Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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atchmon mb ontljron. THE 8VMTFR WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850. Consolidated Aur. 3,1881. 'TU* Just und Four not?Ixit ull tlic ends Thou Aims't at be thy Country , Thy God's and Troth's." THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established June. lHt;?. SUMTER, S. 0., SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1913. Vol. XXXVI. No. 20. AN ?0,000 UND DEAL PROBABLY LA1U.EST LAND DEAL KVKK M\DE IN St'MTER WIIKN HOLDINGS OF II. J. II Ali BY OS LIBERTY ST HE FT WF.HK Fl Bill ASF D BY \\ O. MOSES AND P, MOSES. SVven >>(,.?,-. hut Warehouse*. Two OSVr* and .%??!? ?? < hange Hands by Big; Heal I -u? t<? Real?Property Extends Along Liberty Street from Btmles Drug Store to the Misses WUaeV Millinery Establishment? New Owner* Will Improve Their Property. What Is probably ihe largest real estate deal ever made in Humter was closed Wednesday, when the hold? ings of H J. Harby on Liberty Street were purchased by Messrs. W. G. Moses and P. Moses, Jr., for eighty thousand dollars The property which changed hands Includes seven stores, three ware? houses, two offices and the stables now occupied by the King-Blending Live Stock Company. The property ex? tends from Birnle s Drug store to the store occupied by the Misses Wllkes' millinery establishment, save for a space of thirty feet, which in owned by Mr. C. O. Rowland and oh which two small stores are situated. The lot extends for a distance of 170 feet on Liberty Street and Is 200 feet deep. Although the transaction was not consummated until Wednesday morn ins;. already the new owners of the property have been offered a sale of the property at a profit, which they declined to take. Mr. Perry Moses, In speaking of the matter Wednesday morning, stated that be thought that this was the larg? est real estate deal which had ever bssa pulled off In Humter. The people bars Wf' beginning to reullse proper? ty VftlrteM in real cstete. Heretofore real estate las been selling below Us real value, but now owners realste the vales of good real estate and are s*V Irtf corresponding prices for It. Mr Moses stated that the new own ?fa of the property would Improve It. this being necessary on account of the Improvements which made re? cently on Liberty Street, where a num? ber of handsome new stores had been built. They would endeavor to make this more of a business street, and move along this line having already been commenced, as was seen by the fact that all of the stores which had been built there were occupied. The buildings included in the list which changed owners are those SS> cupled by Harby & Company's office. Oeo. !\ Shore m Company's office. H. c Cuttlno's office. J. It. Mercer's fur? niture store. King-Rlanding Live Stock company Stahles. T. M. Bradley Elec? tric Company. Smith's Oarage, and Forshee dt Company. In the rear of Harby snd Company's office are the Cotton Exchange and Magistrate H. L, B. WelK office and three ware? houses, all occupied. Sumtei real estate has been un? usually active of iste. this big deal cominr: as a culmination of many smaller deals, or, as tho fore runner o' more large land deals about to take p ace. Property values in real estate ar# gradually going up. due to the ac? tively of real estate dealers, a sign prosperous and growing town, always Indicative of a normally pro \ BIO REAL ESTATE DEAL. TramdYr of L. W. Jenkins Propcrty on North Main Street, A real estate deal of considerable Interest be< aus?- of the larse amount of money involved was that consum mated several days ago, when the I. W. Jenkins propeitv on North Main Street was sold to Messrs R B Bel ?er. D I?. Molse. It. D Epps. I?. R. .v< < allum. Jr. and J. L. McCallurn for U.>. 'rhe pt op, t ty Ii is a frontage on Main gtresi of seventy?sevea feet lag tn< he*, ^taking a total of practically $2.', 7 a front foot. The proper? ly varies in depth Fifty-five feet *tt*ndH to n depth of 12? feet, while tarenty-two fsst leg im gSS extends to a depth of only foriy-slx fast I or MIh*? Burton. Miss Emma Baker was the hoste Tuesday afternoon at an Am lion Phi IV in honor of Miss Katheiiro- Bui ton of Baltimore, who is the charming go*?t of MiSS KVS Kinsman HISS Ams Hfc^tsrdAon won the nrwt prbie snd w?s pre**nt?Hl a handsome deck of card*. MIm Burton wan presented ih#* guest pnxe, a beautiful sistars. Dellsbtful refreshments were serv ed after several bunds of auction bad been placed. _. _ i. . ? . SAW MILL PLANT DESTROYED. pfn\-simti:r m miu:h CO., St IN? fers loss of $10,000 BY HU Tt'f.sray evex DfQt Fire Originated Between Engine Room imkI Mill, Cause I'likiiowit?Whole Building ?? Muss or Flames Winn FlrnuMt Reached Scene?Other Parts of Milt Saved. The Penn-Sumter Lumber Company suffered a loss estimated at $10,000 Tuesday evening when a lire, originat? ing between the engine room and the mill, broke out and