Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-09-20
WALHALLA, 3. CT


Japan, according to official statistics,
published Monday morning, amounts to
$ll3,O00,0OO.
The contract for the Saluda Valley
Railroad from Greenville to Marietta has
been let to a large construction company
of Philadelphia and it is expected that
the n mile stretch of the road will be
completed by the first day of next March.
The dispensary question, which has
been agitated in Darlington county for
the last few months without any let up,
will be settled finally perhaps on the 10th
day of next month, this being the day
fixed by Supervisor Milling of that
county, for an election on the question of
"dispensary" or "no dispensary."
High Point, N. c., shipped by actual
count two hundred and thirty nine solid
cars of furniture during the month of
August. This does not include the many
cars that were partly filled and are loaded
together as mixed shipments, which
would bring the number up to about
four hundred.
Miss Alice Roosevelt's portrait on
Japanese post card is the latest tribute
of the Mikado's people to the Presidents
daughter. The picture shows Miss
Roosevelt wearing long white coat and
white hat trimmed with OWLS head
and wings. Underneath is Japanese
inscription explaining that she is the
American princess.
Hub" Evans says he will not resign,
but will run for reelection on the State
Board of Control, and asserts with great
positiveness that he will win. From the
way things are going now we scarcely
think that there will be any State Board
of Control after the next meeting of the
Legislature-andm maybe no dispensary,-
The Sumter Herald.
One day last week Bostou's immipra.
tion records were broken by the Saxonia
and the Romaine, which sailed into port
with B., 737 passengers. Twenty-tw two ma
tionalities were represented, but more
than two-thirds of the immigrants were
from sunny Italy. What a hospitable
dumping ground Uncle SANS farm is to
be sure.
Fire destroyed a carload of matches at
the Southern Railway depot in Greenville
at O'Clock Tuesday morning of last
week. The fire department had to be
called to put out the flames which were
bursting through the roof when some of
the yard crew discovered what had hap
pened. The matches were a total loss
and the carload was valued at $1,000.
The damage to the car was considerable.
Sumter Watchman: III the farmers ex-
pect to make the demand of the Cotton
Growers Association, that the buyers
pay minimum of III cents for cotton
effective, they must hold at least - per
cent OF their crop until December list
and 30 per cent until January list. BY
that time the world will be hungry for
cotton and willing To pay the price the
producers fix. This is where the cotton
warehouses come in"
Warren Scruggs, Ig., in company with
two other boys Of his age, was climbing
in the dome OF the State capitol building
IN Columbia Tuesday morning of last
week, when lie fell iu some way on the
steel ceiling which gave way, precipitat-
ing him on his head on the marble floor
of the main body, Is feet below. Death
was instantaneous. He was the only
child of his parents aud was aged H.
Ills father is manager OF the Hub, a
Large retail clothing store in Columbia
lie was manager for j. B. White Il Com.
pany, OF Augusta, Ga, for several years
Age has so dccayed the tree under
which Washington took command OF the
American army, July ., I77J, that the
life OF the historic elm is believed by the
Cambridge park commission to be nearly
ended, says Cambridge. Mass. dispatch
The Washington elm, long vencrated as
The site of Indian councils as well as of
Washingtons assumption of command.
has received treatment to prolong its
life, but the best that could be done has
not prevented the gradual wasting away
OF its substance. Recently large limb
had to be removed, and it is feared that
Others soon must be treated in the same
saanner. The tree is estimated to be
nS0re than $50 years old
Sumter Watchman: The Cotton Grow
ers' Association acted wisely IN not fix.
Ing the minimum price Of cotton at an
excessive figure. Eleven cents, under
present conditions, is fair price and
the spinners can afford to pay it and still
make money with cotton goods at pre-
sent prices. If the mill men and cotton
growers will get together and cut the
Theodore Prices and similar cotton flu
lure gamblers they can regulate the
price of cotton to their mutual advan.