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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-05-30
AN APPEAL TO FARMERS
Not to Enter Contracts to Sell Their
Cotton Before II Is Produced.

LEO, S G, May 15:-Editor CoUN-
TY RECoRD:-After long silence
am constrained to cry out, when
hear of farmers obligating their
cotton for delivery next fall a: 10
cents per ID. in the face Of the fact
that that prospects for anything like
full crop are the poorest in years;
and, on the other hand, there never
has been time when the world
needed and was willing to pay more
for cotton than now. There has
been a time when we thought that
10 cents was a fancy price for cotton,
but you must remember that the
cost of living then was not half
what is to-day. Labor was not
more than half what it is to-day.
Then you could buy a good mule or
horse tor $500; wagons, buggies,
etc., correspondingly cheap; -four,
$3.25; sugar, 8 l-2c; coffee, 8 l.2c
bacon, from 8 to sc; plow lines, 1Oc
a pair, and many other things l
might mention. You know how
they stand today. Well, fairly
good mule or horse, $4,000; wagons
and buggies, about $4,000 to $500
higher; bacon, 10 to 12c; -four, $500
to $500 bbl; coffee, 10 to 15c;
sugar, . to &c; plow lines 25c a
pair, and dry goods, shoes, hats.
etc., much higher. Why then
should we think 10c a fair price for
cotton? l say there is no profit for
the farmer when he sells his cotton
for 1Oc now. And, on the other
hand, I can see no good reason why
the present growing crop should not
sell for 12c. Iverily believe it will
reach that figure. Brother Farmer,
come let us reason together. Can
you ever hope to set the price on
your cotton when you tie your hands
by signing contracts? Think over
these things aud see if you are not
making great mistake. The cot
ton Association has done much to
help the farmers in getting fair
price for their cotton. No fair
minded man will dispute it; but
when the farmer goes and sells on
contract for less than his cotton is
worth he is not only standing in his
own light, but is stumbling block
in the way of others who are trying
honestly to get the value of their
products according to demand and
supply.
But l have said enough, l hope
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ECZEr1A and PILE CURE

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for Eczema. Salt Rheum, Ersypelas,
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Pressing Club Notice.

l have removed my Pressing Club in
to the first floor Of the Gourdin building.
formerly Mouzon's barber shop, where
l will beglad to serve my patrons.
j F FULTON. 1-15-tf
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Local and Personal.

LeRoy Lee, Esq, went t(
Charleston this morning.
Mr. F c Thomas was here
Tuesday from Naming.
Mr. e G Carsten of Cades
spent the day in town yester
day.
DR. Covington Lee of Harper
was noted in town one day last
week.
An adding machine has been
added to the ourt house equip
ment.
Capt W D, Fitch has been un
der the weather for the past
few days.
Miss Joanna Johnson of John
vile visited relatives in town
this week.
Attention is called to the new
ad of Blizzard Hardware Co..
Lake City.
Messrs Thomas and " B vii.
son of Salem were here yester'
day on business.
Mr. and Mrs A s Allen of Sa'
lem were guests of the Van Keu'
rem hotel Monday.
Miss Caro- Robertson of Union
has been visiting the family OF
Johh A Kelly, Esq.
Mrs W J. Askins of Lake City
visited the family of II G AS
kips, Esq, last week,
Capt D R Smith Of Smith
Mills passed through town Fri
day going to Charleston.
Mr. D K Mouzon of Mouzon
was in town Monday and favor
ed rs with an agreeable visit.
DR. ] B DuRant, Lake City's
popular and successful young
physician and druggist, spent
the day in town Monday.
Messrs PH Stoll and F W
Fairey are representing Kings
tree Lodge K. of P. at the meet
ing of the Grand Lodge now in
session in Anderson.
We acknowledge with thanks
an invitation to the commence
ment exercises of Union Graded
school, Rome, S. u, to take
place May 80 to June ,.
The ladies of the Presbyter-
ian church will have an ice
cream fes tival at the Presby.
terian church yard Friday ev'
ening from 6 to 10 o'clock.
Mr. J n Hammet has torn down
his old dwelling and is erect
ing on the site a comfortable
two story building, which will
quite enhance the appearance
of his premises.
Mr. l. II talrey ana family
visited their former home in
Branchville last week. Mr. Fai-
rev returned Tuesday but Mrs
Fairey and the children will re.
main for some time longer.
The Methodist Sunday'school
gave picnic at the "Sand Hills
yesterday, in which the Sunday
school scholars of the other de-
nominations participated. Quite
a pleasant time is reported.
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SPECIAL NOTICES

