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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-02
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
Inconvenient Schedules-The Bailes's
Bridae Gone-Cotton Banks.

lnconvenient ScheduleS-lhe 6aiies
Bridae Gone-Cotton Banks.
Editor of The Yorkville Enquirer:
Taking advantage of your invitation
to your subscribers to express their
ideas, ETC., through your paper, write
to say in behalf of our people over
here in eastern York, northern Ian
caster and southwest Mecklenburg,
or Fort Mill, Pineville, Pleasant VAL
ley, etc, that while you and Col. X.
w. Hunt are adjusting or rather re-
adjusting schedules on the Charleston
division of the Southern, that you
consider our case, or condition over
here. AS you know under the pres
ent ARRANGEMENT or schedule, we can
get to Yorkville all right in the morn
ing, and there you drop us, without
any way to get home or back until
next day at 1908. The evening train
on your road not getting to Rock HUI
until ten the last train on our road
has passed north, one about one hour
before. Many Of our people will have
to attend court in Yorkville in two
weeks and quite a number would
have attended the monument unveil-
ing recently, and many more want to
attend the Woodmen celebration on
July 4th, had we convenient sched-
ule. Won't Yorkville cooperate with
us in arranging so we can make the
trip over there and return the same
day? l believe we would all be largely
benefited by this arrangement.
Will you kindly remind our COM
missioners that Railes's bridge Is
gone, having been washed away sew
eral weeks since, and that we are
sadly in need of a new one. One OF
our rural routes is seriously leopard
lied by the absence of this bridge.
The route refer to extends into North
Carolina and when we come to COM
petition with Mecklenburg county In
roads and bridges we are simply not
in 1t.
We are having an abundance of
rain and corn Is looking we'll. but
cotton is small and quite thin on the
land. Wheat and oats were right
good, but not much were harvested.
AS to your cotton bank, cotton Is
certainly the finest banking material
In existence. Most of us commence
banking or living on it, before 1t Is
planted. If it is good to bank on be-
fore being planted it should be better
after. The trouble is the farmer banks
on 1t too much before it Is raised and
the other fellow after
]. w. Ardrey.
Fort Mill, June 2S, 1907.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-02
E.oCAI. AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Jno r. Dickson, Capt.-Requests reg
ular members of Co. IL" to call at
York Drug Store Thursday to vote
for second lieutenant.
Strauss Smith Co.-Announce sum-
mer slaughter sale, beginning July
4. and continuing ten days. They
offer discounts Of 10 to so per cent
on all goods in stock.
w. M. Kennedy, Agent-Has a few
bushels of Lookout Mountain seed
Irish potatoes.
York Drug Store-Invites its friends to
make it headquarters on Thursday,
July 4th.
Yorkville Hardware Co.-Sells Clauss,
Shumate and Boxer razors at 81 to
$3.50 and guarantees them.
First National Bank-Publishes a list
of it's directors and asks you to con-
slider how safe the bank Is with the
business men who direct its affairs.
M. w. White-Tells you what makes
a man happy. Real estate offerings.
Sam M. Grist-Offers his services in
insuring your property against loss
by fire. Only fire tested companies
represented.
j. L. Williams & Co.-Have only linn
tied supply of oxfords for ladies that
they offer at reduced prices.
National Union Bank, Rock Hill-So-
licits your savings accounts, on
which it pays 4 per cent interest.
compounded quarterly.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-02
ARouT PEOPLE.

