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HIM Ml MHKKS WOl l,l> II\VI
tiUlVKR AHHF.STF.h FOR
(ONTKMIT.
Irwdiitlnns t ailing for n Preliminary
Instigation Will be IVimml?
Matter Im Regarded Sufllclciitly
Gra\o for Notice.
Washington, April 20. ? Formal no?
pe wfll be taken tomorrow morning
f the assault upon Representative
Ims of Tennessee Friday by Chas 1?
lover, g Washington bank president,
dosen members of congress, includ
ig most of the T? ?* delegation,
onferred at the cupltol toda> and de
?rmlned that an attack upon a mein?
er on account of an utterance on the
gor of the Imuse was too grave ?
tatter to go unn?ai< .-d. kepresenta
vea Qarrett and Houston of Ten
?sssee were appointed a committee t<>
raft a resolution to he presented
hen the house convenes tomorrow.
It Is proposed to have the resolu
on provide for an investigation by a
?mmlttee of five to ascertain whether
te facts warrant the arrest of Mr.
los er on a ? b?rge of contempt of the
mac. Some of those in the confer
i ?#? wanted t?? order an Immediate
?rest, urging that the fact that Rep
sentatlve Sims was attacked while
l his way to the capitol to attend ?
salon of congress Justified drastic
?tlon but the counsels of those favor
g a preliminary Investigation pre
died. Speaker (Mark was consulted
to the method of procedure and he?
re th* resolution Is presented tnmor
?w it will lie discussed with other
? use lesders regardless of party.
In a published statement Mi\ Glover
m admitted he slapped Representa
ve Sims' face on account of the rep
sentatlve s reference to him in a
?eech on Ihsin? t legislation. This,
lose who have looked up the law and
recedents contend, constituted con
mpt of the house. Various prece
enta are cited. In 1870 one Patrick
."oods used a bludgeon on Represen
itive Porter and upon being haled
??fore the house was sent to the Dis
Ict Jail for thtte months. A case
egarded as nearly analogous to the
resent Incident was that of Samuel
louaton. who in 1M32 attacked Repre
?entattve wniiam Btanbsrry because
? ?f i sjicoi h In the house. HbuatOfl
was arrest id by the sergeant-at-arms.
MM in oustody fot n week and upon
being found guilty of contempt, was
pufdldv reprimanded by the ?pbkkbV.
Today's conference was held in the
'?tilt?s of the hones committee mi ap?
propriations ami those present were
llepresentutivc Fitzgerald of New
Y.?rk, Sherley of KentCUky, llardwiek
and Crisp ->t (leorgia. Pou ??f North
Carolina and Hull, (larrett, Houston,
M' Kellar, PyrilSS, Padgett and Austin
of Tennessee. All present expressed
the view that an act of contempt had
been committed ami the only differ?
ences were ss to procedure.
"The matter will he brought to the
attention of the house immediately
alter it convenes tomorrow," said
Messrs (Barrett and Houston, sub
commltteemen with whom the matter
was left at today's conference. "80
far as the personal indignity to Judge
Sims is concerned he has no disposi?
tion to take steps for redress hut the
house has and he is not being con?
sulted about the procedure in any
way "
It was suggested tonight that if
Mr. fJIOYOr actually should be taken
into custody pending disposition of the
proposed proceeding the way would be
opened for habeas corpus proceedings
and possibly a protracted contest in
the courts.
GETS VERDICT FOR $22,500.
Supremo Court Sustains i/ower Court's
Dccbdou in Cas*? of Strauss vs. A. C.
L.
The Supreme Court of South Car?
olina has announced its decision In
the case of Mordle A. Strauss vs. A.
C L railroad, sustaining the lower
court's verdict giving Mr. Strauss $22,
191 damages for injuries received
while In the employ of the defend?
ant company.
Mr. Strauss was injured while at?
tempting to board a train near Cres
ton, and as a result of his injuries was
laid up for a considerable time. Af?
ter his recovery he brought suit
against the company, and was award?
ed damages as abeve, but his case
went to the Supreme Court and he
was only last week notified that his
suit had been successful.
Blood Was Wrong
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results they obtained, from the use of this well-known medicine.
C A R D U I WWe
Mrs. Jane Callehan suffered from womanly trouble for
nearly ten years. In a letter from Whiteville, N. C, she
says: 441 was not able to do my own housework. My
stomach was weak, and my blood was wrong. I had back?
ache, and was very weak. I tried several doctors, but they
did me no good. I used Cardui for 3 or 4 months, and now
I am In the best health I have ever been. 1 can never praise
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Whether seriously sick, or simply weak, try Cardui
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Mr.
Land
Owner
The Biggest Problem in the South is Drainage.
