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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-07-23
An Accident Near Florence.

4 Florence, July 14.-News has just
been received in the city of q very
deplorable accident which happened,
near Hyman, In the lower part OF the
county, on Sunday afternoon. Full
details are not available at present,
but the following facts have been
given out: Dolls Hyman and Louis
Finklea, 13 and Is years of age, re-
spectively, went in bathing Sunday
afternoon, and took with them on
their expedition a pistol, and while
playing with it it was accidentally
discharged and mortally wounded
Louis Finklea. The wounded child
died Monday morning. 1t is report
ed that the jury at the inquest failed
to agree upon a verdict, and the In
Quest was continued until next Sat
urday. The shooting is said to have
been accidental, and the inquest was
held by Magistrate Hyman. The two
boys are the children of Messrs. Van
der Finklea and Arthur Hyman, re-
spectively. These two gentlemen
have the sympathy Of the whole COM
munity.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-07-23
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around
the County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt Etchings.

Ehrhardt, July 20.-Saturday clos
ed with heavy electric storm and
rain. The rain was very acceptable,
as we were getting dry and hot.
Crops are practically laid by, as
the farmers term it, and they are
now cleaning the fence corners of
weeds and helping the appearance
of things in general.
Candidates are hustling around
hunting votes and talking what they
intend to do for the good people If
elected. We expect they will have a
hot day of it on the 22nd instant.
Base ball is the craze here. Near
ly every day there is a game going
embraces from the cradle to the
grave. 1t is amusing to hear the little
ones that can hardly talk holler, "Out
on first.
MIR. Charley Kinsey was taken Sun
day morning with acute indigestion.
He was at home preparing to go to
St. Johns church to preaching. He
went out to the lot to get some oats
for Mr.. J. G.. Kinard, and on his way
fell and gave the family and sur
rounding neighbors quite fright.
Mr.. Kinsey was unconscious when
found. Friends took him in the
house and a doctor was summoned.
Think he will be all right In few
days
Our town must have the blues by
appearances. Nothing doing and
very little energy shown in anything
by our citizens. Perhaps it's the
warm weather. Messrs HERS Bros.
have their store about completed,
and have ordered some goods to put
in stock for their fall trade.
C. Ehrhardt & Sons have their six
gins in perfect, order. Started them
up on Friday to see if everything was
in running shape.
The council should guard our shade
trees more than they do. People are
allowed to hitch horses to some of
them, and if allowed to continue it
will cause them to die.
Mr.. E. C.. Bruce and daughter
spent Saturday and Sunday with Mr..
Henry Ehrhardt and family.
Mr.. Tom D. Jones is on his vaca-
ton. He will visit friends in Bishop
vile. and relatives and friends in
Newberry. His wife will join him
later in Newberry, on her way to At
lanta, Ca, where she will go to buy
up fall millinery goods.
Mr.. B. R. Loadholt and family are
visiting Mrs Loadholt's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. J. A. Chassereau. Ben looks
we'll and shows that he gets enough
to eat.
During the electric storm on Sat
urday afternoon Mr.. VIM. Mckenzie
had two of his mules killed by light
ming. Mr.. Mckenzie was in the sta
BILE at the time, but it did not hurt
him. William is wide awake young
farmer and the loss is heavy on him
at this time of the year. JEE.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-07-23
Ticket Collector Under Arrest.

f. N. Willis, ticket collector on
passenger train No. 80, was arrested
at the Southern railway station yes
terday morning by Deputy Becknell
on a warrant sworn out by Coroner
Turner before Magistrate Coan charg-
ing him with breach of trust. 1t
seems that on last Wednesday Willis
charged passengers between Cowpens
end Spartanburg a rate of passage
that was exhorbitant and beyond all
law and reason. For two fares and
half Coroner Turner says he had to
pay $3.50. Others were charged 40
cents for the trip. Coroner Tur-
ner ;, in speaking with a Herald
reporter about the matter, Said that
Willis used very rough language to
the passengers who got on at Cow
pens for Spartanburg without tickets.
He said that a number of Spartan
burg people attended the Gossett fun
eral last Wednesday at Cowpens.
They intended walking down to
Clifton and from there taking the
electric car line to Spartanburg. The
passenger came along while they
were deliberating, and with one ac-
cora, CQSy uSCluOu " SOh1S' SheS " esJ {,
getting aboard without tickets. When
Willis struck the bunch without tick
cts he began talking roughly. 1t is
said that he even cursed. When he
came to Coroner Turner he charged
him the exorbitant fare mentioned
above, and beside that they had some
difficulty about the changing of 50
bill, which the coroner turned over
to the collector for him to get i've
cents out of. He spoke bemeaningly,
says Mr.. Turner, about his being a
cowardly fellow, and made the boast
that he (Willis) was as gritty man
as ever come from old Virginia. Cor
oner Turner offered to settle with
him if he would stop the train and
step outside. This Willis refused to
do, saying that he would settle with
him in Spartanburg. A number of
passengers talked the matter over
with Mr.. Turner (they had all been
cheated, they thought) and it was
decided to put the matter in the
hands of the law. Willis when ar
rested yesterday gave bond.-Spar-
tanburg Herald.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-07-23
MILLIONAIRE HUSBANDMAN.
How George w. Vanderbilt Runs His
BiltmOre Farm.

