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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-02-27
State Of South Carolina.
County Of. Newberry.

Court of Common Pleas.
Caroline Jones, Plaintiff,
Against
Jason Jones, ct al, Defendants.
Complaint for Partition.
Bv virtue of an order of Court
herein, will sell at public auction
before the Court House at Newberry,
S. c., on Salesday in March, 1906,
all that lot or parcel Of land, of which
the late Joseph Jones died seized and
possessed, lying and being in that
part Of the Town Of Newberry, S. e.,
known as "Gravel Town." and
bounded by lands of Guilford Snow
den, DR.. James Mcintosh and the
Southern Railway Co., fronting Is
feet on--Street plat Of which will
be exhibited on day Of sale.
Terms of sale: One half cash and
one half on credit of twelve months,
with interest from day of sale with
bond Of the purchaser and a mortgage
of the premises; with leave to pur-
chaser to anticipate the payment of
the credit portion in whole or in part.
The building on said lot to be insured
and the policy assigned to the Mas
ter. The purchaser to pay Tor pa
pers and recording same.
-. i. Eikard,
Mast:r.
Masters O&se, Feb. II, 1906.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-02-27
THE SUPREME COURT.
Gases Heard on Appeal-Number Ap-
pealed From Each Circuit Judge
and Whether Reversed or
Confirmed.

The Columbia correspondent Of the
News and Courier writes as follows
as to the work Of the supreme court:
From time to time there has been
speculation as to the number of cases
heard by the State supreme court, and
particularly the number Of cases re-
versed and the number Of opinions by
lower courts that are affirmed. 1t is
rot always safe to attach much I'M
portance to this record because the
run of cases often varies and in many
cases there are no appeals. At all
events there is interest in the showing
that is made. The Bureau has had an
exact and careful statement made OF
the records Of the supreme court tor
the entire year Of 1905. It has taken
a great deal Of study and work to pre-
pare this record, but it is correct and
comes from the very best Of authority
and is as follows:
During the calendar year, 1905, the
supreme court handed down 10 opin-
ions in cases tried in original juris-
aietion, 21 opinions in appeals in
criminal cases and 1872 opinions in ap-
pesls: in civil eases, making total
of 223 opinions Of the appeal cases
Judge Klugh tried 19. affirmed s;
reversed, II. !
Judge Aldrich tried 8: affirmed, I;
reversed, 2.
Judge Watts tried IS; affirmed, "a;
reversed, 10; modified, l.
Judge Dantzler tried %; affirmed,
II; reversed, 5; modified, l.
Judge Townsend tried 80; affirmed,
%; reversed, Z; modified, 3.
Judge Gage tried lS; affirmed, s;
reversed, 8; modified, 2.
Judge Gary tried %; affirmed, IS;
reversed, 5.
Judge Purdy tried 2s; affirmed IS;
reversed, 5.
Special Judge F. B. Gary tried );
affirmed, 8; reversed, 2.
Special Judge~Prince tried 5; al
firmed, 2; reversed, 1.
Special Judge Mccullough tried 4;
affirmed, 2; reversed, 2.
Special Judge Mcdonald tried .;
affirmed, 3; reversed, 2.
Special Judge Youmans tried 5; al
frmed, l; reversed, 2.
Special Judge Benet tried q: at
armed, /; modified, 1.
Special Judge Ellis Graydon tr1ed
2; reversed, 2.
Special Judge Culbreath tried /;
affirmed, 1. .-.
Special Judge Bueh ehanan tried /;
affirmed, I.
Special Judge Welch tried l; at
. armed, l.. -.
: Special Judge Izlax tried l; re-
versed l. ..-..
Special Judge Ansel tried L; revers-
The records in two cases did not
show what Judge tried them.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-02-27
WEST INDIAN TRADE.
Being More and More Diverted From
Europe to This Country.
London Pail Mall Gazette.