IT PAYS TO FARM WITH DYNAMITE
Hat?* you been worrying a hoitt IlM drainage on your rann?
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Mill or clay hardpan and double rarni values, stumps or hoiihlcrs
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work to lie done.
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P. O. Box 166. Sumter. S. C.
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The Parr Shoals Hydro
Electric Development
Written for The Daily Item by Prot. A. C. Carson, of the University of S. C.
Through the courtesy of Mr. Ed?
win W. Robertson a party of Colum?
bian! recently enjoyed s day s outing
on Broad River, In company with Mr.
Robertson's classmates at Yale '85.
Parr Shoals Is about three miles above
Alston on the Southern Railway and
gets its name ft om a former owner of
a grist mm at that place. The coun?
ty surrounding the Shoals is tpyical
of the up-country, with its rolling
hills and short leaf pine, while here
and there a bold granite outcrop Is
sssn. It Is not, however, the country
around but the Shoals themselves that
interested US upon this trip. At the
Shoals is being developed an immense
hydro-electric plant which is to sup?
ply from 20,000 to 30,000 horse-pow
er for use in Columbia.
Last summer a contract of about
two and a half millions dollars was
given to the J. G. White Contracting
Company of New York for the purpose
of constructing a great dam across
Broad River at this point and for the
erc( tion of machinery and transmis?
sion circuits to Columbia, rp to No?
vember last, only preparatory work
hud been done. A complete town had
been erected, water works, sewerage,
electric lights had been Installed and
a beginning had been made in the
construction of tho COlfer dams across
one branch of the river. The river at
this point is divided by a sand is?
land Into on east ami a west branch
and Work was begun on the east
branch first.
With the completion of the coffer
dams across the east branch the
stream was entirely diverted from
that part and here Is where tbf-v arc :
now working. For the concrete they
require sand, crushed rock and ce- '>
ment. About a half mile above the
site of the dam they quarry the gran?
ite from the bottom of a branch of
the river, a seam of rock running
back into the hillside. A tramway
runs from the quarry to the crusher
and from thence to the mixer. Loads
of stone of various sizes up to two
feet in diameter are dumped into the
crusher which is run by a hundred-j
horse-power engine, and the hard ,
granite is mashed into small pieces as
easily as one would mash a soda
cracker in his lingers. From the crush?
er the rock is can led by bucket eleva?
tor to the sifter which is similar to the
bolting cloth of a flour mill, only this
rock sifter is of steel, and here the
rock is separated into coarse and line,
and all over two inches is dropped
back into a smaller crusher and brok?
en again. Dump ears run under the
rock bin and receive their loads of
crushed rock and convey them to the
concrete mixer.
The rock is dumped into pockets 1
and raised by elevator buckets about '
one hundred feet to large bins above
the two mixers. There Is also a bin
above the mixers for sand.
The island mentioned above ll
chlelly of sand and it is here that they
get the sand for the concrete. From
a tower on the island to another tower
on the shore there stretches a two inch
i*"el cable about one thousand feet
long. On the steel cable a runner
weighing two tons is pulled by small?
er wire ropes. A steel bucket holding
four cubic yards Of sand is rapidly
filled from a bin, in attached to the
runner, is pulled across the river and
is automatically dumped. While one
bucket is on its journey, a second is
filled und little time is lost in attach?
ing this upon the return of the car?
rier. A large steam shovel keeps the
bin on the island filled with sand. The
sand on shore is hauled to the mixer
in dump cars as needed.
The mixer structure is about as
high as the standpipe in Sumter and
is constructed of heavy round and
square timbers. On one side there is
a long warehouse which is idled full
with carload after carload of ce?
ment. Down the middle of this loimr
building and running to the mixers is
a twenty-four inch belt conveyor. A
workman in the warehouse puts
I sack after another on this conveyor
Which whisks it on several hundred
feel to the miser where it is quickly
opened and emptied and added to its
proportion of sand and rock. Every
few minutes the mixer disgorges its
charge of concrete Into dump cars
which are hurried on to the forms on
the side <?i the dam.
At the site <?f the dam there Is a
lotest of derricks. The granite has
been blasted way below the river bot?
tom In ol der to Ket a tu m founda<
Hon. Kork drills are pounding away
on every side drilling holes eight or
ten feet through the solid granite. The
winde surface Is covered by blue over
ulled laborers and great stones weigh?
ing tons are lifted high in the air
and then placed either in cms or on th<
soft concrete, a rattle of hammers is
heard where the carpenters are bulld
i
Ing the forma and everyone of the sun
laborers eeemi to be working up to
the limit. In fact looking Into that
cut and at that great dam one might
Imagine himself Indeed at Panama.
one section of the dam is complet?
ed, it Ig thirty-five feet high and is
to be topped with a ten foot Bteel
casement, They are now putting in
the Humes, two are already in place
and the foundation work will SOOn be
ready for the other eight.
