The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, June 19, 1909, Image 1

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THE gl MTKIl WATCHMAN, Establi ; <n??]t(1ated Hug. 2.188 Cbf IKatfbman an? ?Soutbroii Published \\ ediieariay and Saturday ?BT? 08TEEH PUBLISHING COMPANY Sl'MTKH, S. C. Terms: ? i.BO per annum?la advance. Advertisements: One Squ*'e first Insertion.$1.00 ?very subsequent Insertion.60 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which sub genre private ir.terests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respects will be charge 1 for. MUID* US IN AitKEX. Three Men Slaughtered 'n T1ilrty-sl\ Hoars ami Another Mortally Wour tied. Alken. June 14.?Alken County has efl*aMiahed a new record for homi? cides. Within 36 hours three negroes hev- been killed In this ounty. all in different plsces. and no connection between them, and ona has been mor tal'y wounded. The officers are being kept on the move. One has been placed In jail, and constables are scouring the country for the others. The first of the four occurred Sat? urday afternoon near Wagener. Bill Gunter, colored, killed Major Ounter. also colored, shooting him with a pistol. It Is said Major Ounter was trying to shoot Hill Ounter. when the hatter shot him. It Is said the parties were drinking. The negro was kilted tn front of a hou?e near Wagener. Bill Ounter la Mid to have killed another negro about four years ago and was acquitted. It was not learned today whether or not the nea-o had been arrested. At galley yesterday morning a little negro boy. named Isaiah Hair, shot and Instantly killed * negro name 1 Will Attaherry. who Is said to have been In bed. and Hair shot him with m ehotgun before he got up. literally , ghootlng his face off. It is said that H Attaberry gave tne boy some com ?f/fmA* ttWM nl? ** he didn't do ?^MeOgUttL fetm/' whereupon the MHnrlPwfSa *o We ?4lWwfva< , Ig'inedJauiy got a shotgun and fired at him. killing him at once. The boy was brought to the Jail this morning by Dr. Salley Attaberry was a grown man and Hair a little boy. This morning Sheriff Rabon reectved I a telephone message informing him thst Marsh Watson had killed a negro at McXamce's kaolin mine near Bath. *ho*e name could not be learned. Constable Busbee left st once to cap? ture the neuro No particular! of th'.s killing could be let.rned. Sunday morning at Jones' Cross Road, tn Mi'Tier township, a negro named Mitchell wss shot and mortally wounded by another negro named Lendy. The shooting occurred at a negro church near that place, and none of the particulars can be learn? ed. DIL D. Is. WIOOINS DEAD. He Ma* Vier Chancellor of the TJnl trn It y of the South. Sewsnee. Tenn., June 14.?Dr. Ben? jamin Lawtf n Wiggins, vice chancel? lor of the t'nlverslty of the South, died at 5 o'clock this afternoon of heart tr<>uld?. He had been connect? ed with the university practically all of his Ufa. The announcement of Chancellor Wiggins' dea' h will come as a shock to hundreds of friends In this State, of which he was a native. He Wgi born at tntnt Uidge. In Colleton Conn* ty. Sept. 11. 1861. and was the son of Jamee and Kllsabeth H. Wiggins. The family Is htrgg and Influential In the southern part of the State. Chancellor Wiggins was educate 1 at the Porter Military Academy an 1 if the I altefgltl "f the South. He also did post-graduate work at John lb pkli.s In 1 ??5 he represented the Cniver slty of the South at the <vnteunlal of the ITflveisity of South Carolina In this cl .y snd delivered an addrt ss The university conferred the degree of LA. D. upon him. Ho was the re? cipient of tn.it and of other degrees from \irlous ..tber colleges and was a member >f several societies of aahol? ars In the t'nlted States. One year ago he delivered the ba<acalnureate address at the College <?f Ch irlest<<n A6 flewanee he held the chair of Oieek. to which he was elected m 1112. and In 1^95 was elected vice chancellor, an office carrying with It the active administration of the uni? versity affairs. He married in 1886 Miss Clara Quintard. Dr. Wiggins was a scholar of rare attainment and an Incisive and at? tractive speaker. shftl April, 1850. 