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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-11-10
BOOZE RArTLER FLNEp.
Judge Mann Has Light Session Yes.
terday Morning.

Gus Sheldon was the only man to
feel the stern hand Of the law yester
day. He was drunk Friday night and
when he told his story to Judge Mann,
he felt no sorrow for his act, conse
quently he tossed a fat $40 bill to help
pay the city's expenses.
Sam Mclaughlin an old man who
was suffering from rheumatism was
intoxicated but the court excused him
with 9 warning to lead the life Of so.
briefly In the future.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-11-10
sTARR,s OBJECTIONS.
says the Fiiipinos Do Not Like Ameri.
can Methods.

CHICAGO, Nov. Professor Fred.
.eriek Starr of the University of Chi
cago. in public address here today
denounced the continued occupation
Of the Philippines by the United
States and said the Filipinos probably
would never adopt the English Ian
guage. Professor Starr further de-
clared that the American teachers be
ing sent to the islands, were inferior,
and all the Improvements there were
paid for by the F%1lipinos, who were
heavily taxed.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-11-10
SALOON. IS TABO0ED
Portland. Employees Of Hartman.
Roads MustsNot Enter Ginshops on
!. any Pretext if They Wish to Hold
Their Positions. s..

PORTLAND, Ore, Nov. Ralph
Blaisdell, auditor of the Hartman sys-
tenn OF railroads in the northwest, has
.tfor the goodsof the service Issued an
order. forbiddtng employees In ispde-s
partment, visiting saloons or liquor.
houses for any purposes whatsoever.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-11-10
P ANNIVERSARY.
Preparations Being Made for Event at
NakioAn

Preparations Beln0 WADE TOT 1EVenr. At
Vatican.
ROME, Nov. Great preparations
are being made here to celebrate on
November 16 the fiftieth anniversary
Of the entrance Of the pope into the
priesthood. The pontiff will celebrate
mass at st. Peters in the presence OF
many thousand persons. The sacred
college with present It's greetings to
the pope on Monday next, giving him
-atssthe sBamea time the sum OF $4,000
In gold. ID. VA
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-11-10
NEW COUNTERFEIT.
Five Dollar Certificate is Floating
Owe Country.

ftVe D0IIar Cef1lJ1c11e 70 f1oattlh0
Over Country.
i WASHINGTON, Nov. IA new
counterfeit S. certificate has made its
appearance according to letters by
John Wilkie, chief Of the secret ser
vice Of the treasury department. The
counterfeit is an imitation OF the In
dian head series of 1899, check letter
ID, face number 1854.
Chief Wilkie says the general ap-
pearance Of the counterfeit is decep-
tive. The only note sosfar discover
ed vas found In Chicago.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-11-10

Mr.. Taft is in great need of q rest,
though in good shape physically.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-11-10

Daniels, referee; Dr. Lee, umpire;
F. A. DuBridge, head linesman.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-08-25
ABOUT PEOPLE.

Miss Pauline Lindsay Of Rock Hill
is visiting Miss Mary Starr.
MI J. p. White has returned from d
trip through Alabama, Mississippi, Ar
kansas and Tennessee.
Mrs. ]. c. Hewitt of Durham, n. c.,
is in Yorkvlle on a visit to her sister,
Mrs J. f. Johnson.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. ]. Whitener and
two children, left Friday nlSht Tor
their home in Tampa, Fla.
Messrs Robert Moore Of Charlotte
n. c.. and Sam Moore of Birmingham
Ala. are visiting their mother, Mrs. S,
r. Moore.
Mrs. Leila Mckinney from Jackson
vile, Fla. and Mr.. r. NJ. wilkins OF
Gaffney. are guests of Mr.. and Mrs
O. f. Wilkins.
Misses Flora Hambright and Beat
rice Hogue of Grover y. c., are spend
ing some time with the family of Mr..
Wade Ferguson.
Mrs. NJ. c. Willis and children, Mary
Henley and Earle, have returned home
after a visit of several weeks to rela-
tives in LynChburg, Va.
Little Miss Elizabeth Wilborn. who
has been spending sometime with her
aunt. Mrs. s. NJ. Jones in Chester is
expected to return on Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Wilborn and Mrs.
w. G. White will leave on Wednesday
morning to attend the unveiling Of the
Confederate monument in Ebenezer.
Mr.. George Hart left Sunday after
noon for Greensboro. n C., after
srpnding a week in YOrkville, on Il
visit To Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. w s. Hart
Columbia State Sunday: Miss Nir-
ginia Watson. formerly of Yorkville
now of Richmond, Va. passed through
the city yesterday. en- route from Tai
IahaSSee, Fla, To her home in Rich
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-08-25
THE PRIMARY ELECTION.

