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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-02-20

The Harris Lithia Springs Hotel prop
erty has been sold again, and this time
1T was bought by Mcssrs. Alexander and
Johnson, OF Augusta, Ga. These gentle
men will improve the property and en-
deavor to increase the sale of water. Tho
price paid was 100000.
An effort is being mado to build an
enormous hotel on East Battery, Charles
ton, to be open by January l, 1902, early
capital stock is to be $225,OOO. Some of
tho richest men of tho city propose to
take stock heavily and to buy the bonds.
Mr.. Dean introduced bill in the
North Carolina Legislature to incorpo.
rate tho Blue Ridge and Atlantic Rail-
way Company, on tho Goth ultimo. Also
on the same day bill to authorize
Macon county to subscribe to the capital
stock of the Blue Ridge and Atlantic
Railway Company.
Three cotton mills are now being built
near Spartanburg. They arc the Saxon,
in the suburbs of Spartanburg, John A.
Law, president. capital $20O,0o0; tho
Woodruff mill, A. w. Smith, president,
1925, 900 capital; Inman MILL Joseph A.
Chapman, president, 100000 capital.
This will give tho county 27 mills with
capital of about $l2,0O0,000.
At Collinsville, Alabama, February 8.
a bloody murder occurred. Wright Her.
Der and Wallace Rex, brothers-in-law,
were fighting over somo matters and
Herber was beating Rex. Nick Petty, an
onlooker, interfcrcd and told Horber that
ho ought not TO do that IIcrher turned
on Petty, shooting him and killing him
instantly. No arrests have been made
We are glad that tho Legislature has
seen fit to double tho appropriation for
tho old veterans. They arc fast passing
away. The scythc of time is moro
deadly than Yankee bullets and their
ranks are rapidly thinning out. 1t is
meet and proper that those who survive
should be to some extent cared for by
the State in whose service they fought
for four long years. Kingstree Record.
Every column in a newspaper contains
from ten to twenty-five thousand distinct
pieces of metal, tho displacement of ono
of which would cause typographical
error, and yet some people think it
strange when they find an error in the
newspaper. When they sec word with
q wrong letter in it or misplaced one
they arc sure they could have spoiled the
word right and they arc happy for q
whole week and go around telling how
tho printer or editor made mistake.
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Short News Paragraphs.

Anderson is figuring on paving the
streets with Belgian blocks.
The unveiling of tho Henry Timrod
monument will be held in Charleston on
May 1st.
No young man ever climbed the ladder
OF success with whiskcy flask in his
pocket.
Tomorrow is the time when the fool
Is going to be wise and tho lazy man in
dustrious.
The cotton palace of tho Charleston
Exposition is to be one of tho finest of
the buildings.
There is ever battle going on between
the idle man and time, tho object being
to kill each other.
Help from without is often enfoebling
in its effects, but help from within in.
variably invigorates.
The latest reports from Manila are to
the effect that General Veracity has not
yet assumed communicated Commoner.
The State colored college at Orange
burg has been ro-opencd after suspen.
sion on account of smallpox. There are
500 students.
The people of Anderson arc much
encouraged in the hope and belief that
the city will soon bo provided with a
union depot.
II should think Mckinley would in.
sure his life." "He can't.H "Why 2'
mo one can make ont his policy" THE
Harvard LanipoOn.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles has at last had
greatness thrust upon him by being
nominated Lieutenant General by
President Mckinley.
Robbers broke open safe in Dukes
Store in Branchville last Friday night
and secured about 500 in cash and
damaged tho safe $50.
The population of Macon county, N.
o., by the census of 1000 is 12,10l. In
1890 it was 10,102, and tho increase is
2,OO2 for tho intervening ton years.
Andrew Carnegie announces that wa,
Is foolish. We might 90 even further
ana say that in many cases it is actually
dangerous Chicago Timoso Herald
1t is said that Mrs. Carrie Nation was
born in Kentucky. we don't believe it.
No native of the Bourbon State would
waste. good liquor like the Kansas wo.
man docs.
Tho ground hog vas out on last Satur-
day, but h0 saw his shadow and went
back into his hole with the blizzard close
behind him. Out west tho trains were
blocked with snow. Not so bad here,
but cool enough.