At Biltmore, in North Carolina,
George w. Vanderbilt has spent over
s2,OO0,00O in creating the greatest
estate in America. He has torn down
a mountain, built a great castle and
owns seventeen square miles or
mountain country. These miles, how
ever, are under the most careful cul-
tivation, either as farming, grazing,
or timber lands.
The owner of Biltmore has the fac
ulty of picking the right man for the
right work. He induced a book
farmer from Louisiana to come in
to the Carolina mountains and take
charge of the fields, fiocks and herds.
That was eleven years ago, and until
Arthur S. Wheeler began riding up
and down the hills and through the
bottoms he had never known OF ag-
riculture, except from the printed
page. He tested the soil Of the few
little worn-out plantations on the es-
tate, he examined the hillsides. He
brought into play the knowledge OF
fertilizing the earth, of crop rotation
of the fodder and grain which might
grow here, and especially of the live
stock which might thrive and yield
a profit. He decided that high-grade,
Jersey cattle would pay in milk and
butter, also hogs and poultry, and
that the product of the soil should
be first for their benefit. So the bare
hills became pastures and lots for
the swine to range, ample shelter be-
ing, of course provided. The poultry
farm was stocked with record egg
layers Of high degree, also pigeons
for squads are profitable. Modern
incubators hatched chickens by the
hundreds. Everything, however, was
conducted on strictly business lines.
Each Jersey had her own stall and
page in the dairy record. Every time
she is MIXED the number Of quarts
she gives are marked on the record,
as is also the butter test-the guam
tity of butter which the cream would
make. All the ensilage and other
fodder she eats in a day are deb1ted
against her. When hen in the poul-
try house wants to contribute to the
egg fund she enters trap nest Dy
which she shuts a gate which keeps
her a prisoner until the poultry keep
er finds her. He looks at the nam-
Der on the feather band around her
neck, takes the egg and then releases
her. Each hen has also record
page according to her number and
the number of eggs she lays in a
month or year of her life are noted
on the books of the farm office.
Seyenty-five farm hands are need
ed for all purposes, including the
milking, which is done by hand. The
creamery has such a mechanical sys-
tenn that in it three men prepare over
i 900 quarts of milk daily bottles, in
butter and in ice cream, the yield OF
the cows ranging from eight to fifteen
quarts more day. The Asheville
neople who boast Of having Van
derbilt for a milkman have to pay Il
cents a quart as it comes from the
shiny yellow wagon bearing the sign
,"Biltmore Dadry," and think it cheap.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-07-23
Murderer of Priest Hanged.

Canon City, Colo, July 10
Giuseppe Ala was hanged here to-
night for the murder of Father Lee
Heinrichs.
The crime for which Ala was ex-
ecuted to-day was committed at the
altar rail in st. Elizabeth's church,
Denver, on February %. His victim
Father Lee Heinrichs, was In the act
of administering the sacrament OF the
eucharist when he was shot. On the
morning of Sunday, February 23, ne
was awakened by the chimes of the
church bells calling to worship. The
sound. he said, aroused in his mind
the remembrance of wrongs suffered
in Italy, which he ascribed to the
church.
Entering the church he went up
to the altar, and, as Father Leo was
administering the sacrament to him,
shot the priest near the heart. The
assassin then fed from the scene.
As he was leaving the church he
tripped and fell. He was at once
seized by Policeman Daniel Cronfn,
who was an attendant at the service.
At the plea of Father Lees fellow
priests of the Franciscan order the
infuriated worshippers allowed the
policeman to take his prisoner to the
police station: Thence he was hur-
ried to Colorado Springs, where he
was held for trial.
The trial was brief, though every
opportunity was given the accused
to defend his life. The plea of insan-
ity was set up, but alienists declared
that Ala was sane.
Previous to coming to Denver Fa-
ther Leo had lived in Patterson, N.
J.. and it is thought that there he
became the object of hatred of body
of anarchists, personal in it's nature
and applying only to him. Many be-
lieve that Father Leo's murder was
no part of an anarchist plot against
the church, but there is no strong
proof to substantiate this view.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-07-23
Prize Corn Crop at Laurens.

