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Scraps and |acts. ? A committee headed by T. H. Harmon ot Pittsburg, from the National Conference on rarm Markets and Farm Credits recently held at Chicago, called upon Secretary Houston of the agricultural department last Saturday and urged the establishment of a bureau of markets on a large scale. They told the secretary of tne progress made at the recent Chicago conference and Mr. Houston informed them that his department would take every means to co-operate with the various agencies to expedite farm marketing. The committee also visited members of the agricultural committees of the senate and house and on Monday will be received by the president. ? Washington, April 18: Mrs. William Cummings Story of New York, head of the conservative faction, late today was elected president general of the society of the Daughters of the American nevoiuuoo, ueieanug wm. John Miller Horton of Buffalo, the administration candidate, on the third ballot. The vote stood: Mrs. Story 00; Mrs. Horton 449. Seven vice presidents general also were elected to complete the complement of new general officers. They were: Mrs. Thomas Kite of Ohio, Mrs. Rhett Goode of Alabama, Mrs. John Swift of California, Mrs. Allen P. Perley of Pennsylvania, Mrs. Ben P. Gray, Jr., of Missouri,1 Miss Harriett Lake of Iowa and Mrs. John Lee Dinwiddle of Indiana. Three vice presidents general were elected on the first ballot The result of the third ballot was announced about 5.30 o'clock and the successful candidate was escorted to the platform. She was greeted by Mrs. Matthew T. Scott retiring president general, and began her speech. She made a plea for harmony and urged all the new general officers to do their utmost to bring peace between the factions that have waged almost continuous warfare for the last five years. ? Washington, April 20: The United States was exporting more than three times as much fresh beef and cattle, six years ago as it sends abroad today, as shown by statistics made public today by Secretary Redfield of the department of commerce. In the first nine months of the present fiscal year ending March 31 there was exported only 5,479,439 pounds of fresh beef and 13,598 pounds of cattle, as compared with 200,069,729 pounds of fresh beef and 307,726 pounds of cattle in the same months of 1907. The Intervening years reveal an uninterrupted decrease. Another feature or the report is me statement that while the population of the country has increased 11 per cent since 1907, the number of beef cattle had decreased 30 per cent; furthermore 220,000 head of cattle came into the country in the first eight months this year against only 12,500 in 1907. In the calendar year past, the United States exported 9,000,000 pounds of fresh beef; Argentine sent out 756,000,000 pounds; Australia 109,000,000, New Zealand 27,250,000 pounds and Uraguay 21,000,000. The United States surpassed its rivals, however, in prices obtained, having received last year for beef exported an average of 11.67 cents a pound against 4.38 for Argentine, 4.93 for Australia and 5.26 for NewZealand beef. ? Secretary Bryan and Speaker Clark, who have been at outs since the Baltimore convention, have come to an amicable understanding with each other and hereafter they are to be friends. The difference was healed at an informal luncheon given in* Washington last Friday by Ira E. Bennett, editor of the Washington Post, to a number of leading officials and statesmen. Clark had arrived first. Vice President Marshall, Senators Kern of Indiana and O'Oorman of New York, Secretary of the Interior Lane and others already had ar rived. The speaker was warmly greeted as he made the round and clasped the hands that were outstretched toward him. Shortly afterward the secretary of state entered the room. There was silence for a moment. His reception was no less warm than the one that had Just preceded It As he approached the speaker, the two men looked squarely Into each other's eye; each smiled; their hands clasped for half a minute, and a tense situation had been successfully bridged. It will he remembered that Messrs. Bryan and Clark met shortly after the*conventlon and both issued statements that seemed to Indicate that an understanding had been reached; but it Is only since last Friday that there is good reason for believing that they are likely to get together. ? Columbus, Ohio, April 18: After defeating the Greenlund bill, installing in Ohio law the so-called Torrens, an Australian system of state registration anu guaranteeing of titles, the house tonight reconsidered that action and enacted it into law. This carries into execution a constitutional amendment of last September. The victory was a personal one for Representative Charles Reid of Fayette, Republican floor leader, who championed the measure. The bill is a compromise and was drafted by a commission of real estate men after a conference with Humphrey Jones of Fayette county, author of the constitutional amendment The bill is optional. ? The Democratic tariff bill with its sweeping reductions and a lengthy free list, was Anally approved by the Democratic caucus last Saturday, and the understanding was that after being referred to the ways and means committee yesterday, It would be reported favorably and called up for debate tomorrow. Mr. Underwood predicted that the bill would be passed in the house by May 15. Two months the administration leaders think, a generous time to allot the senate for its consideration and passage, and unless It Is decided to bring in a currency bill, congress should be ready to adjourn about July 15. The bill as approved by the president, came through the caucus unscathed. Democratic opponents of free sugar in three years and of raw wool made the most persistent fight, but they were voted down and did not develop serious opposition. ? How the supreme court of the United States, or at least one member of It, views the present-day criticism of the courts is set forth in a speech by Justice Holmes, made public Saturday in the form of a senate public document. Justice Holmes delivered the speech recently at a private dinner in New York. Science has taught the world skepticism, the judge said, by way of preface, and made it legitimate to put everything to the test of proof. "Of course we are not except J " thn onnrnmn eu, lie Octiu, iciciiiug IV iiiv V..V court. "Not only are we told that when Marshall pronounced an act of congress unconstitutional he usurped a power that the constitution did not give, but we are told that we are the representatives of a class, the tool of the money power. I get letters, not always anonymous, intimating that we are corrupt. Well, gentlemen, I admit that it makes my heart a'he. It is very painful when one spends all the energies of one's soul in trying to do good work with no thought but that of solving a problem according to the rules by which one is bound to know that many see sinister motives and would be glad of evidence that one was consciously bad. But we must take such things philosophically and try to see what we can learn from hatred and distrust, and whether behind them there may not be some germ of inarticulate truth." A very important truth to be extracted from the popular discontent, according to Justice Holmes, is that judges, particularly in state courts, have read their conscious or unconscious sympathies prematurely into the law. "It cannot be helped, it Is as it should be?that the law is behind the times," declared Justice Holmes. "As law embodies beliefs that have triumphed in the + + a# Hnno onH thon hnvp translat ed themselves Into action, while there still Is doubt, while opposite convictions still keep a battle front against each other, the time for law has not come; the notion destined to prevail is not entitled to the