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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-08-16
FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1907.

vest hands for the wheat fields OF
North Dakota. :. .Kaid Sir Harry
Mclean, righthand man Of the sultan
Of Morocco, who was captured several
weeks ago by the bandit, Rails Uli, has
been released. John H. Gaynor,
convicted Of defrauding the govern
ment in connection with harbor work
at Savannah, Ga, Is reported to be dy-
ing of consumption in the penitentiary
at Macon, Ga. Wheat went down
three cents a bushel on the Chicago
market Monday on account Of the tel
egraphers' strike. The International
Typographical union Is In session at
Hot Springs, Ark. 80. New York city
offered $15,OO0,OO0 worth Of four per
cent city bonds for sale Monday. Less
than s3,000,000 worth were sold.
Prince VI, head of the Korean delega-
ton sent to The Hague peace confer
ence, has been sentenced to deatn Dy
hanging, by the supreme court at
York, says he will not return to Korea
....J. Pierpont Morgan, who has been
abroad for some weeks, is on his way
home. ..... Thirteen persons were in
jured in a wreck near Atlanta, Ga, on
the thirteenth. .... The Pope Manu-
featuring company has gone into the
hands Of a receiver. The assets Of the
company are given at 1921, ,39S.......
The Georgia legislature has passed a
bill that practically disfranchises the
negro. 80. News from Central Amer
lea is to the effect that Guatemala is
likely to attack Nicaragua. -. Edgar
B. Moore has closed lease Of the Sell
wyn hotel in Charlotte. He will run
the Selwyn in connection with Kenil-
worth Inn, Asheville, N. c.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-08-16
MccoNNELLSVILLE MATTERS.
Of the Yorkville Enquirer.


McConnellsville, August 15.-There
has been plenty Of rain and the crops
around here are looking all right. Wa
termelons are plentiful; but there Is
no fruit Of any consequence. 80,
Mrs. J. X. Hall has been quite Ill
with malaria; but Is better. She has
Just returned with the children from
visit to Lancaster.
Misses Lillian and Kathleen Craw-
ford and Master Herbert Crawford lert
for Catawba Springs this morning.
Misses Mayme and Kathleen Harris
of Rutherfordton, N. c., paid visit
to Miss Mary Moore of this place,
few days ago.
Mrs. P. G. McCorkle Of Chester, is
spending a few days with Mrs. f. ID.
williams Of this place.
Mrs. Martha Burke and son, Ray, OF
Monticello, Ark, are spending the
summer here with Mrs. Burke's sister,
Mrs John d. Mcconnell.
Miss Katherine Crawford and Mas
ter Zed Crawford of Lincolnton, N. c.,
are spending the summer with their
grandmother, Mrs Ellen Crawford.
Master William Crawford Of Ches-
ter is spending a short while at his
grandmothers.
Mrs. Sarah Ashe and her daughter,
Miss Aggie, left this morning for
Kings Mountain, on a visit to Mrs.
Ashes daughter, Mrs. Boyce Falls.
Mr.. o. L. Sanders Of this place, Is In
Columbia on visit to his daughter,
DR.. Eleanor B. Sanders.
Miss Connie Witherspoon, Of Lancas-
ter Is here visiting her sister, Mrs. ].
K. Hall.
Mr.. Walker Moore, who has been
playing baseball on a team In North
Carolina. came home a few days ago
to visit his parents.
Miss Ada Sanders, who has had
charge Of a school at Spruce Pine, N.
c., is at home spending her vacation
with her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. 0. l..
Sanders.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. B. Mendenhall and
family are on a visit to relatives In
Gastonia.
Messrs Alex and John Crawford are
in Chester on a visit to their uncle,
Mr.. E. A. Crawford.
Mrs. Jane Howe has returned after
an extended visit to Yorkville.
Mrs. Jane Love Is at Cleveland
Springs.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-08-16

