The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1901-12-17

be paid; says the reason evidently
was that they feared the people of
tho community would take action,
and so paid claims rightfully pre-
sented by them, but would I'm some
cases, ut leasD ignore them whom
sent from distance.
Rev. II. FL. Jordan, of Henrietta,
says he met q Mr.. Long, near Bos-
tic, who said he had just been out to
show some people Where they could
find sprouts of cherry trees in a field,
which sprouts he had sold to these
mon, who were buying them for the
company, but it was done without
his consent, that he does not endorse
the company, and that he does de-
nounce it as fraud. MIR. Jordan
| agreed to send me letters which he
has received regarding the COM
pany.
Amos Owen, of Oak Spring, (can-
not read or write, 1 am told(, says
that the last sprouts he sold from
| his orchard were sold some time ago
and that altogether he had sold less
than 1000 trees Gin his opinion
He thinks that some have been taken,
but 1t was without his consent, and
he wants it stopped. He says ho is
confident that they get trees from all
over the country without reference
to place, or kind of cherry; says the
use of his name is fraudulent, as he
has never authorized it, and has
serious objection to it; says he has
no connection with the company.
ATTITUDE OF RMpLoYEs, ETC.
Those in the pay of the company
showed an inclination to shield their
employers. On this account it was
with difficulty that the facts could be
learned at first hand. In each case
where the employe was approached
and he WAS aware Of my orrand,
statements were made which in cer-
tain cases, know to be absolutely
false. Employees who knew my er-
rand invariably declared that the
trees handled were only trees Of the
Amos Owen cherry stock, either
from Cherry Mountain or from the
surrounding country, where "they
knew that they wore Amos Owen
cherries. In my opinion each em-
| ploye who made this claim was
guilty of Deliberate falsehood, though
this is a matter which I cannot now
prove with the evidence thus far at
hand. 1t is satisfactorily proven to
me that employees bought trees from
south of the Second Broad river, and
in this case they could not, in my
opinion, have been certain in the ori-
gin of the trees.
1t is fact worth noting that tho
first man in the pay Of the company,
who did not know my errand, and
with whom held conversation, told
me that he had bought load of
cherry trees from Mitchell county
and said that they were secured in
old orchards or anywhere they could
be found. I myself saw these trees
delivered to the company's packing
grounds at Elenboro. That same af-
ternoon I inquired of the young man
in charge of the packing shed as to
the source Of the same trees and who
promptly told that they we're "from
the mountain" Cherry Mountain
is the only one that can be referred
to, as it is the mountain from whence
all these trees are reported to co me. }
| RECOMMENDATIONS.
After carefully weighing the facts,
L am moved to make the following
recommendations:
l. The absolute withdrawal OF
the certificates now IN use by the
company.
2. The notification Of the post
master general at Washington that
the company has been found fraudn.
lent with request that a fraud order
be issued for the following postof1ices
! Forest City Elenboro, Caroleen,
Henrietta and Rutherfordton.
| B. The notification of station
agents at the following points that
the company cannot legally shi p
stock. Caroleen, Henrietta, Forest
City, Bostic, Rutherfordton, Moores
bOrO. Iiattinore and Shalhv ,5.r