'lie Just an 1. 81 RAILROAD ASSESSORS MEET. TAXES ON PUBLIC CORPORATION PROPERLY FIXED. Few Change* Made In Last Year s AsseMMiiioiitH ? Alkeu-Augusta and the Greenville Traction Lines the Only Ones that are Taxed hy the State Board. Columbia. June 14.?The State board of railroad assessors m?t today and passed on the various returns sub? mitted, it being decided to call anoth? er meeting on June 29 to make de? finite assessments. It was decided at the meeting to make the assements on the same basis as the year previous, that is, on 60 per cent- valuation. All extensions made will also be on that basis. There has been an increase in mileage of about thirty miles. The n turns* of the telephone company and the Southern Express Company were also along the same basis. The State board of assessors will meet Thursday to consider the assess? ment on other property. Mr. P. H. Gadsden, of Charleston, Is the chair? man, and the various textile and other manufacturerlng concerns will be passed upon. All of the street railways or electric lines of the State are assessed by the county boards with the exception of the Augusta-Aiken line and the Green? ville Traction Company, these two roads being chartered as railroads, and are consequently assessed by the State board. There is no State law by which the State board can assess tho electric roads. Comptroller Gen? eral Jones has repeatedly called the fact to the attention of the Legisla? ture, but no action has ever been ta ken. One of the State officials In speak? ing of the electric roads today stated that they were assessed at a very low rate, as compared with other corpora? tions. SALES AT DISPENSARIES. Interesting Figure* Submitted by Au? ditor West. .Columbia. June IS.?Dispensary itiAtteV Weit has completed his ie pert for the month of May, showing the breakage, total sales and expenses for the dispensaries in the 21 counties of the State. The total sales for May amounted to $239.304.17, the break? age to $1.094.63 and the expenses to $15.647.66. In sales Charleston lead Columbia by about $7,000, the total for Charleston being $46,886.76 against $39,516.65. These are the two largest In the State. Sumter is third ?v!th $14.071.40. The figures are as follows: Break- Expen Sales. age. ses. 10.118.6S S7.05 345.99 16.191.37 134.70 1,194.81 11.339.47 113.70 781.93 5.913.93 38.06 343.86 4,377.38 20.11 396.30 9.935.10 36.60 995.46 6.265.00 21.40 ' 408.15 3.873.37 20.24 231.99 46.886.76 37.91- 2.989.46 4.310.95 27.85 316.58 5.437.58 46.57 241.52 12,183.87 75.25 580.09 Abbeville Alken Barnwell Bamberg Berkeley Beaufort Colleton Cnlhoun Charleston EX ? ehester Fairfleld Florence George? town Hampton Kershaw Lee I>xlngton Orange burg Klehland Si-mter Wllliam* bun 8,501.80 3,064.50 8.062.54 6.011.50 6.455.22 18.30 7.30 50.40 49.34 10.40 12.717.43 51.36 39.516.65 238.30 1 1.071.40 33.95 6.069.00 20.SO 382.09 111.71 3 2 r..-? 413.78 730.13 570.2 1 2.533.78 ?11.51 540.70 $239.304.17 $ 1.004.*?3 *1I 7..,.; SHOOTING A F Fit AY BOHO. IN MARL OM Ncijrn Killed und Another Se\ ercly Wounded. innotti\ in?-. June 11. - i-i i ? hoot< Iftg Mrai"' in the iippe:- \> ir; ,.i Mi - < "unty potttrflby in<?rnlng, Band? I'urvlM wan killed and GtOTgt Robln tot \\.?un<l?d in several pltCfS, Tht ii -mlelde occurred Sunday morning il out 9 o'clock, and CorOfief IfcCtJI be HI an mOJWOtfl yesterday afternoon, but none of the parthnia.? \ver? kaowt bort until this morning owing to the fart that the e<>iomi li-l n<-t act bark to Innnettsvllle until lit. last nlaht. Qtorft Robinson is in Jmtl with iun? shot irounds, small sh<-t In his right eye, breast, arm and stomach. II" has one wound on his left bOOt, which teems to have been caused hy a pit? tol. S?-ven gambling houses in Chariot* ton were raided by th?