Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-04-19
THE NEWS IN BRIEF FORM.
Items Of News OF the Past Week Gstheres
from Various Sources.

| The man who tears death has not yet
begun learning how to live.
| 1t is reported that a S2.OO0,OOO syndi.
cate has been organized to construct q
power plant on the Wateree rives, seven
miles from Camden.
Through the influence of Congressman
| Aiken DIR. j. II. Wright, of Honea Path,
has been appointed physician to the
Indians at Phoenix, Arizona, at salary
of 81, 200 year.
Warren Perry, charged with shooting
Pick Bugg, in the lower portion of Sa-
luda county on last Thursday. has been
lodged in Jail. BuRg was not seriously
hurt Both parties are negroes.
among the cotton mills in the neighbor-
hood of Rock Hill as to the scarcity of
labor. This has become so acute that
| all the mill machinery has not been kept
running.
Uncle Billy Sumpter, who lives near
Madison, Mo-, looks for big crops this
year, says the Kansas City Journal. He
bases his expectations on the No. 5. He
says that big crops were raised in 1856,
1865. 1875, 1885 and 1895, and now it is
1905's turn.
William K. Russell, delivery clerk at
the Anderson city post Office, has been
"osih0a ot LILO W u Cl6Tk-
snip in the Panama Canal service, and
will leave Anderson this week for his
field of labor via New York.
Hardy Watkins. a negro of Evergreen,
Ala, indicted there, has been charged
with the murder of his wife by throwing
her on burning brushheap and holding
her there until life was nearly extinct.
She died few moments later in awful
agony, and in her dying declaration ac.
cused her husband of the crime.
Easley Progress: "The sale of fertile.
ers at this place have fallen off at least
25 per cent this year as compared with
ers and find that only one firm sold as
much as they did last year; the others
% to 80 per cent less. A great deal of
what has been sold will be used under
corn, potatoes and crops other than cot
ton.
In a speech in Danville, Arkansas, last
week, to a large gathering of farmers
and business men, advocating reduc-
tion of cotton acreage, Governor Jeffer-
son Davis combated the idea that the
organization of farmers with a view to
violation of the new antitrust law of
Arkansas. If 1t were held otherwise
by the courts, the Governor declared, he
would pardon all farmers prosecuted and
convicted under the new act.
The Anderson Intelligeucer of last
week gave the following advice to farm
ers: "Peavine hay at $15 ton-the low
est Lrice for which it can now be pur-
chased--is equally profitable as cotton at
cents. The local demand for peavine
hay is greater than the supply and car
load after carload of Western hay is
being sold on this market. The farmers
of Anderson county would not lose money
If they were to cut down the cotton acre
age one-half instead of one-fourth, il
they planted the land in forage crops,
peavine hay especially"
Six masked men entered the Jail at
Senatobia, Miss, last Wednesday morn
ing and attempted to rescue prisoner
named james Whit, who is to be tried
for murder. Sheriff j. NJ. Poag ordered
the men to leave and on their refusal
| fred upon them. They returned the
fire. Two bullets struck the sheriff, one
of them taking effect in his lung and
producing death. The men made their
escape, and Governor Vardaman offered
reward of $500 for their apprehension.
a posse followed and succeeded in cap.
turing four of the men before sundown.