Darlington, S. c., had severe all
night fight last Saturday night to save
the town from general connagration.
Ten stores and hotel wero burned,
inilicting loss of $25, 900 or over, all of
which was fairly covered by insurance.
The One Hundred Year Club of New
York thinks it has discovered the oldest
man and woman In fhn xpnrl1 fpt,n .>>o -
is Izal Rodefsty, of Moscow, Russia,
aged l30, and tho woman is Mrs. Nancy
Holliiiold, of Battle Creek, Michigan,
aged IT.
Postmaster Genoral Smith says that
for an additional outlay of 1900, ,OOO
rural FREQ delivery can be extended
practically over the whole country.
This means for such an expenditure the
mails could DO taken every day to eyory
door In tho land. This amount should
bo forthcoming.
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By JAYNEs. sHELoR. SMITH y sTECK.

of wounds and disease. Terrible
indeed were the tales they did un-
fold to our willing ears of skirmishes
with and attacks by the willy "insur-
reoto," who, to Judge by the stories
told, were as numerous as the trees
in the traokless forrest and gifted
with keeness of scent and ability
to make their "get-a-way" equaled
only by the SLY "John Fox" of our
native country. Some of these mar
ratives were in the main true, as we
afterward found out to our sorrow
and cbagrin but speaking; generally
they were but the products of a
fertile brain and elastic imaginative
power.
We left Laguan the morning of
the 28th and landed in Calbayoy har-
Dor the afternoon of the same date,
unloading by means of "cascoes," a
kind of native boat, on the following
day. Here we found two companies
of the 43d Infantry, together with
more hair-raising tales of hardships
and privations which we're as the
others mere fabrications.
We relieved two companies and
took entire charge of this station
June Goth, and for few days could
not have told whether we were in the
enemy's country or doing garrison
duty where everything was quiet.
But all things, good or bad, have an
ending, and 1.30 a. m., July 5th,
found us tumbling and rolling from
our cots and hastily getting within
our outer wearing apparel, for that
stirring call "to arms" which causes
even the sluggard to be cup and do
ing," is ringing peal after peal in
stentorian notes upon the night air,
and the boys in "khaki'' know some
thing is cup" What that something
i, is we are soon made aware Of, for no
sooner have we reached the street in
front of quarters than the zip, zip,
zip of flying missiles of destruction
and death inform us that the "gugus"
have "opened up" and are trying
their hand at target practice, with
our men as targets; but they are
poor gunncrs and we escaped without
injury. Not so the natives, for after
a sharp running fight of some two
hours duration, they retired to the
mountains near by, leaving upon the
field some fifteen or twenty of their
one-time fighting strength, silent now
and lying with faces upturned to the
starry heavens, mute witnesses to the
fighting ability and fearessness of
the American soldier, before whom
all nations bow with respect and ad-
miration.
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great bird, the oalao, kind of wild

great bird, the oalao, a kind of wild
peacock.
Leaving Tagnau, we travel in a
northerly direction upward toward
the mountain top, our path being
the bed of small, swift, run
ming stream, tributary of the Gan
dara. This may appear on the face
of it to be g "hard road to travel"
but our experience has proved it to
be far ahead of cutting our way
through the woods. In the early
afternoon we reach the headquarters
of Captain Bouki's, one of the most
stubborn and unrelenting of oil the
insurgent officers, but he has flown,
leaving behind the smoking remains
of once quiet, inland town. Here,
buried in deep ravine, we found
vast quantities of supplies, consist
ing of rice, tobacco, cigarettes, and
matches, the matches being used by
the willy native as powder. We
pass this by, neglecting to destroy it
in our haste, as we now know the
rebels are just ahead, and we desire
to catch up with them if possible.
Here we place our one field piece of
artillery on board a large casco and
send a strong guard to proceed up
stream with the same, hoping thereby
to travel the faster, as this same
piece of ordnance has been a con-
slant source of trouble to us, it tax
ing fifty men at times to get it up
the mountain side, and then only
after hours of wearying labor. From
this place on we have to keep a
sharp lookout for the enemy and
their man-traps, which are holes of
all sizes dug in the ground, generally
in path and filled with sharpened
sticks 80 placed and concealed that
the unwary in walking along will
step therein, at which, if they do
not sustain a mortal injury, they are
at least left in such condition as to
be of no further use for several DAYS.
