The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, October 10, 1906, Image 6
W. D. GAMBLE INJURED.
Jumped From Moving Train at Alcolu
Yesterday and Fell, Striking His
Head on Piece of Timber.
Manning, October 3.-Mr. W. D.
Gamble of New Zion, had a narrow
iescape from serious injury at Alcolu
this morning.^ He had just arrived
from home on an Alcolu railroad
train, but had in charge a young lady
-who was going to take the Coast Line
?train. When the train from Columbia
arrived he went on bo?rd with the
young lady to carry her hand bag
?age and see that she got a seat,
hut before he could tell her good?
bye the train started and he at once
.ran to the platform to get off.
When he jumped from the steps
the train had attained such speed
that he was thrown to the ground,
the back of his head striking some
timber or other hard substance, and,
for the moment rendering him un?
conscious. , Fortunately he received
only a scalp wound and soon proceed?
ed to Manning in a carriage and here
^secured surgical attention. He is
fairly comfortable this afternoon,
and there is no indication now of
further trouble.
ISAAC KNIGHT CONVICTED.
Aiken, October 3.-Isaac Knight
-was tried here this afternoon for
criminal assault upon Mrs. E. S.
Chap?n, at her home near Aiken on
July 9 last. Knight pleaded not
guilty. The evidence was all against
the defendant and after being out a
.short time the jury brought in a v*er
-dlct of guilty. Juduge Gary sen?
tenced him to hang on Friday, Octo*
her 26.
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RACING AT FAIR.
Columbia, October 4.-The best
racing in the South Atlantic circuit
fairs is'promised in Columbia during
the South Carolina celebration. Sec?
retary Love has recently had a large
number of the printed programes
maiied to all of the prominent horse?
men in the country and the stables
will probably be Siled with the best
.of stock. There are two noticeable
features about the races this year. In
. the first place the sport begins on
Tuesday and extends through Friday
and in the second place the purses
are larger than ever before. There
are two prizes of $500 each and sev?
eral of $400 and $300.
The following official announce?
ment has been issued concerning the
events:
First Day, Tuesday, October 23.
No. 1-2:45 trot or pace (S. C.
xaised), $100.
No. 2-Six furlong heat (all ages),
?150.
No. 3-Mile dash (three year-olds j
and over), $250.
No. 4-One half-mile dash (S. C.
raised), $100.
Second Day, Wednesday, October 24.
No. 5-2:25 trot or pace, $200.
No. 6-Seven furlong heat (all
ages), $500.
No. 7-Seven furlong dash (S. C.
-raised), $150.
No. 8-Three-quarter mile dash
Copen), $200.
. .Third Day, Thursday. October 25.
No. 9-Trot or pace (free-for-all),
$500.
No. 10-One mile dash (open)
$400. v ^
No. ll-Seven-eighths mile dash
(selling race), $300.
No. 12.-Four furlong dash
('two or three-year-olds), $100.
No 13-One-half mile dash (S. C.
raised), $100.
Fourth Day, Friday, October 26.
No. 14-Trot or pace (S. C. raised),
$100.
No. 15-Three-quarter mile dash
(S. C. raised), $100.
No. 16-Seven-eighths mile penalty j
race, $150. j
No. 17-Consolation or beaten j
?orses (not one. two or three), $100. j
The Conditions.
Entrance to all races. 5 per cent, of ;
purse: nothing additional from mon?
ey-winners. Jockey Club rules and
weigths govern. National association
rules govern harness events. Hopples
not barred. Cusual weather clause.
Five to enter, three to start. Associa?
tion reserve? right to reject any un?
satisfactory entries. Conditional en"
tries most positively refused.
Scratching must be done before 12
m. day of race. Entries received at
pool rooms night before race: close ut
9 p. m.
Purses divided 80, 30 and 10.
A. W. Love, Secretary.
BILTMORE ESTATE.
Not Paying Expenses-Great In?
crease in Value of Timber Lands.
Object Lessons for Farmers-De?
veloping; Superior Grade of Corn.
"The impression prevails,'' said a
man who has observed Biltmore es?
tate" affairs of recent years, "that Mr.
Vanderbilt looks upon his splendid"
possession merely in the light of a
luxury, having no specific utility, and
that his fine farm is being merely
conducted as a sort of hobby in which
only the excessive rich may indulge.
It is of course true that only the very
rich could purchase a vast and costly
estate, and it is likewise true that
the farm department has at times
past proven a very expensive proposi*
tion, some branches of the business
failing to make both ends meet by
thousands; but broadly speaking it
is safe,to say that Mr. Vanderbilt is
not worrying about his money losses
on the estate, especially since he be?
gan to keep an eye on things himself.