When the plant is completed they
will have eight largo alternators gu?
ing 20,000 total horse-power and two
exciters. The transmission to Colum?
bia Is to he at sixty-six thousand
VoltS on a steel towered line costing
upwards of $160,000.
I One cannot help admiring the sys?
tem witli which everything is carried
on here. Everything is planned and
everything works in its place. Every
detail as to costs and hours of labor
is worked out. Every sanitary law is
rigidly inforced and inspectors who
inspect are right on the job.
There are so few of us in the State
who either know or realize what en?
ormous developments in hydro-elec?
tric power are being made right under
our noses so that this description
might serve to open our eyes. I take
from the men card the following
data. Average head 35 feet. Five
units each comprising a single Allls
Chalmerj turbine rated at II.GOO horse?
power and a 1,100 kllo-volt-ampere
40 cycle :i-phase generator; provision
in power house for '.) additional units.
Generation voltage 2,300 transformed
to 60,000. Total capacity when ful?
ly installed 20,000 delivered horse?
power.
1 take the liberty here of ref >rring
any reader to Mr. August Kohn's
work on the "Water Powers of South
Carolina" for information as to oth?
er and earlier development! in this
State.
RECEIVER FOR TIN DAL.
Wed K. Xorrls is Appointed by Judge
Bowman at Orange burg.
Orangeburg, April 17 ?Fred K.
Norrls has been appointed receiver of
the effects ami property of A. Jack
Tindal, who is said to be in parts un?
known. The return of Barclay Rush,
who, together with A. Jack Tindal
were supposed to be drowned in the
Bantee river, has caused the creditors
of A. Jack Tindal to push their claims
As a result of this a general complaint
has been drawn, mortgage creditors
made parties and foreclosures prayed
for.
An order has been made by Judge
I. W. Howman appointing Fred K.
Xorrls receiver of the estate of Tin?
dal. Mr. Norrls will conduct the farm
this year and try to realize all he can
therefrom. The farm lands will la' sold
this autumn.
Ill,AMI: AM) PltAIKH
Scores Brown for Culling (>U| Militia
and Commends Mica Me lor failure
to l>o So.
Augusta, da , April 1 7.? IU solu?
tions were passed by the Georgia Fed?
eration ot Labor this morning on two
governors?Bleaae of South Carolina
and Brown or Georgia. 'The former'!
action in refusing to call out tin
State militia during the strike on the
Interurban line of the Auguata-Aiken
Railway and ESlectric corporation? j
was endorsed and a telegram of
thanks was ordered sent to him. Gov.
Brown was denounced for calling out
the military in Augusta last fall dur?
ing the same strike when the city was
under martial law. The resolution
stated that the governor violated one
of the provisions of the United states
which gave freedom of speech and
freedom to the presa
A resolution denouncing the Demo
cratic party in Georgia for "ignoring
the state Federation of Lahor, its of?
ficials and all measures placed before
the same." was tabled. It was con?
tended that it would he unwise to
condemn the Democratic party when
legislation favorable to labor would
be requested of that party at the next
si'sison of the legislature
i A resolution in regard to Ty Cobb
and the alleged serfdom methods sf
organised baseball eras tabled on that
ground thai the question of Cohh and
his dispute was ma one In S/hlch or?
ganised labor was Interested, as an
effort ha<i been made i<? unionise ball
players and the players refused lo
organise.
Warm debating over the adoption
of resolutions disapproving of the Boy
Scout movement? protesting sgalnst
th.' diminution of the jurisdiction of
Judge Kurnry Speer of the Southeast?
ern district, southern division of tieor
Kis, and upon the passage of recom?
mendations contained in the report of
President s. k. Marks characterised
the afternoon session of the Qeorgla
Federation <>i Labor in convention
here.
Taking the view that the Boy Scout
movement was tin- training camp <?f
the militia, the majority went on rec?
ord as opposed t<> the movement.
Col. C. T. Laden, consul for the
federation, addressed the convention
at length upon the compensation and
employers' liability acts. He strong?
ly indorsed u compulsory education
act, which Is the sentiment of the con?
vention.
The trouble with New York's "< ur
few" law is that it hits too few of its
curs.?Philadelphia Inquirer.
Every
Officer
And
Employee
Of this bank wants to KNOW each de?
positor.
This way of KNOWING each other
means more than merely handing your de?
posit in at the Receiving Teller's Window,
it means SAFE BANKING and good fellow?
ship combined.
Your account and acquaintance invited.
The Bank of Sumter
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