Some half-dozen of our men were
thus injured, and the thump, thump,
thump of the crutches, as they
amble slowly around quarters, testify
to the efficiency of this method of
warfare.
AT Tiberan we are informed by
two natives, whom we capture, that
Lukebann and his insurgent crowd
have left there two days previous,
going down on the other side of the
river, and as we rest a detachment
proceeds forward to his old-time
place of residence, there to find
nothing but smoking ruins to gaze
upon, the rebel crowd having disap.
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peared. Two days we stop here
and then start on our return journey,
going in a backward direction over
known road in one day what had
required three days of travel to ao.
complish and find trail.
At Captain Bouki's headquarters
four privates and second lieutenant
Of our company under cover of dark
ness proceeded down the river, dis.
tance of some fifty miles, for the
purpose of securing supplies and
means Of transportation.
The following day we proceeded
across the mountain to Tagnau,
where the column was to await news
from General Hare, U. S. A. This
morning we met with our first
casualty, one man detached as guard
on the boat which carried the cannon
being shot and instantly killed by
volley from the rebels concealed in
the brush alongside the river.
Twenty-four hours after reaching
Tagnau and after anxiously waiting
and watching we were rewarded by
the sight of steamboat coming to
our assistance, and despite the fact
of our being half sick and starved,
shout went up which I am sure
startled the natives for miles around.
The camp cooks hurriedly made a
cup of. coffee, something we had
been without for seven or eight DAYS,
hurried orders to get on board were
given and at dark we were on our
way to the home station, which point
we reached shortly after midnight,
and at breakfast time next morning
were treated to the first half. way de-
cent meal in fourteen days.
All in all there were fourteen DAYS
of extreme hardships, but the end in
view was accomplished by our men
alone, as there were to be three other
commands to start for the same place
at the time we did, but one and all
became discouraged and turned back
before going any distance in the
interior, and such praise as will be
given to this expedition will be given
to the men of the Goth, and Company
"M", is listed for the lions share Of
the compliments.
/ AS a whole the expedition was a
success, for despite the fact of our
failure to capture the insurgent chief
tain, we did put a quietus to some of
his soldiers, having killed or captured
upward of hundred of his follow
ers and proved our ability to track
him to his den. One old soldier of
the other side aptly describes the
soldier men as follows "Amerioapo
soldado cell same caballie, all same,
piscowo." Meaning we can carry
the load of horse and swim rivers
like a fish. Respectfully,
JOHN f. LATHAM,
Quartcrmaster Sergeant, Company
"Nl", 29th Infantry.
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Calbayoy, Samar, P. l., December
10, 1a00.-I promised some time
since to give you resume of the ac-
tions of Company M, goth U. S. V.
Infantry, at an early date, and if l
be tardy in 30 doing please accept as
an excuse the fact that l have been
very busy-how busy will try and
prove to you in the following
June Goth, 1900, and we are slowed
away OH the United States Trans
port Pennsylvania, bound for the
far Southern islands cf the Philip
pine group, where, if report be true,
the insurgents are active in their at
tacks upon the slimly garrisoned
towns.
General McArthur, the official
head of military operations on these
islands, had for some time past been
called upon for reinforcements at
these places. Coming out of the
Bay of Manila, on the way to this
place, distance of five hundred
miles or more, we get out of sight Of
land but once, 80 many are the islands,
bumps Of land, jutting ont from the
face Of "old ocean," and standing in
mute appeal, as if calling upon us as
representatives Of the United States
for protection-protection from any
and everything from cholera famine
to the disastrous and destructive ty-
phoon, which has a birthplace in the
China Sea, an Insignificant mill pond
at the southern extremity of the
Celestial Empire, and which serves
no other purpose apparently than to
be dividing line between our is
land possessions and the Flowery
Kingdom.
Two days from Manila and we
anchor in the harbor of Masbate,
which is the principal city OH the
Island of Masbate. 1t was here our
Colonel with four companies of the
29th distinguished themselves in May
of this year by capturing some hun
dreds of armed insurgents, together
with their arms and munitions of
war.
