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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-07-05
eLeANINes FROM PRESS DISPATCHES.
What Is Going on in tho State and Nation
General Information.

Sam Hudson, negro, beat and
robbed David Ballenger, an old and
respected white citizen near Greers.
When the negro was captured by
Mr.. Ballenger's neighbors SO lashes
were given him. He was later taken
to Jail at Greenville. Mr.. Ballenger
will recover. The thief secured $40
from him.
Robert E. Lee, Jr., the grandson
of the great Confederate General,
whose name he bears, has announced
his candidacy for the Speakership of
the Virginia House of Representa-
tives. Mr.. Lee is serving his second
term az a member of that body from
Fairfax county, and is said to be a
worthy descendant of the distin-
guished family.
A new mountain sheep is reported
to have been discovered in the far
Northwest. 1t is the So called black
sheep of America and has apparently
been found far to the North in the
glacial regions. Naturalists believe
that numerous hitherto unknown
animals will yet be discovered on
this continent.
One of the oldest churches in this
country is found in the redwood for
ests of California. 1t is near San
Jose, and is maintained by mining
settlement, the minister working as
a miner during the week. 1t is built
in one of the hollow trees and ac-
commodities congregation of 25,
with space for recess chancel, which
contains small organ.
A North Carolina farmer arrived
in New York the other day with
$475 with which to buy the State of
New Jersey. He had already for
warded $25 as deposit with the
bogus real estate firm that offered to
sell him the entire State, the "traitor
State" as Lincoln Steffens calls it,
for $500. The farmer Lost the S475
before he had been long in the city.
The two attacks in Rock Hill on
last Saturday night on a party of
young ladies by negro were fol-
lowed by similar occurrence
Wednesday night. About dusk on
the 18th of June as young lady
was walking along Laurel street she
was attacked by a negro, but she
managed to escape without suffering
any injury. Rock Hill is considera-
bly, wrought up over these repeated
outrages and every effort will be
made to apprehend the black brute
or brutes.
Joseph Poehl, locomotive fire.
man of st. Joseph, Mo-, gave to the
world fine example of real heroism
recently. He was on his locomotive
when he saw little child on the
track ahead. The brakes were ap-
piled, but it was seen that the train
could not be stopped in time. Poehl
climbed down over the locomotive
to the pilot, and as the locomotive
reached the spot he grasped the
child ond swung it clear of the track.
But in doing so his foot slipped and
he fell to the track himself. His leg
was caught beneath the wheels and
wrenched off below the knee.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-07-05

pie, to rise in their strength and join
hands with us in the effort thus to sweep
from our midst the most iniquitous
scheme Of liquor selling ever devised; !;
the most subtle agency for evil ever pre-
sented by the devil to our people; the
most hideous serpent that ever fastened
its deadly fangs into our body polite
the State Rum Shop.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-07-05

Flag stations.
Will also stop at the following stations to take
on and let off passengers: Phinney's, James's and
Sandy Springs and Toxaway.
Nos. II and ~. first class passenger, daily; Nos.
and 10, daily except Sunday; Nos. and 6,
Sunday only; Nos. and 7, second class mixed,
daily except Sunday; Nos. and 8, second class,
mixed, daily.
H. G. BEATTIE, President.
j. r. ANDERSON. Superintendent.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-07-05
STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, GO
LUCAS COUNTY, 90

Frank j. Cheney makes oath that he is
the senior partner of the firm of +. j..
Cheney Il Co., doing business in the City
of Toledo, County and State aforesaid,
and that said firm will pay the sum of
One Hundred Dollars for each and
every case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by the use of Halls Catarrh Cure.
FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in
my presence, this 9th day of December,
A. ID. 1885,
A. w. GLEASON,
'~~' Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts directly on the blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system. Send for
testimonials, free.
+. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23
RAILROAD NEWS.
Rejoicing Among Officials Over
Fight on Scalpers in Colorado.
Injunction Against Dealers in
NOntransferabfe Tickets.
PUBLIC is BENEFITED.
Radiance of Brokers Promotes
Honesty Among Employees.
Gossip and Matters OF Interest
in Railroad Circles.
PUBLIC is BENEFITED.

