Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-07-29
SOIITH CAROLINA NEWS.
State Eoualization Board.


SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
State Equalization Board.
The state equalization board has
fixed upon the following assessments
Southern Express Company, S94,-
1902; Pullman Car Company, $685.
S24; Bell Telephone Company, $685.
OSO; Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, 1915, 5,125.25; Postal Telegraph
Company, s4S,OOO.
May as welliHsve Remained.
Columbia State: Elijah Bowen cre-
ated a sensation by his sudden appear
ance Wednesday in Anderson. Thirty
years ago he was soldier in company
G. Twenty-second South Carolina reg
iment and was last seen by comrades
at a vidette post on the firing line in
front of Petersburg. His family and
friends in this county mourned him as
dead. His son Whitaker, a man Of
40, with a family, recognized his resem-
blance to a photograph. Many Con-
federate comrades also recognized
him. Elijah came here from New Jer-
sey, via Piedmont, in buggy. He
claims he was captured on Morris is
land, Charleston, and liberated 10 days
later in New York. He spent three
years in Connecticut, three in New
York and 80 on farm in New Jersey.
His wife is dead.
Newberry Wheat Experience.
The Voice: Mr.. Lem Wise, pro-
gressive farmer of No. 9 township, has
an experience in growing wheat and
improving land which is worth record
ing. Three years ago he sowed six
and one-half acres of ordinary land in
wheat, following the wheat with peas.
He cut the peas, which were sown
broadcast. He kept this up three
years. The first year he made 80
bushels of wheat; the next, 5l3 BUSH
els; the next 0his year), between rs
and so bushels. He did not use any
fertilizers-not even cotton seed. The
sowing of the peas broadcast was all
that he did to increase the productive
ness of his land. He kept no account
of his peavine hay the first two years,
but the last year his hay brought him
over SIS. 1t seems to us that this ex-
perience should put farmers to think
ing.
Telegraph War Tax.
Columbia State, Thursday: Soon
after the war tax went into effect and
the telegraph companies required their
patrons to pay the one cent tax on
each message, the state railroad COM
mission fixed a new tariff on ten-word
messages, reducing the rate from 25 to
"a cents, on the ground that the COM
panies could stand such reduction
without loss. As soon as the tariff had
been promulgated the telegraph COM
panies sought the United States court
and obtained an injunction preventing
the tariff from going into effect. The
court ordered the taking of testimony
to show the condition Of the COM
panies' business. Messrs. Barber and
Smythe have already taken large
amount OF testimony, and now the
books of these companies are to be ex-
amined in New York. Attorney Gen
eral Belliuger expects to be in New
York city on August to look after
this examination.
Caught In Greenville.
Greenville News, Tuesday: The
Greenville police yesterday arrested
Henry Dosier, large black Negro,
who is wanted in Blacksburg for bur-
glary. Last Saturday morning about
l o'clock, Dcsier went through a win
dow into the house of F. B. Sumner at
Blacksburg and stole therefrom pock-
ct book containing S5S in cash, and at
the same time lifted an open faced
gold watch worth almost as much as
the pocket book and contents. The
police here were told to look out for
the burglar, and armed with descrip-
ton Of him they picked him up on the
streets here yesterday. While here
Dosier bought Stetson hat and a new
suit of clothes and put up SO bond
for a Negro woman named Tempy
Wilson. When arrested he had on his
person an empty pocketbook; but no
watch. 1t is supposed that he has
sold the watch or otherwise disposed
of it. 1t is almost certain that he
brought the stolen watch to Greenville,
as watch answering the description
of the stolen one was seen in his pos.
session by two witnesses.
Conservation Postponed.
Spartanburg Spartan: The conse'
Grafton of the Church of the Advent
did not take place Sunday on account
of the absence of Bishop Capers, who
was with his daughter, Mrs. Satterlee,