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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-03-07
.fWS BUDGET
FROM LAKE CITY.
DISTiLLING PLANT PARTIALLY
DEsTR0YED-FIRE ENGINES fine
KORK-DEAIH OF AN old LADY.

numOer OF Tie Ldht SltS PeoPAS
were in Kingstree on Monday
last. 1t is the custom to which
many cling of visiting the coun-
tvs capital every first Monday.
And the custom is good one too
and ought to be more generally
followed. These meetings OF
the people from different parts
of the county are very bene-
hcial, aside from any business
considerations.
Mrs. Mary Belk, grandmother
of our Mr.. L. NJ. Belk, died last
Monday at the grand old age of
ninety-two. She died at the
residence of her daughters,
Misses A. E. and NJ. J. Belk,
with whom she lived. How
many of those who read this
notice will eyer see even seven
ty, much less ninety? Instead
of the span of human life
lengthening, it really seems to
be getting shorter. Most men
and women are old at sixty.
Mr.. Hughes, the representa-
tive of the Atlantic Bonding and
Trust Company, the surety OF
the Southern Contracting co.
in the building of our sewerage
system, was in town Monday
looking into the state of affairs
into which the failure OF the
contracting company has put
matters.
Mr.. Arthur L. Jones is back
from Asheville, N. c., where he
went about a month ago.
Miss Mamie Green was called
home a few days ago by the
serious illness of her mother.
Miss Mamie was at school at
Red Springs, N. G.
A supper for the benefit of the
Baptist Parsonage Aid Society
was giyen at the Star ware
house Friday night. Sand
wiches, oysters, cream, coffee,
batter-cakes and syrup were
served and about $50 was real
lied as net proceeds, after pay
ing all expenses.
The trustees are now taking
steps t. place the bonds author
lied to be sold for the purpose
of building a new school house.
1t is earnestly hoped that the
matter will now go forward in
deed and in truth and that all
things will be in readiness to
begin the new school year of
~f9Q7-08 in larger, better and
morehearly adequate quarters.
Last Saturday DR.. Williams
had the misfortune to lose a
splendid milch cow and one of
his fine mules. The mule coulG
hardly be duplicated for $3.50,
or even more, and the cow was
a four-gallon Jersey-Guernsey.
Both died from natural causes.
Mr.. B. H. Singletary has NOV
ed his mercantile business into
the handsome new brick build
ing on the corner of Main street
and Acline avenue, and tn e
house and goods make an at
tractive display.
Last Sunday seemed to be gen.
eral freight day on this part of
the Coast Line. Some thirty
trains passed here during the
day. And a smash-up came
very near happening, TOO. Just
on the north side of the lake two
freights came towards each 9TH
er other head on and stopped
only some thirty feet apart.
Had it been night or a foggy
day, there would have been a
terrible collision; but it was
broad day and the sun shone
bright aud the engineers saw
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-03-07
HELP IS OFFERED

TO WORTHY XOUNI ....
We earnestly request all young persons no mas'es e
how limited their means or education. VINO Ei,n -
nStain nSm thorough business training and good 2osi
ton to write BIZ first mail FOR or q1r"'
offer. Success indepenasshiee@"W ne. W,i.s.e:a-.
~, C,.s,,. rc...oc, ce--.c.., :.--c=a, ~
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-07-08
kUMtR|( MAY TAKE
0 MORE tM|(RANIS
Landing OF Stowaways
May Make Room
For Them

II NJ auto mdhabI0 lhal Tho grant.
lBg NJ permission M Tho Bidwawags
0n D1afd ne Rmnoric ~ land here will
fesulf IN swolli1e the 1nhbof NJ tho
l1p8gfse emiafania 9h6 WI leage IN
lbai Y6se6l M Yancmg6f YeamdaY
lho nm Jagnnese whdn me atanln
fbip bad accommodations fdf, affGfd.
ing ~ lb6 ro66ft NJ the Federal IN.
NJ hWis A1d hHl6fa, Wof0
plgc6d 01 b61m the Steamer aad me
fesf " fhe Intending passengers, Tor
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s6Uc available
'fh1 Htmti6a IA Simply ilIsi 'flib
fndbral l1s6bft6fs figured 6h lhe
Continued on Paae "
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-07-08
TAX COLLECTIONS
SHOW PROSPERITY
S5lz36779 Received
This Year, AgaGst
S495,6l505 Last

Nat 6aid td06ty Is moro prosper
b0s thls ybafl and liit people haye
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N ff6 t60H IN those hbbbhlB shGtld
W. m fhyp NJ no hBBbBs6f, lhetq
g5Wd ~ slt,660 more ~ be tfediled
~ fbt bhfim jdH lmst lidAl1es thh
idtdUb taK MONEY libd ~, there IL
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Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-07-08
PRATT GOING
TOMORROW
TO KAUAI