field." In connection with this discussion of premature law. he expressed the belief that twenty years ago, when a "vague terror went over the earth and the word socialism began to be heard," fear was translated by Judges into doctrines that had no proper place In the constitution or common law. "Judges are apt to be naive, simple-minded men and they need something of Mephistophelean observed the Justice. Justice Holmes concluded by saying that as he grew old, he grew calm, and p predicted that competition from new p races will cut deeper in the future s than worklngmen's disputes and will C test whether "we can hang together t and fight." "I do not pin my dreams c for the future of my country or even o to my race," he said. "I think it prob- n able that civilization somehow will v last as long as I care to look ahead. I c think it not improbable that man, like c the grub that prepares a chamber for c the winged thing it never has seen but t is to be, that man may have cosmic destinies that helloes not understand and so beyond the vision of battling races and an impoverished earth I catch a dreaming gumpse 01 peace. | ^ ?he ^orbvitU tgnquircr. c Entered at the Postofflce In Torkville a as Mall Matter of the Second Class. ? D = f n ? 1 YOUKVILLE, S. C.i B TUESDAY. APRIL 22, 1913 r i o The great question now is the cx- f tent to which congress can stand the C pressure of the big Interests that ob- K ject to changes In the tariff schedules, a C A resolution Introduced by Senator ? Tillman not long ago, to prohibit smoking in the senate chamber during exe- li cutive sessions, has been defeated. The * senators who smoke were unwilling to j deny themselves the comfort. 1 . m P The start that Secretary Daniels has v made for the elimination of the hazer ? from Annapolis is along the right line, b and those who know the secretary say he will keep it up to the end. His ef- ^ forts in this direction promise much for the entire country. The college ha- v zer ordinarily is a cowardly brute, and J * * " -? I 1J V. k.M In ? 11 IS wen luai lie buuuiu uc uc*u m v check or eliminated. I I Now If the governor had sent a defendant to a judge with instructions to 0 come back to him if the judge did not fc do as desired, there would have been s g some row; but when a circuit Judge r undertakes a procedure like that, then t what? That is about the way it looks I according to the Columbia Record's re- ? port of the procedure in the case of t those alleged wire-tappers. C i ? - b c We are glad that Messrs. Br/an and ^ Clark axe getting together on a basis g of their old friendship; but still we ^ are decidedly of opinion that Mr. tsry- ? an performed a great service to his e country when he procured the nomina- F tion of Mr. Wilson at Baltimore. Had b c Mr. Clark been nominated instead of c Mr. Wilson, we believe that the presl- t dency would have gone to Col. Roose- 1 velt. ? ' * A According to the way we see it, the o supreme court will have to reverse it- ? self in order to make the Webb law ef- t fectlve against people in other than c dispensary counties who would order e liquor from without the state for per- ? sonal use. It will be remembered that 1 in the Sumter club case three years a ago, Judge Memminger held in effect ? that the mere possession of liquor in g other than a dispensary county was 1: unlawful. Judge Memminger was go- f ing according to the statute as it is ^ written, and we believe he was right; c but the supreme court overruled him. If the supreme court now holds that it ^ is unlawful for people living in non f dispensary counties to procure liquor 1 from without the state in original 0 packages, it will reverse itself on the ^ very principle in which it overruled a Judge Memminger, and it is not going to do anything of the kind, according to our notion. But we still believe that r Judge Memminger was right, as he ? generally is. p ? ? s The principal objection to the Tor- ? rens law here as elsewhere, Is selfish. a In early times, all land belonged to the r kings. Kings, after a time began to give leases and even titles; but always j conditioned on certain service that the p holder of the lease or title was to per- C form when called upon. In the course Jj of time, in England conditions were e removed, and land titles became vested ( in fee simple. About as comprehen- 11 sive a definition of "fee simple" as can ? be given, is "without obligation of any ,3 kind except taxes to anybody." This s usage was transferred to America with 8 presumably more freedom. But the e truth of the matter is that the land ti- t tie is not yet free. Custom has attach ed to it a kind of graft that ought to be J removed. Except in rare cases, no prudent man will pay his money for a land title until that title has been look- t ed up by a lawyer. Often the looking % up is a mere form; but there Is ex- J pense attached to it all the same. For j instance, a man purchases a hundred r acres, and the buyer or seller, usually 1 the seller has to pay a fee ranging ? from )5 to $100 and sometimes more, for abstracting the title. As to how much work there is involved is usually of small consequence. For instance if there should be another transfer of the same land say within a year, there is another fee to pay, even though it be to the same lawyer. In a sense, and in a very pronounced sense at that, this proposition savors of the same old obligation that the landowner used to be to the king?to extort tribute. There are some men, not attorneys, who know enough to protect themselves without having to pay this tribute; but with the average man this is risky business. Now the object of the Torrens system is to re-arrange this whole business so the state itself, the whole people In whom the title to all land was originally lodged, keep informed as to transfers, mortgages, etc., and be ready at all times to guarantee any particular title. The idea is simple, plain and right; but these qualifications do not necessarily assure its adoption. The removal of the graft from the land title business would destroy an important source of revenue to a large number of people, and these people are not going to stand for any such thing as long as they can help. The history of the efforts that have been made during the last half dozen years to secure the establishment of the Torrens system in South Carolina. ; give evidence that the people interested on the other side are not yet at the end of their resources. ? Brussels, April 21: The general strike for equal suffrage in Belgium, entered upon its second week with the strikers' ranks unbroken, in fact, strengthened by the adhesion of added recruits, bringing their total up to nearly 500,000, according to Socialist computations. A cheerful spirit pre- , vails among the working classes, who feel that the government will be oblig- s ed to yield at least to the compromise t suggested by the liberal leaders. This ? rovldes that the equalization of the arliamentary franchise Immediately hall be taken up for consideration. !ablnet ministers are determined not o surrender if the government still ommands a majority of the chamber if deputies when it reassembles to- lorrow. The Socialist national conention meets on Wednesday to dlsuss the situation. Acts of violence ontlnue to be rare and are in most ases attributed to other causes than he strike. MERE MENTION A bill has been passed by the Ohio aglslature to enfranchise more than ,600 persons in Adams county who /KofponnhlaoH hv Tndcp Rlftlr nfl fl esult of election conditions in thai ounty two years ago The United States government on Friday awarded contract to the Deutschen Maachinnfabrik Aktiengesellschaft of Duis>urg, Germany, for two floating cranes or the Panama canal. The contract >rlce for the two cranes Is $837,500, nd the German bid was $600,000 bedw the bid of American concerns 