Transient Notices will be Published
In This Column at the Rate of One
Cent Word for Each Issue.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-05-30

Coach excursion tickets will be sold the day prior the
opening of the exposition and will be sale Tuesdays Of each
week thereafter They limited to days The other
tickets will be sold the day prior the opening of the
son and will be sale daily during the period of the expos
ton.
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Rates to Jamestown Exposition,

The following rates to the jamestown exposition which
Friday April g. have furnished by agent
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-11
LIPS REAPPO|NTEO
CHIEF ENGINEER
Veteran Fireman viii Again Head the
Department In Which He
Worked His Way
Up

AS in the case of the police chief, the
Harper board of fire commissioners VIII
give the present fire chief chance to
make good"
Commissioners Anthony Schwamm
moved the reappointment of Walter
Lips as chief engineer of the fire de-
partment. He paid Lips high tribute
for the standard the department has
attained under his command There
was a unanimous vote for Lips, who
said he intended to conduct the de-
partment in a clean, honest manner.
Chief Lips has been connected with
the Los Angeles fire department since
1920. He served first as call man at
see a month, but resigned after a year
to become a fireman on the Southern
Pacific.
Afterward he re-entered the depart :
ment as a call man. He has served
as driver, tillerman, ladderman, hose
man and engineer
He was appointed chief of the de-
partment March /. 1905, by Mayor Nc
Aleer's commission and succeeded
Thomas Strohm.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-11
BURGLAR OBEYS
WOMAN 5 ORDER
Quickly Withdraws Arm and Runs
When He Is Told to Get Out
in No Uncertain
Tone

Get out! Take your hand away"
cried Mrs. Delfena Wilson, 11S South
Avenue Nineteen, when she saw the
hand of a robber steal in through a
front window and reach for a watch
which lay on her bureau, late Wednes-
day night.
Hastily the man withdrew his arm
and ran across the lawn, disappear
ing through the front gate.
According to Mrs. Wilson, she and
her sister were alone in the house, Mrs.
Wilson heard a noise in the rear and
went to investigate. While there she
thought she heard a noise in front as
if a window was being raised. She re-
turned just i'm time to see the arm of
a man thrust through the window,
which had been raised about twelve
inches. She shouted at him and the
man ran away, Mrs. Wilson then noti-
fed the police and an officer was sent
to Investigate, 1t was impossible for
the woman to give a description Of the
man, as the only part of his body she
saw was his hand and arm.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-11
REAL ESTATE MEN
ADD OBJECTIONS
Say BiIlboards Interfere With Their
Selling Property-All Women's
Clubs Signing Petitions
of Protest

More people every day are adding
their protest against those unsightly
nuisances, the billboards, according to
Mrs. ]. F. Kanst, chairman of the bill
board committee of the outdoor art
section of the Civic association, who
spoke before a meeting of that organ
ization yesterday morning in the
chamber of commerce building.
The real estate men are now using
their influence in the matter. Mrs.
Kanst read letter from one of them,
stating that the billboards were a
great injury to their business; that
when they took a Would-be purchaser
through the city and he saw the signs
on every vacant lot they passed, it
prejudiced him and a third of them
would not buy on this account. He
also spoke of the effect on the east
emers coming here and expecting to
see a beautiful city, but only meeting
billboards on every side.
Mrs. Kanst said that the members
Of all the women's clubs in the city
were signing the petition against the
bllboards which had been sent them
and that she thought it would not be
long before they could effect their re-
moval.
The tree question has been agitatinG
the outdoor art section for some time
and yesterday it was voted to frame
petition to the city council to APP
point a tree warden who would see
that the trees of the city were properly
cared for.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-11

occasions and had met the st. Clair
woman there several times. She also
denied her knowledge of the where
abouts of the ST. Clair girl, but later
gave her address is the city.
Mrs. Arnaz accused her husband of
having squandered $500 on the woman,
and her husband alleged he spent it
during his trip of one week to San
Francisco, but aside from saying that
he bought his wife hat and a fur boa
he could give no account of the amount.
His brother, however related strange
stories of money squandered upon girls
of the dance halls, and the subject was
dropped.
In return Arnaz alleges that his wife
had sung How Would You Like TO
Spoon with Me-" while she gazed
tenderly at another man.
The fight is for the possession of the
four-year-old baby girl of the couple
and the case will probably be settled
today.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-11
CAR BREAKS FOREMAN'S LEG
Tries to Avoid Heavily Loaded Wagon
and Jumps In Front of
Trolley