At this place we took on board
Companies &c" and "E" and pro-
ceeded on our way southwark, and
on the afternoon of the next day an
chored at Laguan, where we landed
Companies &c" and ok" and took
ga" and &C." or more correctly
speaking, the remnants of the two
companies of the Add Infantry, which
had been in garrison at this station
for the past four months, in which
time they had suffered a loss of fully
one-third of the command by reason
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About HustIing Westminster.
tToccoa (Ga.) Record, February g.

The editor spent few hours in West
minister this week. That town is grow
ing. new cotton factory, just open
ing, brings 400 or more people into the
town, and promises to bring more.
Westminster has another enterprise
that is one of tho best things in that
State for the farmers-that is bobbn
and shuttle factory. This enterprise is
growing every day, and it is turning out
very high grade of work. Just think
Of it-paying 50 per cord for wood.
That's what this factory does, hut the
wood, hickory. ash, willow, apple, etc,
is not burned, but made into polished,
beautiful bobbins and shuttlcs, and as a
result prosperity is among the people
about Westminster. This shuttle fac
tory is tho only ono in South Carolina,
there being none at all in Georgia. 1t is
owned by local capital at Westminster,
and its products arc eagerly sought for
throughout the country, tho demand not
near being fillod.
Clarkcsvillo may draw a good lesson
from this. Let tho moneycd men here
gather the lesson. There is plenty OF
capital around hero to have shuttle
factory and plenty Of material. If there
is any one thing in demand now through
out the South moro than another it is
sbuttlcH. Lots have factory here. W.
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On the afternoon of July 9th 6
detachment under command of oul
First Lieutenant, while out a mil,
or more from town, trying to kill {
beef, were suddenly fired upon by
the enemy, who were heavily in
trenched in our front and for time
had warm time trying to show the
followers of Aguinaldo the error oi
their ways, succeeding in so doing
only after a sharp engagement, and
then not to any great extent. II
this we were the losers, two of oul
comrades suffering injuries, caused
by coming in contact with sharpene6
bhmboo poles, placed in such posi-
ton that any one charging their
Notifications would run against
them, and as consequence retire
with a puncture in their anatomy
which, if not fatal, would at least
place them on the list of "sick ir
quarters" for time at least.
During the next fifteen days We
were in constant state of siege, but
the attacking party "reckoned not
their host" and their feeble attempts
were laughed at, and in reality We
sympathized with them, giving them
credit for valor, while deplorine
their discretion, for seldom did Q
day wane and morrow come, bu,
was recorded in the records kept a,
this place the death of one or more
of the attacking parties.
July 25th, four months after the
insurgents had evacuated this town,
and as on previous dates as the
months glided by, our copper colored
friend, with the desire to annihilate
any and all Americans to be found
on these islands, again hoped nim-
bly, to the front of the curtain with
bis bamboo shotgun and hoop-iron
bale, and declared in terms en- phatic,
if untruthful, that "todos Ameri-
cano" must go, and stand not upon
the order of their going, but go and
go at once, "fronto"- quickly. A mis-
take, and a costly one, this blow and
buster proved to be, for we never once
thought of going, besides which it is
long swim to the next landing
place, and we staid just where it was
intended we should, and gave to
"John Gugu" such threshing as
never was administered to an erring
comparable in stubbornness TO our
long cared friend, the mule, and
continued their attacks by night and
day for at least ten days more.
A detachment composed of fifty
infantry men and ten marines from
the gunboat elsie De Cuba" gave
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night at the base of tomorrow
work-one more mountain. This
going into camp was camping in name
only-our cots, in most instances,
consisting of mother earth, and our
covering the canopy of heaven, mos
quitos and sand flies. Coupled with
these daily occurrences was the in
cessant rain, for the rainy season is
on with vengeance in this "neok o.
the woods"
Seven days from Calbayoy, forty
miles from transportation, unless we
go the same way we came; out of
anything to eat except what we cap
ture, such as sweet potatoes, rice and
carrabou-not very choice bill of
fare, and much less choice when it is
known that VIC did not have either
salt or pepper with which to season |!
