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7 @|e Wilipili on? ??tp?." THE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850. ?Be Just and Fear not-Let all the ends Thou Airns't at he thy Country's, Thy God's and Truth's." THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established June, ISM Consolidated Ang. 2,1881. SUMTER. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 13. 1907. New Series-Vol. XXVI. No U ?lit SlatdjiMi w? Sk$m Published Every Wednesday, . -BY ?STEEN PUBLISHING COMPANY, SUMTER, S. C. Terms: $1.50 per annum-in advance. Advertisements: One Square first insertion......$1.50 Every subsequent Insertion.50 Contracts lor three months, or longer will he made at reduced rates. All communications which sub? serve private interests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respects will ce charged for. BLACK EXPLAINS CURE DEAL < FORMER DISPENSARY DIRECTOR MAKES A STATEMENT. He Declares an Injustice Was Done Him by Not Allowing Him to Ex? plain, the Purchase of Whiskey From the Peoria Firm. Columbia, March 9.-Major John Black, member of 'the State- dispen? sary board of directors recently leg? islated out of existence, and also re- j moved from office by the governor on the suggestion of the general assem? bly, today made his first public state? ment in regard to the purchase of whiskey from Clarke Bros. & Co., of Peoria. lill., the purchase which brought upon him personally and upon the board of which he was a member so much adverse criticism. Major Black returned home from Hot Sprinks, Ark., a few days before the general assembly adjourned and since that time he has had nothing to say in print except that he has been quot? ed as sayng he could justify his ac? tion in the* matter of the Clarke pur? chase. He has now given out a full statement of the affair, along with statements from the firm in question, to show that he was fully justified by the state of affairs at the State dis? pensary in taking extraordinary steps to secure a supply of liquor badly needed. The statement follows: To the Public: The best evidence where a record exists is the record itself; therefore I will not attempt at this time to say anything only in con? nection with what has been so much talked about; that is the Peoria pur- i chase. I have never purchased, nor has the board of directors -purchased, one dollar's worth of goods while one or any of us were out of the State. Unless you consider the way the Pe- j oria purchase and arrangements j made with Messrs. Clark Brothers & J Co., at Peoria, was made. We pur- j chased cheap goods from several firms to run through the Christmas holidays. They failed to ship, saying that they were afraid of the credit of the institution-that payments had been held up by the committee last year, that the profit was too small to warrant them in taking the risk, and .we failed to get the goods at that time to supply the trade, only as we tax paid for goods. Mr. C. W. Dudley wired me from Peoria, III., to come there. I did not reply. A few days later, when I found that the goods were not being shipped, I sent a messenger to Mr. Wylie and statt d to him the condition of affairs. He wrote me to act at once. Mr. Rawlinson was here. Mr. Tatum said we either had to have the goods or shut the plant down-that it was an emergency case. There had been 2,100 barrels of cheap goods cancelled; we needed over 100 barrels to dump and bottle daily. Mr. Dudley said his house, Clark Brothers & Co., would ship us these goods if they could see some of the members of the board and make sat? is factory arangements as to the payments, and suggested that two of ^is go to* see the firm. Mr,"1 Rawlinson said he could not go, that tr. Wylie was not here, but thouj it very necessary for me to go; id shov Clark Brothers & Co. how t dispen? sary stood in a financial way. This I did, and they shipped us the goods, and continued to ship until I wired them, on December 21, to discontinue. Now, these are the facts-the pur? chase was made here, the agreement for payment of said goods and the final consummation made at Peoria. At the time of this investigation I was wtrst of the Mississippi River, very ill. As soon as I was able to travel I came here, anxious to be heard. I found that without a trial I had been condemned. I tried in every way through my attorneys to be heard. The governor allowed less than 24 hours for me to get witnesses from Illinois and other places. That committee-the legislature and the governor did not dare hear me-I could and would have convinced the committee, the governor or the leg? islature in ten minutes of the fact that they were doing me a great in justice. These people would get up snd beg that a rapist be given a trial, yet these lawmakers and the chief