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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1900-07-05

to be rejected because ne has kinpeo-
pie who are some account. He was
warmly applauded.
Col. Knox Livingston promises to be
lot of trouble 20 his competitors for
the office of lieutenant governor He
made his second speech, having
missed several meetings on account OF
business engagements. He had repre-
sented 4 county which has been pro-
hibition for 90 years. When the Childs
bill-a hybrid meaSure-was intro
duced. he proposed substitute, gen.
uine prohibition bill. 1t was killed.
He had voted for the Archer local op-
ton bill. He is still prohibiuonist.
The crowd had dwindled down when
the candidates for lieutenant governor
began.
Winkler said that Gladstone adyo>
Gated the dispensary system.
Col. Sloan spoke OF some Of Sum-
tar's gallant soldiers.
Mr.. Blease made brief speech as it
was getting late.
Tillman was greeted with applause.
He poked fun at his competitors. He
rested his claims with the boys who
followed him in the war with Spain.
If Hoyt is elected governor, what's he
going to do with the governor of North
Carolina?
Gen. Bellinger telegraphed that he
,ould not be here. Judge Moore re-
Joined the campaign here. He pro-
posed and advocated local option, and
scored violation of the dispensary law.
He charged his opponents with derelic-
ton Of duty. Bully for YOU" said an
attentive listener, as Mr.. Moore con-
cluded. Mr.. Moore read extracts from
letter from Senator Tillman urging
him to indict the custom house officials
for violating State law, and the attor-
ney general would not advise with the
governor and himself about it.
DR.. Zimmerman and Capt. Jennings
discussed their respective capabilities
for the office of State treasurer.
Derham and Brooker rocked along
as usual. There was no spice in theirs.
McMahan was not here and Capers
did not speak at length
Gen. Floyd and Capt. Rouse spoke,
and each was pleasantly received.
There was quite an extended COLO
Guy between Mr.. Brooker and Treas
urer D. E. Keels Of Sumter, in which
the latter denied some of Mr.. Brokers
statements regarding nulla bona taxes
in this county.
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Killed on theTrain.

Mccormick, Special.-Quite serious
shooting affray occurred on the excur-
sion train returning from Augusta to
Verderey Saturday night, just north
of Parksrille. There was an unruy
negro, full of cheap whiskey, who be-
gan giving trouble Immediately after
leaving Augusta. After breaking out
nearly every window in the car, shoot
ing his pistol and raising Cain and be-
ing uuieted down by the train crew
several times, he finally threatened to
shoot one Wilson, the porter on the
train. The white flagman, Mr.. Win
gard of Augusta, in attempting to take
his pistol from him, was shot through
the hand. The negro then succeeded
in turning his pistol on the porter. who
grappled with him, knocking the pistoi
up. In the melee the negro was shot
through the breast three times. He fell
at the first shot and died in a few
minutes.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1900-07-05
SOUTH CAROLINA CROPS.
Weather Conditions Have Been Un'
favorable the Past Week.

The week ending a. m. June 2otn,
averaged about degrees per day
cooler than usual, with minimum tenn
peratures ranging between 55 and ",
and maximum temperatures between
10 and % degrees. The lowest tenn:
peratures prevailed during the first
aalf of the week.
The average rainfall for the week
was 2.S5 inches, ranging from less than
[ inch to 6 inches. The heaviest
rains occurred in the west central and
in the southeastern counties, where
lands were badly washed, and crops
IN many bottom lands were flooded
md destroyed. The rains injured cot
ton, some corn, melons, and wheat in
the shock, causing sprouting-over the
western and south central counties, but
we're either highly beneficial or not
harmful elsewhere, and they improved
ice, tobacco gardens and pastures, and
minor crops generally. Over a large.
,ortion of the State cultivation was
mpracticable, except on from l to 8,
lays, consequently fields are becoming
:rassy, and all field crops stand in need
VI cultivation. These conditions were
II their worst in the western half Oh
;he State. while over the northeastern
eounties there has been no harmful ex-i
cess of rainfall, and crops of all kinds,
are very promising. Sunshine was de-
Hcient over the entire State.
Corn is generally doing well, but
some is turning yellow and is firing,
while on bottom lands, in the western,
portions, much was destroyed by Hood
irg. Early corn is being laid by.
There was general deterioration in
the condition of cotton in the western
counties, and in the upper Edisto
valley, where some has not been chop
ped TO stands, and fields are foul with
grass and weeds, and where the crop
has received very little cultivation.
Elsewhere cotton is growing rapidly.
and early cotton is blooming. Lice are
still prevalent and in places have
broken stands. There are more or less
complaint of grassy fields from all Sec
tions, and cotton is in urgent need oi
dry, hot weather to permit cultivation
and for it's normal development.
Tobacco has improved. Cutting and
curing is in progress but is not general.
Worms are numerous in Williams
burg county.
Wheat that has not been housed or
thrashed is beginning to sprout in the
shock. Thrashing making slow pro-
gress. Late oats have been harvested.
Weather unfayorable on melons. Rice.
sweet potatoes, gardens and minor
crops are doing well. Fruit Is rotting
as it ripens. Peas continue to be
sown on stubble lands, and planted
with corn.
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Palmetto Pencilings.