'The truth about the matter is that
Mr. Vanderbilt had more hindsight
and a good deal more forethought
than a good many of the natives
hereabouts. When the owner of Bilt?
more began to broaden his acres, and
add tract after tract to his timber
!ands many there were who were not
able to understand while a few were
apprehensive lest their rich
neighbor lose even his vast for?
tune by becoming land poor.
Now it is realized that the
timber lands of the estate have dou?
bled in value, although a good price?
as values obtained a few years ago,
was paid for the lands. The govern?
ment could buy all the railroads, a la
Bryan, or confiscate them, and the
owner of Biltmore estate would be a
very wealthy man because of his tim?
ber holdings, which are being ex?
ploited-according to approved fores?
try methods, an important considera?
tion for all this mountain country.
"Moreover the estate is finding a
ready market right here in Asheville
for everything that it produces, and
it is of course furnishing a fine ob?
ject lesson for farmers everyw here.
Everyone has heard of the fine live
stock that the estate is putting on
the market, but that is not by any
means all that the estate is doing in
the way of furnishing fine products
for the market and incidentally for
the farmers. Just now the estate is
busily engaged in cultivating some
very fine seed corr.. The goal aimed at
is to get a fine, straight grain, so large
that if you place it over one end of a
broken cob, it will very nearly cover
it. In planting for this fine seed corn
every" grain was carefully selected by
hand, and if any grain happened to
bear a defect, such as a round sur
fce, instead of being flat, and well
shaped, it was discarded. A big grain
and a small cob is the objective, and
the est?te is making headway-*j*at* is
proving exceedingly interesting to
the farmers of the county."-Ashe?
ville Gazette-News.
WANTS TWELVE CENTS
) -
Field Agent Smith Several Days Ago
Predicted Much Higher Prices
Recent events, in the cotton belt
with the sensational advance in prices
are bearing out the predictions of
Field Agent E. D. Smith, of the
South Carolina Cotton Association.
Mr. Smith has always stood for high
prices. Some times he has been
wrong, that is, he has failed more
than once to get what he asked for,
on the other hand, he has hit the
right mark time and again.
Several days ago in talking of the
cotton situation, Mr. Smith made the
following statement:
"With trade conditions as good as
last year, a twelve million bale crop,
which does not seem probable, ought
to bring 12 12 cents instead of 9 1-2
cents, the price now being paid. By
concert of action we can make it
bring what it ought to bring. With?
out concert of action we will have to
take what we can get. The world
consumed last year 12,1S6,000 bales
of cotton. It consumed not only all
the goods produced last year, but
840,000 bales that were carried ovt_
from the previous year. It consum?
ed more cotton than was ever con?
sumed any previous year, 340,000
bales more than in 1904-05, 2,000,000
bales more than 1903-04. The av-S
erage price paid was eleven cents,
based upon the New Orleans market.
Spinners sold their products on a
much higher basis, a basis the aver?
age of which was not less than 12 1-2
cents." '
The man who sold middling cotton
for future delivery at 10 cents is
caught between the upper and nether
mill stones when- cotton is worth
10 1-2 cents and going higher and
middling grade a scarce article ow?
ing to the storm.
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COURT HOUSE BONDS SOLD
Mr E P Bicker of Sumter Award?
ed die Entire Issue of $30,000, His
Bid Being the Best
From The Daily Item October 3.
The county board of commissioners
met at 10:30 Tuesday with Supervis?
or Seale and Commissioners Thomas
and Brogdon present.
After the minutes of Sept. 5th had
been read and confirmed, regular
routine business was taken up.
Mr. J. F. Reid, one of the public
weighers, complained to the board
that the Sumter Cotton Warehouse
Company refuses to pay to the public
cotton weighers the sum of $200 for
pay of clerk as provided by the con?
tract between the couny commission?
ers and the warehouse company
It was decided that the warehouse
company is under contract and must
pay the cotton weighers for clerk and
secretary the sum of $200.
A petition for admission of John
McLaughlin to the poor house was
granted.
The petition for a public road from
John K. McElveen's place straight
to public road leading to Sumter was
taken up and action deferred until
next meeting.
It was decided to publish the coun?
ty supervisor's report during the en?
suing year in the Watchman and
Southron and the Sumter Herald at
the rate allowed by law, viz: $60 for
each paper.
Bids for purchase of the issue of
court house bonds, amounting to
$30,000, were opened at 12 o'clock,
as follows:
Sumter Savings Bank for $5,000 of
the bonds at par, paying pro rata of
expense of same, interest at 4 per
cent.
