Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-05-01
LANCASTE

LANCASTER.
News, April %: Mr.. A. B. Small
gives this recipe for catching rats:
Fill a wash-pot about two-thirds full
Of water and then sprinkle cotton seed
enough over it to cover the water. The
rats jump in on the seed and, OF
course. sink and can't climb out. He
caught thirty-four in his crib in a lit
tie while. e......An unusually large owI
was shot and killed last Friday on the
roof of the Presbyterian church, by
Mr.. r. E. Craig. 1t measured AZ inches
from tip to tip of wings. .... Mr.. Abe
Culp, one of Lancaster county's we'll
known and successful farmers, has SET
an example which others might dc
we'll to follow. Owing to the steady
decline in the price of cotton, Mr.
Culp planted, a few days ago. fifteen
acres Of land in. corn which he had
prepared for cotton. Why not other
farmers do likewise? Many, we are
told, are not yet through planting cot
ton, and it is not too late, therefore
for them to change their plans. IN
less some general disaster befalls this
years crop the probabilities are that
the price of the staple will be low next
| fall, down below the cost of produc-
ton. Arguments were never stronger
in favor of a reduction in the cotton
acreage. The less planted the better
the price, holds good any year, but
conditions now prevailing make it es-
pecially so this year. The prolonged
depression in the cotton goods markets
of the world, the consequent accumu-
latiOns of immense stocks by the mills
and the shutting down of many plants
because Of inability to sell their pro-
ducts at living prices. make the out
look for the cotton farmer exceedingly
ominous. The only sane way to meet
the situation is to plant less cotton
and more bread Stuffs. .... An inquest
was held Monday by Magistrate Cas-
key over the body Of j. B. Sims, who
died Sunday night at the home of Mr.
Lafayette Remington in the Greek
section. where he was taken last We'd
nesday night after he had been shot
| from ambush as he was returning
home from town. Several witnesses
were examined and the testimony TAX
en- was mainly circumstantial. More
than one witness testified that Sims
believing that he was going to die
said that he was shot by Ben Stogner
brother Of Hampton Stogner, who was
killed in February by Sims. Sims, the
witnesses testified. said he recogniZ-
ed Ben'S voice as he spoke to some
one with him. One witness, who lives
in the community, swore that he
heard two persons pass his home the
night Sims was shot and that he rec
Ognized the voice of one of them, in
speaking to witness dog, as that OF
Bob Stogner. 1t was also testified to
| that two men answering to the de-
scriptiOn of Ben Stogner and his
brother, Bob Lee, We're seen Wednes-
day evening in the vicinity of the
shooting. The inquest was concluded
about I o'clock Monday evening, the
jury, of which w. 7. Morris was fore
man. finding the following verdict: u
B. Sims came to his death from the
effects of a gun shot wound inflicted
by the hands of Ben Stogner and that
Bob Lee Stogner was accessory there
to. Warrants were accordingly issued
for the parties charged and they
were arrested and lodged in Jail Mon
day night by Deputy Sheriff l. T
Hunter 1t is stated that Il motion fol
bail will likely be made at once.