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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-02-07
After Dispensary Officials.

As 4 result of the recent investiga-
ton Of the state dispensary by leg.
is.latiyc committee, the judiciary con.-
mittee of the senate reported the fo:-
lowing resolution, which was adopted
by the senate:
BE it resolved by the senate, the
house of representatives concuurring,
That, ir our opinion, the directors OF
the state dispensary have violated
the law in the purchases OF liqSors
and are liable to removal by the gov
ernor and prosecution. That it be re-
ferred to the governor to take sucn
action as he may deem necessary and
proper in the premises, and that a
copy OF this resolution be transmitted
to his excellency, the governor, with
q copy of the testimony token by The
legislative committee on the affairs
of the state dispensary together with
Ikcir report thereon
If the house concurs, Governor An
sci will at once remove the three di'
rectors, ]. NJ. Rawlinson, Joseph B.
Wylie and John Black. The investiga'
ton showed that Black, without au
thority of the other members, purchas-
ed s15C, ,0GO worth Of whisky in per-
son in the dispeIsarys name from
one of the firms.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-02-07
brcveries in the counties given per-
mission to manufacture.
To Hold Second Inquest.

Coroner Joe Wooten will hold q
second inquest III the case OF negro
by the name of CORDOBA Williams,
whose body was shipped to Green
VILE from Concord several days ago,
with certificate attesting tha; the
man had died of heart failure. The
negro was a member of freight
train crew and when his body arrived
in GreenvilIe his family discovered
that the man had died from some vio-
lent cause, as his body showed I'M
mistakable signs of it. Borh legs Were
broken, the skull fractured and the
abdomen crushed.
The negro's family reported the mat
ter to the coroner, who enpaneled a
jury. and at the inquest it developed
that the man had been killed by lc-
ccmotive, having had his foot caught
il a switch.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-02-07
JAPAN BENT ON A SCRAP.
Is coneensus Of Opinion Being Ex-
pressed by Washington Officials.


pressed by Washington Officials.
A Washington dispatch says: Des-
pite the most visilant precautions OF
the president and his advisers in
keeping the information to themselves,
the fact has leaked out that the re.
Iations between the United States and
Japan have reached most critical
stage. According to one of the presi-
dents advisers, the two countries seem
to be drifting rapidly toward war, and
deft and vigorous diplomacy must Se
exercise if certain new eyelopments
are to be disposed without ar explo-
SIGN.
Bluutly stated the administration is
in possession OF information that fore
es it to assume that the Japanese gov
ernment is attempting to Withstand
tremendous pressure tending toward
rupture of friendly relations with the
Tinted States This ominous situation
in japan is made doubly critical
bv the attitude of the Pacific coast,
which refuses to bulge al. inch In Its
hostility toward the Japanese.
The San Francisco school authori'
ties have not only prepared to make
a fight against the federal government
IN the courts, but the California sen
ate a few days ago adopted a resolu-
tion streuucusiy protesting against
the "unwarranted interference" By
the. government with the "copstitu-
tional rights of sovereign state" and
reunesting the governor and attorney
general to take all steps necessary to
urotecr the state and save it's rights.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-02-07
Lever Attacks Cannon.

According to Washington dispatch
Representative Lever OF South Caro-
lima offered 10 the agricultural appfo-
priation bill an amendment appropri-
ating ss,Ot0,OOo for the purchase OF
the Appalachian and White Mountain
forest reserve, and said the speaker
vas continuing to hold the bill up and
he wanted the country to know the
facts about the measure.
Il have profound regard for the
speaker said he, but ha and some
OF mis- henchmen are blocking con-
si6eration of this bill and by the Soas
! propose that the people shall know
Il"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-02-07
"purification' Bill Tabled.

Mr.. Richards publication state dis
,pensary bilh known as the Raysor-
Observation-Disclosures bill OF last
wear, and which carries out Senator
Tillman's idea OF reform in dlspen-
sary abuses, was tabled in a viva Voce
vote. after the house by an aye ana
nav vote of 73 ro 40 had rejected MT.
richards motion to indennItely pos'-
pone the Carey-Cochran local option
bill.
This practically settles the whisky
fight and insures local option, after a
fourteen-year stormy state dispensafy
method of handling whisky. The SEN
ate is practically certain to pass lhe
Carey -Cothran bill, as it came iron,
the committee which was amenoso
SO as to provide for state dispet'
sarv auditor, with one simple amend
ment from MI. Carey, allowing oeef
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-02-07
Under Presidents Orders.