There is considerable rejoicing
among the general railroad officers To-
Gated here over the temporary in
junction against ticket scalpers which
has been recently issued by Judge w.
N. Dixon in the district court at
Pueblo. Col. They believe that the
injunction will be made permanent
and that eventually the state of Colo
RADIO will be rid of the festive scaIper
for all time
Further cause for elation is found in
the fact that the Pueblo court fined
three brokers $3.50 for violating the
restraining order issued about a week
ago. In this they see that all Offend
ers will be dealt with summarily.
Suit was brought in Colorado about
ten days ago by the Santa Fe and the
other roads operating in the state
against all the scaIpers to enjoin them
from engaging in the business of deal
ing IN nontransferable tickets. These
included G. A. r., Pacific coast,
tourists and colonists tickets. and in
Iact' all tickets carrying a reduced
rate and signed by the purchaser.
AS soon as these suits were filed a re-
stralnlng order was secured by the roads
10 prevent the Scalpers from dealing in
any tickets While the suits against them
We're pending. Three of them violated
this order and they were arrested and
fined $3.50 each. The suits against the
brokers cover all class of tickets and if
the injunction is made permanent the
brokers will have to close shop and
seek new pastures.
1t is pointed out by railroad men that
the riddance of the scalpers will have
a very beneficial effect on the travelling
public and especially those using excur-
sion tickets. 1t will mean the abolition
of joint agencies and the wiping out of
all temptation for dishonesty among the
employees of the railroads who have any
thing to do with the handling of tickets.
Speaking of the matter prominent
railroad man said;
"a great many people have the mis-
taken idea that a railroad ticket is
property. Ninety-nine persons out of
every hundred believe that a ticket is
theirs to do what they please with
after they have bought and paid for it.
A ticket has no value. and it is merely
a receipt showing that the person
whose name is signed thereon is en-
titled to transportation over a certain
line within a given time.
In other words, it is a contract be-
tween the railroad company and the
purchaser. and it cannot be trans
ferred without the consent of both
parties. just the same as any other
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contract. The business of buying and
selling non-transferable tickets is not
only Illegal but dishonest as well. 1t
is fraud, and should be punished as
such.
1T places a great temptation in the
way of young men employed in rail-
road offices, especially in the auditing
department, where the employees can
single out those tickets that con-
ductors failed to punch. These they
can take to scalpers, who will aid and
abet them in crime very readily by
buying them There are many other
phases to the matter and a dozen diff
ferent advantages to be derived from
the eradication of the ticket broker
81 really believe that the court will
make the injunction permanent and
we will see to it that there. are no
violations of the order. In this way It
will only be a short time before there
is no Illegal trafficking in railway
tickets. The brokers will not be able
TO make a living, and will have to
move elsewhere
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23
RATE PLAN NO GOOD.
Hill Says Government Control Would
Mean Higher Charges.

Government control of railroad rates
would mean higher rates than are possi-
bic under private management" said
James ]. Hill, president of the Great
Northern, in a speech to the farmers at
Preston, Mimi, the other day. Continu-
ing Mr.. Hill said:
Your main needs are two-an ade-
quate market in which your products
may be sold at a fair price and an OPP
portunity to purchase those things you
need which the farm does not supply.
There is one way in which you may be
helped, and that is by lessening the cost
of transportation.
1T is an easy prophecy because it is
a business fact that railroad rates in
under government control than if fixed
by those who intelligently manage rail-
WAYS.
NO public body would dare make re-
auctions so sweeping as those that have
been made voluntarily by railways. 1t
is the right and duty of the government
to secure fair treatment and to prevent
determinations.
THE government cannot discriminate
between ports or places. 1t must be inn
partial. Therefore it would sooner or
later be obliged to ordain a distance tar
iff. The low charge for the long haul
would diSa ppear and you farmers here
in Minnesota would be the most heavily
fairfield people in the world"
Mr.. Hill touched on the Orient as the
future market of the wheat producing
states of the United States. He observed
that the Panama canal, while it might
be a worthy project, was an expensive
toy but one that this country could af-
ford. He derided the argument that any
great benefit would accrue to the people
from it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23
platform of any double truck or single

