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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-04-23

)DERN wars are won
by the men behind the
guns, Especially is
this true Of the naval
end of the contest,
The more skill, accu-
raoy, training and
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-15
Levi Letter Dead.

Bar Harbor, Mich, June 9.-Levi
Il. Letter, Of Chicago, the merchant
prince, died at his summer home
here at 3 o'clock this morning OF
heart disease. Mrs. Letter and two
daughters were at his bedside when
the end came. The funeral will be
held in Washington. Letter and his
family have been here week.
Death was sudden as there had been
no signs that he was ill.
Letter is reported to be worth
about $20,000,0OO, all of which was
accumulated in shrewd mercantile
business. Years ago it was said he
was worth $35,000,000 and his son
Joseph's battle in the wheat pit with
the late Phil Armour cost him $11,.
100000 more. TO the public he is
better known through his children
than through himself. His son, il
will be remembered, tied the corne,
wheat in 1897. Letter controlled
the corner and the bubble smashed
In 1865 Letter entered partnership
with Marshal Field, the Ia 'otte,
Palmer entering the firm. 1881
Letter retired from business, which
has since been controlled by Field.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-15
Rural Service Cannot be Curtailed.

Fourth Assistant Postmaste Gene
raj Bristow has returned to the Post
Office Department after several
weeks absence in the West and
Southwest. Mr.. Bristow made an
observation trip over the rural de-
livery routes of Illinois, Missouri,
Kansas, Texas and other States for
the purpose of becoming personally
familiar with rural free delivery SER
vice. Before his departure Mr.. Bris-
tow had considered plans for areor-
ganlzation of the service. 1t is known
that he doubted the wisdom of main
tanning such an extensive system
Since his trip, however, he has
reached the important conclusion
that the rural service cannot possibly
be curtailed, and he will lay before
the Postmaster General, in few
days, a complete plan for a vast ex-
tension of the system. Mr.. Bristow
told the Postmaster General that
everywhere he went he found the
people heartily in favor of rural de-
livery. The farmer, he said, was its
strongest advocate, and 80 popular
has the service become that it will
be necessary to ask Congress to
make liberal appropriation for its
extension. He pointed out particu-
larly the great benefit of the service
to the publishers of daily newspapers
explaining that it brought the news,
paper to the farmers door and kept
him, in close touch with the outside
world.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-15
Judge Scores Jury.

A St. Louis dispatch to the New
York World, dated June 8, reads as
follows: "Gentlemen of the Jury, it
is a pity that sickening filtration
between jurors and the defendant
in a criminal case has the power in
this court to defeat the ends of JUS
tice." This was a part of severe
lecture given by Judge Taylor this
morning to the jury which had just
acquitted Maud Williams, pretty
brunette, of the charge of robbing
Aldon Mather, a caller, of 1904.
Judge Taylor said he was "dis-
gusted with such action by men
sworn to give fair and impartial
verdict based upon the law and evil
dence." He dismissed the Jurors
and expressed the hope that none of
them would ever again sit on case
in his court.
Assistant Circuit Attorney G.
Orrick Bishop said: "Gentlemen of
the jury, thank you for your ver-
dict in the name of all that is lawless
and shameless. / thank you for the
discriminating taste you have shown,
for the high order of citizenship you
have displayed in being influenced
in your verdict by pretty woman's
winks and glimpse at bit of open
work stocking. You are credit to
your class"
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-15
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laps Lost Heavily at Port Arthur.

st. Petersburg, June GA special
dispatch from Lao Yang reports the
Chinese bringing news that the Japa-
nese on June 2 attacked Port Arthur
by land and sea, but were repulsed
with loss of $500 men and four
vessels, which, judging from the des-
cription given of them, were torpedo
boats.
Other dispatches give rumors of
naval battle between two fleets in
the Gulf of Pc Chi Ii and the def
mite report of bombardment near
kai-Ping, which may foreshadow a
landing there.
HARBoR AT PORT ARTHUR BLOCKED.
Che Foo, June 9.-Chinese arriv-
ing from Port Arthur say the en-
trance to that harbor is still blocked
and large vessels are unable TO pass
in or out. Gun boats and torpedo
boats can effect the passage only at
high tide. The Russians have seve-
raj fortified positions between the
present positions extending several
miles out and under the forts at Port
Arthur. The Japanese fleet is bonn
harding Port Arthur daily at long
range, fearing to come closer on
account of danger from the Russian
mines. The Chinese leaving the
town had difficulty in securing pro-
visions and several junks which left
recently without any food were sup
piled by Japanese cruisers which
stopped them. Both sides are doing
their utmost to earn the good will Of
the Chinese.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-15
23 Children In Eighteen Years.