The United States, alike from
strategical and commercial stand
points, has Of late years acquired 4
commanding influence in the Carrib-
bean. The matelia. I>*ults Of tie
Spanish-Am4rican war ;nd tn: ar-
preaching construction 81 the Panama
Canal are cons .rl.. in> ::,l..es Of Amer
lean expansion Certain t is that cnce
the canal is cnt Ameri:&n Influence
must receive a powerful impetus. and
that with the growth Of that inference
will come the determination to con-
serve it. So much, indeed, is contend
ed by Capt Mahan in his famous work
of "The interest OF america IN Sea
Power.' Assuming that the Isthmus
of Panama is the predominant inter
est, commercial ard military, in the
Caribbean, possessing peculiar can-
Germ for those nations whose terri
tories lie on both the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans, "of which the United
States is the mos prorli',ent,' Capt:
Mahan argues that e!itranee to the
Caribbean and transit across thf; Car
ibbean to the Isthmus are two prime
ESSENTIALS to the enjoyment q the
advantages of the latter, and that in
time Of war "cnnirai u these two
things becomes a military objec! MT
second to the Isthmus ITSELF
The trade returns II tie principal
| colonies also furnish striking .Iosti-
mony to the position: W!nch America
has attained in West India commerce.
Taking the case of Barbados, which
may be described as +he "Ciapi:arl
Junction. of the tropics, we find that
in 1908 out Of total export Of 552,-
S9l 4 per cent only can;e. to this eoun-
try as against IS per cent taken by
the United States: The figures ap-
pear still more remarkable when We
contrast them with t:ic returns for
1868. In that year when the exports
were valued at close upon a million
sterling, Great Britain took 81 per
cent and the United States per cent.
Thenceforward exports to America
steadily advanced, while those Of the
United Kingdom just as steadily de-
clined. AS regards imports, this
country has been we'll to the fore
! throughout the period under notice,
Examining the returns Of Jamaica,
we find the same American predom!n.
ance in the matter Of exports. In
| 10000 the United States took 81 per
cent, as against IS per cent. received
by this country. In Imports the Unit
ed Kingdom led with A per cent, the
American percentage being only AZ.
The firm hold. upon the West Indian
exports trade which the United States
has thus secured is maintained by the
many steamship lines which ply be-
tween New York and the islands
That hold has been strengthened-un-
consciously, no doubt-by our colonial
office within the last few months, as
it was close upon the laspse Of the
mail contrast that the Royal Mail
Steam Packet company initiated their
present service to New York via
Jamaica. What is the resulte A
further link connecting America and
the caribbean has been forged, while
the tie between England and the col
onies Of ne regular mail service has
/ been severed. That result probably
was not foreseen at Downing street
when the unfortunate deelslea cen
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-07-12

for example, that the heavy vote of
the big counties will enable them to
secure for themselves all of the more
important state offices. This appre-
hension is not warranted by the facts.
If the situation is studied thoughtfully
it will be seen that the power of the
large counties, under the convention
system, is far greater than it could pos
sibly be under the direct primary
system.
The convention system, ia its present
practical workings, with the unit rule
enforced, as it is in all of the large de-
Legations, gives the larger counties
their, power massed solidly and effect
lively. They can dictate the tickets
from top to bottom, when they combine
together, or when they make dickers
with some of the combinations between
the smaller counties.
Under the direct primary system the
individual electors, not the organized
county machines, will make the nomina.
tions. The different candidates will
have to settle their rival claims at the
polls, not by pre-convention tests of
strength. 1t is quite naturally to be
expected that the larger counties will
furnish the larger list of aspirants for
state office, but this very fact alone in
sures that under direct primary, the
votes for meme of those candidates will
be cast soldly in their home counties.
If there are rival candidates for the
nomination for governor, both from
the same county, the vote will be
divided of course. The small county
is not liable to produce more than one
candidate for any state office, and that
candidate will have behind him practi
cally the solid vote of his county.
The simple truth of the matter is
that, under the direct primary system,
for time at least citizenship in a
large county will be a handicap rather
than an advantage to the aspirant for
state Office. The very sentiment which
finds expression in fear that the politi-
cal power of the large counties will be
enhanced by the direct primary will
find its later expression under the d.
rect primary in votes against the can.
didates of the big county, unless extra
ordinarily popular and acceptable to
the people of the whole state.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-07-12