Mrs. f. E. Gillespie Is visiting rel
atives at Gulf, N. c.
Mr.. Paul r. Bratton. Is spending a
few days In Yorkville.
Mr.. d. Wyatt Neville of Clinton, Is
spending a few days in Yorkville.
Miss Minnie Massey Of Rock Mill, Is
the guest Of Mrs. Horace II. Beard.
Cadet Wheeler Willis Is at home
from the s. c. M. A, for the summer.
Mr. Frank c. Dobson OF Columbia,
Is up for a few days visit to his faith
er, Mr.. T. M. Dobson.
Mrs S. r. Moore and daughter, Miss
Mamie. returned yesterday from Wis
1t to Charlotte and Chester.
Mr.. U. M. Pursley, manager Of the
Catawba Lumber company at DeKalb,
was in Yorkville on business.
Messrs. L. w. Bradley and Andral
Ferguson, left Saturday night for a
visit to the jamestown exposition.
Mr.. Arch Jackson and family Of
Magnolia, Ala, are visiting Mr. Jack
sons parents and other relatives in
Yorkville.
Cadet Baxter Riddle has returned to
his home at Bowling Green, from the
South Carolina Military academy at
Charleston.
Mr.. f. c. Secrest of Lancaster, dis
trict deputy grand master, paid an Of
fetal visit to the Yorkville Masonic
lodge last night.
Rock Hill Record: w. M. Dunlap,
Esq, is taking a summer course at
the University Of Virginia. He will
return to Rock Hill about Sept. 1.
Miss Ada Hayman, who has had
charge Of the millinery department Of
the Yorkville B. & M. Co., the past
season, left Saturday for her home in
Maryland.
Mrs. Robert Clopinger and son, Rob-
ert, of Winston, N. c., are in Yorkville
on a visit to her mother, Mrs. jamie
Parish, who has been quite Ill for sew
eral days.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-02

senting the entire jury to convey to
Judge Loving and his wife and daugh-
ter the information that while they
believed that Miss Loving's statement
on the witness stand of what she had
told her father was true account or
what she had communicated to him,
yet not for a moment did the jury en-
tertain the opinion that an actual as
sault had been committed by the de-
ceased upon the young lady. but on
the contrary they were all fully salts
fed beyond all doubt that no actual
assault had been committed, but that
there had been an attempted assault.
Counsel for Judge Loving upon being
interviewed in this connection said:
The conclusion OF the jury to the ef-
feet that no assault was committed
was absolutely correct" The under
standing is that Miss Elizabeth Loving
has been sent on a visit to relatives in
a distant state, to avoid the unpleasant
notoriety she has acquired at home.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-02
THE wooDMEN RALLY.

If there is anybody in this section,
who is laborlng under the impression
that it is not going to be worth while
to come to Yorkville next Thursday,
July 4, they must not undertake to lay
it against The Enquirer that they were
not told differently in advance, because
we really believe 1t Is going to be the
most notable July celebration the town
has ever seen.
Mr.. J. Q. Wray who has been the
wheel horse Of the committee, has been
working with tremendous energy to
stir things up, and with the hearty
co cooperation of Mr.. ]. C. Wilborn and
]. w. Miller, also Of the steering COM
mittee, assisted by the business and
diversion lovers generally, has sue
ceeded to a remarkable extent.
Almost everybody Is interested now,
and they are all working for all they
are worth, each trying to outdo the
other especially in the matter Of big
trades display, which will probably be
one of the main features of the oc-
casion.
From what Mr.. Wray said this
morning, Yorkville alone will have
more than thirty floats in the process
sion, representing various business
houses, social and civic organizations,
and from what The Enquirer has pick
ed up here and there these floats will
represent labor and expense to the ag-
gregate Of hundreds Of dollars Many
of the floats will be designed with es-
pecial clevemess, and the procession
alone will be something worth coming
miles to see.
A half dozen or more young men
have been practicing for the tour
nament every afternoon during the
past two weeks and they promise
that will be both exciting and in
teresting. There is to be nothing tame
about it, There is also to be a bag
race that will be very laughable, to say
the least of it.
For the benefit Of the baseball fans,
a game has been arranged between the
teams of Yorkville and Blacksburg.
Yorkville has a good team and 80 has
Blacksburg.
Mr.. Wray has information that quite
a number of Woodmen camps are to be
here from different parts of the coun-
ty and his information is that practi
cally all of them are to be represented
by appropriate floats.
The visitors, of course, are expected
to bring their dinners, except in cases
where they are able to make other ar
rangements. OF course, as Is always
the case on such occasions, there will
be no unreasonable limit to the hospi-
tality of the Yorkville people; but it
is not practical to entertain all the big
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-02
kAINIT In The PIEDMONT.