A Guthrie, Okla, special says
Should society for the prevention
of race suicide be formed in Okla
homa, Depoty Sheriff Frank Carter,
of Lawton, would likely be chosen
for it's president. Although married
but eighteen years, Mr.. Carter and
his wife are the parents of twenty
three children, all living. There are
fifteen boys and eight girls in this
remarkable family. Fourteen of the
children are twins. Mrs. Carter,
who was Miss Lizzie Shaw, is only
80 years of age and her husband is
but al years old. Both were born
and raised in LAGRANGE, Texas, where
they were married. They moved tc
Oklahoma in October, 1891, at the
opening of the territory, and settled
at Lawton, where they have lived
ever since.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-15
Right TO Whip His Wife.

Louisville, June 3.-Police Judge
John J. Riley to-day recognized the
old English custom of allowing a
husband the privilege of whipping
his wife, and az result Squire
Smith, who was before the court on
the charge of wife beating, was dis
missed.
Attorney Morgan read the law as
formerly practiced in England and
spoke at length of the privilege of a
husband. The evidence in the case
on trial showed that Smith had over
heard conversation between his
wife, Mrs. Annie Smith, and another
man, and accordingly he admonished
her not to talk to other men in the
future.
When Smith was arrested he an
nounced his intention of basing his
defence on mans right to beat his
wife when she sufficiently offends
He is well known farmer and was
never known before to strike his
wife.
81 recognize the right of any hus.
band whose record is otherwise
ear" said Judge Rilc- in dismiss.
ing the case, "to cha Sc his wife
where her conduct is offensive
There is no other way by which he
can censure her properly for certain
acts discreditable to her and to him
| would not punish this man for act
ing as he did"
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-15
Flats The Cause of Race Suicide.

In an address before the Missouri
State Congregational Association on
"The Religious Opportunity and
Obligation of the Home" in St
Louis last week, Rev. Cyrus f. Stim.
son, of Kansas City, told the minis.
ters that it was their duty to have
largo families. The modern five.
room flat, he declared to be an
enemy to family life, and emphasized
this remark by stating that the own.
ers of 81 >h property have placed a
premiu. on small families, and ac.
cordingly on infanticide.
One of the great evils of mod crn
society, he said, was the fact that
people put off marital obligations
until too late in life. "Parents," he
said, care greatly to be. blamed fol
this. They exact of the suitor fol
their daughters hand conditions tha,
most young men cannot comply with
Ii is the duty of those who preach
the Gospel to urge early marriages
and large families"
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-15
Will Borrow the Limit.

The State Treasurer will, in few
weeks, borrow about 100000, or the
rest of the money allowed by law to
be borrowed any one year. A loan
of S2OO,O00 was effected some time
ago for the payment of the pensions,
and while all of this was not used ,
the interest on State bonds will be
due soon and it will be necessary to
borrow some. 1t has been found
that in borrowing all that can be
borrowed at one time large amount
of money is saved, as the rate of in
terest is much lower. 1t is thought
that there will not be much difficulty
in making ends meet this year, as
the tax money will begin to come in
just as the loan is exhausted. De-
spite this, however, the appropria-
lions are over 100000 greater than
last year and there is no government
claim of 100000 to help the State
out. The mistake in the franchise
tax law caused a big deficit which
was evidently not looked for by the
Legislature and it is estimated that
this knocked the State out of about
S15O000.-Columbia Record.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-15
ANOTHER STATE HEARD FROM.
Rev. c. WardIaw, Of Arizona, Says The Dis.
ponsary Should be Voted Out.

