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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-03-25
STABBED BY SON-IN-LAW.
Mrs. j. w. Easterling Probably Fatal
Iy Wounded Defending Daughter.

Waycross, Ca, March 22.-Mrs. j..
w. Easterling lies dying at her home
in Pierce county from the effects OF
injuries inflicted with 10-inch dirk
knife by her son-in-law, j. D.
Hendry.
Hendry married Miss Macie Eas-
terling nine months ago, the couple
moving to the West. Mrs. Hendry
returned to the parental roof a few
days ago, and entered suit for di-
yorce. Hendry appeared at the
Easterling home to-day and attacked
Mrs. Easterling, it is stated, because
she defended her daughter.
Hendry escaped to the river
swamp. where he is being pursued by
a posse. Feeling runs high against
the man, as Mrs. Easterling belongs
to one of the most prominent fami-
lies of Pierce county. The deed Is
described as particularly atrocious.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-03-25
Census Will be Taken
This Year.

Washington, March 1S.-The first
piece of legislation acted on by the
house during it's special session was
bill providing for taking the thir-
teenth census, which was passed.
In it's present form the measure
gives to the civil service commission
jurisdiction over the appointments
and provides for the printing of re-
ports by the government printing Of
fce
AS enacted last session, the bill
stripped civil service commission of
such authority and there is a pro-
vision allowing some printing by
private concerns because of which
President Roosevelt vetoed it. A fur
ther amendment is made whereby
the appointments will be apportioned
pro rata among the States.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-03-25
Senator Smiths Committees.

Washington, March Ex-senator
Smith received his committee assign
ments to-day and is exceedingly well
pleased. He is on the agricultural
committee, upon which he was most
anxious to get. He goes on the new
ly created committee on "conserva-
tion of natural resources" His other
committees are immigration, patents,
geological survey and examination
for several branches of civil SER
vice.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-03-25
KIDNAPPED CHILD RESTORED.
Willie Whitla, of Sharon, Returned
to Anxious Parents.

Cleveland, Ohio, March 22.-Little
Willie Whitla, who has caused the
police of the entire country endless
worry since he was kidnapped from
school in Sharon, Pa, last Thursday,
was returned to his father at the
Hotel Hollenden at 8 O'Clock to-
night.
In compliance with an agreement
entered into between the kidnapped
boys father and an agent Of the kid
nappers here to-day, the boy was
placed on a street car on the out
skirts of the city and started to the
hotel shortly after 8 o'clock. Two
boys, G. w. Ramsey and Edward Ma
honey, recognized the lad on the car
and taking him in charge, conducted
him to his father, who was in wait
ing.
The boy wandered about the hotel
lobby unannounced for several min
utes, asking bellboys for his father,
before the latter knew his son was in
the foyer. The moment the anxious
parent heard that strange boy was
in the hotel he rushed across the
lobby, grasped him in his arms and
smothered his face with kisses.
An attempt had been made to dis
guise the lad. He wore pair of
smoked glasses and a large tan cap,
which was pulled down over his ears,
and the father said it would have
been difficult to have recognized the
boy in such garb had he passed him
on the street.
In Perfect Health.
Willie is in perfect health. He
says that he has been well treated
and ever since his capture has been
constantly indoors. He believes he
was taken from Sharon to Warren
and thence to Newcastle, Pa. 1t is his
opinion, expressed in a happy school
boy way, that he was in Ashtabula on
Saturday night at the time his father
was to leave his $4,000 in Flatiron
park.
Whit1a senior refused to state
whether he had paid the ransom or
not. He said that he received let
ter to-day from the kidnappers at his
home in Sharon, saying that if he
called at a confectionery store in the
east end of Cleveland he would be
told how to secure his boy unharmed
and "well fed" Shortly after noon
he left Sharon for Cleveland. He was
unaccompanied. His immediate fam
lily and the private detectives he had
in his employ he apprised of the pro-
posed secret meeting, but insisted
that he make the trip alone. Every
one of them was warned that he
must be allowed to go unheralded,
and no attempt at the capture of the
kidnappers now be made. Whitla
was certain that if he spoiled the
plans of his sons captors tonight
he would never see the lad again. His
experience at Ashtabula served as a
warning.
About 2 o'clock this afternoon he
went to a candy store in the east
end. With him he carried the S1O,-
900, expecting that it would be de-
manded of him there. He was met by
a woman, who detailed to him the
terms of the kidnappers. With all
the eagernes, of distracted parent,
Whitla agree1 to them Immediately
Detectives in his employ say that he
paid the money, but on this point the
father declines to commit himself.
Half an hour later he returned to the
Hollenden hotel and awaited his son.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-03-25

The regular meeting of the Loyal
Temperance Legion will be held in
the Sunday-school room of the
Methodist church on Friday after
noon at o'clock. Let there be a
good attendance, and be prompt!,
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-03-25

See the new ad. of G. R. Brab-
hams Sons in this issue. They have
the incest stock of furnishings for
men III the town, and the ladies can
also be suited there.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-03-25
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around
the County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhartlt Etchings.

