Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-06-21
Funeral of Dr.. Whitesides.

Funeral of Or. Whitesides.
The funeral Of DR.. T. B. Whitesides,
whose death occurred at Blacksburg
last Monday night took place at Sa-
lem cemetery in Cherokee county on
Wednesday morning. There was a
large concourse of relatives and
friends in attendance. Salem was
chosen as the place of burial because
of two children already buried there.
YorkvilIe, 2, Glover, 0.
Rain stopped an interesting game
OF baseball at Glover Wednesday after
noon between teams representing
Glover and Yorkville, in the sixth in
ming, when the score stood to 0 in
favor Of the Yorkville team. The play
ers were as follows: Yorkville-Gaines,
Dobson, Berry, Smith, Willis, Lowry,
Barr, Howe, Herndon. Clover-Neill
Stevenson, Smith, Stevenson, Wylie'
Dale, Faires, Riddle, Hardin.
Hail Near Olive.
Mr.. VIM. MEG. Bailey Of the Olive
neighborhood, was in Yorkville We'd
nesday, and gave The Enquirer infor-
nation of destructive hailstorm that
swept the crops of himself and neigh
bors on Monday Of last week. Among
the sufferers were VIM. Meg. Bailey,
Walter Bell, John Burris, ]. B. Mickle,
o. ]. Gwin Anderson Hetherington,
Hamp Estes and several others. In
some cases the cotton was beaten into
the ground until the fields were per-
fectly bare. In other cases the loss
was less severe; but there is no ques-
ton Of the fact that the whole neigh
borhood Is hard hit.
The King of Moonshiners.
Charlotte News, June IS: Accom-
panying United States Deputy Marshal
John A. Sims to Atlanta, Ca, this
morning was, besides Franc H. Jones,
the king Of Moonshiners." This In
teresting person Is Alfred Stewart,
forty eight years old, Of the Kings
Mountain blockading district, who was
convicted at the present term Of Fed
eral court and sentenced by Judge
Boyd to serve fifteen months in the
penitentiary. But this sentence VIII
not reform the king" for he has open
ly declared that as soon as he Is lib
Grated at the expiration Of his term
he will continue his evil doings. He
claims to have relatives living in the
vicinity of Atlanta and instead Of op-
Grating at Kings Mountain, he will
start a business Of Illicit distilling In
the Cracker" state where he hopes
to prosper and evade the law. as sue
cessfully as he has done in this state
for a great part Of his HE. Stewart
talks interestingly Of his past life, and
since his apprehension by Mr.. Sims
some months ago, he has supplied the
officers, and others who have asked
him, with an abundance Of information
concerning himself and his mode of
distilling. His capture was unique.
Mr. Sims, representing himself as an
insurance agent though he had not
less than half dozen warrants for
blockaders in his coat pocket, met
Stewart one evening riding horse
He did not know him, but being seized
with a premonition that this man was
one of the six he was after, hailed him
as Mr.. Stewart. Instead Of stopping
Stewart gouged his horse in the fianks
with his feet, and when Mr.. Sims
commanded him to halt the second
time the rider galloped off up the
road. A pistol shot fired into the ali
brought him to the ground, but not
faltering he made for the woods near
by, where he was caught a few min
utes later by Mr.. Sims fieet-footed
driver, who was deputized to follow
him. Stewart afterwards explained
that he jumped from his horse because
"the horse was as much Of foo
about a pistol as I was. That horse
would have carried me into the woods
and killed me before you could have
done it with that pistol" He told Mr.
Sims that at one time there were nc
less than thirty eight indictments fol
blockading in one form or another
against him, but out-run them ALL