tion on the part of government officials
to see that justice is dealt Qua to all.
The department of agriculture has
made some interesting discoveries in
adulteration of seeds offered in the
open market for planting on the farms
and in the lawns of our country. A
recent circular describes the methods
of testing field and garden seeds and
invites the farmers and dealers to SEND
samples to the secretary Tor exami-
nation. In list of 52l samples of red
clover seed the department reports ZIG
samples containing dodder and five
samples adulterated with yellow ire
foil. The substitute for clover ranged
from IS to 80 per cent, of the original
packages. The extent of such practices
es being SO great the secretary deems
it advisable to warn all buyers of seeds
and offers to asst them in getting the
best obtainable.
Seed adtlteration is one Of the worst
forms of swindling the farmer and gar
dener. 1t produces losses that cannot
be replaced for twelve months or more,
and in many instances causes the land
to be seeded in noXiouS weeds. Dodder,
for instance, is a parasitic vine that
belongs to alfalfa farming. 1t cline S
to the plants and takes up all the life
in the stemss and branches. In a few
years it takes possession of ID field, and
over the entire tract. A small lot OF
seed planted on farm will in the
course of years produce one of the
most dangerous parasites to pau;
growth. 1t attacks grasses which are
necessary to every successful effort at
general farming.
Agriculture has advanced at wonder
full strides in the past few years be
cause of the activity of the nunerou
departments under the management o.
the secretary. That branch of the
general government has warned the
farmers Of dangers all along the line
of general and special filling of the
soil 1t has added immensely to the
wealth OF the country by assisting th,
agriculturalists in passing the shoals OF
failure and landing upon the rocks o.
success. Now the services are offered
FOR The purpose of eradicating TIA
parasites in clover seed. Every farmer
and gardener, and he who plants only
d lawn, should take advantage of the
proposition and send samples Of seeds
to the department for examination be-
fore planting that which may in later
years prove to be a pest.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-07-12
UNEQUAL TAXATION
The New Mortgage Law Of New York Foes
Its Share of Discrimination.

The new mortgage tax law of New
York taxes six months building loan
exactly 1913 times as heavily as ninety
nine year railway bond. Wall Street
must be protected against Pauper
home builders. Our infant railw NV in
dustry would be ruined If loans on la
borers cottages should be taxed mucd
less than POO times as much as loans on
railroads. And if New York can't
have a tariff law of its own, it can at
least save its bacon by discriminating
tax on mortgages. Add to this tax the
tariff tax on materials that homes are
built with, and the furnishings that
are also taxed under the republican
system of prOtectiOnism, all of which
the corporations escape and it will lie
seen how unequal the republican tax
alton system is,
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-07-12
THE BEST BAND OUT
The People of North Yakima Highly Elated
With Elensburs Band.

The Ellensburg band of nineteen
pieces under the capable guidance of
Fred Draper has awakened the sincere
admiration not only of the Yakima
girls-there, was ground for that, it
must be admitted, the boys are as
handsome as they are musical-but OF
all Yakima people. Everybody is talk
ing of the excellence OF the music fur
nished, which competent musicians
pronounce equal to any supplied by any
band of the state that has ever played
ia Yakima.
The veteran of the band is Mr.. +. A.
Willis, now merchant of E,lensburg,
who at one time lived in this city.
North Yakima wasn't city then, how
ever. 1t vas along about the time that
this town was born, and the buildings
at Yakima City were being moved here.
Mr.. Willis secured the contract of
clearing the sagebrush off twenty acres
of land, including the present ste of
the Yakima hotel, at So an acre. AS
he chopped and grubbed he little
thought that some day he would march
down the most beautiful main avenue
of the best town between Spokane and
the Sound, helping to furnish music for
Fourth of July parade that would be
a credit to the biggest city in the state.
Notwithstanding his 10 years, Mr..
Willis is one of the sprightliet boys in
the band, and marched and played all
day long without the slightest evidence
of fatigue.
The personnel of the band is as fol-
lows: Musical director, Fred Draper.
Fred J. Long, DR.. G. A. Martin, Fred
II. Butcher, Fred Carr, Evan J. Mat
thews, NJ. +. Randall, E. A. Willis, L.
NJ. Randall, Thomas Bachelor, Will
lam Fonaas, II. A. Davis, G. w. Horn
beck, j. Ii. Scott, Archie Wishard,
Herbert Twlligear, Harry Ridell,
Frank Kobilka, and Harry Bradfeld.
Last night the band gave Il concert
ia front of the Yakima hotel which,
while it had not been advertised was
well attended. The program follows:
Twostep-"Rihe Range.
Overture-"Lustspi
Selection (by request) George
Washington, Jr."
Selections from Opera "Maritana.
Twostep-"Jolly COrks."
Encore "George Washington, Jr."
Yakima Herald.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-07-12
LET US HAMMER
Bishop Potter Calls the "Muck Rake" a
Hammer and Says: Use it Freely.