The county Democratic executive
committee of Newberry decided to
have the county dispenser and board
of control nominated by primary elec-
tion.
charter was issued Saturday to the
Standard Building and Loan Associa-
ton. OF Charleston, Capital stock $780,
o1o. Officers: R. G. Rhett, president:
R. M. Masters, vice president; T. T.
Hyde, secretary and treasurer; W. H
Thomas, solicitor; R. G. Rhett, r. M.
Masters, F. H. McMaster, j. P. De-
Veaux, ]. Alwyn Ball, G. B. Bull
directors
Gov. McSweeney has appointed tha
members of the State board OF Home
opathic medical examiners, provided
for by the general assembly at its last
session. The appointees are as fol.
lows: DR.. B. H. Thurman, Cheraw;
DR.. J. A. Whitman, Charleston; DR..
George Morgan Hursh, Columbia Inc
commissions will be forwarded to
these gentlemen at once.
A commission for charter has been
issued to the Citizens Bank, Of Honea
Path, Anderson County. Corporators:
J. A. Brock, C. E. Harper, Ellison A.
Smyth, James L. Orr, Ezekiel Harris
J. w. Brock, L. A: Brock, P. W. Sulll,
van, ]. V. Kay and NJ. McGee. Capita.
stock, $4,000.
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Judge J. H. Moore, candidate for
attorney general. said that the police
| looking for blind tigers is joke in
Charleston He charged that the high
est legal officer in the State will not
set the machinery in motion to stop
the blind tigers.
Gen. Bellinger was not here.
DR.. Zimmerman and Captain Jen-
nings had no row in their candidacy
for State treasurer.
Brooker and Derham discussed fin
ances until the audiecne became all
muddled.
McMahan and Capers jollied each
other good naturedly. Each made
! good impression and votes.
Capt. Rouse and Gen. Floyd discuss
ed the question neither or not a young
man should be adjutant general.
Barney Evans said that the railroad
commission has reduced the rate on
brick, probably because Bill Neal had
gone into the brick business.
Mr.. Berry renewed his advocacy of
prohibition.
Etheridge had been home sick, but
arrived here.
w. D. Mayfeld thought commission
ers should be elected every two years
and be panid out Of State funds in
stead of by railroads.
w. D. Evans replied to the charges
of his opponents and INDUCED in some
pleasantly. The reduction of the rate
on brick was offered on account OF the
building of factories.
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Manning Meeting.

