue" "Your tax levy is now two and one half mills for county purposes. If the dispensary is voted out, it will be necessarily five mills. The loss on dis? pensary profits, for the remaining months of this year will cause a defi? ciency in the present fiscal year which will also have to be met by the levy for the next year. Besides this we lose all the money which we have been receiving -from the State dispensary fund for our public schools, as this is provided for in the Brice bill." The above are quotations from xhe speeches of Senator Cole L. Blease last snmmer when the dispensary question was being agitated. What are the conditions today? "Let's 'see. Dr. Cromer says in his letter to the gov? ernor: "After conferring with a number of those who led in the oppo? sition to the dispensary in this county, and who are in favor of law and or? der, I am writing to ask that you send constables to this county to en? force the law against the illict traffic in liquor. The law is erforced in the town of Newberry, but not in the country and smaller towns. It- is bootless ao argue * * * for what the county needs is an enforcement of the law now. And it has become clear enough that the law will not be en? forced outside of the towns.'" etc. How does this compare with the statement of Senator Blease last sum? mer? Huw does it compare with the fact that during this week the mayor has tried and convicted three persons for selling liquor within the incor? porate limits of the town of New? berry. If the law is being enforced in Newberry why should the mayor be punishing those innocent (?) persons? Who hollers first for the constables to come to Newberry county? The citizens of Prosperity. Where next the wail? Chappels. Next? Poma ria. Then comes Dr. Cromer.-New? berry Herald and News. A CHERAW DESPERADO KILLED. Cliief of Police of Cheraw Kills L. B. C:*o\ton, Who Drew His Pistol to iwts.'st Arrest. Cheraw, May 5.-Luther B. Crox? ton, a white man, was shot and fatally wounded on the street this evening by Chief of Police C. T. Hutchinson. Mr. Hutchinson, with Policeman Bryant, attempted to arrest Croxton, who drew his pistol, but before he could use it Hutchinson shot six times at close range. Croxton came to Cheraw from Ker? shaw about four months ago. He was known as a desperate man. About four years ago, while on a spree, he held ihe entire police force at bay with a shotgun. He has wide family connections in Kershaw county. DESTITUTE THOUSANDS. NEARLY TWO HUNDRED THOUS? AND BEING FED TS SAN FRANCISCO. Gen. Greeley Telegraphs War Depart? ment Concerning the Situation. Great Suffering Unavoidable and the Outlook Gloomy. Washington, D. C., May 4.-In a telegram to the war department re? ceived this morning, Gen. Greely says: "The number rfof destitutes being fed is enormous, aggregating today, May 3rd, 191,637 in San Francisco. Apparently conservative estimates placed the destitute refugees at 40,000 in Oakland and Berkeley. How these terrible conditions are to be met is the subject of most earnest consid? eration between Chairman Devine of the finance committee and myself and while tin exertions of the army to re? duce ail to the smallest possible limit has effected an important readjust? ment y?t the solution of the situation without enormous suffering appears impossilie. . While daily hoping for a great decrease in the number of desti? tute, I am now confident that the far reaching extent of the disaster cannot be appreciated without personal ob? servation." TRUSTEES BROKE THE LAW. That's What Mr. Martin Says of Marl? boro Officials. Bennettsivlle, May 1.-There is op? position in Willis and Red Bluff school districts to the action of the trustees and patrons who refused the dispen? sary school funds. Those who are in favor- of using the dispensary mon? ey have been in communication with State Superintendent Martin, and it is said that Mr. Martin has written to at least one of the patrons of the school, though your correspondent has not been able to obtain the letter. The opposition to the action that has been taken will hold a meeting Thurs? day and it is rumored that they will demand tr^^emoyal of the board of trustees and the appointment of a board that will receive and use the dispensary funds. It will be remem? bered that the resolution to refrain from the use of the dispensary money was not passed by the trustees alone, but by a vote of the patrons of the school. In Willis District there was only two majority for the resolution, but in Red Bluff it was unanimous, though some of the patrons who were not present are now objecting to the action. County Superintendent of Education Stanton wrote to the State Superin? tendent of Education for an opinion as to his duties under these peculiar cir? cumstances. In his reply Mr. Martin expresses the opinion that 'he trustees have violated the law in refusing the dispensary money, and intimates that it is the duty of the county beard of education to take the trustees in hand, and require them to receive and use the dispensary funds. Sectios 1*211, under which Superintendent Martin says he would act if he were a mem? ber of the county board of education, provides that the trustees "shall be subject to the supervision and orders of the county board of educaiion." SHOOTING AT CHAPIN. Prommcnt Men Empty Revolvers ai: Each Other. Columbia. May 3.