W. R. Tood & Co., of Cincinnati,
O., for $30,000, to run 15 years at
par, interest 41-2 per cent. Prem?
ium of $100. i
E. P. Ricker, of Sumter, S. C.,
for $20,000 or $10,000 at 4 1-2 per
cent, payable in 20 years, with op?
tion on part of Sumter county to re?
deem same at any time after ten
years. The entire issue on same
terms.
Security and Trust Company, by j
W. S. Glenn, $30,000, 20 year bonds,'
interest 5 per cent, for which they
will pay $31,275.
On motion the board decided to
reject all bids offered and to meet
at 4 o'clock to consider bids at 4 1-2
per cent. Bidders were notified to
submit new bids if they so desired. ;
At 4 o'clock the following bids were
opened.
Sumter Savings Bank, $5,000 4 1-2
per cent, bonds at par.
E. P. Ricker, $30.000 4 1-2 per
cent. 15 year bonds at premium of
$200 and pay all expenses of issue.
Farmers' Bank and Trust Company,
$10,000 4 1-2 per cent, bonds at par.
Bank of Sumter, $10,000 4 1-2 per
cent. 15 year bonds at par.
Security and Trust Company, $30,
000 4 1-2 per cent, bonds, par and
accrued interest from date of bonds
and a premium of $175 and all ex?
penses.
The bid of E. P. Ricker was ac?
cepted.
NEW ELKS' HOME.
Sumter Lodge, No. S55, B. P. O. E.,
is soon to have new and elegant club
room quarters. Messrs. Haysnworth
& Haynsworth and Cooper & Fraser
are soon to build on the site of their
present offices two store buildings,
facing Main street with their officess
in the rear fronting the new court
square. The building will have a
frontage of fifty-six feet and the
depth will be in the neighborhood of
175 feet.
The entire second floor will be de?
signed with an eye single to the
equipment of suitable and commo"
dious apartments for the local lodge.
Every detail that will tend to the en?
joyment and pleasure of the members
of the order will be installed. The
club room will have a handsome en?
trance on Main street between the
two store buildings, and there will
be entrances from Court Square and
the rear of the building. When the
club , rooms are completed, Sumter
Lodge will have one of the nicest
homes in the State.
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ATTEMPTED JAIL BREAKING.
An Unsuccessful Effort By Prisoners
to Escape From the County Jail.
From The Daily Item October 3.
A plan conceived by prisoners in
the county jail to effect an escape was
discovered and frustrated yesterday
by Jailor Norris with the assistance
of some friends.
It seems as if John Stuffy some
time ago informed Sheriff Epperson
that there was something of import?
ance going on in jail, and that, if he
would bring him up town and prom?
ise not to return him to the jail that
he would enlighten him as to facts.
The sheriff thought it a scheme on
the part of Stuffy to get off, and he
paid no attention to it.
Yesterday a letter was sent to Mr.
Epperson by John Henderson, who is
now in jail awaiting to be re-sen?
tenced to hang for the murder of his
wife, informing the sheriff of the con?
spiracy on the part of the inmates of
the jail. A speedy investigation of
the jail disclosed hidden between the
steel cage in which the prisoners are
confined and the cement floor the
following articles: A 32-calibre pis?
tol loaded, a hack saw and 18 steel
blades, a hatchet and a* cold chisel,
and an iron rod. It was found that
one of the large iron bars had been
sawed through, and that a towel
seemingly carelessly placed concealed
the work of the would-be jail break?
ers.
The intrusion and inspection of j
the officers was not quietly received
by the prisoners. The spirit of muti?
ny and resistance was so pronounced
when the purport of the jailer's visit
was discovered, that it became nec?
essary for Mr. Norris to fire over the
heads of the prisoners before he could
be assured of their complete control.
They were forced to leave the corri?
dor of the cage and placed all to
fether in one cell.
Carrie Holland, wife of William
Holland in jail for housebreaking and
larceny, Caroline Henderson, mother
of John Henderson? convicted of mur"
der; Nathin Wilson have been given
preliminary hearings and bound over
for trial, and at this writing another
case is pending.
There is no doubt but that the in?
formation furnished by John Hender?
son prevented the successful attempt
of the prisoners to escape and his
conduct is most commendable and
should be rewarded.
The total sales of the dispensary for
the month of September were more
'than $2,200 less than for the same
month last year.
In future there should be some re?
strictions placed on visitors to prison?
ers in Tail. There seems to have been
nothing to prevent the prisoners who
were planning" to escape from having
obtained from friends outside all the
arms and tools they may have want?
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Sumter Women aie Finding
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