We are printing in this issue as
full and accurate returns from the
primary election as has been possible
under very disadvantageous circum-
stances, including rather unsatisfacto-
ry telephone service.
Although, as usual, we had arranged
with correspondents at each precinct,
only few of them could be heard
from direct and most of the figures
we are giving had to be secured from
the returns as posted by the Democra-
tic committee which had it's head
quarters at the court house.
Although larger than two years ago,
when it was only 2,719, the total vote
of the county which reached 3,3OS
was not nearly so large as was expect
ed. There is reason to believe that II
is from 500 to 700 less than would
have been the case had the weather
been more favorable.
On their face, the returns as they
have been collected show the follow
ing results:
Mr. W. H. Stewart is nominated for
the senate.
Messrs. Glasscock, Hollis, Sanders
and Wilson are nominated for the
house.
Sheriff Brown is renominated.
Clerk of the Court Tate is renoml-
mated.
Mr.. Louthian is renominated cor
oner.
Messrs. Boyd and Gordon must run
1t over for supervisor.
Messrs. Hunter and Love must run
t. over for auditor.
Messrs. Lumpkin, kirkpatrick, Car,
roll and Aycock must run a SECOND
race for the two places as county
commissioner.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-08-25

have been under the rule of Abd-El-
ASH in this city declare that they
have accepted Mulai-Hafid as their
leader. thereby making him supreme
in all the large cities of Morocco. De-
tails OF the battle show that ADD Ell
ASH had an army numerically the
superior of the enemy, but that his
artillery either failed to work or was
deliberately tampered with. Some of
the guns exploded, throwing the
tribesmen into a panic. The vast
majority Cf these seized the opportu-
nifty to flee during the engagement
and general pillage broke out, many
Of the tribes seeking to carry off as
much booty as possible. Abd-El- ASH
and his escort retreated in an orderly
manner to Settat his army being pur-
sued by the victorious troops of Mu-
lai Kafid ADD was accom-
panied in his flight by the grand vi
zier, the minister of foreign affairs,
the French military mission and two
British officers. A Tangier newspa-
per states that several British and
French officers are missing. 1t is said
that the former sultan will proceed to
Cassablanca and that he intends to go
to Damascus.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-08-25
Newspaper and Politics.

While for years and years it has
been the policy Of The Enquirer to re-
frain as much as possible from allowing
itself to be mixed up in personal pol
itics, we desire to say that the average
layman can have no adequate concep-
ton of the difficulties incident to the
pursuance Of such policy.
In order that there be no misunder-
standing, we will try to make our
meaning plain. OF course, The Enqui-
rer has politics. If we did not have,
we would be ashamed to admit it.
But The Enquirer's politics is based
upon fixed principles of right The pa
per tries to stand only for that which 1t
conceives to be for the best moral, in
dustrial, social and religious interests
self to become involved or tangled
with the interests Of any individual or
Of any political faction, except in so
far as individuals and factions stand
for the things in which The Enquirer
believes and against the things The
Enquirer opposes.
But. however neutral a paper like
The Enquirer might desire to be, neu-
trality is next to impossible. The pol
iticians can be depended upon to use
the newspaper some way, if not posi-
lively then negatively, and sometimes
when there is no issue, the newspaper
is used for the purpose Of stirring up
interest.
In one campaign some years back,
The Enquirer had determined to re-
main absolutely hands off. There were
no issues in the campaign, and although
we thought more Of one senatorial can
didate than the other, there was not
enough difference between them to
warrant the stirring up Of strife. We
thought that we were going to have an
easy time as a neutral spectator from
the fence. but it was not to be permit
ted that way.
From one Of the meetings preliminary
to the opening Of the campaign, COR
respondent sent in a report of the pro-
ceedingS and gave a synopsis Of the
speeches Of the candidates. The report
was perfectly fair so far as we could
see: but few days later there came
long communication from one of the
candidates who claimed that he had
been "misrepresented in some partic-
ular" and he desired his position to be
made clear 1t was impossible to see
wherein the man had been misrepre
sented, and not only that, much of the
stuff he sent in was entirely new mat
ter. The presumption was that he had
set up the alleged misrepresentation
merely as a preteXt on which to get ad-
ditional free advertising Of his candi-
dacy. and there was the quandary. If
we declined to print the stuff, the can
didate would not want anything better
than to run around the county claiming
that he had been treated unfairly in
that he had been misrepresented and
denied the right of correction. To
allow him TO print his stuff under such
pretext was clearly an unfair advan-
tage over his opponent and there ii was,
with no satisfactory way out of the
situation. But it was decided best to
print the communication with state
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-08-25
WITHIN THE TOWN.