practically wiped 0Ht the saw mill plunt. The lire start? ed about G.36 p. m. and an hour later there was nothing left save the blackened and charred timbers on the ground floor. Every bit of the machinery in the building wan utterly ruined. Mr. H. W, Wister, the president of the company, stated Wednesday morn? ing that it was impossible to say at this time what the company would do. He could not way whether the plant would be rebuilt, until a meeting of the directors could be held. The ac? tual loss in machinery and building was covered by Insurance, but this in no way could make up for the losa which would be entailed by the shutting down of the plant which would follow until it was de? cided whether the mill would be re? placed. The Penn-Sumter Lumber Com? pany is owned by Pennsylvania capl Italists. Mr. K. W. Wtster is presi? dent and Mr. Jacob Elsenberg is the manager of the company. The plant was purchased something over a year ago, from Messrs. H. J. Mc Laurin, Jr., J. W. Jackson and other Sumter men. The building was dry and the fire spread very rapidly. When the alarm wos turned In the whole plant was a mass of tlames and by the time the huso wagons arrived, althuugh they responded promptly to the alarm it was impossible to save any part of the saw mill, and their whole efforts were turned towards preventing the fire from spreading. This they suc? cessfully did. The pinning mills, dry kilns, and piles of lumber were all saved, although the tlremen would have had a- hard time in saving these had the wind shifted the other way. As It was luckily the wind was blowing from the north and blow? ing away from the other parts of plant. Had it been blowing from the south, with the start the tire secured, it is possible that the whole plant would have been wiped out and the tire spread to other buildings, as fat as the passenger station. The heat was most Intense and there was only one good stream of water to combat the Are. This was through the steam? er, the other streams being too weak to throw water more than twenty feet. The lire attracted a very large crowd who stood around and saw the mill burn to the ground, being l?owerless to do anything to stop the Humes. GERMANY ARMY 800,000 MEN. Kaiser's Pcu<*c Fork's Increased Ap? proximately 1?H.O00. Berlin. April 29.?The bill in< reus? ing the peace footing of the army by approximately 16K.O00 men and bring? ing the total up to ftbOUt lOf.OOO ex? cluding officers, was voted today by the committoe of the Imperial Parlia? ment, after den \dn Heeringen, tin war minister, had convinced the mem? ber! that the necessary number of recruits was available. HI N OVER BY AUTOMOBILE. lagggg Augusta Lady Has Skull Frac? tured and May Hie. Augsut.i , April L'H.J-Miss Ernes tinc Batey, i:? yean ol sge, lies In ?? local hospital with a fract ured skull as the result of being knocked down bv an automoblls at 12th and Broad streets last night. The physicians sav she cannot recover, The young lady wus returning home from a visit and w as pushing a i> ihy carrlags contain? ing her bab) sister when the get Ident occurred Mrs W. K. Hagler, wife of a prom? inent brick manufacturer, was driv? ing n touring cur containing 8 nutn bei of laiiy friends and in tie efTori U SVold running over a bo) on a Megiat, ran the car tut? Mims Bate Mud has Mttts sHt?-r Tti. Parsau i n 1 demolished, hut the baby, beyond a few slight brulssa was not hurt Miss Batcv, however, was knocked down ami rug over und has been sncon? st sang tvet sines I he geeident, COURTS ORDER SOUTHERN PA? CIFIC TO VACATE PUBLIC LAM). More Than Two Million Acre? of Land. Worth lVrhaps $?0,000,000 Must He Returned to the Fehlern I Government ? Railroad Obtained Possession of Land Illegally und Has Been Slllng it at High Prices. Portland, Ore., April 29.?Land Htipuated to the worth of $:i0,00<\00c and estimated by experts to have a value of $40,000,000 to $?0,000,000 today was ordered taken from the Southern Pacific Railroad company and returned to the federal govern? ment by Judge C. K. Wolverton, in the United States court. The Oregon-California land grant ?case, involving more than 2,300,000 acres., will be carried to the circuit court of appeals, at San Francisco, and later to the United States su? preme court for Anal adjudication. The case was submitted today with? out argument after an agreement of counsel out of court. This case was instituted in 1908. Early in the history of the case A. W. Lafferty Aled about GO private suits for men induced to locate on the lands. The main case, demanding for? feiture of 2,200,000 acres remaining unsold, then was filed. In the decree authorized today; the I^afferty and till other cases were or? dered dismissed and the government's main contention for forfeiture was declared Hie final verdict of the lower court. A total of 8 20,000 acres of the land has been sold, some of it as high as $40 an acre. In regard to the Union Trust com? pany's intervention, for which