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El Democrata fronterizo. [volume] (Laredo, Tex.) 1896-1920, 1907-02-09
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El Democrata fronterizo. [volume] (Laredo, Tex.) 1896-1920, 1907-02-09

Entered as second class
matter In the Post Office
at Laredo, Tex.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-20
CITY FATHERS
 IN BUSY SESSION Various Petitions Granted But That of Frank Fergus Turned Down After AL derman Nichols Speech.
DOCTOR SIMMONS, roc
Wanted to Be Excluded In The Sidewalk Builders More Street Lights-To Annex Suburban
 Property-Proeeedings.

The City Council met in regular session last night, Mayor J. L.. Caldwell presiding and only one al- derman, Hightower, absent. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved, accounts allowed and various matters of min- or importance disposed of.
 A petition of the property own CTS living in the southwestern su. burbs of the city, in which they ask. ed that crossing be established over the railroad tracks in the in- tersection of Twelfth avenue, was referred to the City Engineer.
 Doctor J. F. Simmons, through one of the councilmen, asked the council to make an exception in his case in regard to complying with the new sidewalk ordinance and lay ing concrete walks at Fourth ave- nue and Main street. It was stated that Doctor Simmons has good stone walk at that place. Alderman Nichol strongly opposed making an exception for anyone. He said the ordinance speaks for itself and that it should be enforced to the letter. It would only result in others ask ing favors of the council, he said, and would be a precedent which the council would do we'll to avoid. Doc tor Simmons should be made to comply with the law as we'll as any one else. After some little argu- ment the matter was referred to .he committee on public works.
 Alderman A. c. Jordan read a petition presented by the residents of Lakeside in which they asked for street lights at Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth avenue and Chestnut street, it being claim ed that the light service was insuffi- cient in that part of the city. The Citizens Light and Transit Compa- ny was instructed to place lights at the corners mentioned. An arc light was also ordered placed at Sixth
 (Continued on Page Five.)
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-20
HARTMAN DEAL WAS C0NSUMMATED Says Local Railroad Official.
 Boni Was the Cause of
 Losing the Cotton Belt
 Road.
SOAKED" THE STOCK
Paris Agent Said to Have Bought it Up in France. Giving New York Wizard Control of Af. fairs in Cotton Belt Company.

Notwithstanding the statements recently made at the Cotton Belt and Hartman headquarters, that D. H. Hartman had not secured control of the Cotton Belt railroad, information at this place is just as positive in it's nature that the deal has been consummated whereby the railroad wizard has got control of that system and that he has the Goulds Gin the air" Due announce ment of Harriman's supremacy in the railroad fight will be made in New York within the next few weeks, it is said.
 According to we'll known rail- road official in this city, who is be- lieved to be in position to know, Count Bon de Castellane was the cause of the Goulds losing their major stock in the Cotton Belt com- pany. The story is told here is to the effect that Anna Gould De Cas- tellane permitted the count, during their married life, to hypothecate a large block of Cotton Belt stock in Paris. This stock is said to have been Anna Gould's share of Jay Gould's estate and went into her hands at her marriage to the Paris ian count.
 While the recent divorce case of the De Castellanes was being heard it leaked out that Boni had given the Cotton Belt stock to Paris shop keeper for certain sums of money and that they were never redeemed. In some manner, that has not been explained. D. H. Har- riman's Paris agent learned of the deal. He went to the shop, it is said, and representing himself to be an agent of the count redeemed the certificates, paying the interest and the principal. He hurriedly in- formed Hartman of his purchase and the New York wizard is said to have bought enough stock from in- dividuals to give him majority over the Goulds. We'll informed of ficials here say that the annonce- ment is being kept back in New York because Hartman is pulling wires in another direction, it being his intention to secure tributary lines along the Cotton Belt in this section of the country.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-20
PRICE MURDER
 CASE POSTPONED.
Senator Toney Returns From Var ner-Jailer Meeks, an Import
 ant Witness, Is Sick.