The heavy rains on the freSh earth
excavated from the sewer bitches nave
put Main street in a fearful condition.
F. P. Mccain, Esq, is soliciting
subscriptions for the Bryan campaign
fund. He will get quite a liberal sum
for Yorkville.
The ditching machine has oeen
making rather slow progress during the
last week. The heavy rocks down De
low the surface Of Main street nave
given no end of trouble.
Mr. John r. Schorb, for the past
twenty years cooperative weather re-
porter at Yorkville, has resigned his
position by reason Of failing healtn'
During some time past he has been
physically unable to attend to the du-
ties Of the position, and because or MS
advanced age, he does not expect 10
again assume the responsibility. Mr.
Schorb lacks but three months OF be-
ing 80 wears of age, and at the time OF
his resignation, was not only the Old
est voluntary weather observer, VINO
had held the position since the es-
tablishment of the weather bureau, but
was the oldest government official IN
the United States. Not only was ne
the oldest voluntary weather observer
but he was one of the most reliable
and efficient. Director Bauer Is now
anxious to find Mr.. Schorb's successor
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-08-25
THE COUNTY CANVASS.

The canvass of the county in ac-
cordance with the programme or the
county executive committee came TO
close last Saturday with a big meeting
at Yorkville.
The McConnellsville meeting was
fairly well attended, but there were no
developments out of the ordinary eX-
cent that Mr.. Stewart was less Vocif-
erous than he had been on the west
ern side Of the county and got on MT
Hurts platform as to civic righteous
ness, and claimed that he had always
been opposed to liquor, is opposed 10
it now and will always be Opposed ~
II The McConnellsville people made
II clear that they think a great deal OF
Mr.. Sanders. DR.. Saye got great
deal of encouragement and Rev. MT
Hurt was accorded something OF an
ovation. c..
The meeting at Yorkville last Sat
urday was largely attended and as Is
usual at the closing meeting most
ALI the political heelers in the county
were on hand to compare notes ana
arrange for the last supreme ettort on
the day Of the election. Senator bILce
attended the meeting to near MI
Stewart repeat some OF the ugly thlllss
that he had been saying over the coun-
tN. Dut MT. SlcNdll
Trained from saying anything offensive.
The speech by Mr. Hurt was easily
The most notable event Of the day. Mr,
Hurt was received with applause. He
was good naturedly aggressive against
the opposite candidates, clearly turn.
ing nearly all of their jokes against
them, and making the audience laugh
applaud and roar with a neartness
that has not been noted in any pre-
vious. campaign meeting in the court
house this summer. When Mr.: Hurt
time was up, the audience ihsiSteu t.,''
h.. 90 on. and as he had given the 9TH
pr candidates part Of his time at other
nIaces. he continued five or six min
utes longer. Supporters and opponents
alike, conceded that he showed q bet
ter grasp Of the real issues and maae 1i
a better speech than any other canol-
date in the crowd.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-08-25