]. Herberder, 11Ol Mission road, fore
man at the city water works, was
struck by a Pasadena car at First and
Los Angeles streets early yesterday
morning and suffered a broken left leg
in the accident.
Herberder was standing on the cor
ner waiting for the car. When 1t ap-
preached a wagon loaded with bricks
also approached from the opposite di-
rection. H0 jumped out of the way of
the wagon and is said to have stepped
directly i'm front of the car which struck
him. knocking him to the pavement
He was taken to the receiving hos
pital, but later was allowed to go to
his home.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-11
RESCUES WHITE SLAVE;
Is STRUCK ON HEAD

Members of the city police depart.
ment are looking for a man known
as Bert Griffith, who is said to have
enticed q young girl named Lola Allen
from her home and caused her to be-
come an inmate of a house conducted
by Rose Campbell. The girl was res
cued by Mrs, Kelm of 1905 East Eighth
street and taken to her home. Recent
ly Griffith is said to have returned TO
Los Angeles and visited Mrs, Keim's
residence and demanded the girl leave
with him.
While Mrs. Keim was endeayoring to
telephone the police Griffith is said to
have struck her ana knocked her Ia
the floor. She has been i'll since that
time from the effects of the blows. She
applied to the police yesterday for the
arrest of Griffith, who is said to have
taken the Allen girl away with him.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-11

that said two municipal corporations
be consolidated into one municipal cor
poration in the manner prescribed by
law for the consolidation of two or
more contiguous municipal corporations
into one corporation;
And that you submit to the electors
of each of said corporations, at a
special election called and held for the
purpose, the question whether said city
of Los Angeles and said city of San
Pedro shall become consolidated into
one municipal corporation under the
name and style of the city of Los An
geles."
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-11
ACCUSED OF PETTY LARCENY
Man Captured at San Bernardino Said
to Have Stolen Gold
Dust

E. H. Scott charged with petty lar
ceny, was arrested in San Bernardino
yesterday by Detectives Cowen and
Dixon and brought to Los Angeles.
Scott is said to have stolen a sack
OF gold dust containing two and one
half ounces of gold valued at $35 and a
S. gold piece from his nephew, p. II.
McIntire, we'll known miner of that
city.
Scott was taken before Police JUS
tice Frederickson and asked time to
consult an attorney before pleading.
His case was set for this afternoon at
2 o'clock.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-11
ore ON DUMPS
HIGH IN VALUE
PLANS OF EAST COMSTOCK
WONDER COMPANY
GoIdfield Mining Engineer Gives Rosy
Stories About Conditions in Ne.
acknowledgements
Progress

II. B. Westover, a prominent mining
engineer of Goldfield, Nevada, is spend
ing a few days in Los Angeles on i'm
portant business. Mr.. Westover was
formerly connected with the Roths-
childs of London. England, and Ger
many, in many of their mining ven
lures, but is now associated with the
c.. S. Clack Brokerage company, and
is general manager of the East Com
stock Wonder Mining company, which
owns the Big Hit and Grace claims in
the Ramsey district and the Dana mine
in the Comstock region. Speaking OF
the Dana mine, Mr.. Westover said:
The Dana mine, which was one OF
the noted producers of the old Com
stock days from which over a million
dollars was extracted, was owned by
a French syndicate. This mine was
worked to a depth of 300 feet, at which
point the ledge faulted and was lost.
Some development work was done in
order to catch the ledge again, but
owing to the primitive methods of the
early days and the death of the two
principal owners work was suspended.
The estate, thinking that ii was pat
ented ground, did nothing with 1t and
lost the mine by default.
Yielded Big Fortunes
Judge Tenant and Mr.. Kelley, Unit
! ed States surVeyor-general Of Nevada,
claim that the. French syndicate pro-
| cured $216,000 out of a 40-foot shoot
and $26O000 out of an open cut 120
| feet long, eight feet in width and fif-
| teen feet in depth. In the early days
| Judge Tenant was running an old
| Mexican mill on the Carson river and
he milled the ores from the Dana mine
at 800 a ton"
At present there are thousands of
| tons of ore on the dumps averaging
from S12 to $40, which can now be
milled at the small cost of 81. so per ton.
1t is the opinion of Mr.. Westover and
| other large operators now in the RAM
sew district that there will be another
boom which Will undoubtedly equal
that experienced during the old Com
stock days.
The East Comstock Wonder Mining
company has made application for list
ing its stock on the San Francisco and
Goldfield exchanges, owing to the find
ing of a large body of milling ore which
necessltates the building of ten-stamp
quartz mill.
A large amount of development work
Including a 10O-foot tunnel, forty feet
OK stoping and twenty -fve-foot winze,
has been accomplished on the Dana
claim. Three shifts OF men are kept
continually at work ,
! The company's other interests are
thirty acres Of mineralized ground sit
mated I'm the heart of the Ramsey dis
trict. This is also being developed by
shafts and cross-cuts
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-11
FEB. 15 CHOSEN
As ARbOR DAY
CELEBRATION PLANNED FOR
MINERAL PARK
If Postponement Necessary on Ac.
count of Weather Date Will Be
Changed to March 1-Mayor
Favors Plan