Bishop Potter calls muck rake a
hammer, and his admonitiOn is, cham
mer, hammer" Hammering we'll kept
up, will surely bring results. 1t will
even compel the President of the
United States to see that the laws are
faithfully executed. Let the press OF
the country hammer, and keep it up
until all the rottenness is hammered
out of the republican party Of trusts
and grafters. All the exposures OF
rottenness and grating have been
brought to the notice Of the public by
non officials which shows that the re-
publican political machine will never
cleanse itself and that the execution OF
the laws is lax, although we are sup
posed to be governed by a strenuous
administration. Therefore the voters
must hammer the derelicJ republican
party into political oblivion.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-07-12
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF
Carefully Cleaned from the State Press and
Compiled for Busy People.

Hot and dry the state over.
There is demand for 800 berry pci-
ers at Puyallup.
There are -, 7G7 boys and girls in
the city of Spokane.
The "Tourst" is new boat just
launched on Lake Chelan.
All the single mills of Skagit county
resumed operation Monday.
a rural free delivery is to be cstal.
lished at Davenport, Sept lst
The harvesting of wheat is now in
full blast in the Moses lake distrct.
Work on Tacoma's new federal build.
ing is expected to begin early tbs fall.
The First National bank of O.ovlle
opened its doors few Gays since with
$50, 900 capital.
After several days search in Green
river the body of Charles Palmer was
recovered Friday.
Two bodies were found floating, OF g
in the Wishkah, the other in mill boom
at Aberdeen, last Friday.
Secretary of State Nichols threatens
to revoke all insurance license if tie
agents do not cease "knocking."
The fees collected, filing and licenses
of corporations for the first six month
of the year amounted to S4l, 540.4j.
The Farmers Mutual Telephone
company of Everett is building an eX.
change building at cost of $1,000.
The hot wave has increased the eng-
tn of the street car rails in Tacoma un.
till it became necessary to cut them.
Fred Hopkins, aged - years, was
shot and perhaps mortally wounded by
one of his hired men, Sol McGniil, near
Walla Walla Friday.
King county will soon hold a special
election for the purpose of voting on
the issusng of 100000 bonds for the
construction of the Lake Washington
clnal.
Chester A. Thompson, son of Will +.
Thompson of Seattle, shot and mortally
wounded Judge Meade Emory of the
same city. The cause OF the sad affair
was being refused to visit Charlotte
Whittlesey, a niece of Judge Emory.
Judge Emory died at l;30 a. m. Mon
day.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-07-12
A Widely Known Business College.

A business college of exceptional
merit is the we'll known Polytechnic
Business College of Oakland, Cal.
This college has been organized but
eight years but is easily the leading
school of it's kind in the West, having
the most elegant and complete equip
mont of any similar school West OF
Chicago.
Its growth has been phenomenal, be-
cause it is the "people's School. "
Very reasonable rates of tuition are
charged and the high standards pre-
vailing give the graduates standing
at once in the commercial world,
where they are sought by leading bust
ness houses for the best paying posi-
lions.
The college has moved into its new
building which has been recently
erected at a cost of over OO,OOO,O C
and is said to be the finest building
ever erected in the WesL for business
college work.
Citizens of this vicinity, when visit
ing that ection of California should
not fail to visit the Polytech mic Col
lege.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-07-12
LAX EXECUTION OF LAWS
Secretary Of Agriculture not In Sympathy
With Muck Rakins Political Boss

The Secretary of Agriculture is 0bv-
ously not entirely in sympathy with his
muck raking political boss for the p; S.
age of more stringent insl ectiOn OF the
msat industry. For in reply to a su..-
gestion from Mayor Dunno that a COM
mission of Psychologists be appointed to
look into the present methods Of beef
inspection, Secretary Wilson says,
that the laws of this country are more
stringent than in any foreign country.
If the laws are so stringent, it is evil
dent that the execution has been lax
and therein Mr.. Wilson and the Pres-
dent are to blame, for if Secretary
Wilson is not caplable of enforcing the
law President Roosevelt could at once
remove him and appoint some one who
is more competent executive officer
There are nearly LOCO highly paid ex-
perts whose duty it is to inspect cattle
and meat and incidentally, of course,
to report on the general cleanliness of
methods employed. Not one of these
experts has reported that anything
was wrong in their department, or ii
they did report anything unfavorable,
it has been pigeonholed by the higher
officials.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-07-12

