Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-06-01
TUESDAY, JUNE /, 1909.

yet been dismissed and has not yet
made its presentment, and althougn
Solicitor Cobb has told the grand Ju-
rors he has other bills for them 10 con.
slider, there will be no indictment at
this term Of the eight ex-dispensary
officials and whisky men who are out
on bonds aggregating $4,000 under
warrant charging them with conspir-
acy to defraud the state, but It 10 likely
these cases will be tried at the Septem-
ber term Of the court, and that some
very interesting evidence win be
brought out against the accused men.
There has been disposition the past
few days on the part Of the friends OF
the accused men to speak Of the dis
pensary investigation as having about
spent itself, and to say that the evi-
dence so far developed will not be suf-
ficieflt to convict anybody, the winding
up commission having failed to bring
out anything of grave Importance at Its
recent session following the decision
of the Federal supreme court placing
the situation entirely in the hands Of
the state and its agents. But this is
a very erroneous view of the situation.
The commission has brought out In the
hearings only q small portion OF the
facts and evidence It has. II all the
evidence II has were made public at
this time a profound sensation would
be produced, but the state would there
by give away its hand. Sensational
evidence may be brought out at the
Anal hearing Of cases against the Wills
ky houses to begin on June ., but then
again the most important portion Of
this evidence may be developed In ex-
ecutive session. So after all II Is quite
likely that the commission Will reserve
Its most effective ammunition till the
actual trial of the criminal cases, and
II liz expected that In addition to the
eight already arrested warrants Will be
issued against few more.
- Columbia Record: DR.. w. GIL Wy
tive of the Record, who met him at
Rock Hill yesterday, said the story
published in North Carolina papers
and copied and enlarged upon In South
Carolina papers, that the entry into
the company Of the Dukes probably
meant the beginning Of q well organ
lied effort to form trust to control
most Of the cotton mills In the two
states, was '.all q big, foolish, fairy tale,
"a transparent bugaboo." I'VE are In
business for the wholesaling Of power
all we can do attending to that. We
will probably take small blocks Of
stock In new enterprises here and
there, but this will be merely for the
purpose Of getting them started and
assisting the mills 30 as to more
quickly put them In position to use our
power. We are not only not going In
to the cotton mills business. the Dukes
having all of that kind Of business they
want on their hands with their inter-
est in certa,... mills In North Carolina.
but we are not SDt to leave the Cataw-
ba for power. We have powers on the
Catawba which viii yield as 100000
horse power, which is sufiicient to run
most Of the mills In northwestern South
Carolina and western North Carolina,
where over half the mills In the entire
south are located, and which section
has a still greater development ahead
of it. There Is not much to be ex-
pected from the lower half Of South
Carolina and parts of eastern North
Carolina I'm the mill line. Lower South
Carolina has seen its greatest indus
trial development. in my judgment
The humidity down there is too great
for any big Industrial development. It
is so great that the white man can't
do much work and the negro won't do
much. No, malaria has very little to
do with It. The situation In this res
pect Is all the reverse In the Piedmont
section. where the afr is fresh and In
vigorating."