Arbor day will probably be celebrated
at Mineral park, near Garvanza Feb.
10, according to the action taken yes
terday Dy the Arbor day committee,
winch time is sanctioned by Mayor
Harper, and If at that date the weather
Will not permit of the proper observ-
ance of the day 1t is proposed to be
postponed to March /.
The Arbor day committee meeting
was presided over by the out door
section of the Civic Association of Los
Angeles in the committee room of the
chamber of commerce yesterday MORN
ing at 10 O'Clock. Mrs. Mathew S. Rob-
ertson, the president, presided.
Mrs w. II. Myers, great worker in
the Audubon society and a good local
writer on birds, made a report, and,
among other things suggested, waged
war against the use of aigrettes as Or
namental acquisitions to be displayed
on the hats of women.
Renounce Aigrettes
A resolution was adopted to the eff
fect that the women of the Civic as
sociation would not wear aigrettes and
would make state issue against the
use of them.
playground committee, made an en-
couraging report regarding the play
ground In the Eighth ward and the
new one to be established in Boyle
Heights on the five acres allotted for it,
and the smaller one on Solano avenue.
Colonel M. Nudge, among other men,
made one of his little telling speeches
on the planting and regarding the
beauties of Los Angeles. The colonel
INDUCED in q flight of scenic descrip-
tion Of a Los Angeles sunset.
Mrs. Rodman introduced a resolution,
which was adopted, to ask the city
council to appoint a tree warden to
care for the trees of the city.
Name Arbor Day
Following the adjournment of the
out door art session, f. W. Blanchard
presided at the Arbor day session in
place Of Chairman Haskett, who was
unable to be present
Mr.. Blanchard stated that the object
of the meeting was to decide upon the
time and place for the celebration OF
Arbor day. He at once advocated the
Arroyo Seco as the place, and In the
general discussion there was not a dis
senting voice against Mineral park as
the proper place.
1t was strongly, advocated that i'm
mediate action be taken that the city
secure the Arroyo Seco for park pur-
poses.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-11
NEGRO UNDER HEAVY BONDS

Claude Heutsel, negro, charged with
assault with a deadly weapon, was
held to the superior court under $1,000
bonds by Police Justice Rose yester-
day.
Heutsel was arrested on warrant
sworn out by John Kessler. Kessler
charges that Heutsel shot at him three
times with revolverA but evidence was
introduced to show that Kessler had
been taunting the negro about his
color,
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-11

The Southern California agency OF
the Hawaii promotion committee has
been transferred to the rooms OF the
Los Angeles chamber of commerce, with
Mr.. Lloyd Childs as agent A daily
stersopticon lecture on Hawaii will be
given In the lecture room.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-11
VOTERS READILY
SIGN PETITIONS
MORE THAN ENOUGH EXPECT
ED BY TONIGHT
Some CanVassers Are Discharged and
Others Are Sent to New Dis
tricts-FeW canceIla-
tions are Made

