Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-05-22
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
After the Spo1ls.
A Bennettsville special to The News
and Courier, says that Senator McLan-
rim is receiving on an average or from
so to go letters day from persons who
want Federal offices.
~as on the Alabama.
Captain James Evans, one Of the
three remaining members of the Con-
federate. cruiser Alabama crew, died In
Charleston last Friday morning. He
was in the fight off Cherbourg, France,
when the cruiser Alabama was de-
stroyed by the Kearsarge. Since the
war he has been a pilot at Charleston.
War on the Tigers.
News from Charleston indicate the
Inauguration Of war against the
blind tigers. Although the constables
have made numerous cases against the
tigers, the grand juries have refused to
return true bills, and this has made
necessary recourse to the injunction
provision Of the dispensary law. The
court Is to be furnished with long
list of alleged violators of the dispen-
sary law, and these violators are to be
enjoined from further selling. The
next step will be to arrest those &C
cused for disobeying the order of the
court. and imprison them for contempt.
Good Roads Convention.
Columbia State, Monday: Governor
McSweeney is thinking Of calling a
state good roads convention to be held
in this city some time during the sum-
mer. If the call is issued 1t Will ask
the county supervisor Of each county
to come, appointing and bringing with
him three or more delegates from each
county. Then also the mayor of each
town will be asked to attend. The OBJ
iect will be to discuss various methods
of securing good roads and endeavor-
ing to hit upon some general plan
looking to the betterment of the pub
lie highways of the state.
Interesting Complications.
In the Watts damage case against
the Seaboard railway, now pending In
Columbia, there are some sensational
DEVELOPMENTS. The plaintiff has set
up the claim that the Seaboard Is a
foreign corporation and the action con-
templates the annulment Of the char
ter. A rule has been issued citing the
road to answer and the return Is to be
made before Judge Gage today (Wed-
nesday). The attorneys for Watts are
P. H. Nelson, J. P. Thomas and Attor-
ney General Bellinger. It is asked that
the court annul the leases Of the South
Bound railroad to the F. G. and P. rail-
road, and the subsequent lease of the
South Bound company's property to
the Seaboard Air Line company on the
ground that both the Florida Central
and Peninsular and Seaboard Air Line
companies are foreign corporations
and neither of them have ever been in
corporated in South Carolina as re-
quired under the acts of this state. The
matter is a most interesting one and
is one that is full of legal possibilities.
Expensive BunglinE.
Greenville Nsws: 1t beats Topeka,
Kansas, the way our solons do manage
to get South Carolina affairs gormed
up. Here the evil that the legislature
has accomplished from time to time
breaks out in two fresh spots and one
of these spots in old Charleston. BY
heroic struggling the sapient ones in
office in Columbia managed to unearth
the amusing performance of past leg
islature in which the metropolis of the
state was deprived of its board OF
county commissioners without its
knowing the same. AS the board must
accept the bonds Of dispensers, and as
there is no such board, it follows that
there can be no dispensers, no dispen-
sers' bonds and no dispensaries. AS
consequence, the dispensaries In
Charleston will be non sunt ESQ to plu-
ralize) and Charleston will have to quit
legitimate tippling and resort to its
$500 or so blind tigers. Fortunately the
blind tiger privileges are not so affect
ed. Legislatures dare not monkey with
such. Especially in Charleston.
Again, the most learned and allwise
makers of the laws tried to give the
veterans s15OOOO for pensions this year;
but that fatal habit Of balling up
things at the last moment cropped out
and now the veterans get buncoed out
of $4,000 That is expensive idiocy, Is
it not?
Ready For McLaurin.
Says a Greenville special of Saturday
to The News and Courier: Arrange
ments for Senator McLaurin's meeting