platform Of any double truck or single
truck car.
The current required to operate the
brake is drawn from a trolley line, but
should the trolley pole accidentally
leave the wire or the power go off the
current is then drawn from the car
motors acting as generators to apply
the brake. In either case only an i'm
pulse of current is required to make
the application. The current is not
needed to hold the brake on, as the
dog wheel and brake wheel ON the
armature shaft of the brake wheel do
this; hence the consumption of cur
rent Is very small.
There are only two nOtches on the
brake controller, and an effective
braking is secured no matter which of
the two notches is used. In case of an
accident, the trolley pole coming off,
or the brake shoes suddenly becoming
imperative by the brake chain break
ing. the motorman has still the use Of
a powerful braking system by turning
the brake controller handle to the
second notch and using the car
motors as generators to apply the
brake.
When the car is stopped, on what
ever grade it is held until released by
the mechanical dog wheel and brake
wheel attachment. A switch is con-
nected with the brake, by which the
motorman can adjust the shoe pres
sure to suit the changing condition of
the rails, reducing the chances of the
car Skidding.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23
RAILROAD NOTES.

| J. e. Hurley, general manager OF the
Santa Fe, left last night for trip to
Kansas City.
Frank T. Dolan, superintendent of the
southwest division Of the Rock Island.
returned yesterday afternoon after a
weeks business trip to Kansas City.
Dan E. Cain, general manager of the
Rock Island, returned yesterday after
weeks trip of inspection over the Mis-
souri, division.
Col F. S. Savage, of the Santa Fe,
has beeen out on the road with Robert
lures of the California limited in repose
and in full flight for advertising matter
soon to be issued by the road.
George D. Hughes. travelling passen-
ger agent of the Erie railroad, was a
caller at the local Santa F'e offices yes
terday.
The Pennsylvania railroad has aban-
doned it's idea of laying six track line
between Philadelphia and New York.
Business is heavy enough to warrant
this number of tracks but they would
cause endless inconvenience.
The Brotherhood of Railway Carmen
of America have decided to hold their
next biennial convention in Chicago.
instruction have been issued by the
PENNSYLVANIA railroad that baggage cars
must be placed ahead of all passenger
coaches ON all trains, whether there is
need for them or not. This is done IN
order to save lives in collisions.
A record is being made in the con-
struction of the Indiana Harbor road,
from Chicago to Danville. The two
| largest railroad contracting firms in the
| United States have been at work on the
new line since May 1, and it is announc-
ed that it will be open for traffic by De-
l.cember l. 1905 The line will be 115
miles long and will be double tracked
and low grade all the way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23
SOME QUARANTINE GRAFT.
Railroads Issue Health Certificates for
a Notarial Fee.

Southern newspapers are giving
much space to complaints that the
railroads are assuming a false position
in the issuance of socalled health GER
tificates. It is stated that the railroads
issued orders to their ticket agents and
conductors to refuse transportation to
persons not having health certificates,
as required by law. 1t is declared that
SO many persons neglect to get certifi-
Gates before going to their trains that
the railroads have adopted an expedi-
ent of having notarial blanks on hand,
which the passenger fills out, thus
swearing that he can meet all health
requirements, and for which he is
compelled to pay fifty cents or more.
The claim is made that this is a
graft for the health officers in GER
tain towns and affords no protection
to the quarantine states because the
blanks are issued promiscuously. A
traveller who returned to Texas from
Colorado claimed that passengers were
induced to buy health certificates
when in reality none were required by
the proper authorities.
On the other hand 7. J. Anderson,
general passenger agent of the South
ern Pacific lines in Texas, who attend
ed recently meeting in Chicago, had
another kind of quarantine graft
story to tell. He said that no cases OF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23
MURDERED ron HIS MONEY.
Santa Fe Brakeman Found Near
Ration With Skull Crushed.