Confident of securing far in excess o.
the city council to call special cleo
ton to decide the question of consoli-
dation between Los Angeles and San
Pedro the Los Angeles city and county
consolidation commission yesterday de-
cided to lay off some of the canvassers
and permit the others to extend their
work through today.
In some instances the canvassers
were found to be merely skimming over
districts, securing the signatures most
easily obtained, with the expectation
of being sent to other districts, which
they expected to work in the same
manner.
The plan of a certain few of the can
vassers went wrong, for these NOR
were included in the number laid off
yesterday, while the canvassers whose
returns showed that they had done
their work thoroughly were given
further employment by being sent to
new districts.
AS fast as the canvassers make re-
turns the list is sent to the office Of
the city clerk, where the signatures
are compared with the names on the
records kept by the election judges at
the last election.
Thus far practically no names hay e
been Cancelled, and it is confidently eX-
pected that the 1000 names which will
have been secured by tonight will be
several hundred in excess of the neces-
sary number.
Work of comparing the signatures
will be completed tomorrow, and the
Los Angeles petitions and those from
San Pedro will be presented to the
council Monday.
President Butler of the consolidation
committee yesterday again expressed
the belief that the election will be held
within thirty days.
Petitions at City Hall
Petitions are beginning to find their
way to the Los Angeles city hall signed
by San Pedro voters asking for con-
solidation with Los Angeles.
Between 5000 and 1000 names are re-
quired to push the scheme and they are
! benig affixed at a rapid rate.
| The petitions all bear this preamble
"To the Honorable City Council of the
City Of Los Angeles:
! "Gentlemen--We the undersigned,
embracing more than one-fifth the
| qualified electors of the city of Los An
| geles, a municipal corporation in the
| county OF Los Angeles state of Cali
| fornia, and OF the city of San Pedro, a
municipal corporation I'm the county OF
Los Angeles, state Of California, as
shown by the votes cast at the last
municipal election held in each of said
corporations, respectfully represent:
That said two municipal corpora
tons are contiguous; and we request
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-11
In the Garden OF Eden

Adam-Im afraid you'll find your
paueity of clothing bit trying when
EVe-At ali events, I'm well fixed for
the opera a!-Walter Pulitzer In the jan
uary Bohemian.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-11

this
of
be mined
price
ance in four monthly
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-11
irstGreatInvestmentO Opportunity of the Year


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Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-11
Disguised with Photograph

Yesterday morning the husband was
accused of having spent several weeks
I'm company with a woman of careless
habits known as Helen st. Clair. He
was alleged to have spent a week in
San Francisco i'm the girls company
and he was shown a picture Of the girl
and asked If she was not the woman
His answer was a reflection upon her
personal beauty ana the incident was
taken up later i'm the day
During the afternoon the cOmpIain-
ants again tried to prove Aruaz' rela-
tionship with the woman. Ella Mil
ler. better known as Mother Miller"
keeper of a notorious dive ON Bellevue
avenue, was called, She had been sub
poenaed but failed to appear i'm court.
A deputy sheriff sent to her place re-
ported back that she was i'll and could
not come.
Judge Hutton, upon the suggestion
from the attorneys that Mother Miller
had threatened TO be sick. issued a
bench warrant for her ana few mo-
ments later she appeared at the court
house in a cab. She was hustled into
the crowded court room and cluug To
the arms of the officers NOicng her
opinions of courts in general, as she
made her way TO the witness stand
AT first she disclaimed any knowledge
OF Arnaz, until she betrayed herself
by making a statement to the effect
that she knew Jim" better than one
of the other men I'm the court room
Gives Girls Address
After that she acknowledged that the
man had been at her house on many
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-11

Everything you want you will md In
the classified page-a modern encyclo-
pedial One cent a word.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-11

through Ramsey comsoch
a Mohawk Godhd
The which the Comock Wonder Mining mpa
$ and respectively
all front
wonderful profit n ninn
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-11


| hands neprofHt thar
the
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-11
PHOTO HAS No
CHARMS FOR HIM
SAYS WOMAN LOOKS LIKE
COYOTE
Husband and Wife Accuse Each Other
of Conduct Unbecoming Marital
Ties, but Have Difficulty
Proving 1t

Data woman, she gotta da face lika
da coyote. I don know her.
Such was the statement yesterday
morning of James Arnaz in department
seven of the superior court when he
was shown the picture of a woman
whom his wife accused him of having
at one time been intimate with.
Arnaz was formerly rancher at
Yorba, having valuable property, and
he married pretty little Beatrice Yorba
and brought her to Los Angeles as his
bride.
Since that time family troubles have
been rife, and now the woman, the wife
of less than six years, is suing her
husband for divorce, alleging that he
has been cruel and unfaithful TO her
He on the other hand has been charg-
ing his wife with every act of miscOn-
duct he could think of and has pro-
duced a score of witnesses i'm court
whom he alleged could give proof of his
wifes infidelity. Yesterday i'm rcbuttal
the evidence of some Of tho half-brced
Indians, several of whom had testified
at the trial, was invaldatcd and found
to be untrue and the district attorney
may be called upon to investigate such
testimony
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-11


pope there
made Cntc the o the Eat
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-11

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