Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-06-08
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

1t is announced that Speaker M.
L. Smith will not be a candidate for
governor Advice Of a physician Is
given as a reason.
- Abbeville Press and Banner, May
30: Judge and Mrs. Klugh have the
deepest sympathy Of their friends in
the loss Of their infant son, Chas. B.
Klugh, Saturday, May 26, 1906. He
lacked only few days of being a year
old, and was an unusually large and
healthy child until his last illness.
The feature of last Tuesdays pro-
ceedings Of the dispensary investigat-
ing committee was the testimony Of
Mr.. a. A. Bristow, commercial tray-
eler of Greenvillc, as to what a large
whisky dealer of Baltimore, told him
some time ago, February, 1905, of a
sale the whisky dealer, Abe Hamber-
GER had made to the dispensary. Ham
berger told Bristow I'm the presence Of
Jesse r. Smith, also of South Carolina,
that he had sold to the dispensary $67,-
900 worth of whisky at one time and
had given the man who purchased the
stuff $4,000 commission. In brief,
Hamberger's story was to the effect
that he had sought dispensary busi-
ness: the party with whom he was
dealing agreed to purchase provided
Hamburger would give up cash to the
amount of $4,000 Hamburger was
willing and reduced the quality of the
liquor by adulteration so as to enable
him to make a good profit. He delv-
cred the liquor I'm two shipments. The
first shipment was so badly adulter-
ated that Hamburger feared II would
be turned down; but If it was not and
he made the second shipment even
worse so as to get still larger per-
centage on his investment of So 600.
Hamburger had no other dealings with
the dispensary. He would not give
the name Of the party to whom he paid
the $4,000. AS 1t was he would not
dare to come to South Carolina to
testify.
- Columbia, June 5: President W. G.
Childs of the Columbia. Newberry and
Laurens railroad, today purged him
self of the contempt charges which
had been preferred against him by
the dispensary investigating commit
tee for the use of profane language
while on the witness stand last week.
Mr.. Childs reply to the action of the
committee in ruling him in contempt
filled five typewriter pages and went
into the explanation minutely. Mr..
Childs apologiZed to the committee
pointedly' for the language he had
used. but still refused to answer the
questions of Mr. Lyons as to the jokes
he had heard. Mr.. Childs in his reply
to the committee. gave the reason for
not repeating these jokes, saying that
they possibly did not have foundation
i'm truth and that they were the talk
of irresponsible whisky drummers.
The committee dismissed the case
against Mr. Childs and again put him
on the stand. Mr.. Lyon questioned
him as to the jokes again and Mr.
Childs again refused to answer them.
Mr.. Childs was asked as to the issuing
of passes on his road to the dispen-
sary officials He stated that this was
not generally done. The annual pass
which Hub Evans had had been car
ried by him for sixteen years. was is
sued for the reason that Evans was
the attorney of the road at Newberry
Mr., ChiIds told of several other ocCa-
sions when he had issued passes to Of
ficials for personal reasons.