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ATHLETICS Um THIRD GAME.
HKAVY HITTING OF PHI LABEL
PHI A TF.AM HFPSONSIBLE
Foil KXMU OF 8 TO a.
I eellc HumIi. Young Pitcher of Mack
mutt, Win* Ills First Game In
Work! Series?Steady at Critical
Ktagea, He <lutplU lux His Older
opponent?Collins a Star.
New York. Oct. 9.?A new star to?
day biased forth in the worlds' series
baseball Armament when Leslie Bush
pitched the Philadelphia Athletics to
victory over the New York Giants In
the th'rd game of the championship
struggle by a score of 8 to 3. Bush
was materially aided in his rush to
a i elsits! In the baseball hall of fame
by the savage batting of his team?
mates, but the major portion of the
glory was accorded by both fans and
players to the youngster who star?
tled the diamond veterans with his
staved and control in his debut In a
world's series.
While his pitching was not as spec?
tacular as that of the veterans.
Mathewson and Plank, yesterday, his
box work was of the calibre that
entitles him to a niche beside Hugh
Hedient of the Boston Bed Sox and
Habe" Adams of the Pittsburgh Pi?
rates who have performed similar
feats of twirling valor in past world's
eeriee games
*o effective was Bush's pitching
that the Giants secured but five hits,
end three of these were of the scratch
variety. Only three of the 27 put
oats credited to the Athletics were
made outside the Infield and there
were innings on a stretch when the
Giants never drove the ball out of
the diamond.
Bush made his leap Into the lime?
light under the most favorable cir?
cumstances, for his haxd hitting
teammates in the first two Innings
tore up Tesreau's defense with a fusil?
lade of raps that netted five runs and
relieved the youngster of the strain
of pitching with the margin of safety
rarrow or entirely mlstdng. This was
particularly true of the first four Ath?
letics on Connie Mack's batting list.
Murphy. Oldrlng. Collins and Baker
between them made nine of the 12
hits recorded for the Philadelphia
?dub and these nine hits scored tteven
of the eight runs that made the vic?
tory so one-sided. In contrast to
this vigorous assault on the offerings
of Teereau and Crandall were the five
hits scattered through nine Innings
that marked the Giant's efforts with
the bat. Not a single National leaguer
securec" two hits and Shafer's double
was the only one good for more
thar one base.
The delivery of the Athletics' latest
twirling star, who will not be 20 years
of age until November 27. had en?
tirely too much speed and break for
the Olants to grow familiar with dur?
ing their first Introduction to the
itialnard (Minn.) hurler. Bush faaj
Ju?t wild enough to keep the New
T. rX batters guessing and his quick
0 hang es of pace and delivery made
an added handicap to the Giants
when st the plate. He walked four
batters and hit a tlfth but each time
h* faltered his nerve and the bril?
liert fielding of his teamman? soon
l.fr?*c him bark to safety.
The victory of Bush, who hails
from the same town as "Chief" Ben?
der, was exceedingly popular with the
Athletic players and the club adher?
ents. It has been know for some
time that he hud great possibilities
as a pitcher, but until he stood today's
teat his status was simply that of
any big league player.
"Bullet Joe," as he has been nick?
named because of his great speed,
broke Into baseball as a member of
an amateur team in his home town.
During the season of 11*10 he played
in every position except catcher. His
first professional engagement was
with the Mlmoula, Mont., team of the
Union association. Here he was spot?
ted by one of the Athletic scouts and
Joined the Mackmen in September a
year ago.
Disappointment among the Giant
1 ? nttngent over the downfall of Tee?
reau Wis as keen as the elation llOHf
the Athletic rooters because of Hush's
eplendi 1 work. The Oxark Mam noth
before yesterday's game was looked
up.?n as the Giant's second best card.
When Marquard and Crandall were
kn<?? kovi run of the box in Tuesday's
game the loyal adherents pinned their
faith to Mathewson and Tesreau. The
< >ld Muster did more t ian was ex?
pected of him yesterday, but Tesreau
fell down hh heavily before the Ath?
letics yP'Iouh buttlnR as did the Qiajll
twlrler In tho opening gain*-. 1 f?
hsd his moist bull breaking at all
kinds of anglcM. hut he Doald not con?
tr.d its direction. The Athletics" but?
ting quartette refused to hit saoopl
when the ball was o\ -r the plati and
then they laid against It lustily.