Ehrhardt,. March 22.-Farmers
are getting anxious about their fer
tilizers, that is those that gave late
orders. It seems as if the supply OF
kainit is about Shipped out, and 1t is
too late to give orders for more Sew
eral want to commence putting out
their fertilizer and plant corn.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-03-25

Col. John F. Folk, wife, and
daughter, Louise, spent Sunday with
her mother, Mrs. A. D. Ehrhardt.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-03-25

Some talk Of the memorial next
month at Rivers Bridge grounds. No
date has been positively advertised
as yet.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-03-25

Sunday was a pretty day after the
shower in the morning. The young
folks had a promenade Sunday after
noon, telling yarns, etc., to each
other.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-03-25

Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Ehrhardt went
up the country last Thursday morn
ing, returning on Saturday.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-03-25

Little Winston D. Copeland, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. I. D. Copeland, was
buried in Ehrhardt cemetery on Fri
day of last week. The little fellow
was about five months old. The
bereaved parents have our sympathy
in their Bereavement.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-03-25

The fishing crew Of last week don't
say much about the fish they caught.
They talk about their rides on the
gasoline boats, so we infer that they
could have ridden about nearer home
and perhaps at less expense. They
say, however, that they got enough
out of the traps to eat while there.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-03-25

Mr.. Eli Carter, Mr.. Caleb Car
ter's father, died this morning. Will
be buried at Hampton, S. c. He was
about eighty years old or more-one
of our old land marks. The family
has the sympathy of their numerous
friends. JEE.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-03-25

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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-03-25


Yesterdays verdict was the only one,
and that it acquitted John Sharp,
but declared a disagreement on the
other defendants. We also ask that
the defendants be admitted to bond
at once" >.
1.-THE verdict of the jury makes 1t
bailable case," was the courts re-
tort, "hence I will fix the bond OF
each at $4,000 unless there be some
objection. In that event 1 will hear
argument"
1T is satisfactory to us" said At
torney General McCarn.
"And to u.s." retorted Judge An
derson. -.
"There seems to be nothing left
but for the court to pass sentence,
added Judge Hart. >,
81 do not think that necessary,
said Judge Anderson. 1--WE move
that Judgment be suspended and that
we be given a new trial. We will be
prepared to argue the motion later
probably next week.
"All right Judge" remarked the
court. "I know you will not delay
unnecessarily and will take it up al
your own convenience.
Bring in the bond book, said
Judge Anderson. 1t was brought and
the defendants signed the bond and
returned for few minutes with
their relatives and friends to the
room they have occupied in the jail
building.
As the verdict was announced
Mrs. Burch and Mrs. Wilson, the
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Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-05
PROHIBITION IN THE WEST

Prohibition turns it's eyes from the south to the west. Prohibition maps have shown Mon tana, Idaho, Wyoming Utah, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico soidly black" which is the color used to indicate 'wet" territory. Cobra do was in the same class till 1907, when local option law was passed. Within the last year and half two of these states have seen strong county local option laws put through their legis- latures In Utah. however, the governor vetoed the bill just at the end of the session, leaving Idaho the only one to put such a law i'll its code Now two Idaho counties have voted on the ques ton and both have gone "dry." Idaho county was one of them. The other, Canyon county showed dry' majority of $50, which is very heavy, considering that the total vote of the county in last falls presidential election was less than 7,500. Canyon county is a rapidly growing region just west of Boise city, while
 Idaho county, the largest in area in the state is further north in the mountains. As Idaho has total of only twenty three counties, action in two of them means action in almost 10 per cent of the state.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-05
THE AMERICAN GIRL

American social ways and manners are the subject of much and growing foreign comment. It is wholesome for the thoughtful patriot to have glimpse of the foreign view. Sensible Americans are willing to be judged, since they may thereby better judge themselves In fact, self-criticism not seldom adds savor to the salt of reflective American wit. But this land has been subjected to the review of a journalist from far Bengal, and to see ourselves through the eyes of Hindu may be interesting, if not profitable It is the American girl who has at tracted the arrows of this pagan critic. His chief indictment is that of deception. He de clares that the girl in the United States who is courted does her utmost to make herself agree able to the suitor She hides flaws of tempera- ment. She conceals physical ailments. She dis guises bad temper. She paints and powders. Worst of al these arts are so transparent that they must tickle the vanity of the asprant for her favor. All of these deceptions, false allure ments and little hypocrisies are directed, III the view of this East Indian, toward securing hus- band and home.
 This is not pleasing picture. The impulse of the American girl will be to declare that 1t is not a portrait She must know better than can anyone else. It is a natural inquiry if these criticisms be true, how this foreign and unfamil- far observer penetrated all the barriers of dis guse Are, then, our feminine wells so thin! Ii may be suggested that we have no Zenanas. The ways of the American wife and daughter are the ways of open candor Their hospitality to those who win entrance through its portals is as frank and cordial. But even so, the di- vine mystery of womanhood persists in lending its elusive charm It defies the analysis of cold criticism, whether native or foreign. In this as in other instances of alien observation, the American girl can prove her own and sufficient champion.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-05
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS

