Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-05-08

present as if several employees of the
Institution are going to be carried into
court upon criminal charges. The
details of several matters of which
the public is as yet in ignorance prom
ise to be brought out and there is no
telling where the thing is going to
end.
Yesterday things looked pretty live
ly about the capitol. Here and there
could be seen men connected with the
dispensary in one way or another IN
the halls while Governor Ellerbe and
Attorney General Barber were con-
sulting in the formers private office.
THOSE MISSING TWO GALLONS.
Governor Ellerbe is now also fully
investigating the matter of the disap.
pearance of two gallons of the liquor
shipped to Mr.. W. NJ. Wilson, of
Peaks, who had complied with the in
spection clause Of the act in all its de-.
tails. This liquor it will be remem-
bered was seized by Constable Har-
mon; when Mr.. Wilson got the case it
was two gallons short of the quantity
that should have been in it. Consta-
BILE Harmon, it is understood, claims
that the two gallons leaked out. He
was in to see the governor yesterday.
Governor Ellerbe says he is fully de-
termined to find out exactly where
those two gallons went to. He does
not propose to allow any liquor seized
to evaporate if he can help it.
COMPARE GANTT's LETTERS TO
sCRUGGs.
Last night the following additional
chapter of the "Dear Clark" letter
matter was handed to The State:
Mr.. I. o. J. Wood makes this state
ment:
On the Sunday before / went to At
lanta s. w. Scruggs and T. Larry
CAN'T drove up in front of 'Trimmier's
bookstore in Spartanburg and asked
for me. I went out, and went up at
their invitation to The Piedmont Head
light Office, and while in the Office they
wrote two letters, one addressed to
Clarke Howell, Atlanta, which they
gave to me sealed 1 did not know
what were the contents. One other
letter written with pencil by Scruggs,
which was copied by CAN'T on the
typewriter. l don't know who this
one was addressed to.
They knew I was going to Atlanta
on the following Tuesday. had also
in my possession an envelope which was
written on the hack with pencil by S.
w. Scruggs certain questions for me
to ask Bumenthal & Bickart, of At
lanta. They desired B. & B. to &C
knowledge that QUITS had made a
proposition to them to the effect that
he would ship out their liquors pro-
vided they, B. & B., would pay him so
much per case. Mr.. Bickart said that
II am too honest a man to do such a
thing, and I can't do it. Mr.. QUITS
never made me any such PROPOSE
ton; I am the man who made the
proposition"
l am in no way responsible for
the "Dear Clark" confidential letter
reaching South Carolina, nor for it be-
ing in the hands of the press.
I make this statement in justice to
Mr.. QUITS, since have been used in
an attempt to iDjure him.
I. %. J. WOOD.
Columbia, S. c., May 4.
CAN'T MAKES EXPLANATION.
The following is from the Columbia
Register, of Wednesday, having been
received by The Register on the night
before:
SpARTANBURG, S. c., May 4.-Edi-
tor Register: In your Charleston cor
respondence of today you publish a
letter that I wrote to Hon. Clark How
ell, the editor of the Atlanta Consti-
tuition. After the last meeting of the
state board I heard that this letter
was made public. A friend in Colum-
bia having notified me of the fact, and
asking its contents, and to which L
replied by giving the substance of the
letter. l also saw reference to the
same in a daily paper, and wrote at
once to the Columbia correspondent
to call on the gentleman in Columbia,
to whom I had written, and get my
reply for publication. If that party
ever received my letter he did not re-
spond. My letter was certainly mail
ed and stamped.
"Now in regard to the Howell letter {:
penned every word it, and have
nothing to re ract or apologize for.
1t was my intention, so soon as the
board had held its present meeting, to
try and get copy and have it pub
| lished.
Information had reached my ears
that Mr.. Bickart, of the liquor house
of Blumenthal & Bickart, Atlanta, had
been blacklisted by the state board of
control for offering Shipping Clerk
QUITS 25 cents per case for sending out
his goods in preference to the liquors
sold by other firms, and which had
been ordered by the county dispensers {;
that Mr.. QUITS had first consented to
this proposition, but afterwards Bick-
art came to him and stated that he
could only pay but 10 cents per case,
as he found the profits too close. 1t
woe tbon that Mr. Onzts went IN Mr.