M., vigorously did t h? y < lout that
'h< defeat would haw heOOSBS an ut?
ter r<MH hut faS sensut h> r.a I Hope and
throws o/ DOJflti Kletchrr iitul lb i
sog at * rltfc al stages of tin* play.
?'.U't l.arrv Dot lc played desperately
i mm hi* Ht<?[ i asaj stays in I he second
and sstreath lanlasjs wert al the bra id
that ban m ole Ib.muh Wagner's naim
ATHLETICS WIN ANOTHER.
?mm Tiiim> in raoQMMi TO?
WARDS WOHLDS CHAMPION?
siiir?ax exc: ing
FINISH.
M% Indian Chief Im Nearly Knocked
out '?y Reviving Giants, After
Maekmvn Hail Already Seeured Six
It mi-, and the QMH Seemed Won?
Delimit e Taken out and Marquard
Put hi to Stem Tide of Huns.
Philadelphia. Oct. 10.?But one vic?
tory tonight stands between the Phil?
adelphia Athletics and the world's
championship in baseball. The Mack
men defeated the New York Giants
at Shibe park this afternoon by a
score of 6 to 5 in the fourth game
of the world's series. Before the con?
test was clinched, however, 20,000
Quaker City fans suffered a period of
anxious suspense that will keep the I
Giants' eleventh hour batting rally,
green in their memory for some sea?
sons to come. The game effort of the
National league players to overtake
their rivals in the closing innings of
the game changed the entire com?
plexion ol the battle, lifting what ap?
peared to be a one-sided match into
a contest that hung in the balance
until the last putout.
The desperate, but as it proved, fu?
tile effort came like a bolt from a
clear sky, "Chief Bender, the Chip
ewa Indian master of mysterious
curve and break, had held the Giants
runlesa for six innings, while his
team mates by pile driving hits had
scored as many runs at the expense
of Demaree and Marquard. Already
the fans ?,hat filled every seat in the
stands and bleachers were exulting
in the downfall of the New York club.
There was not a single danger signal
in sight. Suddenly the Giants be?
came transformed from hitless weak?
lings to real Giants, who hammered
the speed and slants of the Indian
fwirler to all parts of the park.
It was in the 'lucky seventh" that
the storm of hits burst on the aston?
ished Athletics and before the abori?
gine and his follow players could re?
cover three Giants had crossed the
plate and the : usillade continued into
the next sess on, when two more
?cored. The team which was a few
minutes before apparently outclassed
had battered down the last defenses
of the Mackmen. Fred Merkle, whose
Injured ankle still cauHed him to
limp perceptibly, was the player who
whs directly responsible for the
breaking through the coat of white?
wash that Bender was applying. With
Burns and Murray on second and
third as the renult of two singles and
a double steal, and two out, Merkle
caught one of Bender's low balls and
lifted it far oit into left centre,
where neither Oldring nor Strunk
could quite reach it. The sphere hit
the green turf of Shibe park and with
a mighty bound hopped the fence into
the bleachers and Merkle trotted
home after his two team mates with
the third home run of the series, thus
joining Bakei and Schang in the
realm of basehall immortals.
famous wherever baseball is played.
Eddie Collins carried off the honor:*
for the Athletics, although there were
plays made by other mem.^rs of both
teams that would have bee considered
little short of remarkable in an ordi?
nary league season game. The very
fact that but one error was recorded
for each team testitled to the calibre
of the fielding in the third game of
the series, ireluding as it did four
double plays.
The defeat of the Giants was a se?
vere setback to the New York con?
tingent, for Mathewson's wonderful
work on Wednesday had encouraged
the belief that the National league
standard bearers were to continue the
pace set by the Old Master.
Today 36,88!; fans paid to pass the
Polo grounds turnstiles, exceeding by
several hundred the attendance at the
opening game. Every seat in the
grandstand and bleachers was occu?
pied and standees gathered at every
point where they were permitted by
the lire and police regulations.
The gate receipts totaled $75,
763.CO, and the club owners saw
thousands of eager fans with real
moey in their hands turned away be?
cause there was not a foot of space
inside the park that could be sold to
them. lOOFW of speculators did busi?
ness bra/.enly n'ong Eighth avenue,
selling tickets at many times thJr
face value to prospective spectators
who were willing to pay any price
to see the battle.