08. W. Martin, the missing Memphis, 'enn., cotton merchant, who dlsapieared from London, on April 3, has een located in Switzerland.... A small oard on which was scratched a mesage signed by John Jacob Astor, a Tianlc victim, was picked up in the vlinity of the wreck last week. The nessage was written with a nail 'he government of England, so it Is tated in London, has decided to take rastic measures in smashing the sufragette movement. It is proposed to utlaw the Women's Social and Politlal Union and confiscate the Union's unds....Karl Hagenbeck, the famous lerman animal collector, died at Hamburg on April 14, supposedly from the ffects of a bite from a venomous nake received seven years ago Congressman Thos. W. Sims and Chas. !. Glover, a banker, had a fisticuff on he streets of Washington last Friday. Thugs entered a dentist's office n Delancey street, New York, last Yiday, and at the point of pistols helo ip the dentist and robbed the place of 3,500 worth of gold and platinum 'hos. F. Robinson, the second graft lollceman to go to trial 1n New York, yas convicted Friday on a charge of rafting and collecting protection tioney Four New York automobile andits were convicted Friday and senenced to Sing Sing for terms of tweny years each. They were convicted on vidence furnished by one of their pals. A negro, n?u nuiumiis, tiungcu with arson, burned the locks oft the all doors at Petersburg:, Va., Frldu> norning and made his escape The Southern railway's "Kansas City? ^orlda special" was derailed near Dastman, Ga., Friday. Several of the ralnmen were more or less injured.. ?he centennial anniversary of the birth f Stephen A. Douglass will be celebrated by the Illinois legislature at Iprlngfleld, tomorrow The Unltd States and Its possesions in 1909-10 traduced 1,232.015 tons of cane sugar, he total for the world being 8,294,334. n 1909 and 1910 the United States onsumed 3,285,771 tons A schooner, lost at sea eighteen years ago, has ?een located in 60 feet of water near ;hignook lagoon, Alaska. It was found! y a deep sea diver, and its cargo, including 350,000 worth of block tin is to ie raised Governor Mann of Virrinia, is suffering from appendicitis in Washington The number of strikX8 throughout Belgium has reached a otal in excess of 350,000 The lowr house of the Ohio legislature has >assed a congressional gerrymander >111, by means of which six Democratic ongressmen will be legislated out of iffice Alfred Forcareto was senenced at New Haven, Conn., Friday, o serve seventeen years for white lavery In the national conference or education in the south at Richmond ra., last Friday, Dr. H. L. Whitefield >f Mississippi, advocated the complete .bandonment of "effete classical ism" n the public schools and the substituIon of volcational training for all lasses. The suggestion was conslderd by some as revolutionary The ntire staff of 65 doctors of Bellevue (ospital, New York were made sick ""hnrndav nleht bv eatine chicken sal d According to figures published >y the board of health last week, the opulatlon of New York city is now >,332,000 Wm. B. Jennings, after >eing sentenced to life Imprisonment or murder In Boston, Thursday, boastid of a number of other murders ' he tad committed In various parts of the. ountry John Nicholson Anhut, a awyer was indicted In New York Thursday, on a charge of trying to iribe an official of the state hospital or the Insane, in behalf of Harry IC 'haw J. Plerpont Morgan & Co., J New York, have employed a publllty agent, at a salary of 325,000 a year. L press agent for a banking concern Is . new departure. ? Tokyo, April 20: The announcenent that President Wilson and Secetary Bryan are making efforts to ring about a compromise In the pro-! losed California legislation with repect to the alien land ownership bill, .nd that Gov. Hiram Johnson is oppos"? h?i hno oi-jftonoil .Tananpsft ire nd public opinion has now become nore optimistic. The alleged unwllIngness of the American missionaries o assist in resisting the bill is the subect of harsh criticism in the Jaianese papers, but after a conference :ount Okuma, the foreign minister^ lad with the missionaries, the latter llspatched telegrams to California, the xact nature of which is not known, 'ount Okuma ironically reminded the nissionarles that Japan owed its first essonB in foreign humanitarian priniples to the United States. "Now, the luty has devolved upon Japan," he idded, "to teach the Californlans the ame principles." The Japanese consul it Vancouver, C. Yada, who has arrlvtd here, has caused some excitement >y the statement that anti-Japanese egislation is pending in the Canadian jrovinces of British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Daniels Has No Time for Hazers.? iVlth the announcement of his approval of the sentence of the court which lismissed Midshipman James C. Cook rom the naval academy for hazing, Secretary Daniels sent a letter to every nidshipman at Annapolis warning him hat hereafter no leniency would be ihown hazers who. in addition to being lismissed, would receive the additional >enalty of imprisonment as provided >y law. "The sentence of confinement would >e Justified in Cook's case." said Sec 'etary JDanieis, "dui as i nave nm nau m opportunity to Issue a warning: beore, I have let the sentence stand at lismissal. Your hazer is essentially a >ully and must necessarily have a itreak of innate cruelty. The United States navy has no place for youths of his kind. "I take this opportunity of saying: that his senseless and dangerous practice vill not be tolerated at an educational nstitution feunded and supported by he government. Future manifestaions of such character at the naval icademy will meet with rigorous acion." The victim of Midshipman Cook's lazing was Midshipman Newbold .^odge, of Michigan. A Real Judge.?Judge Memmlngcr las a way of pointing out for the inormation of the people, certain very lllliuyms icuiuira ui men vuun. F.v cedure. The Spartanburg Herald says: 'The difficulty of securing reforms of his character lies In the fact that the treat majority of the people do not inderstand the lawyers who are not >articularly Interested In putting vings on the feet of justice. The obect of the defendant's counsel is to >ut off the evil day."?Augusta Chroncle. ? Unusually heavy sentences were mposed at Spartanburg by Judge R. V. Memmlnger on William Bowen and r. H. Brown, proprietors of so-called ocial clubs, who were convicted in he circuit court of violating the disjensary laws. Bowen was sentenced o pay a fine of $1,000 or serve one 'ear, and Brown to pay a fine of $2,000 >r serve two years. Brown has been epeatedly convicted before. Judge demminger was severe in his denunciation of the men and their witness's. Bowen and Brown through their ittorneys, served the customary noice of appeal to the supreme court. rudge Memminger warned them that le would make it a point himself to ee that the thirty-day limit in which o perfect the appeal was not disrerarded. LOCAL AFFAIRS. / NEW ADVERTISEMENTS York Supply Co.?Sells Farmer's Favorite cotton planters at $5. and has guano plows, cane seed, seed peas, farm tools. McConnell Dry Goods Co.?Offers bargains in ladles' oxfords, ginghams, muslin underwear, scout shoes, etc. Palmetto Monument Co.