senator H. K. Toney returned last night from Warner, where he vent yesterday morning to attend session Rf the Lincoln circuit court. Ie with s. J. Hunt Is employed to defend Joe Price, the negro charg- ed with murder in the first degree, it being alleged that he shot and killed Richard Cushing. a white '~vee boss, some months ago in that county. The case was continued owing to the illness of Jailer Tom Meeks, of this city, who is one of the witnesses. The jury was em' panelled but was not sworn. Judge A. B. Grace is conducting the court and Prosecuting Attorney w. D. Jones and Attorneys w. B. Sorrells, Z. X. Miller and S. M. Taylor are in attendance.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-20
10UBLE TRAGEDY
 AT WALDEN, MD. father of Mrs. B. c. Pick ems, of Walnut Lake, Shot and Killed and Life Long rfrr3Hd Murdered.
dRs. PICKENS IN CITY
In Her Way to Malden-Murdertr May Be Lynched-Dead Men The Most Prominent In South Missouri. Details of Tragedy.

Mrs. Bert C. Pickens, of Waln:.t ake, accompanied by her husband, kere in Pine Bluff yesterday after 'oon On their way to Maiden, Mo !, There Mrs. Pickens went to attend he funeral of her father, D. R. Cox bur times mayor of that city, wh , as shot and killed in a double trag- dy there Monday. Mrs. Pickens was tlmost prostrated with grief. l The telegram announcing her fath-
 r's dSath was received Yesterday at Va1nN Lake. The special telegram
 rom Maiden telling of the double tagedy, follows:
 Attorney D. R. Cox and Doctor J. \. Beall were shot and instantly kill d in the latter's office at o'clock his evening by Doctor A. l.. Bran-
 lon.
 Cox was mayor of this city four imes, and was Prosecuting Attorney
 Dunklin county for two terms. He las shot through the heart and back. Doctor Beall was shot through the
 lead.
 Brannon then snapped his revolver
 t Doctor R. H. Beall, father of the lead Beall, but the weapon was emp E. He then proceeded down the |treet and walked into the arms of tity Marshal Barnham, who locked him up in the police station.
 Lyncling is Feared. "At o'clock tonight lynching 5eems imminent.
 "Brannon has been engaged In the Ehiskey business at the New Madrid bounty line. The jail is strongly guard ed.
 When he walked into Doctor Peall's iofice the doctor was talking with torney Cox and farmer nam- ed Davis. The elder Beall was sit ting in an adjoining room. Brannon began firing as soon as he entered fhe door.
 He first shot Cox, who staggered to- ward a door, and then received anoth- er bullet in his breast before he fell. Continued on Page Five.)
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-20
IN MEMORY OF
 WASHINGTON
Program to Be Presented by Pupils at the Pine Bluff High School Thursday Afternoon at 2
 O'clock.

The following program will be offered at the Pine Bluff High School tomorrow afternoon at 2 D. m., the exercises being given to commemorate Washington's birth day:
 Song, School.
 Washington, GA Sketch"-Alvfn Strauss.
 Defamation, "Love of Country" Julian Waterman.
 Song, Birthday of Washington School.
 Defamation, Teachings of the American Revolution'-Irving Ash craft.
 Song, America, My Noble Home" School.
 Address-Dr. c. c. Cline
 Song, God of the Nations"- School.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-20
BIG MONEY ID
 BE GIVEN CITY Eighteen thousand Dollars To Be Donated to Pine Bluff Through Three Mill Road Tax.
PAVE EAST SECOND
Judge Gould Says Property Owners of That Avenue Must Act-Idea Is To Pave East Second Avenue to Cotton Belt Shops.