-A highly sensa? tional shooting scrape between two prominent men, both well known in Columbia, occurred at 9 o'clock this morning at Chapin, a small station on the C.. X. & L. roadv as the mixed freight and passenger stopped there on its way into Columbia from Laurens. Dr. Rowland K. Smith was in the baggage coach on his way to Columbia where his father lives, but the passengers in the coach next io it were completely taken by surprise by a regular fusilade of revolver shots between Dr. Smith and his fellow townsman of Chapin. T. M. Brown, who opened up on his assailant from near the tracks. The two men emptied their revolv? ers at each other, but not a shot took iffect. though both coaches have marks of the fray. Dr. Smith came on to Columbia, Mr. Brown remaining at Chapin. FIRE IN KNOXVILLE. Commerce Building Destroyed, Caus? ing a Loss of $500,000. Knoxville, Tenn., May 5.-Fire early this morning gutted the Commerce building. Thc loss may reach $500. 000. J. T. Hester, an Abbeville farmer, >old his cotton crop of ST5 bales a few days ago at ll 1-Sc. STANDARD OIL REBATES. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SENT SPECIAL MESSAGE TO CON? GRESS TODAY. An Outspoken Arraignment of the Great Monopoly and Its Creatures, che Railroads-An Exposure of the Oppressive and Criminal Way it Kills Competition and Robs the Public. Washington, May 4.-Astounding revelations regarding the methods and practices of the Standard Oil Co., and its railroad allies were /made today w'hen the President in his special mes? sage sent to Congress the long expect? ed report of Commissioner of Corpo? rations Garfield". Seldom had organ ified capital been so ruthlessly pilloried. The work of independent investigators of the oil trust in recent years has been completely overshadowed and even the most strenuous of the "Muck Rakers" will now have to take off their hats to official octopus hunters. Commissioner Garfield presents an ar? ray of facts and figures that would convince the most skeptical and does it. with such clearness that a child could understand. He nov only con? victs the oil trust of flagrant and per? sistent violation of law, but accuses its officials of deliberate lying. He says that at the beginning of the investiga? tion the officials of the Standard Oil Company stated that the company had not obtained, and was then obtaining secret rebates from railroads. He then proceeds to show that the com? pany has habitually received and is still receiving such rebates and cites case after case in proof. NEGROES RESIST OFFICERS. Barnwell Negro and a Mob Defy Constables. Barnwell, May 3.-W. P. Sanders, a magistrate of this county, is up ag?inst a very delicate problem in performing his duty of upholding the majesty of the law. Yesterday morn? ing Mr. A. J. Eennett, a well to do farmer from the' Baldoc section of the county, swore out a warrant before Magistrate Sanders against Ellie Brad? ley, a negro, charging him with breach of trust with fraudulent intent. San? ders sent his constable, Mr. W. T. Still, t^ arrest Bradley and deputized Mr. Lucas Eennett to assist in mak? ing the arrest. The two went to the home of Bradley and attempted to arrest him, Mr. Still going in the house. Bradley is a powerful negro and when an attempt was made to ar ; rest him he resisted. The constable hit him on the head with a pair of : handcuffs, causing the blood to run ; freely. Bradley then managed to get ' away from the constables and secured i his arms and defied arrest. In the ; meantime a party of 25 or 30 negroes j began an approach on the house from ' all sides, each carrying a double barrel gun or a Winchester rifle. It seems : that these negroes had been notified that the constables were coming to make the arrest and that they had all armed themselves with guns to help their pal resist arrest and had se? creted themselves in woods around the . house. They advanced behind trees until within 50 yards of the house, some of the bolder ones calling out to . Bradley