^Offers you best material, best workmanship and right prices on monuments. It sells wire fencing. I. P. Boyd, Supt. Co. Home?Wants a buyer for a good milk cow. J. M. Stroup?Is showing new lines of lnriic>H' nw-kwpar. ribbons, drv zonris and straw hais for ladies an<f gentlemen. I. W. Johnson?Invites you to his store for syrups, cottolene, snowdrift, washing powders, teas and coffees. Geo. W. Williams, Broker?Wantav a quick buyer for the Rose property on Main street, Yorkville. Kirkpatrick-Belk Co.?Puts on a special sale of ginghams Thursday, at 5 cents a yard. Shirt waist special and staple goods specials. Yorkville Hardware Co.?Reminds all farmers that it can supply practically every kind of needed farm tool and wants to serve you. Thomson Co.?Continues its April sale until Saturday, and you can save 10 to 25 per cent by buying this week. Colgate's talcum, 10 cts. box. J. C. Wilborn?Offers a desirable small farm near Smyrna, at an attractive price. See page four. The Rock Hill Alfalfa association holds Its annual meeting tomorrow. All who are Interested in alfalfa are invited to attend the meeting. Col. C. B. Armstrong was nominated for mayor of Gastonla last Saturday, practically without opposition. Mayor Craig having decided not to stand for re-election. It is said that Slaughter, the mile man on Hickory Grove's track team, frequently takes a fun over to Sharon, a distance of seven miles, in the morning before breakfast. That sounds something like endurance and pluck as well as determination, and it is the spirit that wins. Mr. C. H. Smith, the large dairyman on YorkvlUe, No. 4. has determined upon the erection of a concrete silo similar to that erected on the Bratton farm near Yorkvllle." He will pitch his crops so as to make sufficient ensilage and will put up the silo between July and September. As to whether that foreigner, who Is being he'.d at Camden for the murder of his companion, is the same man who was through this country recently, cannot be said with certainty; but a good many people seem to think there is a probability that such is the fact. There have been two foreigners in Yorkvllle within the past few months, one only a few weeks ago, representing themselves as "Greeks," begging for the benefit of an alleged orphanage that they represented as being located somewhere in Syria. They picked up a good many quarters and dimes 'in Yorkvllle. There is plan on foot to lnaugu* rate a state-wide movement for the eradication of the cattle tick in South Carolina. Already the national government, operating in co-operation with Clemson college has eradicated the tick from fourteen counties, and now the idea is for the state to take the matter up and go at it with great vigor until the remaining counties are cleaned up. It is estimated that the cattle tick has been costing South Carolina in the neighborhood of five million dollars a year, and with the right kind of laws properly enforced, it can be wiped from the state in less than two years, with less than a hundredth part of that sum. THE CIRCUIT COURT The second week of the circuit court ? ?? AA?WA??A^ uaatAr/lov with iho nAlirf officials. Including: the jurors, on hand; but notwithstanding - the long list of cases on Calendar l, it looked for some time as If there would be no business to keep the court employed. Upon fully realizing the situation, the unpreparedness of the attorafors. etc., Judge Gary gave it to be understood that unless there was a case ready by 3 o'clock he would adjourn the court of common pleas sine die. At 3 o'clock there was one case in readiness, that of Edna White vs. the Seaboard Air Line railway. This case was taken up yesterday afternoon and will probably consume the balance of today. ABOUT PEOPLE Miss Webb Stanton of Bethel, is visiting friends in Yorkville. Mrs. Samuel Snoddy of Spartanburg, is visiting her mother, Mrs. A. J. Dunlap, on Yorkville R. F. D. 3. Mrs. Fred C. Williams of Columbia, Is visiting friends and relatives in Yorkvllle. Misses Annie McPheeters and Catherine Dickson of Yorkvllle, are spending several days in Rock Hill. Miss Hazel Matthews of Marietta, Okla., visited Miss Gerald Dowry in Yorkvllle. this week. Mr. and Mrs. Lindsny Hunter and children, of Lincolnton, N. C., arrived in Yorkvllle last night for the HunterRamsay wedding. j WITHIN THE TOWN ? The Yorkvllle shade trees are the prettiest ever. ? Last Saturday was the dullest Saturday the town has known this year. The farmers were able to plow and generally did It. ? The new Associate Reformed church is ready for the placing of the pews and that will be completed during the present week. ? And still there Is nothing doing with reference to that proposition to concrete the Liberty street sidewalks from Congress street down LiiDerty street to the Southern depot. This task should be accomplished by all means. ? Gaston la defeated Yorkvllle In a game of baseball on the Yorkvllle grounds Friday afternoon by a score of 11 to 10. Although they secured 13 hits to Gastonla's 7. numerous errors on the part of the Yorkvllle boys were responsible for Gastonla's winning. R. Finley's hitting and H. Suggs fielding were the features of the game. Gastonia easily outclassed Yorkvllle in fielding, but the Yorkvllle boys were far superior to the visitors in batting. Batteries, Yorkvllle?L. Grist and Quinn; Gastonia?Pearson and S. SuggB. Umpire, Bert F. Smith; Scorer, Moore. ? A very interesting and well rendered musical recital was presented to a large audience in the Graded school auditorium last Friday evening by students of the music department. The recital was directed by Miss Maud Eberhardt, who is In charge of this department of the school and selections were rendered by the following students: Misses Frances Witherspoon, Evelyn Shieder, Sarah Carrol!, Sue Meek Allison, Margaret Love, Mary Esther McConnell. Rachel Wylle. Ella Rhoda Mackorel, Eleanor Herndon, Mell Burgess, Sara Jones, Io'.a Garrisoi, Mary Stokes and Master Kershaw Walsh. ? Mr. D. R. Lavender, proprietor of the Idle Hour theatre is in Yorkville today. In conversation he spoke of having- had some films made of scenes in Laurens and Newberry, and although the pictures have not yet been developed, he hopes that they will be all right. He talked as if he would gladly do his part in the production of moving picture scenes in Yorkville, if there is any inclination to co-operation in the matter. It is understood of course, that desirable pictures can be had only on some special occasion, or after due preparation. MEDAL FOR ROAD ESSAY A gold medal to the school boy or girl between the ages of 10 and 16 who writes the best composition, not to exceed 800 words, on the repair and maintenance of earth roads, is to be awarded by Logan Waller Page, director, office of Public Roads, United States department of agriculture, Washington, D. C. All compositions must be submitted to Mr. Page before May 15. 1913, and the medal will be awarded as soon thereafter as the compositions can be graded. The composition may be based on knowl edge gained from books or other sources, but no quotations should be made, i" After many years' experience in dealing with the public road situation of the oonntry, it is Mr. Page's belief that ignorance on the subject of repair and maintenance of roads is as ' much the cause of their bad condition I as any other one factor. It Is expect- j ed that the competition will bring about a better understanding of the subject, of repair and maintenance in the rural districts. Many children living in the rural districts have experienced the disadvantages of roads made irr passable through lack of proper maintenance and it is expected that their interest in the competition will stimulate greater interest among the parents. Bad roads have prevented many children 1 from obtaining a proper education and have even prevented doctors from reaching the side of rural patients in time to save their lives. Any child between the ages mentioned, attending a country school, may compete. Only one side of the paper must be written on; each page should be numbered; the name, age and address of the writer, and the name and location of the school which he or she is attending must be plainly written at the top of the first page. The announcement of the competition has been sent to the superintendents of schools In the rural dlstricte. No further information can be obtained from the office of Public Roads. This announcement