ex? ecutive of the State refused me what they would give a brute. They did not want the truth. With me on the stand they would have been put in possession of facts that would not have suited one man that planned this-that is too much of a coward to face me in an honorable way. Now I want to ask the newspapers and all people that have any justice in them, don't take the advantage of me in your columns. Let the governor and attorney general bring me to trial and prosecute me. The legislature said do this. Let me be tried in a court of justice before a jury and if I fail to show to the world that I am not guilty then say what you please. Don't intimate that all people are thieves; quit crying graft; put up or shut up. I don't believe that there were twenty members of the general assembly that went to see for them? selves what the state of affairs were at the State dispensary; twenty of them could not tell you now. Thirty years ago carpet-baggers, arm and arm with the negro, with their heels on the white men's wom? en's and children's necks, their wives, some of them, teaching negro schools, would not have been allowed in your mother's kitchen-but now. Well, after I. have been heard I will say something that is the real goods. I will call a spade a spade and not in? timate infernal hes. If there is anybody who wants to say anything- about me and cannot wait until I can be heard, notify me when to meet you and tell it to me, face to face, like a' man. I guarantee satisfaction. Now to go back to the purchase of goods. I have done no wrong, and I don't believe it is a technical wrong, much less a real wrong. The board certainly acted as any other business men would. The purchase was made ir good faith and I would do the same ?^ain if supplies were needed. If this was not a legal purchase, then every purchase made since the dispensary startend has been illegal, in my opinion. >ik HULL OF PEORIA. " * Head of Whiskey House Declares He is Innocent of Any Conspiracy. Mr. W. F. Hull, president and gen? eral manager of Clarke Bros & Co., distillers, Peoria, EL, arrived in Co? lumbia yesterday, for the purpose of appearing today before the dispensary commission in regard to the claim of his firm against the State dispensary for $68,760. A representative of Ar? thur Lehman & Co., the firm which handled a part of the famous pur? chase which has come in for so much notoriety of late, is also here. The claim presented by this firm is for $23,284.65. Mr. Hull is very much worked up on account of the publicity which the press of the State has given Clarke Bros. & Co. in connection with their transactions with the State dis? pensary. He also expressed himself yesterday in strong terms concerning the criticism made of his house for sending Mr. C. W. Stancill, chairman of the Sumter county dispensary board, a case of "samples for per? sonal use," a present which he re? jected. He filed an affidavit with the dis? pensary comission yesterday concern? ing this-matter, in which he recites that the samples were^ shipped from Peoria to Mr. Stansill before he was appointed and therefore his firm would not be guilty of violating the law. He said that blacklisting his con? cern? and keeping them out of this State mattered little to him, they were not anyways anxious for the business. He said that Clark Bros. & Co. did an annual business of $8,000, 000 and was one of the most substan? tial houses in the country. "We have been perfectly innocent in this whole transaction," said Mr. Hull. "If there was anything wrong or irregular in this transaction it was not known at our end of the line." It is understood that Mr. Hull has had some spicy correspondence with Attorney General Lyon. The State made an effort last night to secure this correspondence from Mr. Hull, but the reporter was informed at the Colonial hotel, where he was stopping, that Mr. Hull was sick in bed. At? torney General Lyon had not returned j from Abbeville, where he was called i on personal business.-The State, I March 12. TWO SHIPS GO DOWN'. Thirty-Four Seamen Perish in North Sea Gale. Berlin, March -Two German steamships, the Wettern and the Joer gensen, have foundered during a gale on the North sea. All hands, num? bering 34 men, were drowned. ANSEL WARNS EXPRESS CO. Liquors Must Be Delivered to Con? signees, Whether They Will Be Seized or Not. Columbia, March 8.