1 Between fifteen and eighteen thou-
 sand dollars is to be practically do- mated to the city of Pine Bluff in July l by County Judge James Gould. The
 money is coming to Pine Bluff from the three-mill road tax fund and Judge Gould stated to the city coun- l cil last night that he believed that
 East Second avenue should be paved to the gate, leading to the Cotton Belt
 railway yards, and that the money <, is to be given to the people of that avenue if they manifest the proper , interest in the movement.
 l It was the general opinion of the members of the council at the meet | ing last night that East Second avenue needed pavement more than any oth-
 CT street or avenue in the city. It is used extensively by wholesalers and others and the bad condition of the avenue makes brick paving from State street to the Cotton Belt shops
 an almost necessity.
 The subject of street paving follow
 ed a discussion which arose when a
 suggestion was made that the holes
 in the avenue be filled with debris . from the burned East End district Alderman Nichol of the committee on public works had called attention of 1 the council to the East Second avenue ] bridge, which was badly in need of repair, he said, and incidentally men toned that Judge Gould was present and that he would have some thing
 to say regarding improving East Sec :; ond avenue.
 Judge Gould informed the council
 that he would do all in his power to
 aid East Second avenue property own
 CTS in securing paving for their street. He sincerely believed, he said, that
 East Second avenue should be paved
 first of any streets, or avenues, as it
 was one of the most prominent thor
 oughfares in the city and needed , pavement worse than any of them. He was willing to do his full part, the
 county judge said, but he suggested
 that either the council or the prop erty owners along East Second ave-
 nue act and that immediately. It
 will require fully sixty days to get
 things shaped for the work, Judge
 Gould stated, and the property own
 CTS should have things ready by the ! time the appropriation was to be
 made "There are several other
 streets in the city clamoring for the
 appropriation he said, "and unless
 the East Second people act I will
 be compelled to give the money to
 another section of the city"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-20

(Continued on Page Four.)
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-20
INITIAL STEPS
 TAKEN LAST NIGHT City Council Grants Request of Property Owners for Improvement District and Municipal Ownership.
Ordinance Passed Creating the Dis- trict-Legislature to Be Asked to Assist in MOyemcnt-Whole City Included in District.

By authorizing the formation of an improvement district, initial steps were taken last night by the City Council to secure water. works, which give promise of being owned and controlled by the city. It is also the object of the ordinance adopted last night to enable the city to operate and maintain it's own water system
 The petition, numerously signed. was presented to the Council to take steps to bring about the for nation of an improvement district for the purpose of erecting, operat- ing and maintaining it's own water works. The improvement district is to include the whole city of Pine Bluff. Alderman Nichol moved that the prayers of the petitioners be granted. Alderman Boyce asked City Attorney Coleman if the Coun- cil had the authority to form such a district The City Attorney answer ed in the affirmative and Judge M. A. Austin, representing the petition CTS, arose and stated that "we ex- Dect to follow up the petition with a bill before the Legislature author izing the improvement district
 The Council voted unanimously to grant the prayers of the petition CTS, Alderman Hightower being ab- sent. The petition was followed by an ordinance, creating the improve ment district, which is to be known as Waterworks District No. 1. AL derman Nichol asked the City At tOrney if the ordinance was proper ly drawn. "I suppose it is in it's usual from" replied City Attorney Coleman, Judge Austin is the au- thor of it, I believe Judge Austin immediately informed the Council that he had prepared the ordnance nHu CHC CIJy dtCOl ACy dOuGu CIldt IL was alright then"
 The ordinance was read a first, second and third times, with sus- pension of rules, and adopted by a unanimous vote.
 It is now the intention of the property owners, advocating the im- provement district, to get major ity of signers of property owners, representing the largest amount of real estate, which must be present ed to the city council. It is stated that a majority of the tax payers of the city favor the municipal owner ship of waterworEs and especially in view of the present conditions that exist in the water pressure and supply
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-20

Mrs. Ada H. Sweet and Miss Nit tie Payne will leave tonight for St. Louis to buy new stock for the mill linery department of the J. H. Ed dins Dry Goods Company.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-20

The merchants of the city will meet at the Taxpayers League head quarters over the Bank of Pine Bluff at 7:30 D. m. Thursday to dis cuss trade conditions. The subject of paying fares of county customers is also to be taken up.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-20

For wall paper and paint see Claud Ciegg and company, AT Main street
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-20
FIRE RELIEF
 DONATIONS

The relief committee requests that all those "'ho have subscribed to the relief fund send check for their subscriptions to the treasurer. Mir. J. E. Boyce, as it is desired to make final distribution of the funds in the next few days.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-05-15
WALHALLA, 3. G. =
wRDN MAY rs, 1907.
HERE, THERE AND YONDER.