J. M. Qearin appeared today, the court ruled that the trust company, owning $17,onu,000 of mortgage bonds on the land and property of the Oregon and California system, could not in bejpoae^tbe pica, of an innocent pur? chaser. KILLED BY GANGSTERS. "Jerry the Lunohinan ' Was Thought to Have squealed and Shot by Gang. New York, April 29.?Suspected of "squealing" to the district attorney, Jerry Ma Ida, known as "Jerry the Lunchman," met his death on Forty first street near Broadway early to? day. He was shot down by gang? sters who sent bullets into his body. The shooting occurred only a cou? ple of blocks away from the scene of the murder of Herman Hosenthal last July, but the gunmen had less luck than the Hosenthal murder crew. Five policemen who were in the Immediate vicinity heard the shots and pounced upon five men whom they accused of the killing. The police allege that the men caught are members of the Paul Kel? ly band of gangsters, of which Jerry was an adherent. They say that Jer? ry had recently fallen under suspicion, however, and that he was thought to be revallng the gang's sercrets to the district attorney. None of the men Caught wen* armed, but witnesses said they had seen them throw revolvers away and three of the guns were found in a garbage can nearbly. The police say that'Guinea Sam." one of the prisoners, was under arrest two years ago in connection with the mur? der of another member of the gang under similar circumstances. PANAMA TOLLS POSTPONED. Action Deferred by Canal Committee Until Regular Session In December. Washington, April 19.?By a Vote Of 13 to I, the senate canal commit? tee today decided to put off until the regular December session of congress all questions of Panama canal tolls, In cludlng Senator Boot's amendment to repeal the free passage provision Of the Panama law. Senator Itrandegee voted against it. Senators pointed oul thai Ihe Democrats were committed to tariff ami currencj legislation at the wx Ira Bessloii and that the> would have enough to du tu legislate on those subjecta The overwhelming vote by which the committee agreed to the motion W U taken lo Indicate that there would be no action on the tolls question for several months, unless President WII? sott ? hose to exert his Influence to have it reopened. Some senators today considered it iuubtfg! whether the president could cause the committee to change Its mind unless there were new and pressing developments In negotiations between the state department ami I hi Bi it Ii ii foreign < o li ? e, A WAR OF WORDS. REPUBLICAN!! ATTACK DEMO? CRATIC RECORD ON TARIFF. Debate in House on Underwood Tariff Kill Tuesday Was Not Really a Tariff Debute Rut u Republican At? tack on Democratic Record?Re? publicans und Progressive* Grow Recited Bnl Democrat* stand Firm. Washington, April 29.?Excited Je bate and heated wrangling today marked the beginning of the reading of the Democratic tariff bill in the house for amendment. Progress on the perfection of the measure was slow, but the talk was vociferous, and on one occasion brought Speaker Clark on the Moor with a vigorous speech. All day the Republicans offerer1 amendments to the various para? graphs in the chemical schedule and every amendment was voted down by the big Democratic majority. Several minor amendments offered by the ways and means committee to correct the phraseology of the bill were adopted. Most of the talk of the day turned on the records of the Democratic and Republican sides of the house on the I question of creating a tariff commis? sion. The Republicans, led by Represen? tative Mann of Illinois, began their attacks on the various provisions of the first schedule of the bill, the chemical schedule, by declaring that the "weakness" 'n the rates show? ed the need of tne investigations of a tariff board. Representative Under Wood in reply declared that the Demo? crats had provided 'or the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce in the department of commerce, and that failure of the Taft administra? tion to vitalize thai bureau with suf? ficient appropriations had prevented it doing the work of tariff Investiga? tion. Representative Gardner of Massa? chusetts *atd Representative* Under? wood and other Democrats had voted for the tariff commission in the Sixty urst congress when the Republicans were in power, and urged that they support the Republican proposition now. Then Representative Murdock, the Progressive leader .touched off the fireworks. He declared that both Re? publicans and Democrats were- op? posed to the tariff commission scheme and recalled the last day of the Sixty-first congress, "Uncls Joe" Can? non's final appearance at the speak? er's desk, when the tariff commission bill was withdrawn by the Republi? cans in the face of a filibuster led 1 v Representative Fitzgerald of New York. "The Republicans in this chamber then," shouted Mr. Murdock, "like the Republicans in this chamber now, were only pretending