Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-08-11
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

THE CharlestC7 board Of health
has decided to pr nibit the running OF
excursions into tt , city.
| There were mt -e than thousand
people at the opening Of the Farmers
institute at Clemson college on last
Wednesday.
- Mrs. Mary Miller, an aged lady OF
Batesburg, died last Wednesday while
lquarreling with Mrs. Young Rikard,
across the street.
| A Joint debate has been arranged
to take place between Messrs. Tillman
and Talbert in Anderson on Aug. 16:
The occasion is to be the meeting or
the Farmers Union, but the bars are
to be thrown down as to politics In the
afternoon, and the two men are to have
ali the latitude they want. Tillman is
to defend the dispensary, and Talbert
is to talk prohibition.
IN. M. Black, president Of the Rich
land distillery, sent the following tele-
gram to the Columbia State from Lake
Toxaway yesterday: please deny In
Fridays issue of the State statement
in today's issue reporting Spartanburg
committee proceedings that made any
contribution to any dispensary elec-
ton or other fund at Spartanburg or
any other place or at any time
According to the Greenville Her
aid, Greenville people have under
consideration the organization or an
independent telephone company TO
compete with the Southern Bell. II
seems that not quite five years ago, a
large number Of Greenville people
signed an agreement whereby they
bound themselves not to use any other
than Bell phones during the life OF
the contract. The Bell system has
been a very Indifferent and unsatis-
factory one and the people are now
after better service at more reasona-
BILE rates. The proposed new system,
IL installed, Is to be first class In every
particular.
There was a warm time on Main
street, Laurens, yesterday afternoon
saws a dispatch to the Columbia State
Policeman Jernagan attempted TO ar
rest John Grant, 9. white farmer OF this
county, for drunkenness as he was
driving out with man named whit
lock. Lashing his horse into wild
run, Grant drew pistols and hred at
pursuing officer number or tlmes'
then turned his guns upon residents
terrifying everybody in the neighbor-
hood. Fortunately no one was ln1ur-
ed, Mr.. w. e. Lucas rendered his
horse to Officer Jernagan, who ran the
men down two miles out and brought
them to the guard house.
w. Boyd Evans, who Is represent
ing the dispensary people In the pro-
ceedings which seek to set aside the
Pickens dispensary election, expresses
himself as confident Of the outcome
and says that IL an attempt is made
to hold another election, so as to make
II comply with the requirements OF
81 nf no
ETC., the courts will be asked to stop
1t on the ground that the act forbids
an election to be held on the subject
oftener than every four years. In
other words, his clients after they
have succeeded in proving the Pickens
election only an abortive attempt Will
contend that 1t was bona fide so far
as the four years limitation Is con-
cerned. AS to the election about to
be held in the eighteen counties seek
ing to rid themselves Of the dispen-
sary Mr.. Evans intimated that the dis
pensaryites would likely apply to one
of the associate justices of the su-
preme court to stop, one by one, by
Injunction, on the ground that the law
requires this question to be settled at
q general election.
- Greenville News, Wednesday: Dis
appointing those hoping for sensa-
tional disclosures in the Pickens dis
pensary case, the hearing before Spec
ial Referee John Boggs at Pickens
court house yesterday, failed to de-
velop q single new fact or lead in any
way to even q suggestion Of something
startling in the future. Because At
torneys Robinson and Carey admitted
majority of the allegations set out
in the petition Of Samuel Wilson by
ht,f r
tie was left in the way Of evidence for
the attorneys to squabble over at the
reference and the hearing lasted bare
ly an hour and a half. Only three
witnesses were examined. The first
was Supervisor Lynch, who was fol-
lowed by Fielding Lewis. a supervisor
of registration, and r. A. Bowen, one
Of the managers in the election which
showed the dispensary out OF exist
ence in Pickens county. From the
testimony 1t is evident that the fight
hinges on question Of law almost en-
tirely. In the conduct Of the election
certain things were done which are
not denied, and the question depends
on what view the courts take of these
alleged irregularities, whether 1t Will
decide that they are Of sufficient i'm
portance to rob the people of their ex-
pressed wish at the polls. or too i'm
material to change the result Of the
election. The special referee still has
the case under advisement and 1t will
be some little time before he submits
his report Supervisor Lynch admit
ted that he did not send out any books
Of registration, or official ballot boxes,
as is prescribed Cor general elections,
alleging that only few Of them could
be found 1t is said that cigar boxes
and other things Of the sort were used
for depositing ballots. Fielding Lew
is contradicted the supervisor to a
certain extent by declaring that If the
books had been hunted for they could
have been found. He was OF opinion
that not more than rorty or fifty of
those voting in the election were not
registered. poll list was kept at
each box and this will be compared
with the books OF registration In each
precinct. The referee will do the
work.