La6d C1HidaslG1er Pratt ~ going
l6mGtf0W 10 make hls l6nedefored
glslt ~ Kaum, principally for The
Ddfpdse NJ looking over HE situation
M regard ~ ile hapna lands,
"1bo people about there" BE- sdld
iliB hfiefhd0D, "appehr 10 have the
notion iliat II iliey can be- dlssIndnd
from taking ~ llie lands themselves,
ihhy vii 20 10 iIie plantation again,
1ltey hf6 iihhhe mistake ~ That,
mid ! want ~ soc iliein myself aud
iHl them 80, 80 thal llafe VIII be no
MISUNDERSTANDING n ile kapaa poo
fie themselves dGb1 take 40 llio land
there hfe plenlg " other people IN
lbe Teffit6fy VINO VIII BE- glad ~ d1
40, 1libfe Wlll b6 no necessity NJ ltl.
ling ilio Mahoe sneaf Company have
ihemP
Mf Pratt hs1 e&Deols IA ~ ~ H.
h0e. wiidfe lo may be called hs 4 VII
ness fGf Tho TeullJfy N the land
edBeB 6H i1m bef6re Tho Circuit
court there ile expects 10 return 10
iiG10ldl0 sunday
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-07-08

company made q logal ralWn ul Nh
taxable inoome lor the year 1900 II.
required by law and lhat me lpsnoh
dent notified Il chat ne had aeseaaW
tho net amount of taxable noumo fil
taxes for he u months ondlnn Jam
airy / 1907 Of lho appellant n md
sum Of S66a aaa02 aud aa8oeb@I
thereon as q tay ihe Hum NJ 8laaof
b6' and demanded paymont ~ anpH
liant
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possmeu Invalid yQll unlnWfQ and
excessive and moi M aeeordHea wifll
any law of iho TmrIioY of Hawon
Rnd IN ponirayamlon ~ apnMlanla
rights under the Constitution ~ U1t
United states appended ~ iho irig
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tenaorol 70 James i l0l tho uip "
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Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-07-08
Writ Of Maodanlus
To Tex ASSESSOR
Issued By The Court
EVA PLANTATION BEGINS FlGHT

A writ OF mandamus was obtained
by the Eva Plantation Company this
morning directed TO Tax Assessor
Holt, ordering him TO issue a oeruh.
cate OF appeal TO the company or show
cause why he does not do So The
writ Is returnable before the supreme
Court at 10 o'clock tomorrow,
The Writ as issued By the supreme
Court this morning reads as follows;
Hwa Plantation Co. Petitioner vs.,
James L. Holt, Tax Assossor Of
The First Taxation division, Conn
ty and Island of Oahu, Territory
Of Hawaii, Respondent
Writ of Mandamus,
The Territory of Hawaii to James l.
Holt, Tax Assessor of the First
Taxation Division, County and
lslnpd of Oahu Territory Of lla
wall, Greetings
Whereas, II manlfosIlg appears tq
us by the verified petition of the lWa
Plantation Company, The petitioner
aud party beneficiary Interested here
in that II took an appeal by hing tho
same as required by law on the 18th
day Of May, 1907 from an income tag
assessed by you against II for the yeal
1907 of sl3,2GiGb, and The whole
thereof and duly tenderod It's costs 0t
appeal IN the sum Of sl926.bQ, ana
that you have refused TO Issue o Ger.
tiAoate Of appeal as requested on said
appeal, and That there Is not q plain
speedy and adequate remedy IN tho
ordinary course Of law
Therefore, wo do eommand yQU ihai
within "a hours Of receipt Of his VIII
you DO lsaue said certificate Of ap
peal as prayod for; or that yQV RbpY
cause, within said lImomLefQro This
court ai the court room tbereQf on
Tuesday, tho Oh day 0t July, l0Q7 u
10 O'Clock o. M nt tbe QpeplpG of ibe
roVri on that day Why yqp bpye pQt
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Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-07-08
STOCK Books CLOSED
OAHU sUoAa COMPANY Ito.