Manning, Special-The crowd at
this place surpassed all for endurance.
The pyrotechnics started at II o'clock
and lasted nearly seven hours. There
were about seven hundred in the
crowd when it was largest, and when
it concluded there were at least 200.
McSweeney led Off He referred TO
his success as a business man, and said
ne had tried to give business man S
administration. He believed that he
had done more for the dispensary than
had been accomplished by any other
governor.
He had selected his constabulary
carefully The men who were making
fiimsy charges against him just want
ed to get into office McSweeney had
been received without demonstration.
was cheered when he recited his stand
in the Pons case. He denied that he
had failed to enforce the law in Char
lesion. He did not claim the credit
for finding the BLACK" papers, bui
the papers were found on his recon-
mendation. 1t is absolutely untrue
that he has any connection with Char
lesion blind tigers, and they will vote
for him as business man.
Col. Hoyt said he had been busi-
ness man twice as long as McSweeney
and he had never made failure. He
then review the enactment of the dis
pensary law. There was more roWdy-
ism in bar rooms than there was in
dispensaries, but bar rooms were nu-
merous. He had protested against the
enactment of the dispensary law, bu.
when it was passed he had always Irg-
ed it's enforcement. Prohibition may
have failed to prohibit. but because
most of the town councils were not IN
sympathy with it. A prohibition gov
ernor can do nothing without prohi-
bition legislature.
'Trot out dispensary man" shout
ed somebody. and COL Hoyt introduced
Walt Whitman.
The latter, after jumping on State
colleges. said he was in the legislature
and helped enact the dispensary law.
He said he could prove that the police
of Charleston are in league with the
blind tigers. He himself had been dl-
rected to a blind tiger by policeman.
He charged that at the Isle of Palms
he had found dispensary Of the State
running blind tiger on Sunday.
Go:y occasioned some laughter by
telling of his being taken for Tillman
in Charleston, and in consequence the
blind tigers were frightened. The gov
ernor ought TO have the blind tigers
agraid of him, too. Why, II few con-
stables can enforce the law, has the
governor increased the force in Char
lesion from four to ten. He then made
his customary speech. Gary was
warmly applauded.
Patterson spoke from the deck or 4
wagon.
Mr.. Winkler was the next speaker.
He was followed by Col. Sloan, who
spoke under difficulties from cold.
Blease made a new speech advocating
the dispensary. II is the best form OF
prohibition.
Jim Tillman made defense OF the
newspapers. He made no protest be-
| cause they could not print the speech
es in full
Col. Livingston said if he had never
enjoyed the confidence OF Marlboro he
would not have the face to aspire TO
such a high and honorable place as
that of lieutenant governor. He dld
not think the liquor question would be
/ settled until the people vote on 1t dl.
rectly. This is his second speech and
he created a fine impression,
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For MiSuSing Mail.

Florence, Special.-Mr. R. L. Lee, a
prominent merchant of Darlington,
was brought before United States Com
missioner Wells charged with violat-
ing the postal lays by sending protaae
and obscene language through the
mails. Mr.. Lee waived his preliminary
examination. His attorney. Mr.. spears
of Darlington, argued the legal ques-
tiOnS Friday
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-04-27
Hardy WAS NOT HIS name.
GEORGE HARDY, JAMES BICKLF
SMITH.
Will Of Old Resident Of Hamakua
Makes the Disclosure--Family Trou-
BILE Years Ago-Bequests.

The will of George Hardy was filed
in the local Circuit court today. It ar
rived yesterday from Hilo, and was sent
to Honolulu for the reason that de-
ceased owned property here. At the
time of his death his estate was worth
great deal of money, although there
is mortgage on portion of it.
A development in the matter is that
the name of the old gentleman was not
Hardy at all but William Bickle Smith
This will be a surprise to the friends
of the old pioneer. 1t is understood that
family trouble when a boy caused him
| to change his name and leave home
| He served through the Mexican war as
! Hardy so that the change was made a
good many years ago.
In the Will Mr. Hardy, or Smith, men
! tons that he has daughter and some
grandchildren. To each of these he be-
tqueaths $l0 and expressly states that
they shall have nothing more. And
! nothing more" is carefully written after
the bequest in each case The entire
estate is left to the widow and de-
ceased's adopted son, a Portuguese boy
| named Manuel. When this boy gets
to be twenty-four years of age he is to
have half of the revenues of the es-
! tate, and upon the death of the widow
! is to succeed to everything.
! Mr.. Hardy owned considerable land
in Hamakua, and several valuable lots
in Honolulu. A large piece of Hamakua
land is leased to the Honokaa Sugar
! Company.
! Petitioners in the Kamalo stock in.
! junction today filed their bond in the
sum of $4,000. Harry L. Evans is the
principal, and H. r. Hitchcock, L. H
! Dee and Otto S. Meyer sign as sure
| ties.
w. S. Luce and T. r. Keyworth
have been appointed executors of the
will of Mrs. Elizabeth Luce, under
! $4,000 joint bond.
| Discontinuances of suits for road
damages on Beretania street were filed
this morning.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-04-27
IMPROVEMENTS At TRACK AFTER TAX DELNQDENIS
NEW GRAND STAND TO BE BUILT
AT ONCE.
June IL Race Enthusiasts Will Hardly
Recognize the Old Place-Intentions
of the Jockey Club.