Kainit, one Of the most costly and
important ingredients Of commercial
fertilizers, very likely exists In untold
quantities among the foot hills Of the
Piedmont, according to Mr.. L. B. Do
zier, formerly head Of the big whole
sale machinery and plumbing supplies
concern Of the L. B. Dozier company
of this city, says the Columbia Rec
ord.
Mr.. Dozier recently went to Gaffney
and Blacksburg. as the result OF rep
reservations made to him by DR.. X.
F. Lee and other expert mineralogists
and geologists, and what he found by
personal investigation surprised and
gratified him, although he already
knew something in a general way or
the immense and practically untouch-
ed mineral resources Of the Cherokee
hills.
Mr.. Dozier Is very much pleased
over the prospects, not only for kali
nit, baukrite, thorium and other min
erals, and Is satisfied that before many
years some great fortunes are going
to be dug from the Cherokee slopes.
He Is still pursuing his Investigations,
but is naturally not very communica-
tive as to his plans or as to the exact
location Of the prospects In which he
Is interested.
Mr.. Dozier's explorations among he
Cherokee hills were undertaken with
the primary purpose Of ascertaining
whether the coal deposits Of which
indications had been found, were suf-
ficiently extensive and Of such quality
as would make It commercially prac-
. III l. hno
no reason to doubt the existence OF
workable coal beds there, he says, and
will continue his prospecting In the
neighborhood.
The immense value that a mine of
good steam coal at Blacksburg would
have may readily be recognized when
1t is remembered that Blacksburg Is
in the very heart Of the Piedmont tex
tile district-only a few miles from
Charlotte, the Lowell Of the south,
and Is the junction point Of the main
line of the Southern railway and Of
the Southern's line from Kingville, 8.
c., to Marion, N. C.,-the old Three
Cs-and that, furthermore, the long
transmontane line Of the New South
and Western road now building, Will
also pass Blacksburg.
Practically all the kainit used In
the United States-and vast quanti-
ties are annually put into the ground
straight, to say nothing Of the greater
quantities used in factories-is i'm
ported from Germany. being brought
over by shiploads. loose in the hold.
Probably one-third the sailing vessels
which make the port Of Charleston
bring kainit cargoes. The production
of the product in this country Is but
as a drop in the bucket. A consider
able deposit would therefore be a
source Of great riches.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-02

THEY are constantly talking of Mr.
]. Calvin Hemphill, editor Of the News
and Courier as a candidate for the
United States senate. The matter
comes up in almost every gathering
of which Mr.. Hemphill is member,
and in a good many of which he is
not a member. He likes to joke about
it himself on occasion, as in Charles
ton recently when he told the editors
Of the press association that no news
paper man had any business in poll
tics unless he be an aspirant for the
United States senate. The remark
was received as a fine, pointed joke
and appreciated as such. At James
town last Friday, as Mr.. Hemphill en-
tered the reviewing stand, somebody
informed him that the crowd had
taken him for Senator Tillman. The
story is that he promptly closed one
eye, assumed pose Of stolid, important
indifference and played the part nice
ly, until it was whispered to him that
Editor Waring, Mayor Rhett and
Speaker Whaley had definitely decided
that he must go to the United States
senate to succeed Senator Latimer and
then he opened the closed eye. AS to
whether Mr. Hemphill has any idea
Of running for the United States SEN
ate or not he is having lots of fun
out of his prospective candidacy.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-02

crowd that Is expected in private
homes. Shelter will be provided In
case Of need, and 1t Is intended that an
abundance of pure ice water shall be
convenient and free. Also, those who
fail to provide for themselves other
wise will have no difficulty in getting
refreshments at the hotels, boarding
houses, restaurants and lunch tables.
1t Is going to be big day. There
are to be lots and lots Of people here
from all parts Of the county and they
are to see enough. and have enough
innocent pleasure and enjoyment to
make them all glad that they came.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-02
LOCAL LACONlCS.
We Will Send The Enquirer