should be plain to everyone. and all children will thus start on a basis of equality. TRACK MEET There was a "meet" between the Hickory Grove and Yorkvllle High school track teams on the grounds of the latter team yesterday afternoon and a small bunch of Yorkvllle people who turned out to witness the trials of speed, endurance and skill, were quite pleasantly entertained during about two hours while the contest lasted. The Hickory Grove team in charge of Superintendent R. H. Holliday was made up of Whlsonant, Allison, S. Slaughter, Castles and Foster, and the Yorkvllle team In charge of Prof. Witherspoon was made up of L. Grist, Gaulden, Qulnn, Garrison and Devlnney. As far as practicable the order of i events was the same as that prescribed for. the state meet to be held in Columbia next Friday; but the Hickory Grove boys not having been practiced on the shot put, discus throw and pole vault, allowed those contests to go by default, the Yorkvllle boys taking first and second places and giving the Hickory Grove boys third. The other events were all contested, and the competition was well worth while, the general opinion being that most, of the records were close up to the best that are likely to be made In Columbia. I* Grist, of the Yorkvllle team, made the hundred yard dash in 10 3-5 seconds, and Whisonant of Hickory Grove established a record of nineteen feet in | the running broad jump. Quinn of Yorkvllle, high-jumped five feet and one inch, and Garrison of the Yorkvllle team ran a mile in 5 minutes and 10 seconds. . There was some question however ' about the propriety of counting the record made by Garrison for the reason that he is barred from the state meet by the age limit, being twenty. There was no disposition to withhold j admiration from Garrison for his remarkable speed and endurance, in this trying event, and it was admitted that Slaughter came in a most creditably I close second, there being only a few ! yards between them at the wlndup ' Both finished in splendid form that in dlcated that they would have been good for another mile If the same had i been demanded. Out of a possible hundred points the Yorkville team scored 76 and the Hickory GroVe team 24. Grist of the York, ville team led with 21 in the number of points scored; Whisonant of the Hicki ory Grove team came second with 13 | points and Quinn of the Yorkville team ? came third with 10 points. The events, and records were as follows: 1 100-Yard Dash?Grist, Yorkville, 10 3-i sec.; Whisonant, Hickory Grove, ! Devinney, Yorkville. High Jump?Quinn, Yorkville, 6 ft. 1 In.; Grist, Yorkville; Whisonant, niunury uruve. 880-Yard Dash?Garrison, Yorkville, 2 mln., 16 sec.; Foster, Hickory Grove;' 1 Gaulden, Yorkville. 440-Yard Dash?Devlnney, Yorkville, j 1 mln.; Quinn, Yorkville; Castles, ' Hickory Grove. Running Broad Jump?Whisonant, Hickory Grove, 19 ft.; Grist, Yorkville; Qulnn, Yorkville. 220-Yard Dash?Grist, Yorkville, 25 4-6 sec.; Devlnney, Yorkville; Whisonant, Hickory Grove. Mile Run?Garrison, Yorkville, 6 mln. 10 sec.; Slaughter, Hickory Grove; Gaulden, Yorkville. 120-Yard Hurdles?Grist, Yorkville, 14 4-5 sec.; Whisonant, Hickory Grove; Qulnn, Yorkville. LOCAL LACONICS Rock Hill 8chool Bonds. Rock Hill special of April 21 to the Columbia State: The board of trustees of the Rock Hill school district this morning sold to the New York Life Insurance company the 876,000 Issue of school bonds at a premium of $2,049.76; There were five other bids, but this was the best one. Closed by the Sheriff. Rock Hill Record : Sheriff Brown came over from Yorkville Friday night and closed up me various esiauiisuments of H. F".nch & Co., of this city. We hear that a petition in bankruptcy has been filed against the firm. Assets or liabilities have not yet been made public. Mrs. 3. A. Gilfillen Dead. Mrs. 6. A. Gilfillen died at her home in Gastonia early last Saturday after a long Illness. She was aged 53 years, one month and 20 days. The interment took place in Sharon cemetery yesterday after services by Rev. Dr. J. C. Galloway, pastor of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church of Gastonia, of which the deceased was a member. Doctors On the Line. Among the questions taken up at the recent annual meeting of the State Medical association was that of North Carolina doctors living along the state line, crossing over and practicing in South Carolina. The board of district counsellors was instructed to look into the matter and take such legal steps j Ka na/iAoeowf tn nnf o a ton to I tus majr uc ticcoocatj wv u u?v^ .w such practice. 1 Filbert 8choo| District. Filbert school district, No. 21, on last Saturday voted a special tax of five mills on the taxable property of the district for school purposes. There are about 65 qualified voters In the district and there were 62 votes cast. The tax carried by only four majority. There has been a hard, long sustained campaign on the special tax question In the district, and the tax advocates are in high feather over their victory. ? Columbia State, Saturday: Without a tremor and with Indifference, Charles P. Rushing, the Chesterfield county farmer who was convicted several months ago on the charge of killing his wife, walked to the electric chair at the state penitentiary and 1 paid the death penalty. The current was turned on for 55 seconds at 11.54 ] o'clock yesterday morning, and Rush- 1 ing was pronounced dead at 11.67 by Dr. R. T. Jennings, the prison physi- 1 clan. Rushing did not make a state- < ment after being placed in the chair. 1 He was about 40 years old. Rushing I is the eighth man and the second white man to be electrocuted since I the installation of the chair at the 1 penitentiary, mere were wuee Btuic . witnesses present yesterday In the i "death house," which Is located In the i prison yard. The condemned man i was brought from his cell to the death i chamber and placed In the chair at 1 11.45 o'clock. He said that he had no < statement to make upon question by i Capt. J. D. Griffith, superintendent of 1 the penitentiary. Rushing was con- ] vlcted In Chesterfield county several < months ago on the charge of killing i his wife. According to the testimony < given at the trial, he went home drunk one night and after a quarrel, shot her < to death. Samuel N. Hyde, who was i convicted In Anderson county on the i charge of killing his wife, was the first 1 white man to be electrocuted at the < state prison. THE FLOOD AT LOGANSPORT Elliott Spring* of Lancaster, Writaa Graphic 8tory to Hi* Father. The letter which follows was received several days ago by Col. Leroy Springs from his son, Elliott Springs, a student at the Culver Military academy In Indiana, who during the terrible floods ten days ago, did noble work as a member of the rescue party sent from his school to Logansport, a submerged town fifteen miles away. Believing the young man's own account of his experiences would be of partlc ular Interest here at home, we have Becured Col. Springs' permission to publish it. The letter reads: Culver, Ind., March 30, 1913. Dear Father: I guess you have received the paper I sent you just after we came back from forty-eight hours' work in Logansport Now, we don't all claim to be heroes, but sixty volunteers, mostly men who had been to summer school, saved over 1,000 people, mostly women and children. We saved 800 the first day and were too busy to count the second. At about 3 o'clock Wednesday morning we were awakened with the news that Liogansport was under fifteen feet of water and that we were needed. We loaded five boats on flat cars and got a switch engine and caboose from South Bend. It was sure some Job carrying those big boats a half mile to the sidetrack. Only about 100 were awakened and all volunteered, but they only picked about forty-five who had been to summer school and fifteen of the biggest