With tomorrow's game in Philadel?
phia the players' division of receipts
will i rase, hut neither they nor the
rlob stockholders have < ause for com?
plaint sin< e to date 11,710 spectators
have paid $200,? 11.11 for the privi?
lege of seeing the Athletics score 14
HUM! to the (iiants* nine in three
limit Ol this mihi the players, have
ilready |ltl III 16 accruing to their
lUnti tilt owners of OMR dub $36,?
111.11 and Ihe national commission
ISMIMI,
The players' ihafi o! today's re
i ? Ipu was |40,l I.It; each club's
I sirs ?TSI |11,131 IS and the nationnl
commission's $7.! 73.31.
spurred on by Merkle's example,
Herzog:, who had not nude a hit in
the aeries to date, opened the eigth
with a single, only to be forced by
Doyle, who was similarly eliminate
by Fletcher. Burns came through J
with a double down the third base
line, scoring Fletcher and Shafer ahot
a iriple past Mclnnis' post, tallying
Bu "ns. Murray smashed a scorching
dri.e at Collins, but the Columbia
alumnus managed to hold the ball
until he could steady and throw the
rur ner out at llrst tor the third out.
Although McGraw sent in two pinch
hitlers to bat In the ninth the Giants
could not get over the run that would
tie the score. Bender was now fully
aware of the danger that beset him
am his team mates and pitched a ball
that fairly whistled aa it Hashed and
broke acroaa the palte.
1 he rally has encouraged the men
of McGraw to believe they may yet
overtake the flying Athletics and they
are preparing for a deaperate fight at
the Polo grounds tomorrow.
The Mackmen, with a record of
three victories out of four games, now
are well versed in the ability and
resources of the Giants. When they
drove Demaree from the box at the
end of the fourth inning today, after
four runs had been scored from his
delivery, it marked the passing of
every New York pitcher except tne
veteran Christy Mathewaon. In four
games Marquard, Cranrlrall, Tesreau
and Demaree all ) we fallen before
the terrific hitting of the Athletics.
Only Mathewaon, in his wonderful ex?
hibition of Wednesday, when he shut
them out, has been able to hold the
American league pennant winners in
check.
As If to show the versatility of the
team, it was a new quartette of batters
who bombarded Demaree from the
mound this afternoon and gave Mar?
quard, in his comeback role, a taste
of their ability. In the first three
games Murphy, Oldring, Collins and
Baker did the brunt of the stickwork.
It was the lower half of the batting
order that sprung into the breach
when the leaders faltered today. Seven
of Ihe nine hits recorded off the
Giant twirlers were made by Mcln
nia, Strunk, Barry and Schang. This
quartette also scored all six runs that
were credited to the Mackmen. Of
the upper half only ?ldering wag able
to fret his bat on the ball safely.
Bany made three hits in four times
at bit, two being doubles.
Schang did even better work, get?
ting two hits and two bases on balls
in four times up. His two hits scored
four runs and he crossed the plate
himself with another. Oldring, who
has made a safe hit the first time up
in every game of the series, earned the
honor of the longest hit m.ide by the
Athletics today, when he tripled in
the opening inning.
It was not alone by batting that the
Athletics won, for both their fielding
and Bender's clever pitching were
factors that helped to bring victory.
The Indian twirler was at the top of
his form except in the seventh and
eighth innings, being stead} and hav
ing absolute control of bleaks and
curves. He gave but one baiie on balls
and hit one batter. The Giants gar?
nered hut two hits off his delivery
until the seventh, and their total was
eight, while the Red Man finned five
as a sort of retaliation.
For the Giants Burns made two
hits, one a double, while Larry Mc?
Lean singled twice in two times at
bat. The New York club used 16 play?
ers against the Athletics' r<lne, a~d
had four left on the " ''sea to ihe
Ifaokmen's seven.
The game was played under the
most favorable weather conditions of
the series to date, the sun frequently
shining through rifts of clouds and
upon a field comparatively dry and
feat.
At least 5,000 spectators watched
the play from the housetops overlook?
ing the park.
Today's was the last game in which
the players participated in the re?
ceipts. According to the unofficial fig?
ures there will be distributed among
the players $135,103.89. The winners
will receive 60 per cent of this total
aad the losers 40 per cent. The na?
tional commission announced that 25
players on each team were eligible to
play in the series, therefore each man
on the winning side will receive $3,
-14, and each member of the losing
team $2,161,
The attendance today was 20,568
and the receipts $4 9,64 5. Of this the
national commission's share was $4,
964.60; the players' share $26,808.30.
and each club $6,961.10. The total
figures of the four days are as fol?
lows: Attendance 114,:!18; receipts,
$160,606.60; national commission.
