Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-06-15
DIsPENsARY INVESTIGATION.
Committee Continues to Pile Evidence
on Top of Evidence.

| eating was somewhat hampered last
| Tuesday on account Of the resigna-
ton of Stenographer Deal. There was
no other stenographer available during
the morning; but in the afternoon, Mr..
McFeat agreed to serve the committee
and the work proceeded.
Mr.. ]. M. Cantey Of Columbia, was
examined Tuesday. He represented
the wholesale liquor house of Fleisch-
mann & Co., and got a salary of $500
month for doing nothing but adyer-
tise. Mr.. Cantey said he would not
agree to sell goods" for this concern,
because his brother-in-law, Mr.. Boy
kin, was a member Of the board OF
control, and he did not think 1t would
be right.
Mr. Charles Cohen beer dispenser at
Beaufort, told how for a time he
bought beer in Savannah. Afterward
he was required to buy the same beer
from the dispensary and 1t cost him
$2.12 cask less. Later he was per-
mitted to go back direct to the whole
saler and he got the stuff at the same
old price. He paid the $2.12 extra for
two and a half years.
There was quite lot Of evidence on
Wednesday. enough to remove all rea-
sonable doubt of the dispensary rot
tenness, even If that fact had not been
previously established.
The members Of the old board of di-
rectors declined the committees inVi-
tation to testify. Boykin and Douthit
sent an identical letter in which they
gave assurance of their innocence OF
wrongdoing and urged the committee
to go on to the very bottom Of the af-
fair. They promised that at ''some fu-
ture day when 1t could have no effect
on the action of the committee they
would present a written statement
telling about the matters they consid-
cred material to the issue.
Former State Constable Bahr told OF
some Incidents during the days OF
Evans. Haselden, Williams, Cooper,
Robinson and others. He told OF see
ing money pass from whisky drum
mers to members Of the state board In
great wads; but could not remember
names, ETC. He told how the directors
had great times at carnivals and In
saloons and how the liquor drummers
paid the bills.
Some of the most interesting testi-
mony of the day related to the famous
label purchase. S. Grabfelder & Co.,
submitted samples of some labels that
they had bought from the Cincinnati
house Of Nivisson & Weiskopf, the
same that Boykin patrOniZed. These
labels were almost Identical with those
purchased for the state and cost only
$1.50 a thousand against the $3.50 that
was paid by the state in much larger
quantities.
There was lot Of testimony to show
that certain brands Of whisky were
billed out to the county dispensers at
or below cost and that county dispen-
sers sold them at a lower price than
was asked for other liquor OF the same
quality The manifest purpose of this
was to push the liquors of some houses
more rapidly than others regardless OF
the loss to the state and the school
fund
There was a lot of cumulative evil
dence developed yesterday; but one of
the most interesting features Of the
days proceedings was the reading of
some Of the letters that the commit
tee procured from the files OF j. ).
Farnum, the Charleston dispenser be-
fore the matter got into the supreme
court. One Of the letters, throwing
light on some of the newspaper con-
Germs about the dispensary was as fol-
lows:
Columbia, S. c., June 10, 1902.
Dear Farnum:
How about those beer and whisky
ads you promised me? Send me the
copy, so / can commence publishing
them. Every little helps to make the
Record a bigger and stronger paper.
The way the Record has made Dukes
fight for him has more than ever dem
onstrated the value of the Record as
friend and defender of the dispensary
and it's officers. If the Record were a
bigger and better paper, 1t could Ell
fectiyely take care of the diSpensary' s
interests. 1t would be such paper II
all the firms which do business through
the dispensary in this state were to
give 1t their patronage. The dispen-
sary people are anxious to see the Rec
ord branch out and are going to take
q good block of it's stock to help make
improvements. AS ii stands, the Rec
ord is a good piece of property more
than paying expenses. With new ma
chinery, it can be made a good Garner.
1t will pay you, directly and indirectly,
to take several hundred dollars worth
preferred stock. The shares are worth
$25 each. How many will you take!
Yours truly,
GEO. R. KoESTER.
There were other letters showing
that Farnum was the recipient of large
amounts Of graft
The committee decided to take re-
cess until June 26, at noon.