Stafford, Arizona, Juue S.-Editors
Keowee Courier: The request from
some of your readers and my friends
in Oconee county for my views on
the question of retaining or closing
dispensaries in Oconee county, South
Carolina, causes me to write the fol-
lowing:
Should the dispensaries be re-
tanned I? If 80, why2 There can
be only two reasons for retaining the
dispensaries: list. That strong drink
may be supplied to the citizens. I'd.
That the public treasures and
schools may get the profits. Are
these sufficient reasons2 Do the
citizens really need this supply of
strong drinkp Christianity, NOR
ality, science and good health all
join in the answer "No." Then if
this be true, and feel sure that any
person of common sense can verify
it if he desires to go to the trouble
to make the investigation, it is the
duty of every friend of Christianity,
every moralist, every scientist, and
every person interested in promoting
good health, to join in the effort to
close the dispensaries.
No one, so far as l have been in
formed has ever been insane enough
to claim that strong drink promoted
Christianity. 1t docs hinder it, 80
Christians should oppose the supply
of strong drink TO the people. The
same is true as to morality. Every
person of observation knows that the
use of strong drink demoralizts.
Consequently people who favor good
morals should vote to close the dis
pensaries.
Scientific experiments have proven
that strong drink units man for his
best use, either as citizen, soldier
or business man. As a result of
these experiments, and observations,
aim st every great enterprise is call
ing for men who do not use, strong
drink. For example, merchants,
bankers, railroads, manufactures,
etc., adopt rules prohibiting their
employees from frequenting places
where strong drink is sold. Also
these same experiments prove that
the soldier who does not drink, as a
rule, can march further, do more
work and aim better than the SOL
dier who is addicted TO strong drink.
The medical world has at last, by
the aid of science, come to know
that strong drink is not a medicine,
except in very rare cases. There
fore do most candidly declare that
the dispensary should not be con-
tinued for the purpose of furnishing
strong drink to the people.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-15
>lliirtv i
Days Was My Life's
Limit.
Agony From Inherit
ed Heart Disease.
DIR. Miles III cart Cure
Cured Me.

One person in every four has a weak heart.
Unless promptly treated weak heart will
easily become a diseased heart. A little extra
strain from any cause is sufficient to bring on
this deadly malady, the most common cause
tone up the hearts action, enrich the blood
and improve the circulation.
my trouble began with catarrh and have
always supposed it caused the trouble 1 have
experienced with my hear. had the usual
symptoms of sleeplessness, lost appetite, con-
stipation, papitation of the heart, Shortness
OF breath and pain around the heart and un-
der LETT arm. My mother suffered in the same
way and l suppose mine was an inherited
tendency. At one time was In agony. l
suffered so severely and became so weak
that my doctors said / could not live thirty
days. At this time had not slept over two
hours, night on account of nervousness.
The least exercise, such as walking about,
would bring on palpitation and Auttering of
the heart so severe that would have to give
up everything and rest. Nerve and Liver
Pills cured me of constipation and heart
symptoms disappeared under the influence
CT Dr. Miles New Heart Cure. / am in
better health than have been In twelve
years and thank DIR. Miles Remedies forit.
L think they are the grandest remedies on
earth and i am constantly recommending
them to my friends."-MRs. L. ]. CANTRRLL,
Waxahachie, Tex.
All druggists sell and guarantee first bot
tie DIR. Miles Remedies. Send for free book
on Nervous and Heart Diseases. Address
Dr.. Miles Medical Co, ElkhMt, Ind,
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-15
Should it be continued for finan-