- pollCt e.f that city Tuesday. d Fear not-Wxst all the ends Thou Aln iMTER. S. C SAlU MRS. QLEYELAXD TESTIFIES. I -I SAYS HUSBAND NEVER SIGNED BRANDENBURG LETTER. ' I Former President's Wife, Clad In Deep Mourning, Takes Witness Stand In Case Against Writer Who Sold to the New York Times a Let? ter Praising Taft and Purporting to Have Been Written by Her Disting? uished Husband?Article Printed Last August. New York, June 15.?Mrs. Frances Folsom Cleveland appeared in public today for the first time since her hus? band's death to testify for the prose? cution In the case of Broughton Bran? denburg, a ^magazine writer, who is charged with selling the New York Times a political article purporting to have been written by former Presi? dent Grover Cleveland. Mrs. Cleveland was dressed in deep mourning, but was self-possessed, though pale, while on the stand. She declared emphatically that the signa? ture to the article in question was not that of her husband. Also she point? ed out the difference between the gen? uine Cleveland signature as it appear? ed on several checks which were handed to her. The former president wrote with a very unsteady hand during the latter years of his life, the ' witness said, j whereas, the name signed to the j Brandenburg article was written, in a comparatively bold legible hand, more like that of Mr. Cleveland during his younger days in the White House. When Mrs. Cleveland entered the Court room Justice Fitzgerald, As? sistant District Attorney Nott and the other Court officials arose and bowed low as a mark of respect. A large crowd gathered to hear the testimony of the former "First Lady of the Land." Mrs. Cleveland told about meeting John G. Carlisle and F. S. Hastings, an executor of her husband's estate, in this city, and discussing the article which appeared in the New York Times August 30, 1908, over Mr. Cleveland's signature. "Did you hear Mr. Hastings say that the signature was genuine?" asked Samuel Bell Thomas, counsel for the defendant. "No," answered Mrs. Cleveland, "I did not hear him say one word or the other at the time." "Did you authorize him to say it was genuine?" asked the lawyer. "No, I did not," said the witness emphatically. "Did you send a telegram to the New York Times, in regard to this ar? ticle?" asked Mr. Thomas. The witness said she did and she produced the telegram. ? Mrs. Cleveland said she authorized Mr. Hastings to write the Times and say that they questioned the authenti? city of the signature to the article. Mrs. Cleveland said she had received a letter, and only one from Mr. Bran? denburg, In regasd to the article, early in August. 1808. She could not re? member of ever talking with the de? fendant over the telephone In uegard to the matter. "Did you read the statement Itself when It appeared in the Times?" ask? ed Mr. Thomas. "Oh. yes; I read it very carefully," Mrs. Cleveland replied. Mr. Nott related the incidents lead? ing up to the publication of the let? ter. He said that the State would ?how that Brandenburg waited until Mr. Cleveland died before he attempt? ed to sell the article purporting to have been signed by Mr. Cleveland. on redirect examination Mr. Nott asked the fitness if she had authori? zed Mr. Hastings to write the New York Times, and say that the signa? ture on the disputed article was gen? uine. She said she had not. Mrs. Cleveland was then axouted. C, M. Lincoln, Sunday editor of the New York Times, testified thai he had received the "Grover Cleveland'' ar? ticle from Brandenburg about a wan k befOlf it was published* August 80, 1608, Brandenburg had ieen him and talkt d with him about the article :? few days l>t:<.re ihat. Brandenburg, th? wltneaa raid, I old him it was one of three Mr. Cleveland had promised him to write early in the year bearing upon the campaign, but that sickness bad prevented Mr. Cleveland from writing more than one ankle. Court adjourned until Thursday morning, Dr. Byers Glees iphmI. I Columbia, June 14, I >r. W. \. Byeri was released from jail this af? ternoon after fwntahhlng $8,600 bond, Tin- following went on th< bond, each furnishing 6600: J, B. Harlot, i: Leon shall. Howard ? aid well, w. A. Heath, C, J. Poet Dr. Byera was released at 5 o'clock. is't at be thy Country'.!, Thy God's an RDAY. JUNE 19, 19( DISPENSARY INVESTIGATION. Till: LAN AHAM CASK IS STILL HANGING ItRB. Representatives of That Firm Order ed to Produce Books and Records? The Wilson Distilling Company Case* Discussed But Commission Not Satisfied With the Showing. Columbia, June 16.?The dispen? sary . investigation proceeded with some degree of celerity