there Is to It, There Is not nearly so
much moonshining as there used to
be: but there is more than am going
to put up with.
Reports have come to me that two
men up there, A. A. Laughridge and
Charlie Painter, have been running the
tiger business almost to the propor-
ton OF regular barrooms, and 1t was
these / was after more particularly.
We went to their houses and made a
search of the premises, finding numer-
Gus Jugs, measuring pots, and at
Laughridge's a still-worm; but very lit
tie liquor at either place. We got
gallon of liquor in all. Laughridge was
not at home. Painter was at home
when we commenced the search; but
he slipped out before we got through.
You know am pretty familiar with
that country, having sawed a good
deal Of lumber al! through there. The
other men also know the country we'll.
Although we went up in buggies, we
had our saddles with us, and saddling
our horses at Bethany, We followed
every branch and hollow for miles that
could harbor a still. We found only
three places where there has been any
whisky making during the present
year. One of these We raided some
time ago, and captured the outfit. At
another place there had been some
work within ten days previous. The
third place was not so fresh. There
were quite a large number of old
stands that had been used during the
past.
"As the result Of the trip 1 have this
to say, that there is not nearly a much
liquor making up in this section-es-
pecially in York county-as people
seem to think; but I am certainly go
ing to put stop to it If I can. All 1
ask Is that the good people of the
neighborhood give me all the informa-
ton they can and 1 will do my part"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-08-16

Anderson, the most progressive town
Of the Piedmont; has adopted a curfew
law.
II Sheriff Thomas will take care Of
the Cherokee side, Sheriff Brown will
look after the York side.
Mr.. John J. Wallace of Yorkville
says that he has been travelling over
in the northwestern part Of Chester
county and found The Enquirer about
as common among the homes of the
farmers of that section as elsewhere
Mr.. Wallace seemed to be little sur
prised, but Of course the fact has been
very we'll known in The Enquirer Of
flee for so long that is not regarded
as extraordinary. Fact is, we do not
know Of many county papers that cir
culate with the thoroughness of The
Enquirer
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-08-16
AFTER THE MooNsHINERs.

Accompanied by a posse consisting
of Deputy Sheriff Quinn, Constable
Andy Quinn of Kings Mountain town.
ship and Policeman ]. G. Enloe, Sher-
if Brown made a close and careful
search of the northwestern part of the
county last Tuesday night and We'd
nesday after moonshiners.
The reporter took occasion this
morning to ask Sheriff Brown about
the trip. and the information that was
developed was quite interesting.
Yes, we went" said the sheriff,
"and we worked like good fellows; but
| can't say that we accomplished a
great deal. But l will tell you this.
There Is some liquor making and SELL
ing going on up in that country and
it has just got to stop. That Is all
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-08-16
MESSAGE FROM Mr.. HoGUE.
Back at His Home, Well Pleased With
South Carolina.

Correspondence OF the Yorkville Enaulfer.
Park Springs, Tex, August 13.-Hav-
ing just returned from a visit among
my relatives and friends in the Pal
metto state where l was born, and
where | resided until about II years
Of age, more than thirty years ago,
and finding conditions so much i'm
proved, l am constrained to speak a
word OF praise for my old home state
and those who helped develop her
many resources. Thirty years ago
South Carolina had only a few cotton
mills, most OF them Of small capacity.
Today she stands second in the United
States as a cotton manufacturing state.
Then her vast forests Of fine timber
were looked upon with but very little
Importance, but today 1t Is a great
source of revenue to the owners and
gives employment to thousands OF Ia
borers. I also find the farmers in bet
ter condition, better houses, beautiful
homes. plenty Of everything around
them and most of them out Of debt
Indeed II seems that the old state has
received the second blessing and that
the honest efforts Of the honest citizens
have been crowned with success on
every hand. The best crops / saw on
my entire route were in South Caro-
u,
Mississippi and Arkansas, where 40
per cent Of a full crop is a conserva-
tive estimate for both corn and cotton
The Indian Territory, Oklahoma and
this part Of Texas have very good
crops, but we are needing rain badly
and the boil worms are damaging the
cotton considerably in our part Of the
state.
enjoyed my two days stay In York
vile, the first town Of my recollection,
with its beautiful shade trees and So
cial citizens, where l met many old
friends and made many new acquaint-
ances whose courtesies will not soon
be forgotten. While there l had the
pleasure Of visiting The Enquirer Of
flee and through the courtesy OF the
editor was shown through the plant.
was pleased to find every department
Iequipped with the very latest machin-
cry requisite for the publishing Of an
up to- date paper, for which the citi-
zens of the town and county should be
proud.
My stay Of twenty-five years In the
Lone Star state had almost made me
a thoroughbred Texan, but since my
recent visit to South Carolina, / am at
least one-half Carolinian and am now
guessing which state / Will be buried
In, should l live a few years longer
]. ]. Hogue.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-08-16
THE CONTEST PREMIUMS.