$16,060.66; players, $135,163.89;
each club, 646,0*64.66.
New York. Oct. 11? The Philadel?
phia Athletics today won the baseball
championship ol the world for 1913
by defeating the New York Giants at
the Polo grounds, 3 to 1, in the tilth
and deciding game of the series.
There was a good crowd on the
street Saturday and the trade was
good.
FARMERS'
UNION NEWS
Practical Thought* for Practical
Farmers.
(Conducted by E. W. Dabbe, Pres?
ident S. C. Farmers Union.)
Some Handom Thoughts.
Not only to the Dulzell scribe, but
to all the readers of this paper, I
wish to advise a carefu1 reading of
the account 8. H. Hobbs, of Clinton,
X. C, gives of the reception of the
Farmers' Union committee by Presi?
dent Wilson and Secretary McAdoo.
As chairman of that committee and
its chief spokesman at the confer?
ence, I did not feel at liberty to give
out more than the dictated statement
in the Charleston News and Courier
until our report was in the hands of
National President Barrett. But I
am glad Committeeman Hobbs felt
moved to publish his statement ill
such a widely read journal as the
Progressive Farmer and I congratu?
late him on the accuracy with which
he quoted both the president and the
secretary. I
? * e
As 1 wrote recently it lies with the
farmers and the bankers in the cot?
ton counties of the State as to how
much direct use is made of these gov?
ernment deposits. There is no ques?
tion, however, of the wonderful ef?
fect the mere proposal of such de?
posits by the secretary had on open?
ing up the money bags of the coun?
try. In July and early August the
banks were talking about letting the
farmers scuffle for themselves, and
no little harm was done to the finan?
cial Interests of some individual*, and
the country generally by such talk.
see
"When I began th* agitation which
resulted in a committee of the Nat?
ional Union being sent to Washington,
depository banks in this State were
demanding 6 per cent for this fund
and asserting that no part of it could
be used for holding cotton. By rea?
son of the general loosening up in
?consequence of the secretary's an?
nouncement, local banks were soon
able to say to the depository banks
[ what O'Shannasy said to the general
[ manager of a railroad as related to
j us by President Wilson: "You can
; go to the devil, I don't need your aid."
In the last few days I have received
letters from two entirely separate
'sources offering to loan money on cot?
ton to the amount of 10 'or 11 cents
per pot rid at 6 per cent in one in?
stance and 6 1-2 in the other. I may
be mistaken, for I often am, but it
looks to me like a good time to
hold cotton for 4, 6 or 8 months, and
if done on a large enough scale fco re?
duce the pressure on the market it
would bring ubOUt a substantial ad?
vance. The decline of the past few
days is due solely to the heavy
movement by farmers who regard
13 1-2 cents a line price.
see
I often wonder if the business men
and farmers who so frequently speak
of 12c or 13c or 14s as a fine price,
give any thought to the losses of
Southern farmers and to the business
of the country by the starvation
prices that have prevailed during
half of the time since 1890. A steady
priceof 15 cents per pound for 10
years, with occasional bulges to 16,
18 or 20 cents would not more than
make up for the losses on 1, 5. 6, 7,
8 and 9c cotton of the 20 years from
1890 to 1910.
e e a
We can get it too. But it must be
by a more widespread campaign of a
live at home, feed the towns peo?
ple policy, coupled with closer af?
filiation between the organised farm?
ers and the organized :-nkers for a
better system of finance. President
Wilson told the committee he hoped
the new currency measure will pre?
vent the need of special deposits at
any time, or in any section. But un?
less there is organization to make it
effective, I do not expect to see much
I difference. E. W. L>.
VISIT OF THE FARMERS' UNION
COMMITTEE TO PRESIDENT
WILSON.
The President and Secretary or the
Treasury Give Gratifying Assur?
ances as to Aiding Crop Movement.
I have just returned from Wash?
ington. As you kn >w, a commit?
tee was appointed at Saline, Kansas,
to go before President Wilson and
Secretary McAdoo of the Treasury,
ami ask that the treasury loan of
$&o,ooo,omo be Inoreased to $150,
000,000, or $200.000,000, and that
the time for recalling the same begin
not earlier than January 18, instead
of December 15, and thereafter bi?
monthly instead of monthly, and that
on August 16, 1914, this entire
amount be rodoposlted in the various
banks to he used next Near for the
?ame purpose that l-t, "moving the
crops of the country." This com
mittce v\ as compound of E. W. I\ti>bs,
R, If, Cooper, J. C. Kennett and my
lf.