yesterday, al? though the end of the hearings is not yet in sight. The commission in exe? cutive session decided that a demand I would be made on all banks in the j Slate for interest on the funds de? posited. There has been a rumor to the effect that the banks would offer to oppose the paying of interest, al? though they have had the u a of this money for nearly 16 months. The commission will get the interest or confiscate the collateral, which is double the amount of the deposits. Another important action yesterday was the settlement with Mr. Duncan C. Ray on a claim which he carried into the Federal courts as a friendly suit. The commission is very grate? ful for the valuable and valued ser? vice rendered by Mr. Ray. The interminable Lanahan case bobed up again yesterday and the commission went on 'record in no un? certain terms. This firm must com? ply with the mandate of the commis? sion with reference to the production o- books of record. The commission was very emphatic about this. I The commission of course does not I wish to get and make public any of I flee formula with which a popular I brand of pure whiskey can be pro I duced, but it does wish to find out I what was in the bulk goods sent to I South Carolina. These transactions I are not recorded on the books put in I evidence and as Lanahan has been I proved to have paid graft to Alabama j dispensaries and to have sold a cheap I compound liquor under dissembling I labels, the commission is really anxl 1 ous to know what kind of a scheme I he had for the South Carolina trade. J An order was passed that this book I must be placed In evidence or steps I would'be taken to havo Lanahan ex I tradited and compelled to tell some I thing about this. When here he I promised to send down a man called I Cullins, who had charge of that part I of the work, but he appears to have I forgot his promise. Col. Felder and I Mr. W. A. Clark,, the local attorney I for Lanahan, had several sharp pas I sages yesterday, but the commission I passed favorably upon Col. Felder's I request. Mr. T. Moultrie Mordecai, a Char I leston lawyer who is Jim Farnum's I attorney and fought the commission I in every way he could before the Fed I eral courts, appeared yesterday with a I great show of having complied with I the commission's mandate to have I here the books showing the commis I sions paid to South Carolina agents of I the Wilson Distilling Company. How I ever, Col. Felder challenged this as I not being given in fairness and in ean I dor. He declared that he had evi I dence to prove that the Wilson Dis I tilling Company had paid $2 a case I rebates in this State whereas Mr. j Mordecai's claim showed only $1.50 J admitted. The commission ruled that I Mr. Mordecai had not complied with I its order to submit books and records I nnd the claim was held up until Mor I deeal would write to the house and I ascertain if they would allow their books to come down here. Col. Feld j er asked Mr. Mordecai if he had not I bought the Wilson claim and if the I company Itself were not out or the I case entirely now, but an earnest do I nlal was entered by Mr. Mordeeai. Mr. Mordecai had three other j claims, but he abandoned these at I once alter his Wilson claim fell down. He had the claims of H. A H. w. ca I therwood, Cook A Bernhelmer an I I Gallagher A Burton. These aggregate leu about $10|000, Jim Farnum re] ? J resented Gallagher A Burton and I Jack Cranston represented Ccther wood. But the Augusta attorney who had Jack Cranston*! claim uot ohtsel out of the Catherwod busln ss In some manner. Two weeks ago when asked whom he represented Mordecai gave the names of the lour Arms above mentioned, yesterday heaban? doned the case of the three lust nam? ed. At the afternoon s. talon he ap? peared and tried to explain that he had not abandoned them, but the commission has reoordt which it will rely upon. Camden, June 16.?Bel ton Qoff, b Well known young white man. 22 years of age and unmarried, whose he me was about seven miles from Camden. WM killed this evening by lightning. He was going from his barn to the house when struck. d Truth's/' TI1E TRU )9 New Sei TILLKAN'S VOTE OH IRON ORE. SENATOR