Seneca Farm and Factory issued a
A-page paper last week, giving a COM
plete write-up Of Seneca and her indus
tries, business men and their establish
ments. The edition was credit to the
management of the paper and to the
town. We congratulate our friend on
the success of it's undertaking.
sxs
Walhalla will, lave new depot yet
If the old road is built through to Knox
Vile we will have 70 have one. If this
road is not built, the Blue Ridge depot
will soon tumble down anyway, and we
may get new one then. At all events,
tho prospects seem to DO Frightening for
new depot in tho not far distant future.
1t is uuquestiona5ly needed.
-
Editor A. Nj. Carpenter, of the Ander-
son Daily Mail, will loave Thursday for
Boston, where he will join the members
of tho National immigration Commits
sion, who are off on a European trip.
Mr.. Carpenter is one of the secretaries
to the commission. His appointment
was an excellent ono, as he is a man of
ability and considerable experiep
-
How many visitors shall Walhalla have
this summer That depends entirely
upon the hotel and boarding houses.
If you want summer boarders, let it be
known. Every available room can be
filed if tho outside world is informed
that boarders are wanted. Heretofore
they have been turned off until Walhalla
has become noted for a summer resort
where visitors are not wanted. The
more visitors we have the more citizens
we will get, for out of large lot of
visitors some are sure to be attracted to
the town.
-
Judging from the various reports that
come from Columbia the Confederate
reunion just held was the "worst ever"
1t would seem that almost everything
was drunk. 1t is, of course, not the
direct fault of the Columbia authorities,
but it seems to us that there ought to be
some remedy for such an evil Certainly
If the veterans arc to have simply an
annual debauch, it would be we'll for tho
State to withdraw the appropriation for
the reunion. The reunion is good
thing If conducted properly, but if re-
ports are true, the one just closed was a
disgrace.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-05-15
WI SHORT NEWS. IOI

The grand jury in Greenville recon-
monds the building of a new court house.
An old negro woman in Oraugeburg
has hatched out chicken by carrying the
egg in her bosom for three weeks.
Two men died suddenly in Chester on
Tuesday-Jno. A. Graham and Is. f.
Kirkpatrick. Each is survived by a wife
and five children.
Superintendent of Education Martin
will file claim for 100000 against the
dispensary commission for the school
share of the dispensary's assets.
Jesse Pitman, 60 years old and a Con-
federate veteran, was run over and killed
by train at Cheraw. He was returning
from the reunion at Columbia.
The State Federation of Women's Clubs
at Orangeburg again elected Mrs. A. F..
Mckissjck president and decided to hold
the next meeting at Greenvillc.
Cadet w. j. Jackson, son of a widow
ut WinnsborO and fourth classman at the
Citadel Academy, was drowned at the
annual picnic Of the cadets while bathing
at Isle of Palms.
The cotton outlook is gloomy in Louisi-
ana according to the April condition and
acreage report of the State Board of Ag-
ricuture issued recently. The report
gives the condition as Is per cent.
Mrs. John Patterson, wife of farmer
,
throat at her home last Friday, and died
before members of tho family reached
her. 1t is supposed that she committed
The deed in fit of insanity.
LuCien Mcmminger, a South CaIOlinian
who has engaged in newspaper work in
Washington for several years, recently
left for the Congo Free State, where he
goes as United States Vice and Deputy
Consul General. Consul Memminger
will be stationed at Bona.
Recent reports from all parts of Cuba
show an increase in the devastation being
wrought by iGicst fires which are result
of the long continued droutE. Further
more cattle are dying by the thousand,
the local rains in various sections being
insufficient TO afford relief.
Joseph X. FAINT, Jr., the young me-
ehanic and son of Capt. j. K. FAINT of
Spart&"burg, who was tr;td here last
Friday on the charge of killing Arthur V.
Green, the young Georgian and coem-
ployoc, at the Laurens Furniture Factory
on the 18th of January, is free man.
After beIating over five hours tho
jury returned verdict of not guilty at 7
o'clock Friday evening.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-05-15
NOTICE TO LAND OWNERS.