James 3. Reynolds of New York.
who is in the south studying mill con-
aitions, was in Greenvllle the past
week. Mr.. Reynolds will report 10
President Roosevelt on his findings
when he returns north.
Mr.. Reynolds is Il trained observer
and will be remembered as the prln-
cipal investigator OF the Chicago
slaughter houses. The presence OF mr'
REYNOLDS in the south just at TINS
unae is significant. He is in this sec
tion to study primarily the labor ques-
t,o, as it concerns southern manuiac-
t,,rers Aware of the Importance OF
the subject, MI. Reynolds is making
minute examination into condltlohS
wherever he goes. r
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-02-07
wHlTEcAPPERs PLY THE LASH
Prominent White Man and TWO ne
uroes Their Victims.


aroes Their Victims.
information cones from the Met
calfe neighborhood, which is near
Thomasville, Ca, to the effect mat
whitecappers got in some bloody WORK
with the lash in that section recent
~. Men of integrity, who stand nlsh
in 1he community, say that Eli Futcn,
g. prominent white man, Was TAKEN
out at night and given more than a
hundred lashes. So severe was the
whipping that Mr. Futch has naro'
" been able to either sit or lie down
comfortably.
II is understood that negro "o-
man and her husband were visited tne
same night by the same crowd OF
whitecappers and given severe peat
iIgs.
Those who claim to know all me
circumstances are reticent in the mat
ter. giving no reason for this actlon'
hut they assert, in most emphatic
language. that those who perpetrated
the deed knew what they were do
ing and they would even go further
and say that they were perfectly JUS
lifted in their action.
Eli Futch recently married "e
man from Oklahoma, in answer to a
marriage advertisement. The woman
drove all the way from the west
to Fitzgerald, where she sold her
team, later meeting Mr.. Futch IN
Monticello. Fla. where they were
married.
Mr.. Futch is related to the otheF
Futch family near Thomasville'; upon
uhose lives. several attempts have
been made recently.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-02-07
INVESTIGATION is BEGUN.
Negro Soldiers Give Evidence Regard
ina shooting Up'' Of srownsilie.

The investigation BY the senate.
committee on, military affairs Ct the
Brownsville, Texas, ARRAY was be-,
gun at Washington Monday. A scata
of negro soldiers connected with the,
shooting up of the Texas town.
were in attendance when the COM
mittee began its first sitting. They
were not invited into the committee;
room, as a whole, but were assigned
to an unused END of the corridor.
There was only one white man in the.
aroup of witnesses.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-02-07
Government Road Experiments.


The work of the Office Of Public
Road Inquiries, in the Department OF
Agriculture, is primarily educational
in character. It's province is to de-
tail engineers and experts to give in
formation and advice. Whenever
there is any question as to what road
material is best suited for the local
conditions, samples o. all the avail
able materials may be sent to the
laboratory OF the Office, where tests
will be made to determine the selec-
tion of the best material. In the ma
jority of cases the detail Of an engi-
neer or expert to make prelimi-
nary investigation and give advice is
all that is required. There are, how
ever, communities where it has been
found advisable to supplement ad-
vice by a practical demonstration OF
effective road building. To meet this
need the object lesso9 method was
adopted on the following plan: A
section of road is selected for i'm
provement,' and after the proper sur
veys and estimates have been made
by an engineer of the office, expert
foremen and machinery operators are
sent out in charge of modern road
building machinery, and the local
officials are taught by actual demon
stration every step in the proper con-
struction of a road. Absolutely no
expense is incurred by the Federal
Government in this work except for
the salaries and expenses of the gov
ernment employees, the local commu-
mites being required to furnish the
right of way, all common labor, ma
terials, teams, ETC., used in the Work.
The total number of experimental
and object lesson roads built under
the direction of the Office since its
organization, is ninety-six, the roads
being built in twenty-eight States.
The materials used in construction
were shells. gravel, brick, oil, tar,
sand clay, mari, stone, Stag and steel
track.-The Automobile.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-02-07
Bill AGAINST Bucket Shops.