in the school, hoping they could row. Then they gave us each a canteen of water and a cup of coffee and plied us all in that one caboose. You see there was no drinking water or food there at all, so we went prepared to stay. By daybreak we had the boats launched and began our fight with the water. Logansport is situated in the valley between the Wabash and Eel rivers. They join in the lower part of town and the whole city now was a big river. Every street was a raging torrent, fifteen feet deep on an average and every alley was a mill race. The flood had come on suddenly in the night and the people had had no chance to get away. Those in one-story houses either got to one with an attic or second story or were drowned like rats in a trap. Once we found a man up to his neck in water with Just his head sticking out of the roof where he had torn a hole in it with his hands. Another time we came to a hip roof of a house Just sticking out of the water. We rapped on it with an oar and heard a cry for help. We tore off the shingles with bayonets and found two young girls lying on the rafters in the water. They had been there for forty-eight hours without food, water or light and scantily clothed. The thermometer was 24 degrees and it was snowing hard. You can't Imagine how hard it was to navigate those big heavy boats in that current and those narrow streets. Every time we came to a corner the cross current would pick us up and dash us against a pole or house. Once it drove us on a submerged iron fence and ripped a hole in the bottom. Lots of times we couldn't get near the house but would get the people out of the second story window by ropes. Do you remember the Barnett hotel where we took breakfast in Logansport one morning on the way to_ summer school? Well we took rorty-nve people oui 01 the second story back window by dragging the boat up an alley. It was aa much trouble landing the people as getting them, especially as there were so many cripples, sick people and paralyzed people. I remember once we were taking some women out of the Interurban station when they passed a little girl with spinal trouble to me. She was strapped to a board and as I carried her down the boat I could hear the most pitiful groans I have ever heard. Another time we had to bring a woman down the ladder who had both her legs broken. She smiled at us and was cheerful all the time in spite of the fact that every step nearly killed her. We had to take a mother with a twohour old baby out of a drenched flat and I tell you it was some Job. We let her down by a rope and Just wrapped the baby up In five or six blankets and threw It down. A woman wanted us to save her dog but we wouldn't do it, so she wrapped it up like a baby and handed it down carefully. My! but we were mad when it started barking. Two men were rowing down Market street (the main street) Wednesday In a steel row boat when they struck the current crossing at Third. The current dashed it against an Iron post and wrappeu lL fcU UUUU UlC puic unc ?. yi?vg of wire. Three hours later we came along (Cutter No. 6) and found the men hanging to the awning of a grocery store three blocks further down. I wish you could have seen that steel boat; bent double around that pole, the bow and stern rammed Into each other like a safety pin. You can Imagine how swift the current was, even a mile from the river. The rivers themselves were like the rapids above Niagara and no boat could stay upright in it for a second. All six bridges over the Wabash were washed away and only one held on the Eel. Thursday morning about 2.30 we took No. 6 and carried it across the bridge to get at the "island," as it is called, but it is really a peninsula between the rivers. Here we worked Thursday, at times almost the banks of the river itself. We could see houses, barns and chicken coops shooting down the river at the rate of forty and fifty miles an hour. Wednesday dead bodies were lodged up against the piers of the bridges and could be seen in the river. No one has been able to get them off yet. Some are supposed to have been washed all the way down from Peru, fifteen miles north. But the most horrible of all was when a man's head was found between two iron spikes in the bridge. It is supposed that he was caught there by his neck and the current tore his body away. So far he has not been identified. There is one thing I saw that I will never forget. No. 6 was lashed to awning poles of Blick's saloon, a half a block from the river. How we got there I don't know, but it took us three hours to get back, the current was so strong. We had a little row-boat with us and we sent it down further to get an old lady out of the Pennsylvania station. ! They got there and started back. They struck a submerged baggage truck and , lost control of the boat. The current , caught them and drove them against a guy wire of a telephone pole. The boat , upset and was broken into bits against J the pole. They weren't fifty yards from . us but we were powerless to help them. |, I shall never forget that woman's ] screams. I havef dreamed about It every night since. The two men shouted ' for help but soon the waves of the rlv- . er hushed their cries. We turned away and hid our faces; we couldn't bear to look. Then suddenly we heard a yell 1 and looked up. One of the men was ! pulling himself, hand over hand, on the i guy wire to the pole. We yelled en- I couragement to him and grabbed our ' oars. The officer of the boat drew and 1 loaded his revolver and commanded, i "Sit steady, we can't help him! It 1 would be suicide to unfasten these i ropes! Don't look! Coll rope and keep i your nerve. Can't drown thirty people i to try to save one!" In the meantime ] the man got to the pole yelling for i help. Then we got another little row- 1 boat and two men volunteered to try it. 1 A-'-1 ll* - nnd novar QY. ( we LOIU L11U1II gvuuuj c aim uc*v? v? pected to see them again. Slowly they drew themselves along the sides of buildings by awnings and windows until they were within fifteen feet of him. We were nearly mad In the boat, feeling like murderers. They lashed the little boat to the door of the Hotel Dunn and swung the stern around. One man stood up in the stern and threw a rope to the man on the pole. It fell short. Again he tried, but again it fell short. The third time he caught It and they pulled him In. That was the bravest thing I have ever seen or hope to see. The other man managed to pull limself Into a store and was saved also. Later we heard that the woman was eaught in an eddy and carried up Into in alley where she was saved, but I ean hear her screaming right now. We didn't have much to eat those lays either. Wednesday I had sixteen pint cups of coffee, a bacon sandwich, i can of sardines and a little can of aeans. But some of the people we res:ued hadn't tasted food for three da vs. The newspapers have said lots more I about us on account of this, than they W1 ever thought about the Washington bj trip. It's been forgotten entirely. c< Your devoted son, Oi Elliott ai ?Lancaster News. at , m , 8a 80UTH CAROLINA NEW8. ? Dr. A. C. Moore, dean of the South ^ Carolina university and Dr. H. N. Sny- ^ der, president of Wofford college, have di been suggested for the vacancy caused ai by the resignation of Dr. Mitchell. Governor Blease is quoted am suggest- u, Ing that either D. W. Daniel of Clem- al gon, or A. G. Rembert of .<Woflford, will D make a good president 1 . Jjj * ? Edgefield, April 21: Sheriff Swear- ?