-As a result of the recent refusals by persons in Charleston to receive whiskey ship? ped them through the Southern Ex? press Company, knowing that it would be seized as soon as delivered, Gov. Ansel has written Mr. O. M. Sadler, superintendent of the South? ern Express Company, a letter in? forming him that the law must be observed. He writes as follows: March 6, 1907. O. M. Sadler, Express Superintend? ent, Charlotte, N. C. Dear Sir: Enclosed I send you a clipping in reference to certain li? quors that were shipped by express to certain persons or firms in Charleston and it seems were not delivered be? cause an officer was present ready to seize it. I would like to know wheth? er the liquor was not delivered, be? cause the consignee would not accept it or because the company's agent be? came aware that it would be seized when delivered. It is the duty of the express compa? ny, as I consider it, to edliver the goods and it should not matter to them whether it is seized or not, after delivery. Please investigate this matter at once and let me know the facts and oblige. Yours very truly, , ? M. F. Ansel, Governor. ROBBER KILLED AT COLUMBIA. Edgar Marshall, Son of Eminently Respectable Citizen, Holds Up Charlie B. Green, a Shandon Store? keeper, at Midnight, and is Shot to Death hy Green-Fire is Returned hy Marshall or a Confederate, and Green Falls Dead. Columbia, March 10.-An attempt to waylay and rob Charlie B. Green, a Shandon merchant, resulted in the death of Mr. Green and of the would be robber, who was identified as Ed ! gar Marshall, son of Mr. P. G. Mar? shall, an eminently respectable and ! highly respected citizen of Columbia. The robbery and double homicide took place within sight of Mr. Green's home, in the suburb of Shandon, shortly before midnight Saturday night. The bodies, lying feet to feet, were not found for several hours, and the affair has created a trmendous sensation in Columbia, as it is possi? ble that there was. another robber or robbers. The facts as brought out at the coroner's inquest and elsewhere today are as follows: i. Mr. Green ran the store on the Garner's -Ferry Road, in the pretty village of Shandon, about two miles from the city of Columbia proper. On Saturday night he locked up the store : and left in company with his clerk, J. B. Ward, who also lives in Shandon. They walked two blocks together along Woodrow street, and when they reached the corner of Woodrow I and Preston streets Mr. Green turned to his right to go to his home, one block down' on Preston street. When about half way of this block, just at the rear gate of his neighbor. Mr. Toney, he was accosted by a man in hiding and was probably struck across the head with a slung shot, the man being concealed behind the open gate. 'Green it is thought, was carrying his pistol in his hand, as that was his custom when going home late from the store, with money in his posses? sion. He evidently threw up his left arm to ward off the blow, and fired with the pistol in his right hand at very close range. Four chambers of his pistol were fired, and three of his shots took effect in Marshall's body. One entered just below the left col? lar bone, another entered his face just where the lips join, making, a flesh wound on the left side of the face, and the third entered at the back of the neck, on the left, also making a flesh wound. Green was also wounded three times, each of the three wounds being in his left breast and one of the balls probably piercing his ehart. The last shot was evidently fired after Green had fallen to his knees, and it is sup? posed that the first shot which struck him killed him. MILLIONAIRES INDICTED. New York Central Railway Officers Held Responsible for Wreck. New York, March S.-An indict? ment for thirteen muUi-milionaires, officers and directors of the New York Central railroad, held by the coroner to be responsible for the re? cent wr^ck. in which 23 lives were lost, will probably ge asked for next Monday when Assistant Attorney Slythe takes the case before the grand jury. SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION. The Thirtieth Annual Meeting to Be Held at Georgetown March 13th and 14th. Your paper has already announced the date and place for the Thirtieth (30) Annual Sunday School conven? tion, for which we are obliged. I wish now to accentuate the fact that .the programme is one of the best we have ever issued. Notable experts naving been engaged to present every phase of the modern Sunday school movement, from the cradle roll to the adult Bible class, inclusive. Rev. A. L Phillips, D. D., of Richmond, Va., widely known throughout the south, and Mr. W. C. Pearce of Chicago, Ul., highly es? teemed everywhere, are the two vis? itors who will speak and instruct sev? eral times during the two days ses? sion. .It will be worth while to travel hundreds of miles to sit at the feet of these experienced and consecrated teachers. Prof. Hand, of the South Carolina University, will speak twice on a vital topic, "Principles and Methods of Teaching," and no one is better fitted than he to handle this subject. There are others who will share in the at? tractive programme. It is therefore hoped that every