EXPLAINS WHY HE VOTED FOR TARIFF OX IT. Suys the Duty Will Not Make I Vice of Ma mi l actured l>rotluct Higher. Washington, June 16.?Senator Tlllman has given out the following letter of inquiry about his vote for a tariff on iron ore and his reply: Williston, S. C, May 27, 1909. Senator B. R. Tillman, Washington. D. C. Dear Senator:?Having always been a "Tillmanite" at the ballot box, I am emboldened to ask if you have ever I stated your reasons for voting for a duty on iron ore, and if such state mint is in print that you will send it to me. I am curious to know why. Yours truly, W. C. Smith. Dr. W. C. Smith, Williston, S. C. My Dear Friend:?Your letter of May 27 has remained unanswered simply because I have been over? whelmed with work here, and have spent several days in South Carolina, looking after matters at Clemson, and lost one day as I returned by reason of a railroad wreck. I have never printed anything about my vote on iron ore, and will very gladly give you an explanation direct. I notice that my old enemies are making a great howl about my votes up here, while many others who have not been enemies are yelp? ing in chorus, simply because they are ignorant of conditions. The trouble with many editors in South Carolina is they take and read the Associated Press dispatches, which are colored in behalf of the Republican party, and are garbled and condensed and give no adequate conception of things as they really happen. The facts In regard to Iron ore are simply these: There Is overwhelming evidence that there are no independ? ent steel or iron producers. The steel trust has absolute control and enjoys a monopoly of the Iron and steel busi? ness in this country. The so-called in? dependent concerns arc dominated and controled by It, though not all owned by it. The steel trust fixes prices and the others conform. There are Immense, well-nigh inex? haustible deposits of iron ore In Mich? igan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, and the steel trust controls immense de? posits in these States. It also controls or some of its subsidiary companies do, large deposits in Cuba. It was brought out in the debate that sonu of the eastern companies have con? tracts with the Cuban mine owners tc import not less than a million tons a year of Cuban ore, and I do not think it worth while to let this come in free when it would make no difference whatever to the consumers of iror and steel as to the price we would pa> for these articles. I believe that the American producer of iron and stee! (that is. the steel trust mainly) car compete with England. Germany and France in the markets of the world and that the whole scheme of protec? tion of manufactured steel Is a bare? faced robbery of the American peo? ple. No one but an idiot will contend that the duty on iron ore will increase the price of anything manufacture'! of iron to the American consumer. II we could reduce the tariff on manu? factured iron we could get cheaper prices, but under existing circum? stances the tai iff h\w bars out the I European competitor, w ho is alreadi handicapped by having the ocean i eights to pay, and our people are charged the cost of production in Eu? rope, plus the freight, plu* the tariff, and this is the source of Carnegie's millions. Assuring you of my high apprecia? tion Of your friendship in the past and hoping to continue to merit your confidence and support, i am Slcerely yours. B, R. Ti ULM \N. I MORSE RELEASED ON BAIL. Cleveland Banker and Promoter Wins Ills Long Struggle for Temporal-} Liberty. Si w York. June 16.?Charlea \v. Morse, the former banker and promo? ter of huge enterprises, today won hta i<?ng liuht for release from prison on ball. He was immediately released by order of the United states circuit Ccurt after bonds signed by 25 of his friends giving |1S6,000 in securities were tendered to the court. Morse's appeal for a new trial is rtil) pending, the court today reserv? ing decision on that point. The Cottonseed Crushers' Associa? tion of South Carolina la In session in Charleston. E SOVTHKOX, Established Juof, IHM ries?Vol. XXIX. No U Um SPECIAL MESSAGE. C o X s 11 > E ri: i >'of GREAT impor TAM