The house of representatives pass
Cd tine Georgia law against bucket
shops. \ less drastic bill vas reject
ed and the mousse without discussion
passed the Georgia law.
The senate has already rejected the
Georgia law and passed the less draS'
tic bill, so tha. the two houses are
at cross purpose on the bucket shop
fight.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-02-07
His Conscience smote Him.

The last oi the alleged county
graft" cases were disposed OF IN
court at Greenville few days ago.
These cases all originated in the
Speegle regime. Speegle was super
visor, and died about two years ago,
and with him died all evidence. Con-
seouentiy all those cases heard at this
term we're mol pressed, except in the
case of one former county commits
sioner, who broke down in the court
room and plead guilty to drawing
eighteen months salary in one year.
He was fined 500 or three months
Imprisonment.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-02-07
Traced by a Love Letter.

w. r. Woody, the marine corporal
charged with the murder OF Lillian
Reeves in Charleston Oh October 81,
and who escaped from Charleston jail
December 81, was arrested at Dallas,
Texas, a few days ago, being trapped
through a love letter written to a
Charleston girl.
He refuses to return to South Car
olina without reI.lisition papers,
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-02-07
To Entertain Grand Commander.

Grand Commander j. D. Richard
son CT Tennessee, Ancient and Accept
ed Scottish Rite Masons of the South
ern jurisdiction of the United States
will visit Charleston, the former seat
of the Scottish Rite, in April. He will
visit Council of Kadosh, composed OF
thirteen degree asons, TO be organ
ized iii two weeks time at Charles
ton.
This organization marks a revival
OF interest in Masonry Of high degree
iii South Carolina.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-02-07
They Go Diveroent WAYS.

Mrs. r. IT. Newton, who recently
sued her husband, I,r. F. H. Newton,
for $500 alimony and got $3.50, has
eft Greenyille for her former home
in Wisconsin, Dr. Newton departing
previously for Washington.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-02-07
Pa|metto State News (
Proposition Badly Defeated.

Ine commissioners of the proposed
new county Of Fairview met in Green
vile to canvass the returns. The new
county proposition was badly defeated,
losing by about three to one.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-02-07
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Good Roads.

Some OF the roads in New YORK
State are disgrace to this Common
wealth. Many an automobile tour
has been given up because of their
impossible condition. Charles Gid
den and party, OF Chicago, who were
making q roar OF this country, be-
came stranded between Albany and
Syracuse, and had to give UP the
trip. Mr. Glidden pronounced the
roads in Central New York the worst
ne had encountered in the civilized
world.
TIE POOR highways in this State
have not only been a deterrent TO
tourists on pleasure bent, but they
have been the one great obstacle to
farming. Many Iar.ne: who could
have made financial success OF, his
efforts has had 10 s2ccumb to the
poor highways, which prevented his
getting his goods to market. There
is a striking difference between the
farmers up the State and the pros
porous agrarians on Long Island.
For years the Long Island roads have
been famous This has enabled the
farmers TO get their produce prompt
ly to New York in al kinds of
weather.
The railroads up the State have
always been the antagonists of good
roads. Railroads find sharp COM
petitors in good roads, as they do in
canals. Attempts have been made
for years to get good roads, and
some time ago s5o,000,000 was ap-
propriated for that purpose.
1t viii fall to the lot Of the newly
elected Democratic State Engineer
and Surveyor, Frederick Skene, to
inaugurate system of good roads
throughout the State. The appro-
priation OF s50,oOo,000 will be sup
plemented by further appropriations
as soon as the first is exhausted.
Fortunately for the State and for
Mr.. Skene, he comes from Queens
County, which, as has been said, has
the finest roads in the world. The
Merrich road is famous all over the
United States and abroad. Mr.. Skc%
has built many of those new roads
which have been Joy to the pleas
uTe-seeker and an incalculable help
to the farmer. He has all his pro-
fessional life been interested in this
one phase of engineering, and he
knows all there is to know about it.
="
Being so thoroughly equipped for
the position he will be able to ex-
pend the large appropriation Of $780,
100000 in the most effective man
ner. He will give to the State value
received fo- every dollar expended
a system O. splendid roads that will
build up every community through
which they pass.
It is not expected that Ir. .Skene
will be able to finish any great sys-
tenn in the two years term he has
just been elected to fill, but those
who know him and his work say
that so satisfactory will it be that
he will have to be continued in Office
from sheer necessity, and that the
Republicans may have to indorse him
for that very reason.-New York
News.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-02-07