superintendent who chances to read this letter will pre? sent the matter to his school next Sunday and endeavor by all means to secure representation ,which may be done by sending delegates. This con? vention will be held under the aus? pices of the great International As? sociation, which has done so much for thebetterment and enlargement of the Sunday schools of our country irrespective of creed. Its purpose is far-reaching; results heretofore have been gratifying. A warm welcome will be extended by the hospitable people of Georgetown. Date of convention March 13th- J 14th. The railroads have promised spe? cial rates. William E. Pelham, Chairman of Executive Committee. Newberry, S. C., March 7. PERKINS REFUNDS MONEY. Returns to New York Life $54,019.19 Contributed to Republican Cam? paign Fund. New York, March 7.-George W. Perkins, former vice president of the New York Life Insurance company and now a member of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., has sent to the New York Life his personal check for $54, 019.19 to reimburse the company for the Republican campaign fund con? tribution made from its funds in 1904 in connection with which Mr. Perkins was recently made defendant on a charge of larceny. Announcement of tne restitution of the principal of $48,500 and the interest to date was made today by President Alexander E. Orr of the New York Life, to whom Mr. Perkins yesterday, before leaving on a trip to the south, ad? dressed a letter inclosing the check. President Orr also gave out the letter. In it Mr. Perkins declares that in dis? missing the criminal proceedings against him the court intimated that the campaign contribution was not for a proper corporate purpose. He again asserts that he was acting upon a request of the then president of the New York Life when he advanced the money)for the campaign contribution in 1904, and says that when the then president of the company reimbursed him, there was no thought on the part of either of any personal ad? vantage, but a belief that they were "acting for the best and broadest in? terests of the policy holders, both ^at home and abroad." Washington Officials are Curious to Know if Perkins Will Be Reim? bursed. Washington, March 8.-Officials here are anxious to know whether the Republican national committee will reimburse George W. Perkins for the $54,019 he has just turned over to the New York Life Insurance compa? ny in restitution of the amount con? tributed to the ?Rpublican campaign fund in 1904. The committee is un? derstood to have over one hundred thousand dollars on hand. If the Republican national commit? tee were called upon to reimburse Perkins and also other defendants in the suits to recover insurance funds, it would be a big drain on the treas? ury. Three cadets were expelled from the Citadel Thursday for breaking garrison Monday night. The Crescent steam laundrj and Rice's grist mill were burned at Un? ion Thursday. Walter Dickey shot and seriously wouded Sully Buggs, at a negro frol [ ic in Manning Tuesday night. / Balling^Powder ABSOUJmX PURE DISTINCTIVELY A CREAM OF TARTAR BAKING POWDER it does not contain stn atom of phos? phate acid (which is the product of hones digested in sulphuric acid) or of alum (which is one-third sulphuric acid), un? healthful substances adopted for other ba* king powders because of their cheapnes?e SOUTH CAROLINA'S FINANCES. The Next Legislature Will Face a Deficit of About $184.020.54. To the Editor of the State: In my card which you kindly pub? lished some days ago in reference to the appropriations by the legislature at its recent session I wrote largely from memory. There is one item, which is not in the general appropriation bill, but which is really an appropriation, which was not included in the totals which I gave, and of course will in? crease the deficit to that extent. I refer to the legislative appropriation bill which caries $48,000 and which should be added to the totals in the general appropriation bill. The general appropriation bill, as it pased, carries a total appropriation of $1,423,465.54, to which should be added the $48,000 in the legislative appropriation bill, making a total for 1907 of $1,471,456.44. From ,**his should be taken the amount for com? pleting the State house, to be borrow? ed from the sinking fund, which is not payable out of the revenue for 1907, of $12,361, and a small appro? priation of $*75, to be paid out of the dispensan- fund, which will leave the total appropriations for the expenses of the government for this year^ at $1,459,020.54. The exact figures as estimated by the comptroller general of the reve? nue of the State for this year are put at $1,274,150, which would make che appropriations exceed the proba? ble revenue by $184,020.54. When I