E [M TARIFF PROBLEM. President's Communication on Qgypa* ratioiiH and Income Tax <;oe?s to Fi nance Com mit tee. Washington, June 16.?The message of President Taft recommending the incorporation of a provision in the tariff bill for the taxation of the earn? ings of corporations and the adoption; of a resolution looking to an amenti ment of the constitution so as to per? mit the levying of an income lax wlth-r out interference of the courts, which: was received by the senate today* was generally regarded by senators as of such transcendent importance as to place in the shade all questions pertaining strictly to the schedules of the tariff bill. The message was readi early in the afternoon and after brieC discussion on the method of proceed? ing was referred to the committee or* finance. Senator Root occupied the chaii*-** .vlien one of the president's secre? taries appeared with the message irv hand, bu* owing/ to the fact that Sen? ator Burton was at the time engaged in making a speech the presentation^ of the message was delayed for some? time. When Mr. Burton concluded* but not until after Mr. Heyburn had addressed the chair to proceed with the discussion of the tariff bill, the message was read. There was a full senate present and the document was accorded the most careful attention from all senators. Senator Gore attempted to have the committee instructed to report on tho income tax feature of the measure by next Friday when under general agreement the income tax question is again to be taken for the consider? ation. His motion was, however, vot? ed down and for the first time In many weeks the division was strictly along party lines, all Republicans vot? ing to lay on the table, while all the Democrats cast their votes agaii that proposition. During the informal discussion ? the reference of the message Seal Bailey gave notice that be would mand that provision be made fpr a graduation of any income tax that might be povided for and intimated that much time would be necessary to get through a provision which dirt not comply with that qua!ideation". After considerable debate the sen? ate adopted finance commit1 ee's rec? ommendation regarding yie admis? sion of Philippine products, but not until after two or three amendments had been voted down. Senator Foster of Louisiana occupied the early hours of the day with a speech opposing the* free admission of any Philippine sug? ar into the United States. He tookr the position that with the encourage? ment that would be given by allowing 300,000 tons of the Philippine product to come in free of duty, the produc? tion in the islands would be so rapid? ly increased that it wouM soon ex? ceed the quantity named. During the afternoon Senator Aid rich presented the finance commit? tee's substitute for the house zinc schedule and it received a major por tion of the attention of the senate during the afternoon. The committee amendment provided for a graduated SCftle of duty on the zinc in zinc or? ittj 4 place of the fixed rate of the bOOW bill. Senator Birton spoke against any duty on zinc ore. while Senator Hey? bern, Gugger In Im and others adv o? cated even a stiffer rate than was proposed by the committee. All of the .Inance committe. 's rec? ommendations in the zinc schedule ultimately were agreed to. and the paragraph as amended was finally ad? justed. The committee suggestion for change* in the silk schedule was also? adopted. A Dumber of other ooantnib? tee amendment! ef minor charnctet* were present" I just I ? fore adjourn? ment and tome of them wert acton* upon. At 7:05 the senate adjourne i until 10 o'clock tomorrow. negroes I'll) \ T COXFE8N Waltsrboro, June is.? The two no ur.?s, Samuels and Simmons, w ho wire lynched near Bmoak's on Friday night, for the murder of Mr. Ben Smoak on May gS, did not confess their guilt. It is certain, however, that they are the guilty parties. Deputy Sheriff Buekner reache*! smoak's at daybreak yesterday. Ho could And out nothing at all as to> who composed the mob which lynch? ed the negroes. The mob is now UtmM to have consisted of about 250 men. many of whom were fr on OmngebUlg and Bamberg counties. as well o? fiom Colleton.