inside the house. "Don't give up. we will kill both of them if they try to take you." The gravity of the situation in which the two constables were placed cannot he imagined unless one is familiar with the part of the county in which the trouble occurred. Down in the southwestern part of the county in the edge of the swamp of the Savannah river with an almost entire negro pop? ulation, these two officers of the law were held at bay by an armed body- of lawless negroes. They held their ?round for more than three hours, hop? ing for some white man to happen that way and thinking thereby to frighten away the negroes who were assisting their pa! to resist the law. After waiting thus until nearly night they left the negroes in command and came back, reporting the circum? stances to Magistrate Sanders. It was then too late to atempt to enter their ien in the swamp. Today Magistrate Sanders had warrants sworn out for every negro in the party, as all their names were known by the constables, and fye will deputize a sufficient num? ber of men to go and get them. HEARST FOR GOVERNOR. Buffalo Democratic Paper Endorses William U. Hearst for Governor of New York. Buffalo May 5.-The Courier, the only morning Democratic newspaper here, in an editorial this morning es pounsed the cause of William R. Hearst for govern ar. ULTIMATUM TO TURKEY. JOHN BULL IS FIGHTING MAD OVER EGYPT. Sultan Ordered to Remove Turkish Troops From Egyptian Territory at Once or Take Consequences. London, May 4.-A news agency re? port says that Great Britain yester? day sent a note to Turkey in regard to the evacuation of Tobah and other disputed territory which is virtually an ultimatum. The note demands, as England's last words, the withdrawal of all Turkish troops from Egyptian territory. The French and Russian ambassadors are supporting Great Britain in the stand taken. Premier Campbell-Bannerman this afternoon sent an urgent summons to the mem? bers of the cabinet for an immediate meeting to consider the Turkish situ? ation. FAST TRAIN WRECKED. Several People Killed and May In jured in Head On Collision on Penn sylvania Railroad. Altoona, May 5.-Because orders were missunderstood, two fast trains on the Pennsylvania road met head on at 10:45 last night on the single track of the Petersburg branch at Clover Creek Junction, 17 miles east of here. Both engines, five mail cars and one coach were demolished. Seven persons were killed, according to reports received here, and seventeen injured. Three bodies have been re? covered and four more are known to be under the wreck. The colliding trains were the St. Louis and Cincin? nati express and the Chicago mail. Both were forced to use the cut off because of a great freight wreck on the main line at Union Furnace, seven? teen miles east of Altoona. Twenty seven freight cars were wrecked, necessitating the fuse of the single track on the Petersburg branch. It is said that two tramps who were hiding on the mail train were caught under the wreck. Altoona, May 5.-It'is now reported that nine are dead. They are J. W. Agner, postal clerk, Miff lin,'Pa.; Q. W. Cox, Downington, Pa.; E. H. Schultz, postal clerk, Washingtonboro, Pa,; W. W. Lones, postal clerk, res? idence unknown; F. M. Harder, brake : man, Harrisburg, Pa.; J. W. Korr, bag gagemaster; an unknown woman, sup? posed to be Mrs. W. X. Trinkle, of . Runscannon; J. D. Conover, traveling salesman, New York and one unknown Italian. BRITISH\ INSURANCE CO SHIRKS Will Not Admit Liability in San Fran? cisco Unless Legally Compelled. London. May 4.-The president of the Northern Assurance Company, speaking at the annual meeeting cf the company today, placed the company's San Francisco risks at a little over $2,500.000. He said that no company was liable ? for earthquake damages where the fire and earthquake were simultaneous. The liabilities were difficult to ascertain. Where the fire followed after some interval he be? lieved that the company was liable. The question, he said, was receiving the most careful consideration. The companies were not showing a dispo? sition lightly to admit responsibility, and would not do so unless legally compelled. Struck Bj Lighting. Anderson, May 6.-A severe thun? derstorm, accompanied by a heavy 'rain, hail and wind, passed over the city late this afternoon and caused some damage. The two-story house of Mrs. Fannie Riley was struck by lightning and completely destroyed cy fire. The loss is about $2.500. Dam? age was caused by hail, some of the stones being an inch in diamater. No r:ports of damage have been received from the county. Fire iii Jacksonville. Jacksonville. Fla.. May 6.