Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-05-18

The board of phosphate commissioners
of South Carolina has refused the petit
tion of the Central Phosphate Co. for a
reduction of the royalty on r TX from 25
cents to 12a cents ton.
II. s. Rungi, of Chicago, was crushed
to death by the upsetting Of his automo-
bile on Tuesday. He and his fiancee
and another young woman were out rid
ing when the accident occurred.
Four of the great wildernesses of the
world are being opened by railroads.
Siberia, Central Asia, Northern Canada,
and Central Australia. Central South
America is yet left untouched.
news item from Richmond, Va, is
to the effect that the original indictment
of Aaron Burr, charged with treason,
has recently been found. 1t is signed by
John Randolph, foreman of the grand
jury.
Secretary Love, of the State Fair AS
sociation, Columbia, S. c., has completed
arrangements for the issue of 0,000
worth of bonds for the further develop
ment of the effectiveness of that organi-
ZatiOn.
The United States is the host of the
chnch bug at cost of 100000, 900; the
Hessian fly costs $50,00O,00 for its en-
tertainment; the grasshopper, 800
600; the potato bug, $8.000,O0O, and the
cotton boil worm, $60,O00,0O0.
The suggestion is made that walking
on all fours for twenty minutes every
day will prevent appendicitis. But the
surest way to avoid having appendicitis
you have the stomache.- e.--Augusta Chroni-
Gle.
Thirty-six Protestant clergymen, of
Reading, Penn, pledged themselves at a
meeting one day last week not to marry
divorced person while the other party
to the divorce is living, except in the
case where one party is guilty of adul-
terry.
The first suicide from the new Will
liamsburg bridge which spans the East
river q mile above the old Brooklyn
bridge In New York. was recorded on
the 9Th instant, when an unknown wo-
man leaped to death in the river 1876 feet
| below.
unanimously passed ordinances requirr
ing that all physicians report to the board
of health the names of all tuberculosis
patients in their practice. Provision
was made for disinfecting premises after
the removal of the sick.
The Conway correspondent of The
State says: "The 81 car loads Of straw
berries spoken of in my last letter meant
about 100000 to the shippers. Some
1926 900 worth have been shipped from
Conway alone this season and three more
car loads go out to-day"
r.. M. Angle, b. f. Sprinkle and VIM.
Young were found guilt at Charlotte,
N. c., Wednesday of .efrauding the
government by false entries in connec-
tion with the payment Of taxes on whis-
key. Sprinkle was fined $5, 900 and two
years in prison, Angle 900 and one
year, Young $1,000 and six months.
The Elberton, Ca, Star notes as fol-
lows the success of negro farmer, who
did what dozens of intelligent colored
men are doing: Perry Hudson, an
INDUSTRIOUS negro of Lumpsin county,
Georgia, sold the past year from one
horse farm $4S9.97 worth Of corn, meal,
eggs, chickens, butter, turkeys, cattle
ton which he was able to hold and sell
at the highest prices of the season.
| Hudson is deacon in his church, Sunday
school superintendent, and has always
voted the Democratic ticket. The race
question is no question at all with Perry
| Hudson"
Several months ago samples OF kaolin
clay from deposit near Aiken, s. c.,
were sent to Pennsylvania for expert
| examination and found adapted for the
manufacture of fine chinaware, alumni
mum and other kaolin products. Well
known Eastern and Western capitalists
then became interested in the kaolin
property and decided to develop it.
They have chartered and organized the
Pope Clay Products Co., with O capital
stock of 100000, and will at once in
stall modern machinery for mining,
erect buildings end install machinery for
manufacturing.