Should it be continued for finan-
cial gain2 To answer yes is to con-
fess that we are willing for money to
oppose Christianity, morality, science
aud good health. But does il pay
from financial viewpoints Statis-
tics show that the sale of strong
drink causes more expense than the
gain derived, consequently impover-
ishes rather than enriches the nation.
So even from the monetary view
point we should oppose the continu-
ance of the dispensaries.
The use of iDtoxicants lowers the
temperature in cold weather and
heightens it in warm weather. Con-
sequently experiments and observa-
tions have proven that man can en-
dure more cold without strong drink
than he can with it, and that the
man who nses strong drink will be
abletto Withstand less heat than the
person who does not use it.. The
use of strong drink drives the blood
to the surface. The cold or hot air
either cools or warns it and sends it
back to the heart to lower the tenn
perature in cold weather and to raise
it in hot weather.
Possibly / should stop here, but /
want to say few words more on the
question of personal responsibility
for the sale of intoxicants. Until
we have done all we can to suppress
the sale of strong drinks we are re-
sponsible TO the extent of our fail
ure, for the results of it's sale. Your
failure to vote for closing the dispen-
saries may continue them. Their
continuance may result in murder
the making of widow and or
phans. In such a case you are
responsible for the murder and its
consequences. To what extent this
responsibility will extend / do not
say. If you vote for closing you
have done your duty, aud the rest It's
are not chargeable to you if they
continue.
I pray that every friend l have
will vote against continuing the dis
pensaries. Go from prayer to the
polls and you will vote against the
dispensary. What would Jesus do ?
Ask yourself that question and as
you think he would act, situated
just as you are, so act. How glad
| shall be if the people of Oconee
county will vote against continuing
the dispensaries. With hearty
interest l shall watch the result of
the election. Very truly,
@. Wardlaw.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-15
Big Whiskey Fire in Peoria, Illinois.

Peoria, Ills, June Am explosion,
which occurred this afternoon in the
eleven story warehouse of the Corning
Distillery, the second largest in the
world, completely wrecked the building.
The ruins Immediately took fire and
commune ated to three adjoining build.
iDgs, burning them to the ground. Ten
men were Luried beneath the ruins and
burned to death, and six others were
seriously injured. The loss on buildings
and whiskey and spirits stored will ap.
proximate 81 100000. The fire spread to
the stock yard's district, whore dozen
large cattle barns, filled with cattle for
market, we're burned.
The cause of the explosion cannot be
determined.
The warehouse, containing In the
neighborhood of 10000 barrels of whis.
key, was instantaneously seethine
caldron and 1T was seen that no one in.
side the big structure could escape, The
warehouse, In crushing the smaller
structure, nearly set that on fire, and the
,whiskey from the burning barrels flooded
everything In that section. Large
streams ran down grade toward the
river, and in short time there was a
foot of whiskey in the cattle pens east OF
the warehouse, whore $500 steers were
chained fast. Their distress lasted but
few moments, however, for they were
soon roasted to death or suffocated
They were the property of Dood and
Keifer, OF Chicago. 1t Is impossible tc
compute their loss, but 1t will amount tc
! thousands of dollars.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-15
Hon. Henry Q. Turner Dead.

Raleigh, M. O., June 9.-Hon
Henry g.. Turner, of Quitmap, Ga.
former Congressman of the Second
District of that State and former
Justice of the Supreme bench, died
here at 2.15 O'Clock this morning al
the home of his brother, Or. ". E.
Turner. Judge Turner arrived here
Saturday night after trip to Balti-
more in search of medical advice.
His condition was not such as to
cause any alarm and .he intended
after short stay to return to his
home in Quitman.
Monday, at noon, he was taken
suddenly i'll. He did not suffer to
any extent and members of the
family thought he would be up
again. Late yesterday and last
night bis condition began to grow
worse, and those at his bedside were
a';rmed. About midnight it was
seen that he was dying, and his
brother and others of the family re-
mained at the bedside until the end.
Judge Turner was born in Frank
lin county, North Carolina, March
70, 1889. Having received class,-
cal education at the University of
Virginia, he removed, in 1859, to
Brooks county, Georgia, where he
engaged in the occupation of teach
ing school.
The breaking out of the war found
him country pedagogue at the age
OF Il. He promptly offered his SER
vices to the Confederacy by enlisting
in a Brooks county company, and
served throughout the war until dis
abled by severe wound he received
at Gettysburg, from which the ball
was not extracted until 1868. He
came out of the war with the rank
OF captain.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-15
Three South carolInlans Declared Eligible.

A dispatch from London says thai
after an examination of the papers
submitted for the Cecil Rhodes OK.
ford scholarships, foi which there
were several applicants from this
State, it has been found that there
were three eligibles-Wm. III. Ver-
ner, w. p. Willis and r. s. Towles
But one of these three can take a
scholarship this year, and a commit.
tee of seven will be appointed to ex-
anime them as to their qualifications,
and their examination before on their
education. To be admitted to OK
ford, however, one must have sound
physique, good moral character and
other qualifications, so that even
with an excellent mark on the edu-
cation examination an applicant
might fail on the others.
The examining committee will
consist of seven college pro tessors-
two from the South Carolina College,
and one each from Erskine, New
berry, Wofford, Furman and the
College of Charleston.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-15
PERSONAL DIFFICULTY.
john mobIoy and W. Boyd Evans Meet Street
Fight In Columbia.

