Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-05-25

found the tracks bold and plain OF a
bear, which were critically examined
by many persons all Of whom pronoun-
ced them the tracks of the bear. Very
soon Mr.. Eli Chaves, a new neighbor,
came over and said that the same
"thing" had been to his house the pre-
vious night, killed his dog and that
one Of his four-m -month-old pigs was
missing. The news spread rapidly and
soon a large crowd, armed with shot
guns, Winchesters, pistols and other
implements Of warfare, were following
the tracks towards the bogs and dense
swamps Of that neighborhood. Of
course. when the woods were entered
the track was lost, but the crowd pass
ed through gall bushes, briars and
heavy underbrush. Late in the after
noon an almost impenetratable bay
was entered, the same place where In
1865 many citizens secreted themselves
and evaded Sherman's army. All Of a
sudden two wolves jumped from their
beds and were soon lost in the dense
underground. There were several beds
and in one they found seven young
wolves, which they captured and re-
turned to their homes without pursuing
the bear any further. All around these
beds were many chicken and turkey
feathers, rabbits fur and feathers of
geese and wild ducks. Mr.. J. F. David,
who lives two miles from town, has
two Of these young wolves, and Mr.. S.
j. Pearson. in town, has two in his Of
flee. Many hundred people have called
to see these strange animals, and pro-
nounce them to be wolves. There is no
doubt but the tracks at Messrs. STAN
toms and Chaves's were made by
large bear. The people of that section
are badly frightened, the doors are
barred at night and the children are
not allowed to leave the houses dur
ing the day, while two schools have
been forced to close for lack of patron
age.
Dispensary Law In Charleston.
Governor McSweeney, on Tuesday,
gave out for publication the following
letter from Chief State Constable S. T.
HOWE, with reference to the enforce
ment of the dispensary law in Charles
ton: Dear Sir: For the last few days
have been watching the handling of
contraband liquor at the Clyde line
wharf. On Thursday, 18th inst, I had
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early in the morning until about 1
o'clock D. m. Soon as they left I went
there on a bicycle and saw VIM.
Phelps, colored, coming from the Clyde
line wharf in a top buggy. knew
Phelps was driving for Sottile Bros,
and that Sottile Bros. were conducting
wholesale liquor business at No. "a
Vendue range, in violation Of the law,
and seeing that Phelps had a large,
heavy laprobe over something in the
buggy, I decided to chase him on the
bicycle. I chased him up East Bay
street to Cumberland street, up Cum
berland street to Church street, through
Church street to Queen street, and
through Queen street, to Sottile's head
quarters on Vendue range. One Of the
Sottile Bros. motiohed to the driver to
run the horse on the Clyde line wharf,
the driver obeyed orders and run the
horse on the wharf. I followed on the
bicycle and examined the buggy and
found a five gallon keg Of Old Tom gin
under the robe. I took charge of the
keg, and as 1 started off the wharf the
watchman for the Clyde company seiz-
ed the keg and told me could not take
it off the wharf. We had considera-
BILE scuffle over the keg, first one and
then the other had it. At last the keg
fell on the floor and Il commanded him
to stop, which he did and I took the
keg to the contraband store room. The
keg had no mark on 1t, had been tag
ged but the tag was torn off. The next
day I kept the men at the Clyde line
wharf from early in the morning until
near 1 p. m, and as soon as they left 1
went in on my bicycle again and
watched for the liquor wagons. This
time ran on Santo Sottille and ]. Lee,
COL, in a wagon which Sottille Bros,
had fixed for hauling contraband IL
quor. In the wagon a heavy wire end
gate is fixed which completely enclos-
ed the rear end, and there Is no chance
Of getting in the wagon, only by the
front. They had two ten gallon kegs of
liquor in the wagon. I chased them
from the corner of Church and Broad
streets through Broad to Friend street,
through friend to Queen, through
Queen to Archdale, through Archdale
to Beaufain, through Beaufain to st.
Philip, through st. Philip to Went
worth, then for a straight half a mile
on wentworth to Ashley river, then
through Gadsden street to Bull. On
Bull street they threw out one keg and
Santo Sottille got out and sat on the
keg. The colored man drove the wag-
on on with one keg in it. The horse
and myself were both we'll winded by
this time, having run about two miles.
So as Sottille was a member of the
grand jury I decided to stop and ad-
wise and consult with him about the
keg he was setting on. AS soon as
the wagon had time to get away with
the other keg, Sottie decided to- ad-
journ the grand jury and I took charge
of the 10 gallon keg Of XXX-rye. re-
ported Sottile and the driver to the po-
lice department for fast and reckless
driving through the streets. They came
near running over several teams and
some carriages with ladies and child
rem in them. I will try Sottile and both
Of his colored drivers for transporting
contraband liquors under section 33 of