> lngen received formal' ndtfca this afternoon from Philadelphia that the appeal before the supreme court of Pennsylvania brought by J. O. Grant gi in the habeas corpus proceedings in e< resisting the efforts to bring him to r( South Carolina will be heard Thurs- n day afternoon. It will be remembered g, that J. O. Grant is the negro who , is 0i wanted here for murder of Mr. Durst tt at Johnston six years ago. Two weeks r ago Gov. Tener of Pennsylvania, grant- at ed the requisition, but the delay in n, bringing Grant to Edgefield was caus- f< ea uy uie uauctu vui^ua |iivvnuiii|su>j brought by his lawyer. As It Is prac- u tically certain that the supreme court h will sustain the action of the governor, p Sheriff Swearingen will send his depu- if ty to Philadelphia tomorrow to bring 0] the negro to South Carolina. c< ? Gaffney merchants and business men have determined to put a stop to the "deadbeats" and blll-beaters lmposing upon them and are making j~ preparations for the Issuing a credit * guide, which is to be circulated ? among the business and professional r1 houses. The books will not give a " man's financial rating as to what he ? is worth; Instead, will show how ? promptly he meets his obligations and ? how soon he pays his billa A perraanent organization has been affected " with the election of J. N. Lipscomb ? as president, G. G. Byers, vice presldent, and R. A. Dobson, secretary and J* treasurer. The executive board of q the association Is composed of fifteen r local business men, _with W. J. Wll- * kins as cnairman. rne promoters 01 the plan state that the book will ap- " pear within the next tew weeks, and it is hoped that it will In a large " measure do away with the contract- " ing of bad debts by irresponsible par- ^ tie.. ? ? Georgetown special of April 21 to f, the Columbia State: The plant of the h Atlantic Coast Lumber corporation, B] said to be one of the largest lumber n plants in the world, having a capacity ti of one-half million feet per day, was p almost completely destroyed by a fire which broke out this morning at about y 5 o'clock. Ffenned by a strong wind 5, from the north which Increased as the ^ flames made headway, It seemed that 3 nothing in the pathway of the flames B. could escape, but one of the mills ^ which was located north of where the1 K Are commenced and another, which was ^ not directly in the direction of which y, the wind was blowing, remain stand- t< lng. Two mills, together with the pow- t< er house and two dry kilns and a vast n amount of lumber, some 10,000,000 feet jj were destroyed. The loss is estimated |c at about one-half million dollars, com- tx pletely covered by Insurance. It is ix quite a serious proposition to a great r< many people who were employed In h these mills, as well as to business gen- ai erally In Georgetown and vicinity, as w this was the chief Industry in this sec- ^ tion, but the management has an- jr nounced that the work of rebuilding 3 will be started at once, and that the q two mills which were not burned will p be run day and night, so It is hoped 0] that it will not turn out to be as serl- i0 ous as was at first anticipated. Owing 3 to the fact thaf most of the pumps t( were put out of commission during the ^ early stage of the fire very little could pj be done to check the flames. However, the plant of the Dupont Powder com- p] pany, which manufactures alcohol from m sawdust, was saved by heroic work on, n< the part of the management and em- ^ ployes of that plant The flie attracted w great attention and a large crowd of aj people, In fact every one who qould g, possibly get out, turned out to witness It j ? Columbia Record, Saturday: "Now, y< gentlemen, I am going to grant this d: requisition. That settles it?without t< any further hearing. 1 do not propose lr for technicalities or trickeries to con- e1 trol In my office. The requisition will q be granted. They are your prisoners, st Mr. Qegan. They are out of your ti hands, Mr. Sheriff. Mr. Poulnot do tt not put your hands on those men any la more. Unless the court Interferes with you, Mr. Gegan, you can start ta t} New York on the next train." The n foregoing was an excerpt from an E opinion handed down by Governor w Cole L. Blease this afternoon when t) he honored the requisition from Gov- ^ ernor Sulzer for A. A. Carter - and T Frank Tarbeaux, wanted in New York for running a "fake pool roohi," and j, for "fleecing" victims out of thousands 9, of dollars. . When the hearing was E commenced today Mn Mordecai, one w of the counsel for the defense, show-i p ed Governor Blease a writ of habeas corpus from Judge DeVore, granted ^ yesterday in Charleston, Instructing w that the prisoners be brought back to tj Charleston after the decision of the el chief executive. The governor, upon a] reading the order, immediately ais? tl missed the hearing, stating that a w hearing would be granted when the ol courts were through with the matter. a, After a portion of the persons present w had left the room, a telegram was g shown to Governor Blease by Deputy jr Sheriff Joseph M. Poulnot, which stat- w ed that Judge DeVore ordered Poul* not to release the prisoners If the chief 5, executive refused to sign the papers. jj But under the writ of the judge If n, Governor Blease signed, the papers, jj, they were to be brought back to 0, Charleston. Solicitor W. H. Cobb, C( who represented the state on the re- ul quest of the attorney general, gave as ^ his opinion that the habeas corpus rf writ was worthless; that when requi- cj sition was made on the governor of w one state by the chief executive of an- jc other, no court, whether circuit or su- a, preme, had the right to issue any pa- pi per until the governor of the state, to a which the requisition was sent, had Q] passed on the matter. George R. Rem- a bert, of the defense, explained that the <5, writ was obtained, not in a spirit of ^ trickery, but to get the prisoners out cj of the Charleston jail. At this June- cj ture, Governor Blease announced that p no further hearing would be granted; p that he intended to grant the requlsl- h. tion. In this connection, he said: "I e( am free to say that I do not like this h] kind of practice. This thing is a piece ce of trickery worked up so if I do grant m this requisition, this man here, the ar agent of the state of New York, can ^ be deviled and delayed by court or- cj tiers. That is all. I look at it that a, way and I do not believe it is any- ?, thing else." , a( ? They, have accused W. R. Dllllng- m bam, one of the applicants for the t0 Spartanburg postmastership, of horse w stealing. The story is told by a Wash- ot ington correspondent as follows: w rhere were two charges against Dil- w llngham. One was that during the w administration of Governor Heyward D be had secured the appointment of th several men to the constabulary force dl ind had taken money for it. He readily admitted' that this was trua *e He said that the men came to him w md asked mm to try to get jods tor :hem, and that he made them pay him tor his time and expenses In going to Columbia, and that was all he took from them. This charge fell flat " with those who heard It, and was not pressed very vigorously. The next ,h jharge was more serious, and was In w: jfltect that Dillingham had tried to e? iteal a horse. Otts presented an af- P1 Idavlt signed by himself, Lee Brown UJ ind one or two others, stating that m :hey had had a conversation with a nan named StoveV, who used to live n Spartanburg but who now lives In 3reenvllle, and a man named <31111and, In which these men stated that Co1 n 1898 Dillingham was shipping lome horses to Tampa, Fla., to be fa sold to officers In the army, that he al< carried along a horse belonging to At Stover to sell for him, that he came ha jack and reported to Stover that the N< lorse had got killed or had died; that so Stover afterward found that the horse lad been sold to an army officer, that Mi le went to Dillingham about It and w< hat Dillingham had then paid him 1160 to hush the matter up. Neither tei 311111and nor Stover were present, nor ha lid they send any affidavit. All that he as present was the affidavit signed r Otts, Lee, Brown and others as the