Laurens, July 18.-Stand with this
correspondent, as Frank Carpenter
would say, at good point of vantage
out beyond the Laurens cotton mills
and behold one of the finest sights
to be observed just now in this Sec
tion-Mr. D. H. Counts's 50-acre
field of upland corn. 1t is magnifi-
cent and is attracting the attention
of all who are interested in agricul-
ture, especially the new corn produc-
ing method, the Williamson plan,
which has been carried out in the
minutest detail by Mr.. Counts in
this particular case.
The weather conditions have been
quite favorable and the entire field
was laid by pretty free from grass.
A fine stand was secured and through
all the stages the"p1an' has shown
up beautifully and satisfactorily.
Just now the corn is tasseling and
silking, with from one to four
'shoots' to the stalk.
Mr. Counts has not yet placed any
estimate on the probable yield, but
many good farmers who have seen
the field think it will easily produce
Is bushels per acre. Mr.. Counts is
naturally very enthusiastic over the
aattering prospect, for he has given
close attention to and much thought
on the subject. He is a large planter
and as he expresses it, is greatly in
terested in the matter of the South,
particularly South Carolina, growing
its own corn. And the Williamson
plan is the great impetus, and he
thinks the demonstrated solution.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-07-23
fWoman .KiIls Children.

Buffalo, N. Y, July 18.---Mfs. lsarss
bella Sahlen fed her three small cn4i-,
dren poison today and then stranglAd
each with a handkerchief to make
her work sure, She then sent TO fhet
grocery store for more poison, which
she took herself. Her three children
were dead when their mother Wa1
discovered and Mrs. Sahlen was dyy'
ing. Physicians did what they could
for her, but is thought she can not;
survive. IS Ss
In a statement which Mrs. Sahlen
made to the police and the medical
examiner, the woman blamed her rsiSr,
ter-in-law, who, she said, caused her:
much domestic unhappiness.
Just after 4 o'clock Mrs. Sahtens
ran out into her doorway and scream
ed to her next door neighbor, Mft
Brown, that she had poisoned heE
three children and herself. Mr6S
Brown rushed into the Sahlen houee5
and Mrs. Sahlen met her with q
bread knife. IS
The frantic mother made q thrust
at Mrs. Brown, who retreated and
called for help. Physicians and the
police found the three children dead,
and Mrs. Sahlen under the first ef-s
fects of the poison.
Frank, the 15-months-old baby
was dead in his go-cart in the dining
room with handkerchief stuffed In:
to his throat Elizabeth, the 3-year-
old girl, was evidently killed first and;
Mrs. Sahlen took the 5-year-old boy
out of bed away from the dead body
of his sister and placed him on the
floor. Then she lay beside the lad,
fed him the poison and strangled him
in his agony. ); 5ls
The crazed woman. had no more
poison left, so she called her neigh
boris boy, Willie Brown, and sent him
for more. When the boy returned
she took the poison and called her
neighbor.
The medical examiners said the
children had died probably an hour
or more before the mother took the
poison. 80
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-07-23
SEVEN MINERS KILLED.
Horrible Accident in Williamstown
Colliery.