1he sl0ekb0Dbs ~ lbe oahu H.
Raf 60, MA. wlll BE- closed ~ trans
fefs from July glh 10 jay 18th, 1901,
both dates Inclusive,
lBedJ w, pfOTENliAUEH
TfeasUref, Onhu sugar co, Ia.
ugH9 4
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-07-08
Glass
Trial
Begun

HsA0elaisa ptt@ spss'oi 0abisj
shN fHhNCls6o, Cali July .,
The trial of Glass has begun before
Judge LaWlef, The examination OF
tsIes,nen Is being conducted today
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-07-08

fhe sldeh books ~ lhe Oalu sug6f
90, Ltdl VII be HGsod from July
5lh 10 18th, 1907, inclusive
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-07-08
CONFERENCE or rnAcHfRs

Los ANeELE6, Cal, July e,--Ths
National Educational Convention met
here today
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-07-08
GOVERNOR MURDERED

HANkoW, China, jay "a stu.
dent has murdered the Governor OF
tho NgaphWsl Province,
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-07-08

5 G@'oa9'S
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-07-08
klHo IN IRELAND

LONDON, England, Juy y, The
klng and queen VIII 90 10 ireland,
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-07-08
QUEEN lNrtRTAlNs JAPANESE

THE HAGUE, Holland, July o,--
queen WilhepIna ls entertaining Ja'
ansse naval officers.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-07-08
SQuirGs
IS After
Revenge

Atsoqiaied Press kpeoi0i catiej
MELBOURNE, AUS jay D. --'
sq1lfes baeter has oHsred Burns
$4,000, and aII M laia money for
return match vstlIn month,
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-07-08
ovoAa

SAN rHANclgco, Call July 8. -
Bfttsi ~ analysis, W. Cd, Parity
100 6ents, Previous quotation, %.
q 3dd,
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-07-08
Five Years In Jail
Is Sentence Given
Mayor Eugene SChnitl

A.sefdhd Special Cdlg
SAN FRANCISCO Gslg sehmlu sentened 20
day san Quentin Ne n,enda TO appeal
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-04-10
BOARD WANTS POWER
TO FIX SALARIES

Contrary to expectation, the
board of public works last night did
not send in the list of increased
wages wanted for employees in the
water department, as the council
requested, but instead brought in a
counter proposition. The board
wants the council to leave the mat
ter OF fixing salaries to the board
entirely. The proposal was referred.
Commissioner O'Brien in explain
ing the boards plan today said it
was designed to provide adequate
payment for skilled wOrkmen such
as blacksmiths or bricklayers or
other expert work. These men can
not be secured at the rate of wages
prescribed by city ordinance.
Engineer Mcintyre said that it
would be a good thing in his office,
as men who should receive $3.50 a
month were now compelled to ac-
cept $40, the same as paid to men
who are not worth that much. He
said his engineering force wasn't
getting as much pay as hod carriers.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-04-10
EXPLAIN IT ALL, MR. ROOSEVELT.

Has the Roosevelt idol, Also its feet of clay?
Hartman, trickster he is, lacking in ethics as he
may be- has drawn reulsive picture when he shows us
crooked railroad politician and the president of the
United States calmly sitting beneath the very statue OF
Liberty and figuring how many dollars would take to
buy the state of New York
So far the country has reserved its decision 1t has
got to. The charge is too
''He wrote me- says Hartman, ''ln view OF the trou
BILE the state ticket in New York he would like to see
He told that he understood the campaign could
be successfully carried without money and asked
if would help them in raising the necessary funds
contributed $4,000 With other contributions this
amount $25O00O enabled the New York state committee
to continue its work. with the result that at least $4,000
votes turned in New York city alone'
Ananas!" shouts the president ENEMY to the re-
public Deliberate and wful mtruhs!'
He said substantially the same thing in 1904 when
Parker asserted that the vested interests of the country
contributing to the Republican campaign fund.
Sanderous acclsations cried Roosevelt then. ''Mon
srous Unqualfedly and maicously fase!"
1t has since come to be matter of public knowledge
that corporations did contribute and handsomely, to
Roosevelt's election at that very time.
Perhaps we had best be charitable. and say these
things were done without Roosevelts knowledge that
Cortelyou egected to explain anything to give the
ident the benefit of doubt
But Harrimans statements more sinister
Apparently undisurbed at the presidents epithes,
he repeats his allegations with the sole qualification that
the president did not ask for assistance in his own per
sonal campaign
1t is for the president to make things very very clear
There have been questions of veracy before, as in
the Parker charges and also the late difference of opinion
in the Bellamy Storer matter
Why not tell it all?
If the public is to Judge ntegently why not let the
republican national committee tell who did contribute
and how much?
At the same time the president might explain those
insurance contributions in 1904 When Parker made his
charges and they denied, did Corte YOU admit to
Roosevelt that these moneys received? Then why
did Roosevelt deny that they received? Or did Cor
teyou lie to Roosevelt and hide the truth? Then why,
after the truth has to light has Roosevelt promoted
this toO-zeaous servant?
Let us have all the facts Mr. President
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-04-10
THE VALUE OF "X."