That Is an unusually liberal offer
that appears elsewhere in this paper
with regard to securing new subscrib-
ers to The Enquirer, and it is plain
enough to be understood by all.
Any lady is eligible.
1t is only a matter Of securing new
subscribers, sending them In with the
money, and instructing us as to whose
credit the votes should go.
There is no reason why any lady
who wants one of the prizes should
not go after it. All she has to do is to
secure subscriptions herself and get
others to secure subscriptions for her.
The individual who sends in the
name and money has the privilege of
saying where the votes are to go.
Every new subscriber, and by new
subscriber is meant a subscriber whose
name is not now on our list, is enti-
tied to five votes for each fifty cents
paid on subs scription. The individual
who sends in the subscription will in
struct the disI osition Of the votes.
When we made the offer we had no
idea that there would be any consider
able number of votes, and If the re-
turns are not sufficient to make up the
one hundred dollars we are offering,
we will have no occasion for surprise.
But it is a liberal offer for those
who take advantage of it-whether
81. Nf hn
or not.
If there are only twenty-five names
returned in all, or less, the money we
offer, or the other prizes, if the winner
shall choose them, will be paid over
just as faithfully and just as cheerfully
as if the aggregate returns should foot
up 500 or more names.
Those who enter the contest stand
no chance whatever to lose.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-08-16
LoCAI. AFFAIRS
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Barron Bros.-Say that A. J. Higgins
of Tennessee, will be at their stables
on August 3d.. to buy 100 head of
mules, to years old.
r. B. Riddle, Executor-Gives notice to
persons having claims against or who
are indebted to estates Of George l..
and Mary J. Riddle, deceased. to
make settlement with him.
]. w. Jackson and others-Publish no.
tice of special road tax election to be
held in Bethel township on Septem-
Der 3rd.
Hugh G. Brown, S. Y. C.-Will on
salesday in September, on the prem
ises sell the mining machinery and
personal property Of the Magnolia
Mines company, near Hickory Grove.
L. r. Williams, Probate Judge-Gives
notice that E. M. Griffin has applied
estate Of Samuel G. Blair deceased.
First National Bank-Tells you how to
take advantage of the opportunities
that come to you. Get ready by saw
ing and banking your money.
J.. NJ. McGill, Hickory-Remarks that
repair men don't like Banner bug
gies and tells why. A shipment of
Salem wagons has just arrived and
he wants you to see them.
Bank of Clover-Advises you to do
your own banking. If you don't
somebody else will bank your money
for you.
NJ. w. White-Says that too much
caution and too much confidence Of
ten prevent the achievement of sue
cess. Real estate offerings.
Yorkville Hardware Co.-Claims that
Majestic ranges are best, as they are
made of the best materials. See 1t
for hardware.
York Drug Shareholders Vinol as one
Of the best preparations on the mar
ket for certain purposes. 1t is sold
under a guarantee to be all that Is
claimed for It. 81 a bottle.
Thomson GOWN continue its mill
end and remnant sale all next week.
Special values in bleaching, embroid-
cry. ginghams, etc.
w. G.. Reid & Son, Rock Hill-An-
nounce a reduced price sale OF or
gans and pianos in order to reduce
stock. Terms to suit the buyer.
York Supply Co.-Sells iron roofing,
roofing paint. ails, shingles, Vulcan
ploW and pOinls, disc plows, etc.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-08-16
ABOUT PEOPLE.

Mr.. Thos. w. Speck spent Wednes-
day in Columbia on business.
Mrs. H. F. Adickes Of Raleigh, N. C.,
is visiting relatives and friends in
Yorkville.
Mr.. Samuel Blair, who Is in his SD
year. is quite i'll at his home near
Blairsville.
Mrs. l.. ]. Lumpkin and children OF
Old Point, are at the White Diamond
Lithia springs.
Miss Ethel Radcliffe Of Charleston,
is visiting her father, Mr.. G. T. Rad
clffe in Yorkville.
Miss Mary Eunice Grist is spending
a few days with Miss Lula Smith In
the Zadok. neighborhood.
Mrs. H. H. Crosland Of Bennettsville,
is visiting her parents and other rel
atives and friends in Yorkville.
Mrs. Emily Hughes and Miss Halle
Matthews of Montgomery, Ala, are the
guests of Dr. and Mrs. S. A. Weber.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. M. Mcdonald and
children and Miss Sara Hargrave OF
Charlotte, are guests Of DR.. and Mrs
w. G. White.
Miss Elizabeth Grist Of Yorkville,
has been spending the week with the
family of Mr.. w. S. LESLIE and other
friends at Leslie.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. K. White Of Wax
haw. N. c.. are in the Hickory Grove
section on q visit to Mr.. Whites faith
Ell, Mr.. Moses White.
Messrs. ]. B. Wood, ]. L. Wood, ].
C. Wood, Robert Gordon, j. j. McCar-
ter and Will McCarter left last Tues
day for jamestown and Washington.
Messrs. E. W., w. Lee and w. II.
Pursley of the Bethany neighborhood,
have gone to the jamestown exposi-
ton. 1t is their purpose to visit Wash
ington, Baltimore and several other
cities before their return.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-08-16