mversatlon with these men. Mr. its explained their non appearance, id the fact that they did not present tidavit in person by saying they had .id they did not want to get mixed 1 In the case, and that besides they td no money to spend on a trip to ashlngton. Otts declared, however, iat Stover and Ollliland had both ,id that if they were summoned by le process of law they would appear id testify as to the facts. Dlllingim presented an affidavit signed by man named W. K. Thompson who ?e? to live in Atlanta. Thompson's tidavit was to the effect that he and illingham shipped some horses to am pa at the same time, but were op-atlng on a separate acdount; that illingham had nothing to do with te shipment -of Stover horse, hat the horse got sick gad could not i sold; that Dillingham made a tradi i which he was able to put in the tover horse for 140, which he turnL over to Thompson; that after theft 'turn to Spartanburg. Stover waa veiT luch dissatisfied, and was having it ood deal to say, and that finally. In fder to-aVold'trouble and in order > get Stover's mouth closed he rhompson) paid Stover f 160, or mte amount, and that Dillingham had othing whatever to do with it The >regolng Is the substance of the barges that were made against Dtlngham. Mr. L&nham brought with 1m a score or more letters from romlnent men In Spartanburg, coltcted yesterday, after they had heard t the charges, expressing absolute infldence in Dillingham's Integrity. ? Camden Chronicle: The body of foreigner was found last Monday bout midday on the Kennedy planttion, hidden in a culvert under the oadway of the Seaboard Air Line. Ixaminatlon showed that the man ad two bullet holes In his body? ne through the neck and Mother atering the arm. The section master nd his crew working between Camen and Lugoff made the discovery? le man's feet protruding out of the ulvert with his head wrapped In his ?at. The body was carried to Lugoff here the coroner viewed the retains and It proved to be that of eorge Simons, one of two men claimig to be Syrian preachers who were sen at Camden earlier In the day sociting aid for a churoh located somehere In the old country. After leavlg Camden the men walked In the diactlon of Lugoff and were seen by the * sctlon master. Later he met one of le men on the river bridge returnig to Camden, and going further >und the other In the culvert with is feet protruding out. Sheriff Huokbee was notified and got In oommaicatlon with nearby sections, with is result that he received a telehone message from Bethune stating lat the man wanted was taken from le afternoon train there?he having oarded the train at 8hepard. To the fficers he gave his name as Rev. enj. Johns, but to Mr. Kosma,. who Desks the man's language he gave is name as Abraham Michael and ild that he knew nothing of his jmpanlon except that he left him beSka kU OAinD IUU IUO IITVI uw tUUi^OUiUU 6v'M5 awards Columbia and he returning ) Cheraw. While there were no eyewitnesses to the killing, it ie the beef that the man killed hie compan>n, robbed him of hie money and led to oonceal the crime by conceelig the body in the culvert. When arreted he had in hie handbag a ladlee' andbag, live pocket knlvee and the im of (286 in currency. No revolver as found on him and it la supposed e threw It away. A paper purportig to be hie credentials, signed by urr Lb Blxler, pastor of the Advent hrietlan church, and dated Live Oak, la., December 27, 1912, wm found a the prisoner, which read:. "Have >oked thru the credentials of the ?v. Benj. John. Bo far as 1 am able > say he appears to be worthy of any id that you may be led of God to lace In his handa" Another link In ie chain of evidence against the rlsoner developed Tuesday when a lit of clothes was found in a. house ear Shepard station which proved ? be the suit which the man had on hen the killing occurred. The clothes towed blood stains and were ldentlsd as those belonging to the prisoner. The coroner's Jury, with Mr. Jos. earn as foreman, held an, Inquest esterday afternoon and their verict was "that George Simons came > bis death by a gun shot wound I 1.110 oaoua ui oeuj. yuuu. iiv.usn tfdence was brought \>ut at the inneat except that a colored woman ated she saw blows passed between te two men and then they went down ie embankment A few minutes .ter she heard pistol shots. ? Columbia special of April 21 to ie Charlotte Observer: The disbar tent proceedings against Barnard B. Ivans, a member of the Columbia bar, ere taken up in the supreme court lis morning and at 2 o'clock the ate had practically finished its case, he main features of the long mornig session were the score or more cltens of Columbia and Saluda, who wore that the reputation of B. B. Ivans for honesty and fair dealing, as bad, and the testimony of two arties that Evans, while acting as ieir attorney, collected money for lem, which he kept The court room ras crowded when the case was called lis morning, and there were wltness> present from Columbia, Saluda nd Edgefield. Chief Justice Gary rered from the bench when this case as reached and Mr. Sam J. Nichols f Spartanburg, sat as special assoclte Justice in the case. As soon as the ise was called, the attorneys for vans moved to quash the proceedigs on the ground that the complaint as not verified, that it was not rought through the resolution of a ar, and that it was not based on any laicimeoi ui a gimiu jut jr, UIIU u nw> lerely based on information and beef. Arguments on this point took up rer an hour and the court retired for >nsultation, returning in a few mlntes and announcing that the motion ad been overruled. Solicitor Cobb iad the complaint against Evans, largtng him, among other things. 1th collecting a claim of $101 bernging to the Murray Drug company gainst T. E. Dowling of Saluda and ocketing the money; with negotiating loan for George L. Salter, a farmer f Saluda, from J. Pranke & Son of ugusta for $198.90, with having enorsed the check and collected the loney, which he kept. He was also larged with having slandered certain tlzens of Saluda, namely, Sheriff B. . Sample, Senator B. W. Crouch, and . W. Able, when, at Spartanburg iring the last campaign, he denounci them as "thieves, incendiaries arid ind tigers." Other allegations conirning his conduct before he was aditted to the bar, the court ruled out, id they did not permit the prosecuon to go into the charges against the tizens said to have been slandered, inounclng that they would rule on lat point later. Evans in his return In^Uted gett ng the Salter loan, but .id he was privileged to sign it as atrnov on/1 h?H Intended to Day it hen he found it was in the hands of her lawyers and he denied any rong intention in connection thereith. Regarding the claim of $103 hlch he collected for the Murray rug company from Dowling. he said lat he had remitted all the money le the Murray Drug company to tern except his commission. He rerred to the fact that the indictment hlch had been returned against him Saluda for forgery had been quashI. B. B. Evans denied any wrongring in the allegations made against m on the stand in his own behalf lis afternoon before the supreme iurt. A score of witnesses swore to ie good character of Mr. Evans. He as on the stand when court adjourn1 for the night and the disbarment oceedings against him will be taken ?"?l? " ?>?? Oi? (iinrpmp court eets tomorrow morn In*. BULLOCK'S CREEK NOTES rreapondenc* The Torkrllle Enquirer Bullock's Creek, April 19.?The rmers In this section are getting ong fairly well with their farm work, i a matter of course the heavy rains tve kept them somewhat behind, jvertheless a good deal of corn and me cotton has been planted. Dr. W. S. McMurray attended the edlcal association In Rock Hill, last 5ek. Miss Juanlta Neely, one of the achers in the school at this place, s been spending a short while at r home In Rock Hill.