By previous arrangement, through
Senator E. D. Smith, of South Caro?
lina, we were enabled to hold a con?
ference with President Wilson and
Secretai N of the Treasury McAdoo, at
the White House. The audience lasted
nearly an hour. Alter stating our
business through Chairman Dabbs
and having It discussed thoroughly
from every standpoint, President
Wilson and Secretary McAdoo said,
"Go back home and tell the farmers
of this country that so far as moving
crops are concerned there will be no
stringency in money matters. "Cer?
tain moneyed interests hi this coun?
try,'' said Presldert Wilson, "tried
to discredit my administration in its
beginning, and I am determined that
while I am preside it there shall be
no money panics nor stringency, if it
lies in my power to prevent it."
Then we asked Mr. McAdoo if he
intended to commence recalling the
; $50,000,000 loan the fifteenth of De?
cember and one-fourth every 30 days
thereafter as stated in his circular.
"Now," said he, "you misunderstand
it somewhat. If you will read the
next paragraph in my circular, you
will see that I have given myself
wide latitude. You will see that I
have seid if 'necessity demanded it'
j the loan will be extended until it has
I accomplished the purpose for which
it was Intended. "And besides," said
he, "this amount will be increased,
if need be, to meet any emergency."
"Unless," sai l President Wilson,
"the members of congress here, be?
fore that time, bankrupt the Treas
| ury by appropriating so many mil ?
lions fcr building new buildings all
over the country?then if we can't,
we can't. But until that time arrives
I this administration will endeavor to
furnish sufficient currency to do the
business of the country with."
Mr. McAdoo was then asked to
1 clearly define what was meant by
i the "moving of trie crops," as certain
i bankers had const rued the moving
crops (cotton, for instance,) to mean
only after the cotto i was ginned and
baled and that this money was to be
only for the buying. "Now," said we,
"if this is what you mean, Mr. Sec?
retary, it will not do the farmer
i much g?od, as for the picking out
: and ginning alone the farmers of the
South have a cash outlay to begin
I with of about $12.50 per bale and
then is the time when they are in
need of help, and the grain growers
, of the West are in the same fix in re?
gard to the gathering of their crops."
"We have intended this money for
the use of the producer as well as
the buyer," said the Secretary, "and
any bank so defining it otherwise is
not carrying out our intentions, and
j will be reprimanded when found out.
! and besides, if they still persist in
not carrying out our policy, the funds
will be removed from such banks and
will bo put into those that will carry
out our intentions. I construe the
moving of a crop to mean from the
picking of the cotton to its final sale
to the exporter or manufacturer, and
from the gathering of tobacco to its
final disposition to the same."
It looks to me like that we have in
President Wilson and Secretary Mc?
Adoo two men who mean to do what
is right and every farmer in this
country should give them his moral
support and try to uphold their hands
in the great work they are trying to
accomplish. "Do you know," said
j President Wilson, to us, "that this
is the first time in the history of the
Government that you farmers have
ever received the least recognition
at its hands?"
I hope that much good will come
from this conference.?S. H. Hobbs,
in the Progressive Farmer.
CORN CROP IMPROVES.
Will be Relow Yield of East Year?
Wheat Heina i i's About Same.
Washington, Oct. 9.?An Improve-1
ment in the condition of the corn crop
during the last month to the extent
of 22,000,000 bushels in the estimated
final production was the feature of
the department of agriculture's Oc?
tober crop report issued this after?
noon. The indicated final production
is placed at 2,737,000,000 bushels, or
752,000,000 bushels below last year's
record crop. Tobacco prospects in?
creased 1.9 per cent during the month
and fiax 5 per cent., while prospects
of rice decreased 7.4 per cent., buck
wheat 6.7 per cent, and white po
tatoe* 1.8 per cent. The preliminary j
estimates of the production of spring
wheat and all wheat place the yield
at about the same quantity as pre?
dicted last month. Oats prospects in?
creased so that the preliminary esti?
mate of production is S6,000,000 bush?
els more tl.an est im; ted In September.
Three native species of larch fur?
nish timber in the United States. One
grows in New England and the lake
states, another In the Pacific north?
west, and the third In the hlnh moun?
tains of the northern Rockies* Euro?
pean larch has been planted exten?
siv rl\ in the prairie States.
NEWS FROM PISGAH.