- Columbia State: Detective Jim
Broom, who is always on the alert for
anything that Is going wrong, cornered
about $50 pounds of contraband rail-
road brass yesterday packed away in
whisky barrels and billed for shipment
to the Ajax Metal company Of Phila-
delphia, via the Atlantic Coast Line.
The metal was shipped by w. E. and
E. d. Harrell, junk dealers, running a
business on lower Assembly street.
The brass packed in the barrels was
car brass and most of it bore the South
ern railway stamp on 1t. Most of 1t was
new. AS is known, junk dealers are
prohibited by law from buying any
railroad brass or iron at all-whether
unfit for use or nOt-and the junk
dealers will be prosecuted for making
the illegal transactions through which
the brass was secured. The police have
had a great deal of trouble In handling
some junk dealers, who will persist in
buying railroad brass. In some In
stances it has been found out that junk
dealers actually paid little negro boys
to steal car brass for them, making a
good profit out Of the sale to such
houses as the Ajax Metal company
The fact that the brass was packed in
whisky barrels and not In an ordinary
and above board manner Is circum-
stantial evidence The junk dealers
will be prosecuted by the railroad peo-
pie, II Is understood, and If Detective
BroOms allegations are proven, the af-
fair will go hard with them.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-08-16
ROCK HILL AND VICINITY.
Pilgrims from the West Visit Winthrop
Manager Pryor Resisns-Person-

Manager Pryor Resisns-Person-
al Mention.
Correspondence OF the Yorkville Enquirer.
Rock Hill, August ia committee
of distinguished Arkansans were in
Rock Hill today. They were Messrs.
Doyne, state superintendent Of public
instruction.; Torrison, superintendent
city schools of Little Rock, and Darne-
gle, a leading citizen Of Conway, Ark
They were here to visit Winthrop col
lege, see its buildings and equipment
and learn something of its methods,
etc. They were met by DR.. d. B. john
son, the president and were shown over
the buildings and everything explained
to them. Arkansas has just passed an
act establishing a normal and indus
trial college and these gentlemen form
a committee from the board Of trus-
tees of the proposed college, sent out
to get advantage of the best expert
ence. They came here upon the ad-
vice of DR.. Wickliffe Rose, the noted
educator and agent Of the Peabody
board.
DR.. Rose visited Winthrop college
last April, and when it Is considered
that he has intimate relations with a
hundred or more institutions 1t Is a
distinct and very high and official COM
pliment that he should point to Win
throp Normal and Industrial college OF
South Carolina as a model for the
study of those desiring to establish
such college. These visitors express
ed themselves as delighted with all
they saw and said they had not before
realized the extent and scope of such
an institution. Mr.. Darnegie's nome,
Conway, is the town which has sue
ceeded in securing the location OF the
college. Knowing the far reaching
and lasting good which Rock Hill has
reaped as the home Of Winthrop, Con-
way, Ark, is to be congratulated.
Mr.. ]. E. Pryor, who for the past
six or seven years has been the man
ager Of the Rock Hill Telephone COM
pany, has sent In his resignation to
take effect the 1st Of September Mr..
Pryor has not definitely decided as to
his future plans nor has his successor
been announced. 1t is hoped that this
resignation does not mean that he will
leave Rock Hill, where he and his wife
have so many friends
Mrs. ]. Roddey Miller and Mrs. K.
A. Beall entertained on their lawns,
which adjoin, Wednesday evening in
honor of their visitors, Misses Bess
Stewart, Rhoda Stewart, May Lindsay
and Lydia Millman.
Miss Meta Boykin of Camden. Is Wis
iting the home of Mr.. and Mrs. j. b.
Johnson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Moore and chill
dren, are visiting Mr.. ]. Leonidas
Moore's family in Asheville.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-08-16