A pageant will be held at Rom
sey, England, on June is, 10 and 20
next in honor of the one-thousandth
anniversary of the founding of Rom
sew Abbey by King Edward the
Elder.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-02-07

At mild red heat, good steel can
be drawn out under the hammer to
a fine point; at bright red heat
it will crumble under the hammer,
and at white heat it will fall to
pieces. =
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-02-07
4 BOOK.

He ate and drank the precious woras,
His spirit grew robust;
He knew no more that he was poor,
Nor that his frame was dust.
He danced along the dingy days,
And this bequest OF wings
Was but book What liberty
A loosened spirit brings.
- Emily Dickinson.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-02-07
LIVES LOST IN SNOW SLIDE.
Several Houses and Occupants Buried
at Salido Colorado. ..s.l.1

At least dozen lives are believed
to have been lost at Salida, Colo.,
in a terrific snow slide that came
down Monarch mountain at about y
o'clock Monday. completely over
wHelning three business houses and
buryiEg their occupants under fifty
feet of snow and dirt. s.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-02-07

present; but he stepped up to the
table and opened the book, and be-
gan telling US what the first chapter
was about. Then all of sudden
queer look came over his face, and
he was holding up twenty-dollar
bill that he had found at the end OF
the chapter.
keep on turning, elder!' says
Abel. The book is handsomely il
lustrated, just as Brother Bates said
And if you will believe me there
was a twenty-dollar bill at the end
of every chapter. There were twenty
four chapters in all, and besideS one
bill was tucked into the index. When
the minister had taken them all out
he tried to make another speech, but
it was no use this time, though he,
had been glib enough before. All
he could say was, Again thank
you, friends!'
well, Andrew is ready to come
into the house at last, and here I've
been standing before the glass and
doing nothing but talk for the last
ten minutes. Yes, the minister IS
going abroad next fall, and I hope
that the way will be provided for
Mrs. Tyler to go, too.
Eve must make. haste now. The
second bell will be ringing soon. Yes,
it is a sweet toned bell, as you say,
and we all take lets of comfort with
.''--Youth's Companion.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-29
SONGS OF FATHERLAND
RING IN SPOKANE TODAY

The Portland and Walla Walla
delegations to the North Pacific
saengerbund, now In session In this
city, were delayed by washouts and
will not arrive until this evening
With these exceptions the musical
organization is handsomely repre-
scented and good old Fatherland
hospitality is the order of the hour
Today has been largely devoted
to greetings and getting acquaint-
ed. At 6 this morning Prof. o.
sens band was at the depot to
welcome arriving contingents, and
fun and merriment has been on tap
steadily ever since.
Singers are here from as far east
as Montana and as far west as the
coast, II the prominent parts In the
latter region being represented.
This afternoon the Ladies' So
ciety Harmonic is entertaining Wis
itors at Elks' temple in deliberately
hospitable manner. Mrs. John
BUM, assisted by the officers and
committee, are the hostesses of the
day.
At 2 o'clock Prof. Olsen called
the grand rehearsal of more than
500 voices, which will be heard in
the grand festival concert, begin
ming at o'clock this evening, in
the Auditorium theater.
The program for tonight COM
prises selections from the German
masters of music both instrumental
and vocal. Spokane talent will be
heard to splendid advantage both
In this and succeeding concerts.
After the opening numbers at the
theater Hon. Adolph Munter, presi-
dent of the fest. will deliver an ad-
dress. Acting Mayor Pratt will
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-29
TELEGRAPHERS' PRESIDENT
ISSUES CALL FOR 100000
FUND TO CARRY PROPOSE
TON INTO NEXT CONGRESS-.

