The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-04-01
THE PHOSPHATE WAR.
LATEST MOVE IN THE FIGHT FOH
COOSAW'S TREASURES.

COOSAW'S TREASURES.
Mr. U. K. Brooks Appointed Temporary
Receiyer-The Effects of the Appoint
States Court.
COLUMBIA, March 2l.-The Coosaw
business has taken rather interesting
turn. Governor Tillman received this
afternoon the following dispatch, dated
at Aiken:
U. r. Brooks has been appointed
temporary receiver. He must come
down on the South Carolina Railway
this afternoon and we will all meet him
at Branchyille. Telegraph Your reply
TO me. Y. j. Pope, Attorney General.
Governor Tillman answered that Mr.
Brooks would go, and he went. Due
notice will, OF course, be given when the
motion to make the recelvershlp perma-
nent will be heard. 1t is understood
that the present receiver will take pos
session as receiver and after advertise
ment for bids to 60 to work will let the
successful companies ip. 1t was not
explicitly 50 stated, but there is a notion
that the United States Court injunction
will be ignored, ''as it cannot apply in
the new case" The States receiver is
different person from any Of the phos-
phate commissioners, consider ed as 3.
r. Tillman, W. II. Ellerbe, y. Pope,
J. D. Montgomery, or W. II. Walter,
as they are named in the bill of iniunc.
ton.
AS all persons are eniolned from en-
tering Coosaw it will be interesting TO
note whether. when the receiver goes
into the forbidden land, he will be ar
rested by the United States marshal o"
whether he will arrest the United States
marshal.
It ought to he very easy to understand
new that Attorney General Pope did not
90 to Newberry yesterday.
A GENERAL SURPRISE.
The Coosaw question is daily growing
more complicated. The case presents
some new phase almost daily. Even
the lawyers interested in the case are
not surprised at the frequent changes in
the question. Injunctions and orders
are getting to be of frequent occurrence,
and no one will be astonished to hear OF
another order in few days.
The new feature Of the CO, saw drama
was added Yesterday at Aiken in the
Court of Chamb,rs, when Judge AID
rich appointed a temporary receiver to
take possession of the bed Of the Coosaw
River opposite to south Of Chiso!m's Is
land.
Attorney General Pope and Mr. Geo.
S. Mower, who represent the phosphate
commissioner, were in Aiken yesterday,
and made the application for the receT-
ership.
The Coosaw people were entirely un-
aware Of the movements Of the repre-
sentatlves of the commission. They
had no idea as to the next move, al
though they expected something would
be done. Mr. Augustine T. Smythe,
counsel for the Coosaw Company, was
ir Greenville yesterday, and the other
counsel of the company were surprised
when informed Of the appointment OF a
receiver. The true inwardness Of the
last move on the Coosaw chess board IS
no. fully understood yet.
TIE temporary receiver is Mr. .. r.
Brooks, of the Secretary OF Estates office
at Columbia. The following is copy
Of the official order
''On hearing the complaint herein and
on motion oil the Hor Y. J. Pope A.
torney General of the State OF South
Carolina, it's ordered:
81. That the defendants, the Coosaw
Mining Company, show cause, if any
they can, before me at Aiken, South
Carolina, at Chambers, on Tuesday, 7th
April, 1891, at - midday, why they
and all persons claiming under them and
their servants, agents, officers and en-
ployees should not be enjoined and res
trained until the hearing Of this cause
from in any way digging, mining or re
moving the phosphate rock and phos-
plate deposits in the bed Of the Coosaw
River and every part thereof and from
attempting to DIG, mine or remove tie
same or any part thereof, and from in
terfering with, obstructing, hindcring or
preventing or ATTEMPTING to interfere
with, hinder, obstruct or proven. any
agent Of the plaintiff or person thereto
by the plaintiff or said board of phos-
phate commissioners authorized. from
digging, mining and removing the same.
And why a fit and proper person should
not be appointed as receiver to take pos
session of the bed Of the CooSaW River
opposite to and south OF Chisolm's Is
land with the usual powers of receivers
in such cases, pending the final detcrmi-
nation Of these proceedings.
,. That in the meantime and Gn!il
the hearing hereby ordered the said de-
fendents, the Coosaw Mining Company
and their servants, agents officers and
employees, be and they are hereby en-
Joined from in any way digging, mining
or removing the phosphate rock and
phosphate deposits in the bed OF the
Coosaw River AS aforesaid and from dig
ging, mining or removing and attempting
to die. mine or remove the same or any
part thereof, and from inter erin@ wi h,
obstructing, h!ndering OF preventing or
attempting to interfere with ob>tru2t.
hinder or prevent any agent O.! the
plaintiff or person thereto By the plaintiff
or the sail board Of Fhosphlte COM
missiouers authorized from dIg ing, min
ing and removing the same.
3. 1t is further ordered that [. Il.
Brooks be and he is hereby appointed
temporary re eiver of al The Coosa~
River phosphate territory lying opposite
to and south Of Cnisolm's Island with
the usual powers of receivers in such
cases to take possession OF, hold and oc-
cupv the same su .iect to the ordcc OF this
Court and that he make areport to this
Court Of al his actin.s and openings
hereunder.
i. 1t is ordered further that copy Of
this order be forthwith served upon