Pottsville, Pa, July 15.-Seven
mine workers were killed and ten
others injured to-day by terrific
explosion of gas in the Williamstown
,colNery of the Summit Branch Min
ing company in; the lower part of the
anthracite coal fields. The mine was
wrecked and set on fire..
The explosion shook the entire col
liery. The work of rescue was i'm
mediately begun, and when volun-
teers were called for almost every
man at the workings offered his SER
vices, which meant hazardous trip
into the burning mine. Near the foot
of the shaft the injured were found,
they having rushed toward the en-
trance only to fall over unconscious.
All of the dead were found a short
distance from the shaft, battered and
burned into an almost unacceptable
mass.
Physicians from Willoamstown and
nearby villages treated the injured,
while a number of women volunteer
ed their services as nurses. Several
of the injured were removed to their
homes after receiving temporary
treatment, but others were in too
serious q condition to be moved un-
til tonight and cots were provided
for them. The doctors say three Of
the injured may die.
One of the injured was taken to
the morgue and it was not until an
Identification of the bodies was made
that it was found that he was living.
He was badly burned and battered,
but will probably recover.
The fire in the mine probably will
be extinguished.
The Williamstown colliery is oper-
ated by one of the companies con-
trolled by the Pennsylvania Railroad
company.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-07-23
Ross Anderson is Killed.

Asheville, N, c., July 15.-Yard-
master Ross Anderson was run down
and instantly killed by switch en-
gine in the local yards of the South
ern railway at $3.50 o'clock this eFe-
ming. His skull was split open and.
one arm entirely cut OF. He waa
dead before assistance reached hms
Anderson, who was 80 years 30f
age, had been in the employ OF the
Southern railway II years. He leayes
widow and four small children. He
was a resident of Asheville and ex-
ceedingly popular. tEztsss
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-07-23
News from, OIar.

Olar, July 20.-Miss Burton, of
Monetta, is visiting Miss Emma
Cooke.
Mr.. E. D. Bessinger left this morn
ing for Glenn Springs.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. NJ. Neeley return
ed Thursday from Glenn Springs.
Olar is a growing town. Eight
new residence buildings have gone
up here in the last year, and still they
build. Mr.. j. w. Smith is erecting
two handsome cottages on Main street
for rent, and a contractor was here
last week to figure with Mr.. G.. NJ.
Neeley on residence for himself.
Miss Brown, of Fitzgerald, Ca, is
visiting her brother, our efficient
railroad agent, Mr.. Y. s.. Brown.
Olar is soon to have Methodist
church. A contractor was here last
week to see the committee. We did
not learn if they have let the contract
yet.
The protracted meeting at the Bap-
tist church closed Friday night. 1t
was a reviving series of worship.
Several new members were added.
The pastor, Rev. D. l.. Rhoton, was
assisted by Rev. Bass, Of New Brook
land. ...
Crops in this section are looking
well, but are badly in need of rain
just now. -. -
We are very glad to report that
Mrs. G. J.. Bessinger is improving,
after an illness of several weeks.
Protracted meeting at, Mizpah
Methodist church commenced to-day.
The pastor, Rev. R. A. Yongue, is
being assisted by Rev. G. w. Davis,
of Elloree. b. &. j.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-07-23
WITHSTAND DBLACKSCLASH
FIGHT IN THE WASHINGTON
MALL ALMOST A RACE RIOT.
Three Taken to Hospital.-White
Boys Say Negroes Crowded Them
or the Sidewalk.

Washington, July 12.-The trou-
BILE between negroes and whites IN
Washington seems to be growing
more intense. Last night three
young white boys were attacked and
stabbed by two giant negroes in the
Mall Park.
The wounded are Garnet Calls,
Is years old, All Ninth street south
west; Charles Fridley, 18 years old,
7O4 c. street southwest, and Harry
Blame, 19 years old, 600 L. street
northwest. The two negroes said to
be responsible for the stabbing are
under arrest, charged with assault.
They gave their names as Robt. Hut
chins, "a years old, of 215O Newport
place Northwest, and Harry Steven
son, 904 E. street southwest.
The question of right of way is
growing serious in some sections OF
Washington as cause of trouble be-
tween negroes and whites. The
whites say that the negroes insist
upon forcing themselves on the IN
side of the pavements, jostling white
men who are keeping to the right,
and often observing no courtesy when
ladies are upon the streets and upon
the proper side. This was the cause
of the trouble last night.
Three young boys were passing
through the Mall Park near the med
ical museum, keeping to the right,
when they encountered the two ne
groes, they say were walking abreast
and taking up all the pathway. When
the two factions came together the
white boys moved to the right, but
the negroes refused to allow them to
pass and sought to force them into
the gutter. Then the trouble started,
One of the negroes is! said to have
provoked the trouble by his abusive
language, and when the white boys
resented it the negroes drew Snelr
pocket-knives, it is alleged.
The whites stood their ground and
were slashed by the negroes. A riot
call was sent to the Fourth precinct.
The reserves responded with the pa
troll wagon and succeeded, after a
struggle, in arresting the two blacks.
Calls, with two stab wounds in
the shoulder; Fridley, wounded IN
the neck and shoulder, and Blaine
in the face and left hand, were bur
ried to Emergency Hospital, where
their wounds were dressed.
This case although Of a more Sc
rious nature than others, Is but one
of the. many such ARRAYS that are
daily taking place in Washington and
the attitude of the authorities here,
who often inflict heavy punishments
upon white men who resent the I'M
pcrtinence of negroes, only serves to
increase the hostile attitude OF the
blacks.
The district government a few
weeks ago compelled the Mount Yer
non and Alexandria Railroad Com
pany to conceal their Jim Crow"
signs as soon as they cross the high
way bridge entering Washington.
Although not running separate cars
for the blacks on this line, q portion
of the car is set apart for the negroes.
Some of the negro leaders Of the city
protested against the display Of these
signs, and the authorities compelled
the car company to conceal them.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-05-15