4 N Act Compelling Land Owners to
"a Clean Out and Off All Streams in
Coonee County.
Section ]. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly OF the State of South Caroline,
All land owners and their agents of the
Counties of York. Greenville and Cconee
shall remove from the running streams
of water upon their lands all trash, trees,
RATS and timber from May 18th to August
31st, and the Supervisor of each of said
counties is hereby required to give public
notice, through one or more newspapers
| of his county, of this requirement during
the months mentioned of each year.
Sec. 2. Whenever any land owner or
| owners in the counties aforesaid, owning
lands on any stream, as above provided,
shall neglect for thirty days to comply
with the notice given them by the County
Commissioners, as above required, or
when any such land owner or owners
shall be absent from the State and his or
their agont or tenants shall neglect for
thirty days after notice from the County
commissioners to clean out such stream
or streams, as above required, or if such
land owner or owners shall reside beyond
the limits of the State, and have no agent
or tenant in the county, shall neglect for
two months after the receipt Of notice
from the County Commissioners by reg
istered letter to have such streams so
cleaned out, it shall be the duty of the
County Commissioners to employ hands
and have such streams thoroughly
cleaned of all trash, trees: RATS and tim
Der through the lands of the person or
persons so in default, as economically &c
the work can be properly DONE and the
| expense of such cleaning shall be, and is
hereby, made first lien upon the lands
of such person or persons in preference
to all other liens upon the same, except
debts due the State, to be recovered by
the County Commissioners by suit in any
court of competent Jurisdiction.
| Approved the Goth day of February, A.
ID. 1907. d. f. MCALISTER,
| 2O.21 County Supervisor.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-05-15
Relief from Rheumatic Pains.

81 suffered with rheumatism for over
two years." says Mr.. ROLAND Curry, a
patrolman, of Key West, Fla. "Some-
times it settled in my knees and lamed
me so / could hardly walk, at other times
it would be in my feet and hands 80 1 was
iucapacitated for duty. One night when
l was in severe pain and lame from it my
wife went to the drug store here and
came back with bottle Of Chamberlain 8
Pain Balm. / was rubbed with it and
found the pain had nearly gone during
the night. kept on using it for little
more than two weeks and found that it
drove the rheumatism away. have not
had any trouble from that disease for
over three months" For sale by j. w.
Bell, Walhalla, and w. j. Lunney, Seneca.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-05-15
Paragraphs from Ramsay's Creek.

Ramsay's Creek, May 1.-the farmers
have been unable to finish planting,
owing to the rainy weather.
The all-day singing at Pleasant Hill
Sunday was :. great success. The con-
gregation was very large and good order
prevailed throughout the day. Profs.
Beardcn, Grubbs, Long and many other
i hcse gentlemen are always welcome
wherever they go, and we would DO glad
to hear them again in the near future.
A. Il. and M. l.. Black, of Clearmont,
were numbered among the singing choir
here Sunday.
Jordan Land and James f. Barrett, of
the Hopcwell section. attended the sing
ing at Pleasant Hill Sunday.
Rev. Henry f. Long, of the Rocky
friends here Sunday.
Miss Katie Lyle, an accomplished
young lady OF Gainesville, Ga, is spend.
ing fortnight with her brother, G. w.
Lyle, here.
Miss Jessie Couch spent Saturday
night with her friend, Miss Ollie Reid,
near Pleasant Hill.
Grover Watkins, of Long Creek, was
visiting in this section Sunday.
Wallace Hare, of Unity. spent Sa:ur-
day with Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Lyle.
Eddie Head and two little sisters,
Annie and May, of Madison, were visit
ing relatives here recently.
Rev. w. II. McAlister, of near Seneca,
was among friends around Pleasant Hill
and Sunday.
Communion service will be observed at
Cross Roads on the fourth Sunday in this
month at II O'Clock. WILD.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-05-15
Summons for Relief.
The State of South Carolina,
County of Oconee.
Court of Common Pleas.
Otto II. Schumacher, Plaintiff,
n1xni.anh

against
w. Edward Conley, Defendant.
'SUmn,Ons tOr Rciicf-- -COmpi0iat n0tuScrrcd
TO the Defendant above named:
VOU are hereby summoned andre
i quired to answt" the complaint in
this action, which was filed in the office of
the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
for the said County, on the 18th day Of
April, 1907, and to serve copy of
your answer to the said complaint on
the subscriber at his Office, on the Pub.
lie Square, at Walhalla Court House,
South Carolina, within twenty days
after the service hereof, exclusive of
the day of suoh service; and if you
fail to answer the complaint within the
time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action
will apply to the Court for tho'relief dc.
manded in the complaint.
Dated April 4th, A. d. 1907.
l.. S. G. II. D. BURNS, G. G.. =.
r. r. JAYNES,
Plaintiffs Attorney.
April 10, 1907. 1921