From this date until January 1st,
1908. for 9S cents.
Special Excursion Rates.
The Carolina and North Western
railroad is to operate special excursion
rates between Mortimer, N. c., and
Chester, s. c., on July 3, and 5. The
round trip fare to and from all points
on the line will be one and one-third
round trip.
The Picnic at Glover.
The Junior Order committee at Clo-
yer has completed arrangements for
a most delightful celebration Thurs
day. and the information is that there
will be a large crowd in attendance.
The Glover people know how to treat
their visitors.
Let Us Hope So.
Gaffney Ledger: An election was
held in Yorkville last Wednesday on
the question Of the exemption of man
ufacturing enterprises Of all characters
which hereafter may be erected In
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-02

IL THAw WERE In SOUTH CAROLINA.
The public is again reminded Of
Harry Thaw, the slayer of Stanford
White, by the anniversary Of the
killing. And all these twelve months
he has lain in Jail, not being allowed
bail, though he could furnish bond for
a million. In South Carolina he would
have been out on a two or three thou
sand dollar bond before his victim was
cold in his grave. 1t is more serious
thing to kill a man In New York.
Newberry Observer.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-02
FIRST COTTON BLOOMS.

The first cotton bloom Of the season
was received yesterday, having been
sent by Mr. j. c. Bell Of Guthriesville.
1t was plucked from the field of r. B.
Stokes at Guthriesville.
Thomas Gordon. colored, of the
Guthriesville neighborhood, sent a
bloom yesterday that was plucked from
his field on June 30.
Mr.. ]. M. Starr of the York Supply
Co, this morning sent two blooms
that came from Mr.. Starrs Chester
county farm, worked by Abe Hamp-
ton. The blooms were plucked yester-
dav
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-02

ALMOST every mail brings news OF
the increased cost of printing mate
rial of all kinds, especially paper, and
because it is so very difficult for the
printers to raise prices to meet this
increased cost many of them are be-
ginning to feel the pressure. The
competition is keener among newspa-
per publishers and printers probably
than it is in any other business, and
there is less possibility of combination
even to escape actual destruction. In
the matter of trying to "do it for less"
the average printer is incorrigible.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-02

Linn Creek, Mo-, Reville: Judge
Fox, Of the supreme court, killed a
turkey in southeast Missouri the day
after the hunting season closed. When
his attention was called to the viola
ton Of the law he went before the
grand jury and made a complaint,
telling how he had made a wonder
fully long shot and did not expect to
kill the turkey, but instructed the ju-
rors it was their duty to indict him,
as 1t was his duty to know
the law, and his oversight was there
fore the more inexcusable. When he
afterward inquired why he was not
fined for the misdemeanor he was in
formed that the jury did not believe
he could have killed turkey as far
as he claimed to have shot.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-02

Robert Ricaud and Kenneth
Matheson, the two young men Of
Bennettsville, who attacked Jennings
K Owens Of that place for reporting
their vandalism against the Benefits
Vile Confederate monument in the
Columbia State, were on last Saturday
fined 500 each by the Bennettsville
town council. 1t appears that the
young men had drawn straws to see
which should attack Owens, and the
lot fell to Ricaud. Matheson stood
by and watched the fight. At the
trial, Owens plead self-defence and
relied upon the testimony Of the 9TH
er two defendants to vindicate his
plea. The fine was the limit.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-02
Ths aJarkrille Gnquirsr.
YORKVILLE, s. c.:
TUESDAY, JULY 2 1907.