Death of An Honored Citizen?Dele?
gates Elected to Kershaw Assoeia
tion?Killing et ?Doc/' Smith.
Pisgah, Oct. 13.?Last week was
nearly lost to the farmers in their
gathering. Very little was done. The
wind blew out a good deal of cotton
and pea vine hay was damaged on
the ground and when the stacks got
wet.
Miss Bessie HaUield, who has been
under treatment at the Tourney hos?
pital, returned last week and is rapid?
ly recovering.
Miss Pearl Hatfield, who has teen
spending sometime in Sumter, re?
turned home last week.
Rev. J. W. Kershaw, by request of
the pastor, filled the pulpit at Mt.
Zion last Sunday.
Rev. S. B. Hatfield preached at
Westville last Sunday.
Mrs. J. W. Kenney and children
: have gone to Orangeburg on a visit
to relatives.
Mrs. J. L. Gillis has gone to Ander?
son to visit her daughter and rela?
tives.
Mr. and Mrs. I ?on Stuckey of State
burg were here Sunday.
Miss Sadie Bogers has gone on a
visit to Sttaeburg.
The funeral services over Dr. C. S.
Britton Saturday afternoon at Smith
ville were very impressive. On the
rostrum were Presiding Elder Her?
bert, Re*. H. Bascom Brown of
Camde*., the pastor, Mr. Hutson, Revs.
J. W. Kenny, T. L. Cole and D.
Melvin McLeod. The pastor stated
that the services would be memorial.
All the ministers took some part in
them. Addresses were made by Mr.
Brown and Mr. McLeod on him as a
man, a physician, a Christian, and a
soldier. They were very appropriate
and touching. Both spoke of the
warm personal relation to him. At
the close the body was laid to rest In
the church cemetery and the grave
was covered with flow-era. The aud
I ience present was one of the. largest
ever seen at a funeral In this section,
friends who came to pay the last sad
tribute to his memory.
Dr. Britton was a true and sincere
friend to all, as a soldier he was brave
and loyal to the "starry cross/* As a
physician, he stood high and literally
wore his life out in behalf of his fel?
low man. For a long time he was the
i only doctor in this section and the
' arduous work of both night and day
made its inroads on a constitution
, naturally strong. To the poor he
gave that same close attention he
: did to others, knowing at the time that
j there would be in many cases no fin?
ancial reward for him. He turned
none away who needed his aid. As a
; Christian he lived up to a high stand?
ard and died carrying the confidence
and esteem and love of all his fellow
j citizens. He will be missed by his
j church and friends. Peace to hie
ashes.
At Pisgah church yesterday the
pastor paid a fine and touching
tri oute to his memory.
".Pisgah church elected delegates
yesterday to the Kershaw Associa?
tion which meets this week In West
Wt.teree, Kershaw county. The
church extended an invitation to the
association to meet with it next year.
The delegates are R. J. Watson, J.
T. W?tson, J. E. DuPre, and Revs.
T. L. Cole and S. B. Hatfield. The
two last are members of the associa?
tion, ex-officio.
The killing of "Doctor" White by
TiP.man Sessions Saturday on Mr. H.
H. Evans* place was caused from
gambling and whiskey. I don't know
what the verdict of the coroner's
jury is but Sheriff Muldrow has
some, if not all of the guilty parties
behind the bars*.
Frost was seen this morning.
PARDONS DISPENSARY CONVICT.
Blease Sayn That it is Not Legal to
Punish a Man Twice for Same Of?
fense.
Columbia, Oct. 13.?In pardoning
Jim Martin, of Oconee, convicted of
violating the dispensary law and sen?
tenced to pay $100 or serve three
months, Governor Blease said today
he did not think it right or Just, "nor
do I believe it strictly legal to pun?
ish any man by forcing him to serve
out a sentence in the Federal court
and also being punished In the State
court for the same offense."
Martins had been tried by the Unit?
ed States court and served two
months He paid the State court fine,
but wos pardoned today.
Horse's Kick Kills Negro.
Columbia, Oct. 12.?About 8 o'clock
last night Caldwell Sims, a negro
driver, was putting a horse In Its stall
in the Kentuuky stables on Assembly
street when the horse kicked him in
the chest. He stood for a moment
and then fell dead between the horse's
le<s. His b ath was pathetic in many
respects.
When Sims had fallen, his black
and white coach dog. that he had
raised from a puppy, found his mas?
ter, took a position on his chest, and
detled any one to go near.