There was a personal difficulty this
morning between w. Boyd Evans
and John Mobley on Law Range
that attracted considerable notice.
Very few saw the beginning of the
fight, aud those who did separated
them at once, 30 that beyond a few
blows neither was seriously injured.
Both are candidates for the office of
Railroad Commissioners and the diff
Guilty was caused by politics. Sheriff
Coleman, on hearing of the row, at
once put both men under peace
bond and no further trouble is antici-
pated.
Those who saw the fight state that
Mr.. Mobley, upon meeting Mr..
Evans, dem landed certain papers that
affected himself. Upon either q
denial or refusal, witnesses could not
say positively which, Mobley, who
had whip in his hand wrapped in a
piece of paper, uncovered the whip
and struck Evans across the face.
The two then exchanged several
blows, and then, as stated above,
were separated,
Accompanying John Mobley was
his cousin, +. M. Mobley. There
were statements made that pistol
had been produced, but both the
Mobleys deny this.
Mr.. Evans, when seen this MORN
ing, stated that the attack was un-
expected and that politics was at
the bottom of it. Mr.. Mobley says
that statement is correct, but that
he considered that his character had
been attacked in statements made
by Evans.-Columbia Record, 9th.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-15
Pigeons Make a Record.

Yesterday morning DR.. Kendall
released a number of homing pigeons
from the State House grounds.
They were sent to him by fancier's
club in Washington, and the object
was to make a record in pigeon fly
ing. To-day DR.. Kendall received a
telegram from w. S. Dismer, secre-
tary of the club, at Washington, say
ing: "Best speed for 400 miles we
have ever made" He did not say
how many of the pigeons had arrived,
but even if only one got back, that
was a record. The pigeons were re-
leased at 5.25 in the morning and
the first one to arrive in Washington
got there at 2.40 p. M, of the same
day. This is another illustration OF
the swiftness and endurance of these
birds.-Columbia Record, June 7th
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-15
Injustice to Seneca.
The following communication was
unavoidably omitted last week:

The following communication was
unavoidably omitted last week:
Seneca, June @, 1904 -Keowee Courier:
We see in your last issue communities
tiun headed "Those Wicked Towns"
and signed &C." Now we agree with
&c" in all he or she wrote except Seneca
being wicked town in the way he or
she spoke of, saying the towns wanted
dispensary profits for schools and would
fight for blood money as he or che called
it, &C." went off half cooked as we can
prove. Let's see. Seneca had barrooms
closed forever in December, 1882, when
all the license went to tho town from
$1,000 to $l,5U0 a year, according to the
number of bars. Iu May, 1880, Seneca
voted solid for prohibition. In 1894, by
special act, the dispensary was put in the
town against her wish and Seneca ever
since has been waiting for an opportu-
nifty to get rid of the dispensary. Since
the Legislature has allowed vote on
condition that one-fourth of the voters
in the county sign petition asking for
an election on "dispensary or no dispen-
sary,' in Oconee county, we find Seneca
not far behind in trying to get a vote on
the question. -Four out of the five
Town Councilmen have signed the petit
tion; every minister, banker, doctor,
liveryman, blacksmith, postmaster, shoe
maker-all have signed; three-fourths Of
the merchants and tour-fifths of the
people, (this is from actual count from
petition,) and will vote no dispensary in
the coming election. Will say for the
benefit of &C." and those who may
doubt Seneca there will be published in
book form after the 1st of July all names
that appear on any petition in tho
county; also, all COMMUNICATIONS that
have been or may be written for or
against the dispensary in any one of the
three county papers with the true names
of the writers if they can be had. 1t
will be interesting reading matter for
our children, now in the cradle, when we
are dead, and will show the people the
names of those who were honest enough
to ask for a vote on this great evil to
mankind. &C." can then check our
town. w. l.. Harbin, Sr.