-Fire v: the storage yards of the Wernicke M>.riner Chemical company, in the western suburb of this city, tonight destroyed 15.000 tons of batting draught, a rosin waste used by the company in making oil. valued at $150.000. The retorts and buildings of the company were in great danger but were saved by hard work. It was first reported that the fire was in the yards of the Standard Naval Stores company and the local officials has? tened there to direct operations. Mr. J. M. Lowe and Tais little daugh? ter, of Waterloo, Laurens county, were bitten by a mad cat Friday. They have gone to Atlanta to be treated nt the Pasteur Institute. ANTI-DISPENSARY FIGHT. ALL THE OPPONENTS CALLED ON TO UNITE FOR CAMPAIGN. An Address That Says Nothing About Prohibition. But Urges a Fight to Destroy the Dispensary System Re? gardless of What Shall Come After. To the Democratic Voters of South' Carolina: As citizens of South Carolina op? posed to the present State dispensary system, we, the undersigned, call upon our fellow citizens of like opinion to unite for the purpose of organizing the opposition to the dispensary sys? tem. So nearly of one mind concerning the dispensary system are the people of the State that it is only by their failure to unite for action that the dispensary can be preserved. It is only by default that the dispensary can win another victory, before the electors or in the legislature, and it will be foolhardy for those who de? sire its overthrow to sit supinely by and see the pernicious system again enthroned in poifer in our common? wealth. Every sincere, patriotic citizen must regert that this issue should be again the paramount question in a South Carolina campaign. But as long as the dispensary remains just so long will it continue to be the paramount issue, and it should therefore be the desire of every thoughtful citizen to see this festering sore removed and a heaitheier condition secured. To this end we invite the co-operation of all those who believe the State dispensary system to be an evil and propose that, other differing policies for the time be? ing laid aside, the demand, first now, be made that the State dispensary system shall be destroyed. On trial now for 13 years, forti? fied all the time by strong support and as truly protected by unceasing criticism and watchfulness, there is no need to point out the evils which the State monopoly of the whiskey traffic has bred. Corruption at the fountainhead and in its branches, drunkenness and murder, woe and misery have been its products. A per? nicious political machine of gigantic proportions, with a beavered lobby in Columbia and a willing ring in ev? ery county, the monster has waxed fat, insolent and defiant. The will of the people has been perverted and sup? pressed, and when finally demanding expression that demand has been thwarted and circumvented by ^ap? peals to the trivial technicalities of the law. In IS counties the people have spoken and in all these except two their voice has in thuder tones re? pudiated the system. In other coun? ties they are now ready- to give ex? pression to their will awaiting the summer primary. In this primary, where the life or death of the dispen? sary will be and should be decided, it is vitally necessary that the opposi? tion to the dispensary shall be active and united. It is only by action and union that the dispensary has been voted out of 16 counties under the Brice law and by no other means than action and union can the system be uprooted from the State. The people are decided. It mere!, remains for them to make their de? cision effective. They must choose representatives who will repeal such laws as they desire to have repealed and who will enact such laws as they desire enacted. Then they must put in office men, who. in full sympathy, v.-ill enforce justly and vigorously whatever laws are upon the statute books. The people have shown, by their eager acceptance of the only op? portunity accorded them, that they be? lieve in the principle of local self government, and now. lest <hey have this alienable right again wrested from the m. the free citizens of South Carolina must make their sovereign power felt. There must be elected a legislature which will not renounce this principle, which will not yield to the dispensary machine: there must be elected executive and prosecuting j officials who will not permit the law I to be made a mockery for its undoing. We suggest consultation and co-op? eration in every county and through? out the State that these ends may be attained. J. S. Brice, J. C. Otts, D. R. Coker. James A. Hoyt, Louis J. Bristow. W. L. Mauldin, Jos. A . McCullough. J. W. Hamel. W. H. Wallace. D. W. Hiott. W. C. Allen. Howell