THE Atlanta Georgian announced
somewhat triumphantly on Wednesday,
that it and the Augusta Herald were
the only two newspapers in Georgia
that were still giving the full news
service 1t explained that 1t and the
Herald were subscribers to the Hearst
service. and the operators were stand
ing pat for the reason that they were
already receiving what the Associated
Press operators were striking for
Just what all the facts are we do not
know: but we are inclined to the view
that the Georgian rather overdraws
the picture. Its operators may be
handling all the news that is given to
them: but it is hardly To be denied that
both the Associated Press and Hearst
service are fed largely over the COM
mercial lines of the Western Union
and Postal, and there is little news
that the Hearst people can get now ex-
cept that which comes over the cables
from abroad.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-08-16

blown to pieces by the shells of the
ship. Still the leaders urged the charge
and with dogged Indifference to death
the men continued until they were SIM
ply driven back by the very force of
the firing. Even after being decimated
by the withering fire of the French. the
Moors re- formed their struggling lines
and with a persistence bordering upon
insanity, again essayed charge. Again
the steady rifle fire from the soldiers
and the death dealing shells from the
cruiser drove them back. Still the
Moors seemed willing to follow their
leaders into the very mouths OF the
French guns. No estimate of the loss
es of the attackers could be obtained,
but the French losses were small.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-08-16

portant element which has contributed
to make Georgia a prohibition state
and which will cause the other south
ern states to follow in her footsteps.
A vast majority of the race frictions in
the south may be attributed to the
liquor traffic. With few exceptions the
crimes which lead to lynchings are
due directly or indirectly to whisky.
The people of the south are coming to
realize that the abolition of the whis-
ky traffic is an essential preliminary to
the settlement of the race question and
ii is in large measure due to this
conviction that the growth Of the pro-
hibition sentiment may be attributed
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-08-16

THE fight between the Standard Oil
crowd and the administration might
paralyze the situation pretty effectu-
ally throughout the north; but the
south was never in better condition to
protect itself. The crops are good, the
banks have plenty of money and are
more independent of New York than
they have ever been. 1t is hoped that
there will be no serious disturbance;
but if the disturbance comes. the cue
of the people down this way will be to
keep cool heads and pursue the even
tenor of their ways.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-08-16
JAIL FOR LAWBREAKERS.
Rich Criminals Laugh at Punishment
By Fine,

The crashing of stocks, the wailing
of Wall street, the defiance of E. II.
Hartman. the dire prophecies of John
d. Rockefeller and the howls of the
Standard Oil trust, says a Washington
dispatch, all find Attorney General
BOnaparte, the head of the legal ma
chinery of the government, unmOved
and determined upon activities that
will make interesting reading for the
public in the next few months.
From remarks dropped by the attor-
ney general the future policy of his de-
partment as TO trust offenSeS will be
somewhat changed. Hereafter prose-
cutiOns of the heads of the great COM
bines that have been violating the
laws will be sought and not so much
emphasis laid on Furnishing the COM
panies over which they preside.
Evidently carrying out an agreement
reached between himself and President
Roosevelt. Mr.. BOnaparte announces
that viola ton of laws by trusts will be
met by imprisonment of the heads or
the combines as well as infections of
fines upon the companies themselves.
He indicates that the country is to
have some object lessons in stripes for
millionaire executives of -defying
combines. Whether ii will be Harri-
man. Rockefeller or any one of a half
hundred others, the attorney general
will not say.
The views of the attorney general
are summed up i'm this one expression
from the head of the department OF
Justice:
1T is difficult for the lay mind to
see how a corporation can be guilty of
violating the laws and how the presi-
dent or directing spirit of that cOrpor-
alton can be innocent"
If the efforts Of the department re-
veal that the existing laws are insult
iiciCnt to reach the directing spirits of
corporations. President Roosevelt WILL
it is learned. ask congress for supple
mcntary laws that will enable the
government II criminally prosecute
and convict, If possible, the men who
direct the policies Of corporations that
evade and violate the laws of the land
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-08-16

New York, August II: Mistaking
torpedo for a prey, a shark chased 1t
off the proving grounds near Sag Har-
Dor, L. l., yesterday and was blown to
pieces. This Is said to be the first time
such a thing has happened, although
many kinds Of fish, including sharks,
have been killed accidentally by the
explosions of torpedoes. A Bliss-Lea-
witt torpedo was discharged from the
gun barge K. w. Bliss, near Sag Har-
Dor. The flight Of the torpedo was
watched by number Of naval men.
1t was directed toward a target set
3, 500 yards away. The torpedo trav-
eled at a speed Of fifty miles an hour.
The officers watching its course
field glasses saw the fin OF a
large shark making toward 1t diago-
nally. The shark came up with the
missile just as the torpedo exploded:
Pieces Of the shark were spattered
over the target. Its body was later
found, minus certain parts, reside the
target, where 1t had been held by a
net. The shark measured over nine
feet in length.