Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-04-05
Mistellaneolls Reaain9.
FROM CONTEMPORARIES.
News and Comment That II OF More
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YORK.
Rock Hill Hreald, April 2: DR.. Ed
Nesbit, Of New York, has bought
strip Of land lying along the Catawba
river in Indian Land township in Lam
caster county, commencing below Ivy's
ferry and extending in the direction OF
the Southern bridge. His object Is to
establish in that region a game pre-
serve, which will be frequented an
nually by rich northern hunters. His
lands extend out from the river a mile
or more. A barbed wire fence of six
wires will enclose the place and 1t will
be stocked with deer and foxes, quail
and pheasants, and cottages where the
hunters will have their headquarters
will be erected along the river DR..
Nesbit Is a native of that section. He
has been very successful in New York,
but has a fondness for the old scenes
of his boyhood. His game preserve
will be on the same river and only a
few miles below the great electric pow
er plant now being constructed by
Drs. w. G. and r. E. Wylie, South
Carolinians who have achieved fame
and fortune in New York, and are
spending hundreds Of thousands Of dol
lars in the development Of their ma
tive state. .. Last Saturday afternoon
two small children Of Walter Avery,
colored, who lives on DR.. w. B. Few
ellis farm on Dutchman's creek, four
miles north of Rock Hill, were sent to
the pasture to drive the cows home.
The children had to cross over the
creek on a foot log, owing to its flood
ed condition. They went upon the log
together, but one, a girl, fell off and
was borne down the swift stream,
struggling to get out. when the other,
boy, went to her rescue, but was
powerless to render any help, and the
two, sister and brother, went down
under the water together. Search was
made for their bodies, but they were
not recovered until Sunday. One was
found about fifty yards below the foot
log, but the other had been borne
some distance further down stream.
The Paris edition of the New York
Herald, Of a recent date, tells Of the
success of Miss Anna Watson in Paris,
where in a competitive exhibition of
paintings by American artists Miss
Watson received the highest mark for
excellence. There were more than 200
pictures on exhibition, but only that
of Miss Watson was marked No. 1.
Miss Watson Is the eldest daughter of
the late John L. and Mrs. M. M. Wat
son, of this county. She was raised in
Ebenezer and spent much of her time
in girlhood in Rock Hill. For more
than Is years she has devoted all her
time to the study of art and for a
year past has been in Paris, where
she will remain a year longer. ........
The holy Easter Day was fiagrantly
violated by a bloody affair at the Ca
tawba Power Co.'S dam. Sam Fair
and John Fair were brothers, and be-
fore dinner on Sunday they fell out
about some women, and out Of this
grew angry words, Sam drawing his
pistol and firing three shots at John.
One ball took effect in the left side,
between the eleventh and twelfth ribs,
producing serious wound, from which
death resulted Monday night. After
the shooting Sam Fair was arrested
and brought to Rock Hill and placed
in the guard house, where he is now.
We suppose he will be accorded pre-
liminary hearing today. Mr.. Hasel
Mobley spent several days Of last week
on his fathers Waxhaw farm, and
while there tried his luck fishing at the
mouth of Twelve-M Mile creek. A color
ed man, Ed Massey, who was with him,
caught a German carp, which after be-
ing brought to Rock Hill, pulled the
scales at IS pounds. The river is
stocked with carp and occasionally
some very fine specimens are caught.
These fish reached the river from
ponds that had been stocked fifteen or
twenty years ago. and it is not improb-
able that ere the lapse Of many more
years German carp will be as plentiful
in the river as shad used to be in April
and May-before the low country fish
ermen stretched nets across the
streams and cut the up-country of
from it's rightful supply Of shad and
other fish,. ......In the Lancaster court
last week the suit Of G. L. Vaughan
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heard and verdict for the defendant
railway company was returned. The
suit was for $1,000 damages for the de-
struction in May last Of the plaintiff S
corn crop on the Gibson bottoms below
the S. C. & Ga. Elk. roads bridge over
the Catawba river. The claim was
that on account of the railroads big
fill on the western bank the flood wa
ter in the river had been diverted
from the usual channel and forced
across the bottoms on the east side,
where they were piled up to such an
extent as to destroy the corn crop that
had been planted, washing the fertili-
zers out of the ground and damaging
the bottoms so that a crop could not
be grown that year. The plea of the
defendant company was that it was
not responsible for the flood on the
bottoms or consequent injury to the
corn crop-that the flood was not di-
verted by its embankment across the
bottoms-that the damage was caused
by extraordinary floods and that there
would have been no crop made had
there been no embankment there.
Messrs. Sep Massey, J. T.. Cornwell, F.