The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-05-02

drick in the civil court today again
got after the lawyers with sharp
stick for not being ready with their
cases, thereby causing expensive de-
Law. With over one hundred cases on
the docket the roster for the day was
exhausted or account Of continu-
ances and the court was again lefs
high and dry with no business on.
hand
The roster, it should be explained.
is a schedule of cases which the law.
yer fix up, before the court convenes.
to suit their convenience. a certain.
number of cases being set for each
day. If no cases can be reached on
the roster it has been the custom to.
adjourn the court for that day, aRS.
frequently in this way half the time
of the court is wasted from week tc,
week.
Judge Hydrick today to!G the laws
yArs that the court must be keps
busy; that the public had rights
which should be respected and that.
it was wrong to keep an expensive
court running without business. He
would, therefore, ignore the roster
whenever it did not produce business
and would sound the docket, continu-
ing what cases were not ready for.
trial. He would not adjourn the coart
from day to day again. He woolas
give them fair warning that further
delay would not be tolerated. He
would go through the docket in this,
way, adjourning court sine die when-
ever no business was to be had.
The comments of the judge attract.
ed much interest from the bar an6
will doubtless result in a reform in the.
matter of delay.
A petition has been filed for the.
pardon of John L. Belk, Of York coun>
ty. He wants q, pardon on the ground
that he has suffered sufficiently.
DR.. F. w. S. Dean, a young Green.
william, who has a commission in the
army. and who has seen a deal Of
fighting in the Philippines the past
few years, is here today on his way
home from the islands. DR.. Dean talk.
ed IN an interesting way concerning.
the much-talked Of battle Of the cra-
ter of Jolo, where some 900 native
men and women were surrounded by
Uncle Sans men and shot to death
by direction CT Roosevelt's pet, Gep>
Wood.
Il had just left Jolo at the time Of
the battle said DR.. Dean, "but
know something about that so-called
outrage Yes; the women were killed
along with the men. as they shou!tS
have been killed. Those people were
a band Of thieves and robbers who
collected themselves in that crater
and sent word to Governor Scott de-
fyins him and telling him that if S.
wanted anything Of them that be
knew where they Wee, j
ct was a case Of killing item OF
having our r:en killed. These people
are Mohammedans and fgE1 to the
death. There is no conquering them.
aal the women fight the same as. shef..
men \ native will not hesita-e whe!f
he is pushed to it - throw himself On
a bunch Of American soldiers with the
certainty Of death before him. Ha
does not hope to get ont alive. but he.
thinks that if he can kill on> Christ.on
ne viii go straight to glcrv- Those.
people don't surrcr 9er
The only way 10 pacif: the islands
=: go extermin ,:e th. E.cicontents
thoroughly. Things Will never 10.
straightened out uGw1. there unless.
there is decided change in the att...
t;ldc Of the people # Il" States, It.
is as with the negro in this country,
Gle section of the snun;ry .7:,!ling one.
Wy, Wv and II. the other N r'sS1 way
>iho business AMI tie stranges,
ti,'2g to me is to < ScutaernN people
taking sides with the natives. The
Philippines should be scld or taken
or: OF nGIiticS in some wav
'-Ou" sentries arc shot from ambush
":1eaever there is an opportunity pre-.
SeEted 70 these wild foo:s !; :sas beer
d:iIieu:, recently 70 get guns 20 them
here OF late but even new ihey come
IN ard a2e bought up promptly. \
life is worth $2Go IN gold in that sec-
ton now. but even al that price the
natives Sc, hold of them
TIE state board of railroad assess
SorS viii meet here on the 9th Of Nev