Brown and his history? His burning
words has pierced the hearts of mil
lions of people.
Even ia his enfeehled conditions he
was still magnificent figure-rough-
hewn but Titanic-patriarchal but ag-
gressive-his strongly Hebraic feature
showing passion, purpose, courage, and
relentlessness in every line.
'Virginians." he began, and his low,
we'll modulated voice reached every
corner of the court room in the death
like silence: 'Virginians. | did not ask
for quarter at the time was taken. |
did not ask to have my life spared.
If you seek my blood you can have it at
any moment without this mOckery OF
trial. | have no counsel. Il II we are
to be forced with mere fOrm-a trial
for executiOn-you might spare your
self that trouble. I am ready for my
fate. | beg for no insult-noth-
ing but that which conscience gives or
cOwardice drives you to practice. l
ask again to be excused the mockery of
a trial. | do not even know what the
special design of this examination is.
| do not know what is to be the benefit
of it to the commonwealth. | have
now little further to ask, other than
that may not be foolishly insulted."
The speaker swayed and sank into
his chair again, but every word of his
brief utterance was aimed at the pride
OF Virginia, and it found its mark. 1t
was the courageous defiance of man
at bay, ready for death, but supremely
conscious of his own dignity, 'and fol
the instant, something akin to respect
for the old fanatic kindled in the minds
of his auditors. Indeed, if there had
been, up to that moment, any thought
of satisfying the public conscience with
the form instead of the substance OF a
trial, that dramatic challenge disposed
OF it Gu the instant, and before the
wondering whispers of the audience
ceased Brown had, by sheer force OF
his personality, accomplished for him
self what no lawyer could have secured
him, namely, fair trial, if no favor
Frederick Trevor Hill, in Harper's
Magazine.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-07-12
OUGHT TO BE HAPPY
The American Workmen Ought to Happy
With all the Trusts to Care For Him.

The American Workingingman
ought to be ineffably happy, if it is
true that the corporations are all his
friends. With tho sugar trust to
sweeter his drinks, the tobacco
trust to sosth his nerves, the beef trusts
to feed him, the coffin trust to bury
him, the insurance trust to look after
his widow and orphans, and thous-
and miscellaneous trusts making love
to him day and night, he is better off
than even Tam O. Shanter.
"Kings may be blessed, but Tam was
glorious:
Over all the ills of life victorious"
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-07-12
CRAFTY LIKE: WORK
Sunday Civil Appropriation Bill Carries An
Item of S00o.000

The Sundry Civil appropriation bill,
as it passed the House, carries an item
of $500 900 for pay of officers and en-
poyes other than skilled and unskilled
laborers in the service of the govern
ment of the Canal /open 1t cost $780,
600 year to run the business tNclu-
sive of the pay for actutl work on The
isthmus and also of the Presidents
Canal Zone press bureau, which was
abolished last year
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-07-12
Pleased With Visit.

Every member of the Ellensburg
band expresses himself as being simply
delighted with courteous tretment ac-
corded them by the citizens of North
Yakima during their three days stay
down there last week. The generous
treatment has created very warm
feeling between the two cities, such as
ought to have existed long ago, and
would, had it not been for a more or
less misunderstanding.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-07-12
JOHNSON COUNTY'S SHERIFF
On His Road to Portland Stops off Here and
Visits With Old Tilicooms.

Price Hendrix of Olatha, Kans as,
sheriff of Johson county, was visitor
with Isaac Mumma over Friday, who Is
AN old friend of his. He was here look
ing up location and will doubtless
move here as soon as his present term
of office expires,
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-07-12

1ERE are we to look for a
square deal: From all
sides gratis, greed and
averice seems to FREEDOM
mate and rule the con-
sumer with an iron hand
We are glad to know
that there is a disposi-
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-07-12
That Sudden SqualI,"

The Sudden squall" that struck the
boat of the beef packers had mighty
wind In it, but 1t soon became zephyr
it was common Teddy sluall.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-07-12

The band boys returned from North
Yakima Friday eveing completely
fatigued. They complain of the severe
heat in that valley and say it was tru'
~ hot down there.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-07-12

James Leslie of Walla Walla, repre-
senting the Richmond Paper com pany
of Seattle was in the city Monday.