We had been out seven days,
and had three days more to travel
before we reach Montegenon, the
reputed abiding place of the official
head of the insurgent forces on this
island. We were then at Tagnau,
on the banks of the Gandara river, a
noble stream, and one can but feel
as he gazes upon its broad bosom
what blessing it would be if we
could but transplant such waterways
as these and drop them down on
Columbia's shores, for such as these
could not but be of benefit to us,
both as food producers and in com
mercial sense.
There is but one Objectionable
feature in connection with such
rivers az these and that is the vast
number of fierce crocodies which
abound, making it exceedingly
dangerous to haunt the shores. Of
these crocodiles there are two
varieties, one which grows to a great
SIZE, the other, smaller, yet quite
ferocious. Besides these may be
found the panican, or tortoise whose
shell is very valuable. Fish abound,
almost every known kind being
found in great numbers. On the
mountain side to our front, and in
plain view of camp there are chat
tering hordes of monkeys, of all the
species known or imagined. Here
can be seen the ring-tailed monkey,
the ld:headed monkey, and the
brothers and sisters of the measley
scamp that collects your small
change, while the "dago" and the
hand-organ do the rest. The forests
abound in wild boar, bear and deer,
and by night or day, when the
minute hand points to the hour the
air is made hideous by the cries of a
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Big Money Combination.

Perhaps the largest deal on record
was made few days ago by J.
Pierpont Morgan and John D.
Rockefeller in the purchase of An
drew Carnegie's vast steel interests
and those of the other great steel
makers of the country. The com
bine thus formed is by far the largest
business organization in the world
The companies which Morgan and
Rockefeller have gained control OF
represents a total capital of $1,094,-
100000. This gigantic deal throws
MIR. Andrew Carnegie out of bust
ness and leaves him, perhaps, the
richest man in the world. He die
tated his own terms to Morgan and
Rockefeller, forcing them to pay
$135,000,000 for his $86,00O,OOO OF
stock and to guarantee S per cent on
the $100,000,000 of bonds which he
retains under an agreement never to
sell them. Mr.. Carnegie is thus the
possessor of 1896, 100000, but this
is by no means all he owns
lie has several million dollars
worth of real estate in New
York and Pittsburg, probably
a few million dollars worth oi
other stocks and bonds, and valuable
interests in Scotland and England
He has shown disposition to use
some of his money in philantrophic
enterprises and it is hoped, now that
he has freed himself of many bust
ness cares, he may be able to devote
more entirely his time and money tc
benevolcnce.
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wALHALLA. SOUTH CAROLINA. FEB. 20, 1901

the enemy surprise at one of theil
strongholds north of town at 6.0(
a. ~, August 1st, and succeeded il
capturing the same, sending small
number to the "happy hunting
grounds" and the remainder on ,
shot foot" chase to the mountains
During the remaining days of Au
gust we had frequent skirmishel
with the enemy, each time being the
winners. In this time we killed
quite number of private soldiers
and two officers, besides capturing
quite quantity of ammunition and
commissary supplies belonging tc
the insurgents.
September proved to be a rather
quiet month on both sides, though
small detachments of "gugus" con.
stantly fired upon the town, doing
no damage, except it be to them
! selves.
October was repetition of Sep.
tember, nothing unusual happening
In the early part of November the
insurgents planted some brass can.
non on the hills surrounding the
town and after loading them with
every "old thing" that could be
pushed down the muzzle, fired them
at the city. This seemed to amuse
them very much, though it was try.
ing on the nerves for short time
but we soon discovered them to be
yet poorer marksmen with cannons
than they were with small arms, and
it was common expression among
the men: "The niggers fired a junk
shop at No. 6 outpost this morning.
Here is COW horn and tin can that
came my way"
1t was amusing to pick up the diff
ferent things contained in a charge
fired from one of these old brass
guns-bits of nails, taps, carrabou
horns, and even chunks of wood
helping to fill out the load.
One day, while lying on our hunks
in quarters, we were startled by a
louder report than usual, followed
by great rumpus at the foot of the
stairs. The funny man of the com
pany was first on the scene, and
came bounding back with this start
ling bit of information "By George,
one before. But the insurgents are
here it is at last just as 1 expected
all the time. The cussed niggera
have run out of railroad spikes and
have shot carrabou bull at us, and
the old fellow wants to do as it was
intended he should do, and wants a
bold American to show up so he can
get a reputation as killer" This