Ration, N. NJ, Sept. 2s.-Detectives
here and in neighboring towns are
working hard in search of the man or
men who are responsible for the muir
der of James Morgan. Santa Fe
this place and La Junta. Morgan was
found dying a few days ago in an
arroyo alongside the Santa Fe tracks
just outside the city. He was taken to
the hospital but never recovered his
faculties. Every circumstance points
to a brutal murder Morgan is known
to have displayed a roll of bills in
various gambling houses on Saturday
night. and from the fact that no money
was found on his body there is little
doubt but that he was murdered for
his money. His head was crushed as
if he had been hit with a couplino pin
or other heavy blunt instrument
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23
THEvALUE OF CHARCOAL
Few People Know How Useful It Is in
Preserving Health and Beauty.

Nearly everybody knows that char
coal is the safest and most efficient
disinfectant and purifier in nature, but
few realize it's value when taken into
the human system for the same
cleansing purpose.
Charcoal is remedy that the more
you take of it the better; it is not a
drug at all, but simply absorbs the
gases and impurities always present in
the stomach and intestines and carries
them out of the system.
Charcoal sweetens the breath after
smoking, drinking or after eating
onions and other odorous vegetables.
Charcoal effectually clears and i'm
proves the complexion, it whitens the
teeth and further acts as natural
and eminently safe cathartic.
1t absorbs the injurious gases which
collect in the stomach and bowels: it
disinfects the mouth and throat from
the poison of catarrh.
All druggists sell charcoal in one
form or another, but probably the best
charcoal and the most for the money
is in Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges; the y
are composed of the finest powdered
Willow charcoal, and other harmless
antiseptics in tablet form or rather in
the form of large, pleasant tasting
lozenges, the charcoal being mixed
with honey.
The daily use of these lozenges will
soon tell in a much improved condi-
ton of the general health, better COM
plSzIOil, SWScteEf DESdlu anu pufSf
blood. and the beauty of it is, that no
possible harm can result from their
continued use, but on the contrary,
great benefit.
A Buffalo physician in speaking of
the benefits of charcoal says: ST ad-
wise Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges to all
patients suffering from gas in stomach
and bowels, and to clear the complex
ion and purify the breath, mouth and
throat: also believe the liver is great
ly benefited by the daily use of them
they cost but Twenty-Five cents a box
at drug stores, and although in some
sense a patent preparation, yet I be-
lieve get more and better charcoal in
StuaTt's Charcoal Lozenges than in any
of the ordinary charcoal tablets"
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A Notable Exception.

They prefer to use the medicines
which they prescribe.
Now and then, however, medicine
becomes So popular that the people
whom 1t cures are SO numerous and
manifest that the physicians do not
hesitate to make public endorsement
of it, and use it in their practice.
Such has been the case with Peruna.
Recognized by Physicians.
For many years the physicians OPP
posed it.
After while, occasionally one here
and there felt constrained To use it.
There are still many physicians who
are opposed to Peruna, but the num-
Der of physicians who endorse Peruna
and who make daily use OF it in their
practice is rapidly Increasing.
Many Endorsements.
We append a few letters received
from such physicians. These are fair
specimens of the kind of letters we are
receiving from physicians who have
used Peruna.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23
WOMAN BALKs RAILROAD.
Refuses to Give Up Home and Blocks
New York Central Work.

New York, Sept. 23.-Because of a
change in the plans by the engineers
of the New York Central railroad, the
actual work of rebuilding the Grand
Central station will not be started for
at least two years.
While it was stated authoritatively
today that the work of rebuilding the
entire terminal would be continued
with as great rapidity as possible, it
may be five or six years before the
plans are entirely carried out.
The persistent refusal of Mrs. Lehon
to give up her home in the middle of
the site, which will be used as tenn
porary terminal, delays the work.
While her house remains the railroad
company cannot close Forty-fifth
street, and its approach to the Grand
Central Palace is thereby cut off. Mrs.
Lehon has successfully combatted all
attempts to have a commission APP
pointed to condemn her home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23
Best Tonic He Ever Prescribed.