When the dear people gather at Kap-
iolani Park on June IL they will find
grand stands and the like so shifted and
changed that they will hardly know
where they are. The present scheme of
the Jockey Club will so alter the APP
pearance of the place that it will not
look the same. Col. Chas. ]. Mccarthy
is the prime mover of the improve
ments, and to him will belong the credit
of bringing the same about.
In the first place, there will be a
new grand stand, 1t will be erected on
the site of the Jockey Club Stand, on
the town side of the old location 1t
will be modern in every detail cores
ponding to some of the best in the large
Coast cities. The stand is made nee
essary by the bad condition of the old
one, and the fact that it is out of date.
1t will have modern seats on slopirg
floor, and most and best of all, the
seats Will be clean on June IL. The
stand will have a much larger capacity
than the old, and it's arrangement will
give to every one clear view of the
races.
The present plan is to have the Jockey
Club stand over the other, or or u sec
ond floor. This idea is believed to be a
good one and has been generally en-
dorsed. 1t will give to the club and
it's friends more room and decidedly
better accommodations.
Something new will be introduced in
connection with the old stand the pres
ent grandstand. 1t will be repaired, oil
may be rebuilt, and will be opened to the
''rabble' or peanut gallery element
The admission will be only twenty-five
cents. This is a novelty. 1t will have
the effect of admitting large part OF
the fence" party, and will doubtless
increase the revenues of the day.
The improvements will cost about
$4,000. The Jockey Club will do its part
and the community has a chance to In
terest itself in the way of a little help
1t is the intention of Colonel Mccarthy
and his assistants to have everything
completed by the 9th of June, at the
outside.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-04-27
BOOMING WAuI1KI1

1t is not optimism to predict the
growth of Wailuku. 1t can no more
help growing than healthy baby or a
spring lamb. The suggestion is some
times heard that Wailuku is throttled
in the clutches of the Wailuku Sugar
Plantation. This is CANNON. The man
agement of the plantation is a practical
business proposition, and as soon as
1t Is more profitable to build town
than to put in cane, the cane will go
and the town will come. What is need
ed is an energetic, active administra-
tion of city affairs, and a like class of
newcomers will appear. Wailuku will
always be the shire town of Maui, with
courthouse, Jail, schools and other con-
comitants of city. The plantation will
sell city lots as soon as it becomes more
profitable to do so than to cultivate
cane in the suburbs.-Maui News.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-04-27
AFTERCUSTOMHOUSEJOBS
MANY APPLICANTS FOR GUARDS
POSITIONS.
Over a Hundred Men Would Like to
Watch for Dope and Help in Check
ing Cargoes.

About a hundred applications have
been registered for the new jobs that
are to be distributed at the custom
house under the new appropriation, and
the list of men who want to enter the
service is not complete yet. Applicants
of all sorts are still coming.
The money allowed the custom house
will provide for about twenty more
guards along the front, bringing the
force up to a strength of thirty. This
is not enough, in the opinion of those
who run the business, but it will be a
vast improvement upon the present.
There are only ten guards now, half
of them on in the day time and half at
night.
The customs guards are paid sixty
dollars a month and they earn every
cent of it. They work twelve hours a
day, six hours on and six hours off,
alternating. This means that they cam
not get more than five hours sleep at a
time and more than one man has tried
the work lately and found that his con"
stitution could not stand it. While on
duty the rules call for a sharp look
out and the weary guard who reclines
for little nap is liable to instant dis
charge. That over a hundred men,
most of them white, should be after
these jobs shows that with other mo-
Germ improvements Honolulu is acquir-
ing an "army of unemployed" job
seekers have been arriving in goOdly
numbers on recent steamers from the
coast
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-04-27
SHAW'S WARRANT MILL M
OPERATION AGAIN.
Arakawa Burned Out in Chinatown and
Unable to Get Work for Himself Gets
Work for the Collector.

Tax Collector Shaw is out after the
Japanese tax dClinqUents again. He
found Arakawa yesterday who was
burned out in Chinatown fire, and since
he has been out of quarantine has only
been able to get few days work. So
the tax collectors warrant was issued
and was served by his deputy K. Ono.
When Arakawa was brought before
Judge Wilcox this morning, the Judge
had the Interpreter explain to him that
1t was neither the court nor the police
department which had begun the pro-
ceedings against him, but that it was
Tax Collector Shaw. The court could
do nothing but sentence him to impris-
onment at hard labor to work out the
taxes and costs at the rate of fifty cents
Il day
officer Toma Abe offered to pay the
taxes and penalty, $3.50 but refused to
pay the costs 81, which go as perquis-
ite to the collector and his deputy SO
POOR, Arakawa, who has only been able
TO get two days work for himself will
now get fifteen days work for the tax
collector and his deputy.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-04-27
JACK ATKINSON RETURNS
SUPERINTENDENT OF KAHULUI
CAMP
Compliments People of Maui OH United
Running Smoothly.