To fnaugurate a campaign for
government ownership of telegraph
systems as we'll as to secure means
for carrying the operators fight to
the bitter end is the object OF the
following appeal issued by Presi-
dent Small, of the Commercial
Telegraphers' union. To the teleg-
raphers of the United States and
Canada, and friends and advocates
of goyernmept~Ownership Of the
telegraph:
after suffering untold abuse and
humiliation for more than rs years
the men and women, who depend
upon a livelihood, from what they
earn at their chosen trade, have at
last thrown off their shackles and
are now engaged in a life and death
struggle for right and Justice. The
telegraph officials have announced
it their intention to starve us into
submission. We reply that we will
surely starve. II need be, rather
than return to work unless a set
Element of the present trouble sat
lSldCtOTy W us ID fSdCucu.
'In order to carry on an energetic
and successful fight we will need
money, and plenty of it. 1t is there
fore proposed to start 2 funds a
strike benefit fund and the other
a government ownership of the tele-
graph fund.
ut must be apparent to all trade
unionists and their friends that the
present fight with the Western
Union and Postal Telegraph COM
panies and the Associated Press Is
a fight between labor and capital
more so than between the CONNER
cial telegraphers and their employ
ers.
at should also appeal to the
business men of the country, when
we say to them that we are sincere
when We announce that 1t Is our
desire and will be our aim to place
the telegraph systems of this coun-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-29
WHAT REALLY
A|LS PARKER

1t is significant that Judge Park
err delivered his speech at Port
land, Me-, at a time when Sec.
Taft was touring the country adj
vocating certain legislation calcu-
lated to curb the accommodating Of
Swollen fortunes" and offering
some relief to the nation from
frenzied financiers.
The measures advocated by Sec.
Taft are briefly as follows:
Additional railroad rate legisla-
ton, notably an increase of power
to the interstate commerce COM
mission.
Changes in the antitrust law
which will more clearly define it..
State legislation as a remedy for
the swollen fortune" evil.
A graduated income and in
heritance tax and revision of the
present tariff laws.
There is nothing in this but will
meet with approval by the people
of the country generally, notwith-
standing Judge Parker says the
nation Is suffering from too much
legislation. Too much when there
is a prospect of the people getting
recognition. Otherwise not zip
from Parker.
The Judge ought to be posted on
legislation. He has been, and still
is, cog in the wheel of the sys-
tenn operated by frenzied financiers.
At present he is in the employ of
August Belmont, the New York ex-
ploiter, and it Is reasonable to sup.
pose that his recent speech was in
spired by Belmont and his asso-
ciates.
That we suffer from too much
legislation will be generally adj
mitted-but it is legislation of the
wrong kind.
In the last 40 years there has
been no laws enacted for the bene-
fit of the people as whole with
the exception of the homestead act.
This is absolutely the only law that
congress has passed for the bene-
fit Of all the people. Every other
law, no matter under what guise or
name, in which it has come before
congress, has been trimmed up and
made palatable to the corporation
interests of the nation.
The adoption of the rate bill and
the enlarged authority given the
interstate commerce commission is
the only really popular legislation
since the adoption of the home
stead law.
Judge Parker's plea is not for
better government, but Is in the
interests of the tariff robber' and
railroad holdup" and will not be
taken seriously, excepting by the
class of men to be benefited and
newspapers VIGOROUSLY under the
control of and in sympathy with the
so-called vested interests Of the
country.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-29
WILL OPEN
FIGHT GAME

Mike Butler, formerly manager Of
the Chicago Athletic club, has been
engaged as advisory" instructor
for the s. A. A. c. at a salary of
$1,000 year. This salary is enor-
nous and until explained 1t seems
unnecessary. Butler is nobody's
fool. He proposed to the club di-
rectors that they allow him to put
on a lot of so-called amateur bouts
for so per cent Of the gross re-
ceipts. These bouts will be profess
sional prize fights Of short dura-
ton.
The club did not want to tie up
to any such contract, so asked But
Ter what he would take for the year
to put this dope" on and act as
assistant" instructor. Butler OBJ
jected to being assistant" to any
body and offered to be advisory"
manager at $1,000 for the year.