placed the deficit at from $100,000 to $125,000, which would face the next session of this legislature, I did not take into account the $48,000 in the legislative appropriation bill. As stated above the deficit will be apparently $184,020.54, which is about $30,000 more than my estimate when you count the $48,000 carried, in the legislative appropriation bill. In reaching that conclusion I estimat? ed that there would be several items in the general appropriation bill which would not all be used and would therefore be convered in the treasury at the close of this fiscal year. The figures given here are correct as taken from the bill as it finally passed the legislature. The deficit which will face the members at the next session will at least be sufficient to make those ex? travagantly inclined stop and con? sider. It is well to know just where we ? are at in the matter of the State ? finances and for that reason I write j this additional card and ask that you publish it so that the figures may be accurately and fully stated. E. H. Aull. Newberry, S. C., March 7, 1907. HAVEMEYER BUYS LAND. * Fuller and Timothy Tracts in Beau? fort County Sold to Sugar King for Game Preserve for $35,000. Beaufort, March 8.-Mr. H. O. Havemeyer, the sugar king, has just concluded the purchase of the two tracts of land at Sheldon Station on the line of the C. & W. C. railroad, formerly the property of the Fuller families; also the Timothy plantation, formerly the property of Col. Charles Hutson. The price paid was $35.000. The land will be converted into one continuous hunting preserve, to which it is well adapted. Mr. Havemeyer will erect a mag? nificent mansion on the estate for his hunting and sporting purposes. The way to convice a man is to make him think he is convincing you. I HEARST LEAVES DEMOCRACY. ' I Announces Independence League Will Act Alone. Albany, March 7.-William Ran? dolph Hearst read himself out of the Democratic Party here today. A meeting of all the Independent League leaders of the State was held at the Hotel Ten Eyck, and he again accepted its leadership. In the course of his speech he said: "I am happy that our league has continued to increase in strength. By first allying itself with the Republi? can Party and then with the Demo? cratic Party it has been able always to advance the principies of the league, and I feel sure that it has reached a point where it can now advance those principles independent? ly." Mr. Hearst's term as a Democratic Representative from the Eleventh New York District expired yesterday,, and he is nov/ free from all ties to that party. He especially invited his followers and the public to be vigi? lant in anticipation of next year's campaign. The Hearst men gathered \> dis? cuss legislation, and also to confer on ! a plan to nominate Independence League candidates for the Court of Appeals this year. All were anxious to hear what Mr. Hearst would have to say, and they cheered his utter? ances enthusiastically. Some of the leaders in their speeches told the league people that the other parties would probably split the nominations for the Appeals Court or each nominate through the State Committee. The League, they said, would nominate candidates with, whom the organization could seek support on a platform of protest against present conditions. One of the first things Mr. Hearst did was to call on Gov. Hughes.-, The former rivals talked beside the big desk in the executive chamber for nf? teen minutes. "ELIJAH" DOWDE DEAD.. The Famous Founder of Zion City Goes the Way of AU Flesh. Chicago, March 9.-Prophet Elijah Dowie died at 8 o'clock this morning;, In the past six years Dowie receive ed mililons in contributioneL He. maintained a private yacht, touredi the world and used more money than King Leopold. According to his en? emies he led a dual life of apostle and ' licentious voluptuary. When Dowie signed full power of attorney to Glenn * Voliva he "marked the beginning of" his downfall. Mrs. Jeannie Dowie 'joined Voliva and they were subse quently joined by Dowie's son" J?. Gladstone Dowie, to depose him. Dowie died at "Shiloh House," ap? parently in little pain. He was at? tended by three faithful followers, Judge Barnes. Freeman Halhnel, a servant and John Herschfield, a ne? gro. The burial will probably be at Shiloh Park, Zion City. , Tlie Founder of Zion City Will be Buried With Elaborate Ceremo* nies. Chicago, March ll.-Dowie's fu? neral will be held Thursday after? noon. Elaborae memorial services in? Shiloh Tabernacle were held today. The body will be interred in Lake Mound Cemetery in the center of Zion City, beside his daughtet .\isther, who died two years ago. Dave Gunter, white, aged 19, killed Jake Taylor, white, 20 years old, at Wareville, Greenwood County, . on Monday.