James Crozier, M. D., formerly U. S.
Pension Office Medical Examiner,
formerly on the Medical Board of
Referees. U. S. Pension Office. in re-
writes:
Il have often pi escribed Peruna in
my practice for catarrhal trouble, and
after giving it fair test can cheer
fully recommend your valuable rem
edy for coughs, colds and eatarrh in
its worst stages.
ut. is one of the best tonics have
ever prescribed
Peruna has proven it's merits thor
oughly and overcome all prejudice.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23
NOVEL COURT DECISION.
1t Holds That Railroads Must Signal
at Overhead Crossings.

II 11OluS 1Aadb IadlitOdUS MUST Sl2n0l
at Overhead Crossings.
A suit was brought against the
Southern Pacific railway company for
$4,000 damages on account of the
death of a woman thrown from
buggy by reason of her horse taking
fright from a train passing on an over
head stone and steel structure. 1t
was alleged in the suit that no warn
ing by bell or whistle was given at
the crossing. The company demurred
that the requirement did not apply to
overhead crossings, but the California
supreme court has overruled the de-
murrer and the case will go to trial.
Under the ruling, the railways will
have to give the warnings required
for level crossings, although they may
have constructed overhead or under
ground crossings with view to the
prevention of accidents. 1t would be
a strang thing to apply such a rule in
the case of the hundreds of overhead
crossings in Chicago and other cities.
which the railways have constructed
in the course of costly track elevation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23
SEES GOOD TIMES AHEAD.
A. B. Stickney Optimistic Over COndi-
tions Developing in West.

tions Developing in West.
A. 3. Stickney, president of the Chi
cago Great Western road, is optimistic
to s. degree regarding the prosperity of
the immediate future. In speaking re-
Gently of existing conditions in the west
he said:
"In our own territory the conditions
promise tremendous tonnage, and the
crops of small grains are biggest ever
saw Corn condition varies, but the
country will raise a vast crop.
THE present prosperity of the coun-
try is marvellous, and UP to date it is
probable that the boom has not been
overdone in any line of industry. The
rush to build which has been feature
of the year should represent a normal
result of the good times.
ssThe strong part of the situation un-
doubleday is the fact that every one is
optimistic"
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Pe-ru-na Beneficial for Severe Cases
of Catarrh.
George G. Havener. NJ. D., Ana
costa, D. c., writes:
In my practice 1 have had occasion
to frequently prescribe your valuable
medicine, and have found its use bene-
he1al, particularly in severe cases of
catarrh."
Merit Commands Attention.
Usually physicians are not in favor
of proprietary medicines.
1t is only in cases where a proprie-
tary medicine has by its superior
merit forced itself upon their atten-
ton that the physicians will pay any
attention to such medicines.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23
MOTORS ON LINE TO TOPEKA.
Proposed to Use Them on St. Joseph
Wathena Interurban Road.


ST. Joseph, Mo-, Sept. 23.-At st.
Josepin-Wathena mass meeting, held
in the Commercial club yesterday
afternoon to promote the building of
an interurban line from st. Joseph to
Wathena, Highland and other points
in Kansas. James Berlingett, general
superintendent of the st. Joseph &
Grand Island railway, made the pro-
motors a proposition which contem-
plates the use of the Grand Island
bridge across the Missouri river and
the Grand Island tracks as far west as
Stout near Severance. Kansas. The
plan is to use gasoline electric motors,
the dynamos of the cars being actuated
by gasoline engines, and to build a
spur from Stout to Higland, a distance
of seven miles. The line will be ex-
tended eventually to Topeka.
1.-THE cars under this SYSTEM" said
Mr.. Berlingett, run independent of
each other and Independent of any
power house or overhead trolley wires.
They are virtually automobiles run on
-
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Lincoln,s Private Car Sold.

A Minneapolis dispatch states that
Minneapolis, st. Paul & Sault Ste.
Marie and the Twin City Rapid Transit
company, has purchased of George F.
Drake and Franklin B. Snow, of the
Lincoln Car association, of Joliet, ILL.,,
the historic private car used by Presi-
dent Lincoln during his administra-
ton, and which bore his body from
Washington to Springfield, ILL.,, for
burial. The car will be presented to
the Minneapolis park board and will
be placed permanently in one of the
parks.