The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-04-05
NEWS FROM THE STATE CAPITAL
Experts Give Advice to Caroline
A Rice Planters.
County Officers Salaries Deaths in The
Franchise Tax Injunction is
sued.
BY w. H. McCaw.

By w. II. McCaw.
Columbia, April AT a meeting
of government agricultural experts
with rice planters in Charleston the
experts after spending several days IN
a personal inspection of the rice fields
advised the planters not to entirely
abandon the planting of rice as with
Improvement in the market and bet
ter methods of cultivation it might
yet be made a paying crop, though
Investigation was strongly urged as
one crop farming is always q failure
at times. Tile drainage was advocated,
which the experts declared would
make these rich rice lands the finest
truck in the world and free them
from fever and allow residence on
them. johnson, Pars and Bermuda
grasses were advocated with cowpens
as first crops and celery and onions
we're suggested as money 6 makers.
Cabbages, potatoes, caulihower, rush
hyacinth, willow, cranberry and
hump could also 6e grown with
marked success. The farmers we're
entreated to stop polishing their rice
for the market as this method robs
the cereal of most of its nurtritive
qualities aud practically all OF its de-
lightful flavor, as all those who have
eaten rice on the plantations where
this process is not used can eloquently
testify.
Belle Session, the woman who was
sho. by her lover, at Conway on
Thursday, who Immediately after
her wounds, and there now being no
one to hold responsible III the courts
for the tragedy it is closed incident
and will soon be forgotten.
Nose Bruason, the negro picked up
in Kershaw county Jew days ago as
suspect in the Stephen Howell mur-
der case, has been released. Witness
es who had mad good looks at the
criminal said Brunson was not the
man.
Among the deaths in the State
yesterday were those of Mrs. S. S.
Rozier, daughter of D. P, McLaurin,
at Clio, Mrs. Sophonia Willis Adam,
wife of r. M. Adam, and native
of Augusta, at Spartanburg, and Miss
Ida Massey, the 20 year-old and hand
some young daughter of DR.. j. =.
Massey, at Rock Hill.
There is to be supeintendents day
at the meeting of the Conference for
Education in the South here this
month. Secretary Joyner, who is
State Superintendent for North Caro-
lima and Secretary of the association
of superintendents of public intsruc-
ton for the Southern States. has
issued notices OF the association here
on the 25th. Superintendents day will
be oa the 9th, when each State super
intendent will deliver a lecture on
some live subject.
The attorney general has rendered
an opinion to the comptroller general
that the county officers salaries act of
1905 began to apply only after its ap-
proval on the 22d of February, before
which time salaries remain at the
former figures. In the same opinion
he declares that the treasurer's fee Of
81 for each tax execution is applicable
to executions issued for the fiscal year
1904. This fee is chargeable only
against the delinquent tax payer.
"In my opinion said Comptroller
General Jones today, this exception
With regard to Chesterfield is special
legislation and the act is unconstitu
tional. It will hardly stand more than
another year if it is not tested in the
meantime for the reason that it is
radically wrong. To put all of the
counties in this same boat with Ches-
terheld would swamp the State fnan-
cially. For instance there are four
to five thousand POLL tax c. ,utions
alone
The Comptroller General is still hav-
ing a strenuous time with the new
franchise tax act affecting corpora
tions, which have paid s40,O 900 into
the State treasury under it's terms SO
far. The British and American Mort
gage company, which in hard times
used to do land Office business with
the farmers in this State to tie great
sorrow of the aforesaid farmers, has
brought an Injunction against the
comptroller general to restrain him
from collecting a fee of S. from the
company On the ground that its hold
ing mortgages against property and
loaning money in this State is not
doing business in the State. The
hearing which was set for today has
been postponed to date which will
be definitely arranged later. The re-
turn of the Highland Park Manufac-
turing Company, North Carolina
cnr..rn which has nlaut at Rock