to be for a tariff commission. They had their chance to write that bill Into law then and failed. They will never have another chance." The Republicans grew exc ited and Representative Oardner shouted there was no foundation for Mr. Munlock s charge "that the Republican leaders were In a conspiracy to defeat the 1 tariff commission bill." JestiCUlating wildly, Mr. Gardner demanded the opinion of Representa? tive Shirley of Kentucky as to the truth of the charge. Mr. Shirley said lie believed many of the Republicans opposed the bill, Then Representa? tive Oardner, shaking a linger at Speaker (Mark, demanded to know whether he believed th< charges. The speaker strode to the centre of the house and shouted: "My judgment \s that there never was a Republican leader in this house really in favor of a tariff commission." Mr. Gardner sat down and the speaker went on. He declared he was against a tariff commission! report ing to and responsible to the presi? dent. "It is the house that should have the Information,' he said. The speaker went Into detail about the defeat of the tariff commission hill in the KlXty-llrsI congress, ex plaining that the Democrats refused tu follow bun and Representative i fndera ood. "They rolled us to a fare-you-well," he declared, "ami the Republicans ware standing back and consenting like Saul at the stoning of Stephen They actually toiled up a majority against Underwood and myself, bul it was tin lust time and the last time they ever did it. The only reason was they caught US napping.'* Representative Oardner again tried tu pm the speaker down to his posi? tion on the conspiracy charge. "i think the gentleman from Ww York, Mi Payne, was honest on thai day in trying to gel that lull through, i >d t h. p< iker, PORTLAND NED'S ESCAPE. MARSHAL ADAMS EXONERATES DEPUTY MARSHAL SENN. Criticises Sloan for Neglecting lo File Warrant fo Arrest of John? son, alias "Portland Ned." Columbia, April 29.?J. Duncan Adams, United States Marshal, in a letter to K. Beverly Sloan, United States commissioner, completely ex? onerates Deputy United States Mar? shal Sonn for neglect in failing to ar? rest James Johnson, alias "Portiami Ned," Saturday when he made his quick getaway from the Governor's office. Marshal Adams says: "1 note your criticism of ** puty Marshal Senn as to vo n<y, in which 1 * . * ? agree lb- 9 " u lus u,,I'ury *or . and the records of this ? do not justify your charges He has performed his duties promptly and efficiently heretofore and I have no doubt would have done so if he had been intrusted with the warrant for the arreal of Johnson, as he should have been." Marshal Adams criticises Mr. Sloan for neglecting to hie the warrant for the arrest of Johnson with his office, as is required by the regulations. In this connection the letter says: "It seems to me this warrant had been issued by you sixty days prior to the release of the prisoner and this office had no Information about such warrant; therefore, the records here Would not have shown that there was such a warrant for this man. All war? rants issued, except those for emer? gencies, are always sent * > this office for execution, and all warrants under the regulations are placed in the hands of regularly commissioned deputies by ine for execution, and 1 contend that Deputy Senn cannot be held responsible for the execution of a warrant that had been in existence for sixty days unknown to this office. In conclusion, will say that I have no doubt if you had returned this warrant to this office when the same was is? sued that Johnson would not have escaped/' ACCUSED OF PEONAGE J. D. Miles of Orangeburg County Brought into Court. Orangeburg, April It.?J. D. Miles, a prominent farmer of Barnwell coun? ts, was brought to this city on yester? day by Assistant United States Dep? uty John Kennerly, and was given a hearing today before Commissioner a. a. Brantley. The chaargs against Mr. Miles is peonage. Mr. Miles was hound over for trial at the United states court In Charleston, which con? venes the first Tuesday in June. It was brought out that Mr. Miles had a negro on his place, about years of age. It was charged that this negro was coerced and forced to work on Mr. Miles place. The de? fense put up no testimony, as tHis was a preliminary, but Mr. Miles states that the father of this boy apprenticed him to him, according to law, ami that his actions toward the hoy had been well within the law. "But was there a conspiracy on that day?" demanded Mr. Gardner. "I can not tell," said tin- speaker, "because I was not in it if there was one." The house roared with laughter. The speaker concluded with the de? claration that a nonpartisan tariff hoard was an impossibility and that he was in Cavor of giving tin- ways and means committee itself all the ox pert help it needed to ascertain the facts as to the tariff. Heading of the chemical schedule was completed shortly after 6 o'clock and the house then receded until 