Morrall. Chas. A. Smith. R. L. Freeman. C. B. Edwards. A. B. Stuckey. D. F. Bradley. Leban Mauldin. C. T. Martin. R. F. Smith, John A. Brunson, <\ C. Featherstone. T. R. Waring. The Yorkville correspondent of the News anil Courier contradicts the re? port that Senator Brice will be defeat? ed for county chairman. PROHIBITION CANDIDATE. AN ADDRESS TO THE PROHIBI* TIONISTS OF THE STATE. .Mr. Joel E. Bronson Announces That He Will Enter the Race lf>r G over* nor on a Clean Prohibition Plat? form. * To the Prohibitionists of the State: It is very well known that I dwi nearly all of the clerical work in get* . lng together the prohibition confer* ence in Columbia last June. Of those who attended the conference some were invited by myself while many were invited at the request of others^ The confrence, after considerable dis* cussion, adopted the following r?solu* ti ons offered by Rev. Louis J. Bristow^ "Resolved, That it is the sense o$ this conference that a general confer* ence of Prohibitionists of South Caro* lina should be held to discuss and in* aug?rate a plan of campaign against the sale of alcoholic liquors as a bev* erage within the State of South Caro* lina. "Second. That an executive commit*, tee, consisting of one member Srcdoa each county, of whom any 10 will con* stitute a quorum, hereafter to be ap* pointed, shall take charge of all mat* ters referred to it by the conference above referred to to meet in Columbia, on such a date as it deems advisable^ "Third, That in such proposed con* ference each county shall be entitled^ to as many delegates as it has mern* bers in the general assembly. "Fourth, That the qualifications anc? manner of election of delegates be left to the executive committee. "Fifth. That the officers of this conference shall be the temporary of* ricers of the conference hereby called? if present." teaid executive committee was duly appointed and called to meet in Co* lumbia during the week of the State fair. Just about one dozen mem^rs assembled, and although the raest?Q? whether it was wise or unwise to norn* i nate a State ticket was never referred to this committee,- and it was appoint* ed with positive instructions to arrange; for fae State convention, this little handful adopted the following r?solu* tion: "Resolved, That it is the sense of this meeting that it would be unwise to put in the field a State prohibition ticket." I have heard nothing- from the committee since. It is now too late to get an organ? ized convention of the Prohibitionists of the State before the opening of the campaign. I have done the best I could to aid in giving the X^oMjb?* tionists an opportunity to name their own candidates. I have not sought by. unfair means, or in any ethejr ways t& shut off the voice of any Prohibition? ist, no matter how weak, in making th nominations: but we have UQW, reached the point where some one must take up the work and press it vigorously, and when the campa?SBS^ opens I shall be there upon a clean prohibition platform as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor of the State. Joel E. Brunson. Sumter. May 7. 1906-. WEEKLY WEATHER BULLETIN For the Week Ending 8 A. M.. May. 7. 190<i. The temperature for the week aver* aged from 4 to 5 degrees above the normal, out the weatlrer was mach; cooler, with the temperature slightly below normal at the end of the w?ek.. The state maximum temperature was 94 degress at Blackville on the 2nd and 3rd, and at Bowman and at Sum* merviile on the 2nd. The 2nd was the hottest day of record, including a pe* riod of thirty-six years, for the first week in May at Charleston. The State minimum ^temperature was 53 degrees at Greenville on the 5th. The mini* mum temperatures for the week ranged from 53 to 72 degrees. There was about an average amount of sunshine along the coast sections but over the central and western coun* ties there was an excess of cloudiness,, with frequent light showers and some I heavy rains. At a number of places in the western half of the i tate, tfti? rainfall was nearly twice the normal amount, but over the eastern half ot the State generally, there was a mark* ed deficiency in precipitation, and ir* a few locaiities droughty conditions are reported to exist. Showers set thr over the western and central counties during the afternoon and night of the 6th that developed into a steady vfch* during the morning of the 7th. and it was still raining over tho, entire State as the week ended. The rainfall for the last two days is not included in the amounts given under "Observers' Re-? ports" but is included in the "Special rainfall reports." There were hailstorms in a few western counties on the 3rd.