great convention is to be held in July
to give the subject a thorough discus
sion and decide upon definite plans
of action.
The Ranch hopes to push the cam
paign for Good Roads in the same en-
ergetic and successful manner, until
the farmers throughout the Northwest
are clamoring definitely and coherent
ly for the improvement of their high
ways, and their law makers and execu-
tors, by whom they are represented
in the functions of government, will
take heed and act accordingly.
In order to do this, however, we
must have the hearty support OF each
and every one of our farm readers.
We must have their ideas, their needs,
their commentator, but most of all,
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-05-15
Volume XIV. No. 10.


T HE ROADS that lead down from
the farm to the town are the
channels through which flow the
greatest wealth of the American peo-
pie From millions of farms whose
broad fields have yielded a bOunteous
harvest, over scores of thousands of
broad highways leading to the market,
pours this great stream of life-sustain-
ing and wealth producing farm pro-
duce, aggregating in value last year
over seven and a half billion dollars.
The flood of gold that poured into the
nation in response to the mammoth
harvest of the farms, stayed the panic
that threatened to bring ruin and dew
astation upon our industry and COM
merce; and it welded firm sinews of
prosperity throughout the nation that
bid defiance to the artificial menace
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-05-15

editorial policy has therefore been de-
termined upon which shall favor, be-
ginning with this issue, an energetic
and widespread agitation of the Good
Roads subject that will spread enthu'
siasm to all parts of the Pacific North
west and arouse to action the various
legislative and executive departments
of our State and County governments.
The Ranch was successful in carry
ing its fight for the clearing OF the
logged-off lands to the attention of the
Agricultural Department of the FEEDER
al Government. 1t aroused the in
terest of the Governor of the State or
Washington and of the several Unit
ed States senators and congressman.
1t agitated the subject to such purpose
that the Agricultural Department will
send experts to the State of Washing
ton to make scientific Investigations
during the ssning summer, and
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-05-15

as we want every one that comes to
us to be permanent Later on, it is
our intention to take all of these sig
natures and have them all signed to
one mammoth petition which we will
send to every Congressman, Senator,
Legislator, Governor and executive or
lawmaker of every kind in the Pacific
Northwest, showing how insistent and
important is the demand of our
Northwestern farmers for better
roads. And in the face of an appeal
so tremendous, so widespread so
sweeping, signed by thousands of
farmers from all parts of this great
agricultural empire in their own hand
writing, those who are in power and
who can bring about the Improvement
of our highways, cannot well hold the
matter in longer allegiance, but will be
stirred to immediate and effective ac-
tioH. Be sure and sign your name to
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long hauls over poor roads that make
the marketing of produce so expensive
that there is no profit left for the pro-
Queer.
Good Roads associations and the
state and county governments have
done much and are doing much at the
present time to better these condf-
tons; but the situation is one which
calls for an energetic and thorough
exploitation of the needs of the farm
ers and a systematic and effective
campaign backed by the farmers them
selves to bring about Good Roads
conditions that will be in keeping with
the great development which has TAX
en- place in the agricultural districts.
The editors of The Ranch realized
this condition a number of months
ago, when they commenced the pres
ent Good Roads Department" and it
is their belief that this department in