7.30, When '.la- schedule on earthen wan, the second schedule of the hill was taken up at the night session, Representative Dixon of Indiana, who had charge ol the preparation of that schedule in the ways and means com? mittee, took his place at the right hand of Mr Underwood and led the debute. The Republicans made inef fectual attempts to increase tin- rates in the lull on Portland cement, gyp rum, lime and other mineral products. Several minor committee amendments correcting phraseology were incor? porated in the hill The house was in session until li o'clock tonight, almost completing the reading of the earth and earthenware schedule, the second schedule ol the lull, onl) ;1 few paragraphs Koing over until tomorrow. During the day and evening *' I of the 218 paragraphs ol the lull were passed. The only amendments adopted mule minor changes In phraseology and were pro pored hv the wavs und means com mit tee. BLEASE'S CHAUFFEUR FINED. PAYS UP AND APPEALS < \*l OX GROUND OF I LEGALITY. Claimed in Appeal Verdict was Con? trary to Evidence la Caw aad *?UM Rendered Through Prejasoe to BleaBC?Matter May Come up Be? fore Judge Gary Within Two Weeks. < Columbia, April 28.?Harrison nTesly, colored, the <-hauffetrr of Gov. Blease, was lined $5.75 this'morning in the Recorder's court on the charge of violating the speed ordinance of the city. The negro paid the fine and then gave notice of appeal to the cir? cuit court. The grounds on which the appeal to the circuit court are based are that the speed ordinance is in violation of the Constitution of the State and of the Code of Laws, because the sen? tence is illegal and excessive, and, to quote the language of the formal ap? peal, "Because the verdict is contrary to the evidence in said case and wa*? rendered through malice and preju? dice against the Chief FJrecutbe of this State, whose driver the said Har? rison Neely is." The negro ehauffleur was driving the automobile up Lady street and was coining up a hill, near the jail, when the alleged offence was com? mitted. City Jailer Marion P. Kram? er reported the case. The negro claims that he was not exceeding the speed limit, which is 15 miles per hour. He was alone in the car at the time and wa.? returning from an errand on which ie had been sent. This morning made the third tin. in the past few weeks that the Gov? ernor's chauffeur has been fined for violating the speed ordinances of the City. The first time he was given a tine of $3.75, the second a fine of $15.75 and this morning he was as l ssed $5.75. It will be recalled that a sensation was sprung the first time the negro was fined by Governor Blease charging that it was done 'through prejudice on the part of the city authorities to him, and he wss reported as threatening the city with marital law. He finally said that he intended to sue the city for assessing the first tine of $3.75 against his chauffeur and said that it would prove the most costly fine the city of Colum bit and county of Richland ever col lected. '1 will show you before the end of th" year," he stated at the time. The next term of the Court of Cren eral Sessions opens here in two weeks, with Judge Frank Gary presiding, and this cans will come up before him for review. It was stated this morning that If the negro chauffeur lost the case in the Circuit Court he would take it on the the Supreme Court for review. HUNDREDS DRIVEN FROM DOME. Gibson's Crevasse Flooding Concor dia Parish and Inundating Towns. Vidalia. La., April 2y.?The flood water from the Gibson's landing crev? asse in the Louisiana levees 25 miles north of here, is spreading with destructive force over Concord in par? ish, claiming town after town in its pa th southward to tho Red Kiver. Hundrede of homeless persona and thousands of heat of eattle are be? ing moved from the Hooded district and thus far the known loss of life in this section is conlined to two ne? groes. Already more than 5.000 refugees have been taken from, the territory. Which is being rapidly inundated by the Sunday morning crevasse. There are 3,S00 refugees in the relief camp at Matches and hundreds are ar? riving on every steamer sent out by the relief corps. IVrriday, La . a town of 1.000 peo? ple in Concord Is parish? with its rail toad simps, is now covered and the water is on the first tloor of many houses. At Clayton the water ll lO feet deep ami rising. Vid ilia, the Con Cordla parish seat, with a popula? tion ol 2,000 today began closing the gap in the trestle.of the New Orleans and Northwestern Railway. If the gap holds the town will not be good ed. (. IGE \ CANDIDATE. i<imaii\ Announces llinc-df for the Supremo Hcnch. ? 'luster. April 29.? In response to man) letters and telegrams, Judge llcofge YY Gage tonight definitely announced his candidacy to succeed Justice t'bas. A. Woods on the State supreme hem h At ? meeting of the (Chester Bar seoeiatlon ibis after? noon Judge Gage was highly Indorsed for the vacanc) in the court.