Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-07-18
Tuesday, July IS, 1905
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.


This is the second exclusive cottor
seed meal cargo that has gone out
of Charleston.
In q letter to DR.. D. Coker, the
chairman of the Darlington commit
tee appointed to look into the dis
pensary matter, Governor Hayward
lays down this principle in regard
to a county voting out a dispensary
After quoting his last message to the
legislature, he says: From this
statement, 1t is obvious that my policy
toward the counties voting out the
dispensary Is to remove the constab'
ulary from such counties until I am
convinced that the local authorities
entrusted with the enforcement Of
the law have either failed or neg
lected to suppress the Illicit sale OF
liquor. Upon being convinced Of such
failure I shall not hesitate to invoke
the financial aid provided for in the
act Of the general assembly, approved
the goth day of February, 1904, by
such means as 1 may deem neces-
sary to carry out the law"
Aiken special OF July 16 to Co.
lumbia State: The erection OF cot
ton warehouse in Aiken has been dis
cussed by the Aiken county farmers
for some time and the loss sustained
by them by the recent failure or the
Augusta Cotton Factorage company
has greatly fastened their plans
Several Of the leading farmers have
subscribed about $4,000 to be used
in its erection and they are conndenl
that more can be easily obtained. IL
Is estimated that 1t will take at least
$4,000 to build the kind OF ware
house that they want. They lnteno
to erect a brick fireproof building
with a capacity great enough to
handle the cotton raised in this sec
ton. Regular storage rates Will De
charged for storing cotton and every
precaution will be taken to prevent
loss by fire. There will be meeting
of the cotton growers association OF
Aiken county next Saturday at which
the warehouse plans will be more ful-
Y described. They will also try to
devise some means to protect the
farmers interests.
= Lancaster special of July 16 to
the News and Courier: Lancaster Is
watching with much interest the var
ious developments In Yorkville's tele-
phone situation. 1t Is probably only
a question Of time when similar
fight between local interests and the
Bell people will occur. Major w. b.
Moore of Yorkville, who has recently
sold his Bedford" system in that
town to the Piedmont company which
lS.. kA DAn aTanT
largely Interested in the Lancaster
Telephone company, being pl esident
Of the enterprise, and the Bell COM
pany ia sfliable at any time to force
him and his associates in the tele-
phone business here to part with
their Lancaster holdings. The Bell
now has Lancaster surrounded, that
system being established at Camden,
Rock Hill, Yorkville and Gastonia,
and IL is, therefore, in the power OF
The Bell company to cut on Lancas-
ter's outside connections whenever II
sees fit to do so A number OF that
company's representatives have IRON
time to time visited Lancaster for the
purpose of examining the local tele-
phone system. o..
Grenville News: Jos. McCul-
Tough has returned from Columbia,
where he went to take testimony In
the celebrated Poplar Log case In
which a North Carolina concern is su-
ing the Richland Distilling company
for an alleged infringement Of the
formers trade mark brand. The
hearing in Columbia was not without
interest to the public, but the next
hearing which Is fixed for August J.
in this city, promises to be decidedly
more interesting. Unless the attor-
news for the plaintiff change their
views, the three directors Of the dis
pensary. Evans, Towill and Boykin'
will be summoned to appear mere as
witnesses and will be examined before
Special Commissioner Mccullough as
to cerain questions connected with the
operation of the dispensary as rela-
ted to the suit. When asked aoout
the hearing In Columbia, Mr.. McCul-
Tough declined to talk. He said that
In view Of the fact that he was not
only taking testimony but was actual
ly trying the case as special commits
sioner before making his report to the
United States court, he did not see
that II would appear proper for him
TO express any opinion as to the hear
ing or the case itself.
Columbia special Of July l5 to the
News and Courier: While the fate or
the $4,000 known as the Alliance EX-
change fund is still in doubt, there
are at least prospects Of an early set
tlement This morning Judge Cary,
who heard the arguments at the last
term of court here, sent d 'wn MS de-
cree this morning and the decision
was read with much interest by those
in the case. The case grew out of a
decision of certain members OF the
Alliance exchange to distribute the
$4,000 which was all that remained
Of the once large fund raised by the
farmers for the Alliance. Proceed
ings were brought by other members
to prevent this, and the case went 10
the supreme court on demurrerS. FL
nally these were cleared away and
the arguments on the facts in the
case were made before Judge cary.
This morning he decided that the
complaint should he dismissed and
that the directors had the right 10
distribute the money. The money is
now in q bank and at one time re-
ceiver was appointed to take charge
of the money 1t was announced TO-
day by the attorneys interested that
there would be an appeal to the su-
preme court on the decision, put
when the supreme court tinally de-
cides the points raised this time, II Is
expected that the funds VIII once LOT
all be either distributed or held.
THE committee appointed at the
recent session of the general as
sembly to investigate the books OF
former Supervisor Speegle or Green
Vile county, is at work and sensa-
tions are developing. Arthur Speegle
son of the supervisor, who was clerk
for several years, was arrested on
Saturday as he was about TO take
the train for Hendersonville, where
his father is lying at the point OF
death. He is charged with having
obtained money under false pretenses
1t Is alleged in the warrant that the
Young man secured from the treas
urer as salary amounts far in eX'
cess of the sums stipulated by law
Young SPEECHES friends claim tha'
the matter will be satisfactorily eX'
planned. The supervisors books SHOW
that a Greenville liveryman received
S1.l45 for certain alleged services
When the liveryman was called upor
for an explanation he showed by ms
own books that he had received only
S34O. One salaried employe or the
county who ought TO get $40 month
appears from the books to have beer
paid for eighteen months one year
and nineteen months another year
The books say that blacksmith OF
Greenville received $l,6S9 FOR making