I'VE call him *" said Mrs.
Ridgeway, softly, mot that he is
an unknown quantity'-you would
not think he weighs so younds,
would you?-but with all his bad
ness Dick and have felt sure that
he must possess some virtue or
other. But we have failed. Dick
and | have been unable to find that
unknown quality
studied the curly head and
bright face of the boy who sat in
the Office window turning the
leaves of one of my volumes of
Blackstone in fruitless search for
an illustration.
But you wouldn't send him back
to the prison walls of the orphan
asylum | said, You shouldn't do
that, Mrs. Ridgeway. 1t would Only
ruin the boy"
But you can't imagine how bad
he is, Mr.. Breton. Really"
Mrs. Ridgeway dropped her UNI
brelIa and ran to the boy, a pro-
testing hand outstretched before
her Billie, you bad boy! Don't
don't tear the book. Mr.. Breton
won't like you if you tear his nice
book
Don't care" said Billie, briefly
and truthfully
You see how he is, Mr.. Broton,'
said Mrs. Ridgeway, in despair, "he
doesn't care for anything. He fights
with the boys, pulls the girls hair,
stays ut oat night after curfew-
he is the most persistent little Grim
inal. If his persistency was only
turned to his books"
Got any funny pictures?" said
Billie.
Mrs. Ridgeway and the incorrig-
ible one left shortly after, and |
spent the rest of the afternoon with
the pastepOt and the abused Black
stone. 1t went back onto the
shelves incomplete, at that, and 1t
never occurred to me afterwards to
ask Mrs. Ridgeway to lcok through
the boys pockets for the missing
leaf of pages 566-67.
During those dreadful days, 20
years after, when Dick Ridgeway
sat in his cell in the county Jail
awaiting trial for the murder of his
business partner, Billie Ridgeway
who, on account of his having first
studied law in my office with me,
called my boy" attended his
bereaved foster mother with a de-
/ yOtion firmly heroic
| called on Dick at the Jail and
offered him the best legal talent
in the country, but he shook his
head
Il want Billie to handle the
case" he said, because Billie
knows that l am not guilty. You
couldn't plead for me. In youl
heart you believe me to be a muir
derer."
"Pshaw" I protested, but in my
heart of hearts | really believed
Dick Ridgeway guilty.
The case was tried 3 times, ant
finally Wen to the supreme court o
the state. Billie Ridgeway tough
for his fathers life like one, fight
ing for his very soul. And IT wal
! after a persistent battle of 2 Ions
years that Billie Ridgeway saved
his fathers life.
The night after the acqpittal o
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CUSHMAN @!:LABOR

Congressman Cushman. from
this state, waved his bloody labor
trouble shirt again last night in
Chicago at the Hamilton club an
niversary of Appomattox day. Here
is a sample of what he said:
IF it ever becomes necessary in
this land of ours to demon ,rate
once more the absolute freedom of
man to labor when and where he
will at honest employment, the ex-
istence of that immortal right will
be as forcibly demonstrated as was
the other, even though our beloved
land is again soaked with blood and
beloved with graves. The sooner
We draw a distinct line of demarka-
ton in this nation between a peace
full labor strike and an anarchistic
eruption the better it will be for
the whole nation, labor included"
Cushman has talked this way be-
fore. the speech being little more
than rehash of a Memorial day eff
fort he was delivered of once at Mt.
Vernon, in Skagit county. He states
the proposition upon which every
working man, union or non-union,
will agree, that every man has a
right to work when and where he
will, but not satisfied with that he
then begins a frenzied and comical
war dance in which he raves of
drenching the land In blood and bill
lowing it with graves.
Friends of the Tacoma firebrand
ought to take him into a cool back
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room somewhere and give him a
correct estimate of what sort of a
show he makes when uncorked on
Of a demagogue that makes settle
ment of such troubles more diff
cult; he classes with the rankest
sort of an agitator To hear Cush-
man one might imagine him burn
ing with anxiety to sacrifice life
and limb in saying the country.
Don Quixote had the same sort of
inspiration, in fact Cushman passes
as a striking reincornation of the
Spanish knight. Presumably he is
only painting for the chance to be-
sprinkle broad acres with his own
gore, and there is probably gore
enough in this same lanky Cush-
man to stain pocket handkerchief.
The trouble with him. is that he
will talk. That failing cropped out
as soon as he landed in congress
but since that time little has been
heard from Cushman inside the
capitol. If he can be abated suffi
GENTLY to turn his attention to pink
teas and matters of that sort, leav-
ing the settlement of he labor ques
ton to men who think before they
talk and while they are talking,
this state will be spared something
not far removed from humiliation
every time the Cushman jaws fly
open.
The labor question is serious;
CuShman is not