Senator Charles Dick of Ohio announces that he will be a candidate for reelection.
 Former Senator William F.. Chandler is be- ing talked of as a candidate for governor of New Hampshire in 1910.
 The latest candidate to enter the race for the seat of the late Congressman Cushman of the Second Washington district is k. F.. Deard, a newspaper publisher of Vancouver
 William Travers Jerome has set at rest all of the runors regarding his political aspira- tons by formally announcing that he will be a candidate for reelection as district attorney of New York
 United States Senator Cummins of Iowa has accepted an invitation from the Des Moines Trades and Labor Assembly to deliver the ora ton at the Labor Day celebration in the Iowa capital
 Dennis Flynn, former territorial delegate and one of the best known political figures in Okla homa. is being mentioned in. connection with the republican nomination for governor of that state.
 The contest for the democratic nomination for governor of Massachusetts this fall will probably be between Mayor John T. Coughin of Fall River and James H. Vahey, who was the democratic nominee last year.
 The next congressional campaign in Indiana, it is said, will be made largely on the tariff ideas of congressman KorbIy of the Seventh district He favors tariff for revenue only and is opposed to the plan for tariff commis- sion.
 The democratic union of New York an anti Tammany organization, has issued statement asserting that the heads of many of the labor unions of the city are leaving Tammany and are not only joining committees which are out to defeat Tammany but are carrying with them many union labor men.
 Joseph F. Gray, who has been appointed state railroad commissioner of Georgia, is sec retary of the chamber of commerce of Savan- nah, and for number of years has been con nected with the traffic department of the Cen tral of Georgia railroad. Several years ago he held the office of vice president of the National Freight Claim association.
 Though the next governorship election in Illinois is more than three years away, aspi- rants for the executive chair are already pre-
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-05
THE DIRECT PRIMARY

A committee of the New York legislature now junketng through the west in search of infor- nation about direct primaries, eXcltes some humorous comment. A Topeka journal advises the investigators to get their information from the libraries at home. A Chicago newspaper praises thus the investigators for going to a baseball game. "They must have been inn pressed by the fact that each candidate for a hit as he stepped up to the plate was given an absolutely fair chance for it by the nine hos tile electors spread out around him. Each man stood squarely on his own merits, without any hidden machinery of corruption to aid or thwart him. This is one characteristic of the direct primary which appeals most strongly to the people and we doubt not that it is an embodi- ment of democracy that strikes an equal spark in the breasts of Senator Pat McCarren and his fellow investigators"
 It might also be remarked that in this pri- mary baseball game candidates are given an op- portunity to reach first on balls
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-05

pairing for the race Former Governor Yates, Congressman William B. Mckinley, former Lieutenant Governor Lawrence Y. Sherman and Speaker Shurtleff of the lower branch of the legislature are among those mentioned as like ly candidates for the republican nomination.
 Lines are being drawn for one of the hardest fought state campaigns in the history of lndi- ana. The state has normal republican major ity of about 5000 Last fall however, the dem ocrats succeeded in electing Thomas k. Mar shall governor by about l6,000 and they also elected eleven out of the thirteen congressmcn, two or three other state officers and majority of the legislators. From this they are taking hope for the coming fray The republicans, on the other hand, are counting on better or ganization and greater degree of untedness to bring them victory.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-05

There be whole lot of people who do not understand the necessity of a new city ord- nance. City wages are about on a par with ex- isting schedules employed by individuals and companies. If the present city administration is on the eve of financial embarrassment munich pal employees should not be made to stand for the cost of the predcament Other means should be employed to provide revenue or expenses in other directions should be curtaied. There is Ia lingering, clingng belief, however, that the proposed new ordinance was framed in spite. Mayor Kinney, in all probability, will be com pelled to cast the deciding vote. If there is any merit in the measure, no matter of what par entage, it should be given liberal consideration. All the people demand is square deal for the servants they have chosen.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-05