JUDGE Loving was acquitted, as was
foreseen, but there are some victories
as bad as defeat. His daughter is dis
graced by her own testimony and the
bra nd of Cain is upon him. We don
know but what the fate of Estes Is
preferable to that Of either Of the sur
Observer.
Probably there is not so much occa-
sion for concern about Loving, his
daughter or Estes, as of the law
What of the law?
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-02

tion with any immigrants who may be
brought here through our state depart
ment Of immigration. On the contra
ry, We believe that every agricultural
family that can be induced to locate
here and become permanent settlers
will add just that much to the general
welfare of the community, and make 1t
that much easier for those who are al
ready here.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-02
As TO Immigration,

The more one thinks Of the sugges-
tions recently thrown out by Mr. p. H.
Gadsden as to the lines experience
seems to have shown that the people
Of this state should pursue with re-
gard to immigration, the more thor
oughly he is likely to be convinced of
the correctness of Mr.. Gadsden's con-
cluSiOnS.
While the greatest demand for i'm
migrants has come from those who
most sOre.y feel the need Of efficient
and reliable day labor, now that we
have tried it and seen that we have
made Il mistake, it is very easy to ap-
preciate that we have made Il wrong
start and must, if we would accomplish
anything practicable. proceed along
new lines.
There are thousands and thousands
Of acres Of lands in this state that are
of but very little value for the reason
that no one can be found to cultivate
them. and there is no question of the
fact that in different parts of Europe
there are thousands of good agricul-
tural families who would be admirably
suited to these lands if they could only
be comfortably settled thereon.
Among the foreigners who are con-
stantly coming to this country, are
many that are undesirable; but the
records as far back as the history of
the country goes show that these un-
desirables are not inclined among the
agricultural classes. The habits and
characteristics of tillers of the soil are
very much the same the world over
and everywhere the tillers of the soil
are among the most valuable citizens
Of the respective countries to which
they belong.
While it is natural that our people
should be more or less suspicious of
new -cumers, we do not think there is
any good ground for alarm in connec-
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-02
Ghe Cotton Market.

Yorkville, July Cotton II to lS.
New York, July Cotton, spot
closed steady; middling uplands 1925;
middling gulf 1880; sales 20,30o.
Futures opened firm and closed steady
July 1900; Aug. 1877; Sept. 11.62;
Oct. 11.75; Nov. 11.72; Dec. 1l.76; Jan.
1l.S7: Feb. 11.91; March 11.97.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-02
MILLS Is CONVICTED.

The jury in the case of w. II. Mills,
tried at Gaffney during the latter part
of last week for the murder Of Frank
H. Deal at Blacksburg recently, took
the papers at $40 Saturday afternoon
and after remaining out thirty min
utes, returned with a verdict Of guilty
with recommendation to the mercy OF
the court.
The defense admitted the killing
and in justification set up the allega-
tion that the deceased had betrayed
his family. This was the effect OF the
testimony of Mills. He claimed no
other motive. except that he sought to
make it appear that he had been try
ing to control himself until his an
gry passions were re-aroused as the
result of an interview with Deal. Mrs.
Mills did not go on the stand. She
was in town however, having put In
her appearance after the defense had
failed to secure a postponement on the
ground that her presence could not
be had. The prosecution argued that
even II the deceased were guilty Of
the offense charged by the defendant.
the fact did not mitigate the graV-
ity of the killing from murder to man
slaughter, because to have made the
killing manslaughter 1t should have
been perpetrated by the defendant I'M
mediately upon his getting information
of the alleged offense complained Of.
The testimony Of the defendant repre-
sented him to have been in possession
of knowledge of the alleged offense for
some time before the killing.
Upon the publication Of the verdict
counsel for the defendant gave notice
Of a motion for new trial. The pun
ishment for murder is death. Where
there is a recommendation to mercy
as in the present instance. the pun
ishment is life Imprisonment.