Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-03-19
TUESDAY, MARCH Ie, 1907,
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

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last Sunday morning at an early hour.
The city Of Anderson has voted for
the issuance of $4,000 worth Of city
improvement bonds.
The next annual meeting Of the
State Sunday School convention will
be held at Union in the spring Of 1908.
the convention was in session at
Georgetown the past week.
Columbia special of March Is, to
Greenville News: Miss Estell Pittman,
the young school teacher who was at
tackled last Monday afternoon in Mar
ion county by a negro came here today
and went to the penitentiary in COM
pany with friends to see the negro who
had been brought here as the guilty
man. She stated that this negro, Ma
than McClary is not the man and was
positive in her declaration. She said
she had an impression Of his face that
would never fade and this negro was
not the guilty creature. He is not as
light in color as the other negro and Is
taller. Miss Pittman left on the af-
ternoon train for her home in Row
penitentiary had confessed to the
crime, but he is evidently weak minded
and probably does not understand
what he is doing. He said after the
young lady exonerated him that he
was near by when the crime was at
tempted and named several other ne
groes around Timmonsville who had
been taken to the train for the young
lady to see as she passed through this
evening. McClary is still in prison.
Miss Pittman is a graduate of the
Presbyterian College at Charlotte and
was teaching music in the school at
Oak Grove in Marion county.
Claims ,aggregating 100000 have
been filed against the state dispensary
as follows: Acker, Neral & Condit
Co., $2,243.SS; Atlanta Brewing COM
pany, 1924; Augusta Brewing compa-
ny, S3,45e: Bellair Distilllng company,
$6,623,S9; ]. H. Barbee & Co., $6,759.Ss;
Belroy Distilling company, $40,314.14.
H. G. H. w. Catherwood. $4,240: Clarke
Bros. & Co., $SS,703.03; Cook & Bern
heimer Co., $15,767.29; Jack Cranson
company, $4,617.50; Carolina Glass
company, $22.74s.S4; Darley, Park
Brewing Co, s64O; George A. Dickel &
$14,2O9.5O; Gallagher & Burton, $3,537.-
so; Green River Distilling company,
$6,742.92; Garrett & Co., $7,553.34; Ar
thur Lehman & Co., $23,2S4.65; Live
Oak Distilling Co., 29,424:22; William
Lannahan & Son, s1O.2S4.S4: E. La
Montalgne & Co., S404.65; Joseph E.
Pepper. $5,02450; S. S. Pierce compa-
s54s.oS; Roseneyk Brewing company
Rosenthal & Son, s4,457.5O; Raisin,
Craig Casard, $4,000; D. Sachs &
Sons, sl0,4O9.44; Joseph Schlitz Brew
ing company, $24,6S223; Savannah
Brewing company, $40s:5O; Anchor
Dstilling company s2,s45.31: Ullman
& Co., s13,392.41; H. A. Thierman
company, ss.6sS.04: The Old 7s Dis
Tullidge & Co, $1,S6669; Maring, Hart
& Co., $15,S4I44; George Wiedman
Brewing company, $4S7.50.
Columbia special Of March Is to
Charlotte Observer: With the state
dispensary mill closed down, and no
grist coming forth to feed the rank
and file Of the state dispensary fac
ton with jobs, 1t was thought that
when the Carey Cothran act went in
to effect that faction in South Carolina
politics would be thing Of the past,
and that the Carey -Cothran law
would have smooth sailing. But con-
stantly incidents are arising now to
show that 1t is the intention Of the
state dispensary advocates not to give
UP, but to use every opportunity to
harass, hinder and embarrass the 9TH
er side and do everything possible to
block the successful operation Of the
new law, and keep up these tactics
and carry on such fight against the
new system as was waged for fourteen
years against the state dispensary sys-
tenn. The state dispensary side has no
big newspapers to carry on the war
fare, but, what few engines OF this
kind it has, seem to be very active.
They are assisted by the whisky deal
ers, who have been getting the bulk
of the states business under the old
system, but this assistance so far ap-
pears to be only in the matter Of talk.
So far as is known nobody Is putting
up any money, and altogether the
fight against the new system appears
to have small substantial backing.
Some ugly stories and half truths
have been put in circulation by whisky
people here in the past few days. The
state dispensary newspapers are
watching every move Of not only the
state dispensary commission appointed
to wind up the affairs Of the state dis
pensary, but of the county boards as
well. Broadsides are being fired at
every point that appears to the oppo-
sition to be vulnerable The recent Of
fer Of Clarke Bros, from whom Direc-
tor John Black made his famous pur-
chase, to take over the entire stock at
the state dispensary for $650,000, was
looked upon by most Of the dispensary
commission as merely a trap to lead
the commission on to violate the law,
the Carey Cothran act providing for
the sale only to county boards. 1t was
promptly rejected, though some Of the
members of the commission wanted to
accept 1t.