The first number of the Arizona Mining Jour nal, published at Phoenix, the alfalfa center, has made it's appearance. It is a natural pre- sumption that like all the rest of these alleged class publications the Mining Journal will bor- row the work of the boys ''at the front" and pull the mining machinery men for business that belongs to the newspapers published in the heart of the mining and which are the real developers of the country.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-05
4 PeeriSh PLaint

4 PeeUiSh PldiRt The learned writers for the press Are very, very good At proving how we waste on dress Or furbelows or food Each writer new who makes his bow With other sages vies To show unhappy mortals how They may economize. They tell us of the thrifty French Who all excesses shun. But l Tn not anxious to retrench; It isn't any fun. I'm weary of this endless song; I wish some seer wise Would show us how to get along And not economize.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-05
SellSiLLe GirL

''Does your husband pay you the compIi- ments he did in days of courtship?"
 Why, H.
 ''Does he praise your eyes or your taper fin Bahr'
 ''WeIl, he says a good word for my pies and my biscuits, {" retorted the bride. 'You can't make me dissatisfied with married life''
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-05
LET YOUR PAPER FOLLOW YOU

The SilUer Belt wil De mailed upon request to subscribers leaUing tue city during the sum ner mouths Change of address will be made as frequently as desired; notices of such change should giue both the old aud new address. Call at the office or phone any change yon wish be- fore leauing the city, The subscription rate is the same out of town as in the city,
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-05

By injecting an ounce of good whiskey into a growing watermelon planter claims to have discovered that it may be given "a rare, fine flavor" The trouble about it is, they will not stand for that sort of doctoring down where the watermelons grow.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-05
MORNING SMILES
Do Y0ur Part

Though sometimes in sportive mood, Nature to man is mostly good Nature is kind, it doth befall, But nature cannot do 1t all A town by ocean breezes swept, Should not fire it's street cleaning dept
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-05
Chief End of Trarel

''So you have been across the ocean twenty seven times9'
 Yes but twenty of those trips were pract- cally wasted.'
 ''How is thata"
 ''I took them before picture post cards came in"
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-05

No Great Differences Much alleged humor, by the by, Mankind at woman hurls. Yet men eat ice cream on their pie As often as the girls.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-05
Friendly Adrice

''I hope to grow gray in their service"
 "Very audabe ambition, very laudable. But don't scorn the hair dye too long. You know there's fad nowadays for young men,"
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-05

The department of agriculture is trying to produce seedess persimmon If seedless per simmons will tend to make the possum stick more closely to vegetable diet we are for it.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-05

Globe real estate is just trife better than gold. The latter seldom changes its value, while Globe dirt constantly climbs skyward
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-05

A Cleveland judge has ruled that a husband need not wash the dishes Doubtless he would be perfectly willing to balance this opinion, however, with another to the effect that a wife need not split the wood.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-05

The idea of submitting single street car franchise to the voters for. ratification rejec- ton is good one; and why not, since this self same idea originated with the Silver Belt
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-05

All business houses should be closed tomor- row, and merchant and clerk alike should join in the pleasures of the day.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-05

Send copy of the Silver Belt to some friends abroad. The mining review this morning is cer- tainly big advertisement for the great Globe district
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-05

So far as the north pole is concerned Walter Wellman's goose seems to have been cooked. Walter still has chance to make good by again predicting the election of William J. Bryan.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-05

We might be induced to lend Mr. Taft to Mex leo for week or so if nothing short of that will make it quite happy.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-05

The Mexican bull fight is, we suppose a ter riby degrading affair Wonder what Mexicans think of our degrading automobile races.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-05

Out in Chicago they are going to have "Par- ents' Day. instead of Mothers Day" That is right, especially as father will have to foot the bills arising from the celebrating.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-05

The state of Arkansas proposes to collect S5, 100000 from sixty-hve life insurance companies doing business therein. That will be the easiest kind of easy money-when Arkansas gets it.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-05

In Chat, Africa, the women rule the country MT. Roosevelt should lecture the mollycoddles of that interesting province.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-05

We shall be disappointed if Bwana Tumbo does not skin few African kings while he is about it.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-05

Some of the newspapers spell it Beverly ly Bay" Imagine anybody being uncertain as to the correct spelling of Oyster Bay!
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-05

The college that conferred a doctor of ltera- ture degree on Miss Ida Tarbell evidently was in greater need of advertising than cash.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-05

''The republican party is the party of the square deal" says the Baltimore American Especially the ante-election square deal.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-05
Tue Separation

He's kicking about his wife going to the country"
 Feels the separation, no doubt. ' ''Yes, from the necessary coin"
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-05

Walter Wellman will perhaps still insist on establishing the balloon route to the north pole.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-05

The union forever will be the password to- morrow.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-05

Join with toll tomorrow and make labor day a grand success.