Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-01-23
Scraps aud faets.

public schools of the state where the
parent is liable for the poll tax Of
the current year and the same re-
mains unpaid. The effect Of this
amendment, If inserted into the con-
stitution, would be to bar nine-tenths
OF the negro children of the state
from the schools, unless the negroes
shall pay the poll tax with greater
frequency than at present. In a
word it would practically accomplish
Gov. Vardaman's theory of a divis-
ion of the school funds between the
races. Mr.. Glover also proposed to
make the school age from to Is
years.
Robert Lilliston Of Norfolk, Va,
was convicted at Raleigh, n. c., last
week Of murder in the second de-
gree and sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for fourteen years. The crime
for which he was tried consisted OF
the killing of the innocent third par
ty while engaged in a pistol fight
with another man who was trying
to kill him. A story from Raleigh
is to the effect that since the con-
viction, a woman of good reputation
who was at the depot when the KILL
ing occurred, says that she saw The
whole affair and that A. G. Smith
the bystander who lost his life was
not killed by a bullet from Lilliston's
pistol; but that he was deliberately
assassinated by another party whose
name has not yet been brought into
the affair and who no doubt took
advantage of the opportunity to sat-
isfy a private grudge.
Washington special Of January
10 to the News and Courier: Speaker
Cannon received another present to-
day from a South Carolina admirer.
The gift was a pair of hand-knitted
homemade "galluses." The sender,
who transmitted the present through
Representative Aiken, expressed the
thought that inasmuch as the
speaker was wearing a suit of hand
spun jeans, 1t was proper that the
trousers thereof be held up by
pair Of old-fashion 'galluses."
The galluses are made with yarn,
closely and carefully knitted in sep
arate pieces. with double button
holes, for it is expected that they
will stretch. The speaker declared
they were just the kind he used to
wear years ago, and he will use these
for the purpose for which they were
intended. They are just the kind
worn by the one-gallus brigade, OF
which Governor Oglesby used to tell,
and to whom Champ Clark appeals in
his district in Missouri" said the
speaker.
The supreme court of Tennessee
handed down an important opinion
last Saturday regarding the rights OF
newspapers to publish fair and truth
full reports Of the proceedings of
courts of justice. This matter was
considered by the court in connection
with a damage suit filed against the
Nashville American in which case a
verdict was rendered against The
reversed this judgment Of the lower
American for $1,000. The supreme
court reversed this judgment Of the
lower court and the case was re-
manded. The supreme court ruled
that unless a court has prohibited
a publication or unless the proceed
ings are unfit for publication the pro-
ceedings may be published, the own
ers Of the newspapers occupying the
same status as other persons. Pub
lications of suits must be fair. They
must not be mingled with comment,
torial columns. Reports Of law suits
need not be verbatim, but no undue
prominence must be given to promi-
nent damaging facts to the exclusion
of facts which explain or modify the
former. Extraneous matters must
not be introduced. In brief, news re-
ports of the proceedings Of courts
of justice must be fair and accurate.
The case of the United States VS..
Benjamin D. Greene and Julian F.
Gaynor, the two contractors charged
with conspiracy in connection with
Captain Oberlin NJ. Carter and 9TH
ers, is still in progress in Savannah.
and entered upon it's third week yes
terday. In outlining the case of the
government to the jury last Saturday,
Attorney General Marion Erwin said
that shortly after Captain Carter took
charge of the work, Greene and Cay
nor got him interested in alleged out
side contracts, all of which was os-
tensibly profitable. They loaned Car
ter money, in small amounts, at first.
Later the amounts grew larger. At
first the loans were paid from alleged
profits that Carter had reason to be-
lieve were bona fide. Later the loans
were increased to as much as $2,500
and there was some alleged bad luck
on the side contracts. Carter owed
Greene and Gaynor more than he could
pay. Then he began to conspire to
give l1SIn advantages over OllSI COl-
tractors. Where other contractors
were the lowest bidders, Carter made
the conditions so hard that they had
to lose money. This killed off COM
petition. Things were made easy for
Greene and Gaynor. Prominent cit
liens of Savannah were induced to
use their influence to secure addition
al appropriations. and the thing was
managed so as to swindle the gov
ernment out of hundreds of thou
sands of dollars. Carter participated
in all Of these profits" Judge Speer,
who is presiding, explained to the
jury that General Erwin's statement
was not to be taken ais evidence; but
merely as an outline of the facts he
proposed to prove.
- Says a Washington special to the
Charlotte Observer: 1t will be recall
ed, by those who take the trouble to
peruse these documents, that the
postmaster general, in his annual re-