A. l.. c. Atkinson, superintendent Ot
the late quarantine camp at Kahului,
returned by the Claudine yesterday aft
ernoon. He was accompanied by his
sister, Mrs. A. M. Brown. For the past
several days he had been rusticating in
the higher Maui country to recuperate
his health, he having but recently been
confined to the hospital at Wailullu
with malaria. He is tanned from the
outdoor life of a week and in other re-
spects looks well, save perhaps that he
is hardly as stout as prior to his illness.
The superintendent has some interest
ing tales to tell of his experiences and
events at Kahului during the quaran-
tine. Having charge of the camp
everything came under his Jurisdiction
or observation. The camp tactics of
Honolulu were at once put into swing
at Kahului and worked to perfection.
Every person held seemed to be per-
fectly satisfied with the treatment re-
ceived. Mr.. Atkinson speaks in the
highest terms of the Maui people and
the support given by them. He SAYS
that everybody united in the campaign
of stamping out the plague and that
this support made the work of the Maui
committee and The quarantine officials
much easier than 1t might have been
under other circumstances.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-04-27
NOTICE

The new proprietors of the People's
Express Company took charge on
March H. free of all membranes, the
old proprietors taking their books with
them. Since then the old proprietors
have been collecting their bills, and we
have had to suffer the kicks of custom
ers on account of it. We wish to notify
our customers and the public generally
that the bills being collected are the
property of the old proprietors of this
company, and that the company as 1t
now stands, has nothing whatever to do
with them, or with the enforcement of
collections.
PEOPLES EXPRESS COMPANY.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-04-27
THEENPRESSCHECKMAED
PLAN TO AssAssINATE KwANG
YU WAL
Included the Services of Forty Assas-
ers-The Plot Fails.

The reform element of the Chinese
here, received word by the Coptic this
morning that the Empress Dowager's
plan of assassinating or capturing
Kwang Yu Wal, Ch'iu Shu-yuan and
others of the reform party in the
Straits Settlements, has been complete
ly frustrated. The plan was to send
band of assassins, said to number forty
to the Straits Settlement together with
Admiral Yeh in command of the fast
cruisers Haitien and Haishou, and
either kill or kidnap the reformers and
carry them away together with the as
sassins before they could be appre
hended.
The assassins and the admiral did
reach the Straits Settlements, but
through the efforts of the reform party
among the Chinese, one of the assassins
was arrested. He confessed the whole
plan and gave the names of all his as
sociates, and an effort will be made to
arrest these. The two cruisers under
command of Admiral Yeh, have a speed
of twenty-four knots an hour, faster
than any vessel at the command of the
Straits Settlements government.
By the Coptic the Sun Chung KwoclI
Bo, the Chinese reform paper received
dispatches that the wives and families
of Lo PAX Tong and Tong King Chong,
who had been arrested in Canton by
order of the Dowager Empress because
Lo PAX Tong and Tong King Chong.
merchants in San Francisco were iden-
! titled with the Bow Wui, have been re-
leased. They were released by order
of Ii Hung Chang on the representa-
tions of the American Consul at Hong
Kong.
| News was also received that Kong
Ii Pun, a Chinese merchant at Yoko-
| hama, also identified with the Bow
| Wongs while on a visit to Hong Kong
was kidnapped from there and taken
| to Canton. The British governor of
Hong Kong Immediately demanded his
release, threatening to send a torpedo
destroyer to back up the demand. On
this the kidnapped man was immedi-
ately released by the Chinese authori-
| ties.
1t is also stated that the Portuguese
governor of Macao and the British
! governor of Hong Kong, have given
notice that Chinese reformers or other
persons charged only with political
offenses, will not be released to the Chi
nese government to be tried elsewhere
than within the jurisdiction of these
governorships.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-04-27
PROPHYLACTIC ON MAUI.

WAILUKU. April 21.-Dr. John We'd
dick of Wailuku received s tubes oe
prophylactic serum from Honolulu on
Thursday morning, and, assisted hy
Dr. WinslOw, "shot" eleven willing vic
TINS the same day. These are ten men
who are engaged in renovatng Kahu-
lui, four Japanese, five Chinese, one
Hawaiian and DIR. Winslow. the latter
of whom submitted himself as the first
victim. DR.. WinslOw and some of the
other state that a very nauseating eff
feet resulted to them from the use OF
the serum but several experienced no
disagreeable effects whatever Maui
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