- Heidelberg. August "a Baron
Speck Won Sternburg, German am
bassadOr to the United States, died at
Hotel Victoria in this city about mid
night last night. The immediate cause
of his death was an Inflammation of
the head thought to be cancer. The
baroness came to Heidelberg last
month to consult a specialist concern
ing the inflammation of the head with
which the ambassador had been suf-
fering for some time. After a pro
longed examination of the diseased
part, on the left side Of the head, the
doctor pronounced it not cancer but
lumpus and said it could be cured but
the ambassador and his wife left i'm
mediately upon this opinion and made
arrangements for the baron to go to
Berlin the middle of September to be
received in audience by the emperor
previous to his return to Washington.
No arrangements have been made Tor
the funeral. but it is possible the bur
ial will take place at the family estate
near Dresden where the baron's fath-
or resides. The ambassadors widow
was Miss Lillian May Langham: OF
Louisville. Ky. and she was with him
at the time of his death.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-08-25

RAID into North Carolina Just across
the Cherokee line and captured o
copper still Of seventy-fiye gallons
capacity and destroyed five hundred
gallons OF beer. The outfit was COM
plete in every respect and showed
tnaI the operators were just getting
ready to manufacture whisky on
large scale. The officers did not sue
ceea In making any arrests as the
birds had flown.
- Chester, August 21: Mr.. A. H
Adkins, of Charlotte, representing the
Southern Bell Telephone and TeIe-
graph company, was in the city Tues
day, and had conference with Pres
ident r. R. Hafner and Directors r
B. Caldwell and L. D. Childs, of the
chester Telephone company, the re-
suit of the conference being the sign
ing OF a twelve months exchange
agreement whereby the Bell peopIe
are to be allowed to run their wires
into the central office of the local
system, thus giving subscribers of the
local exchange the benefit Of long
distance service over their private
phones.
- Blacksburg, August %: As the
passenger train from Marion, n. c.,
on the old Three C's road was near
yCSlSIudy evening at
$50 o'clock the two passenger coaches
left the track, and after running over
the crosstieS a short distance, turned
over in the deep cut between the two
overhead bridges and in the rear of
cherokee Inn. The train was in
charge of Conductor Barxtell and
Engineer Wright. There were quite
a number Of passengers in both cars.
but all escaped without any serious
Injury. Neither were the cars dam
aged much, and the wreck was clear
ed up by three o'clock this morning
Chester, August 21: Mr.. T. c.
Faley's house on Columbia street was
struck by lightning yesterday AFTER
noon while an exciting electrical
storm was in progress, and 1t Is
wonder that very serious damage was
not done to the building and contents.
As it was, a good sized hole was
knocked through the outside wall OF
the building. while on the front a
clean aperture that looked as If it
might have been made by a missile
about the size of a base ball, Is to be
seen. A considerable quantity of
plastering was torn from the ceiling
in one Of the front rooms, and pic
lures and ornaments on the mantel
were thrown far and wide, and some
of them broken and otherwise dam
aged. The bolt seems to have struck
one of the chimney's of the house and
divided, part passing down the
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-08-25
YORKVILLE. S. c.:
TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1908.

1T will have to be conceded that
Rev. w. E. Hurt made the best cam
paign of all the candidates. lmmedl-
ately upon his entrance in the race
the opposition sized him up as
"mollycoddle" and laid for him ac-
cordingly. There is no reasonable
doubt Of the fact that the "howling
down" attempt at Ogden was by pre-
ARRANGEMENT, the idea being that be-
cause he is a preacher, Mr.. Hurt would
decide that the game was too naugh-
ty" and quit the field. But 1t did not
turn out that way. The would-be
howlers at Ogden were brought to the
astonishing realization of the fact
that their supposed "mollycoddle' mad
more moral and physical courage than
all of them put together, and not only
that he had a more complete, and in
telligent grasp Of the real situation
He got as much pleasure and salts
faction out of their attempt to howl
him down as they would have gotten II
they had succeeded. But the dispep-
sary bunch did not yield so readily.
Glasscock had sense enough to get on
the anti-whisky platform at once; but
Stewart, Epps, Wilson and johnson
preferred rather to claim that whisky
was in no sense an issue and was not
to be discussed. Rev. Mr.. Hurt, how
ever thought differently and kept
hammering, until the last one of his
opponents came out squarely on the
anti-liquor side both personally and
politically. And still Mr.. Hurt did not
let up. He exposed the insincerity OF
all who were trying to dodge the i'm
migration question. Making prejudice
on account of the alleged failure Of the
Wittekind experiment by charging that
1t had cost the state sixteen thousand
dollars without the acquisition of
single immigrant was a favorite eX-
pedient. Mr.. Hurt gave facts and fig
ures to show that the Wittekind exper-
iment had not cost the state of South
Carolina a single dollar. He was also
very aggressive, and in spite Of the
fact that the organization was fighting
him harder than any other candidate,
won more genuine applause than all the
other candidates put together. In our
opinion, Mr.. Hurt made the best and
most effective canvass that has been
made by a legislative candidate in this
county for years. and he is entitled not
only to the congratulation. but the
gratitude Of the entire county.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-08-25

ment showing how little justification
there was for it, and after a good deal
of unpleasant controversy that partic-
ular candidate was defeated.
But this is only one incident out of
hundreds. Try as it will, it is rarely
the case that a newspaper can go
through a campaign without becoming
involved as a factor. 1t is generally
made to appear the sinner; but the
truth Of the matter Is that it is as
often sinned against as SHINING. Such
is peanut politics, however, and after
ALL it is just as we'll Any and every
thing that helps to attract attention
and make people think is Of just that
much value in contributing to the gen.
eral result.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-08-25
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- Saluda, August %: Mr. S. H.
Quarles, a we'll to do farmer of the
Johnston neighborhood, was struck
by lightning and instantly killed late
yesterday afternoon. The bolt tore
through the roof of Mr.. Quarles'
house. Though Mr.. Quarles' son-in-
law was in a few feet of his father at
the time of the occurrence he was
uninjured.
Lancaster News: The first bale Of
new cotton marketed here this season
was brought to town Wednesday by
Mr. Roy Cunningham, the we'll known
and successful young farmer of this
vicinity, son Of Mr.. w. J. Cunningham,
and manager of his fathers model
plantation west Of Lancaster. The
bale weighed $40 pounds and brought
11s cents, the Lancaster Mercantile
company being the purchaser.
d. u. Fowler and Herbert Marley,
Cwo Bennettsville dealers, have been
bound over to the next term of the
court of general sessions to answer to
the charge Of selling cigarettes to nj
nOrs. The prosecutor is A. G. Gill
christ, and his 16-year- old son is the
principal witness. Young Gilchrist tes-
titled that he could buy cigarettes with
out difficulty from any dealer who
makes a business of handling them.
Anderson, August 21: DR.. C. F.
Williams, state health officer, has
completed an official inspection visit
to the cotton mills and dairies Of this
county. He came to look after the
plumbing heating and ventilation
systems in the cotton mills, which he
found in tolerably fair condition. The
dairies are not kept in as good condi-
tion as they should have been. He
will make due reports to the state
board of health. The office Of state
health officer was created at the re-
cent session of the general assembly
Chester, August 21: The horse
stolen from Mr.. S. S. McKeOwn, of
Rodman. a few days ago in this city
has been found near LincOlnton, n
c.. in the possession of one Mr.. w. NJ.
Sigmon. who states that 1t was sold
to him by Clyde Meng, the young
white man now in Jail here charged
with the theft. Chief of Police ]. G..
Howe and Mr.. Ralph McKeown, a
son of Mr.. S. S. McKeown, went to
Lincolnton Monday and secured the
animal, which is again in the posses
sion of it's rightful owner. Meng has
admitted his guilt.
- Gaffney, August %: Revenue
Inspector w. B. McGaha and d. H.
Wallace came to Gaffney Wednesday
night from Greenville and made
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-08-25
HEAVY RAINS.

The present rainy spell has continued
until the farmers and others interested
are growing very much alarmed as to
the probable effect, especially in this
immediate vicinity.
Showers have been frequent since
last Thursday, and during Sunday
night and last night the rain was al
most continuous.
All of the rural carriers out of York
Vile had a rough time of it Monday,
and today, and they are not expecting
anything much better tomorrow.
Allison creek was reported yesterday
to be fuller than it has been for years,
and Fishing creek this morning was
covering its valley from hill to hill
Bullocks creek. Turkey creek, Clark's
Fork. Kings creek, CrOwder's creek
and Beaverdam were also high
Information from Broad and Cataw-
ba rivers is. that both are up.