Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-01
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

LOOlDdll WIFI DdNluSOll dl lHe Sldle
fair tomorrow. Both teams are strong
and the game will be worth while.
- Columbia state: The sum OF
S224.644.95 has been received since
he first of the year from the sale of
fertilizer tags. This fund goes to
Clemson college. The total amount
received from the tax last year was
approximately 100000. The total
amount received to this date last year
was $1S5,396.l6. 1t is estimated that
approximately $4,000 will be receiv-
ed during the year from the tax. At
the annual convention Of the State
Farmers Union there was resolu-
tion passed indorsing the proposition
of increasing the number of free
scholarships at Clemson college. The
argument used was that the scholar
ships have not been increased, al
though when the free tuition was first
granted on this basis only $150,000
was received from the tag tax. This
means that the farmers Of South Car
olina have used nearly 100000 tons
of fertilizers this year, as there Is a
tax Of 25 cents on every ton sold. 1t
Is expected that the matter of in
creasing the scholarships at Clemson
will be brought up at the next session
of the general assembly. There may
be a movement started to use part of
the s250.000 for agricultural high
schools to be located in several sec
tions Of the state.
- Gaffney, October 29: A case that
has excited much interest, not only In
Gaffney, but in other parts Of South
Carolina, was disposed Of yesterday.
DR.. L. NJ. Harrison was tried and con-
victed on three counts, issuing
~ oh inin
der false pretenses and attempting
to break Jail. This case has been
very interesting, not only now, but
when Harrison was captured. He
came to Gaffney some months ago
and succeeded in getting a dlaf on
bank at Winter Park, Fla, indofsed
by a prominent citizen Of this city.
He then disappeared, and nothing
was heard from him for a long time
When the draft was sent to Winter
Park, 1t was found that there was no
bank there and that Harrison was un-
known there. Harrison is wanted in
four South Carolina towns. Some
three months ago a communication
was received from Jacksonville, stat
ing that Harrison had been captured
| there and would be turned over to
South Carolina authorities. An officer
was sent for him and brought him
back to this city A few weeks after
Harrison was placed in jail, Sheriff
Thomas walked into his cell and
found the doctor busily at work up
on the steel bars of the cell. He had
succeeded in cutting two bars and on
| ly one was left between him and
freedom. Harrison Is a scholarly
| looking man and Is a graduate of the
medical college Of the University of
Ia rty1a md 1oxr iner t..,1
inferno at Baltimore hospital.
Aiken Journal and Review: Par
alleling the boys corn clubs, Aiken
county, S. c., has group Of girls to-
mato clubs and the Aiken Journal and
Review records an example of sue
cess in one instance which ought to
be preserved for few years until this
particular young lady gets older; the
only objection to its publication then
being that there would probably ensue
such rush Of attentions from eligible
bachelors as might seriously embar-
rass. From one-tenth of an acre she
canned no less than sos cans of to-
| matoes, which, considering her age
and sex, Is doubtless somewhat Of
record. las the seed for such plot
| OF land" comments the Journal and
Review, "costs very little, depending
! on the grade Of representative in each
district, and as 1t does not take much
labor to cultivate such small plot,
and as the cost of canning is very lit
| tie, the profit on such an outlay Is ap-
proXir~ 2tely very great Taking out
the Cost of the cans-about two cents
eachAand figuring the selling price
at ten cents per can, the lowest esti-
mate on this one-tenth of an acre
would be $780," When II Is remem-
bered that what our contemporary
terms mot much labor" appears in
very different light to the small culti-
vator, it would seem that the pro-
ducer of more than 500 cans Of toma
toes is entitled to distinguished men,
ton, at any rate. More noise will be
made about the Aiken lad whose acre
of corn yielded 144 bushels, a figure
which will be near II not at the top
Of the state contest to be decided in
December, but we hold that his little
neighbor has accomplished an equally
notable feat.
- Columbia, October 20: The dis
pensary graft" cases will be called
at Chester on November Z. This in
formation was obtained here tonight,
being the first definite announcement
as to the date for the trial Of the no
torious cases connected with the old
state dispepsary. That witnesses Of
the state have been subpoenaed to ap-
pear on November T. at Chester, was
also learned tonight. The indictment
to be pressed at Chester Is that con-
tanning the conspiracy" charges.
Written across the ba-k Of this indict-
ment are the following names Jodie
NJ. Rawlinson, Joseph B. Wylie, John
Black, James S. Farnum and II. Lee
Solomons. In brief, the indictment
charges that the state Of South Caro-
lima was defrauded Of $133,000 by an
alleged conspiracy, the nature Of
which Is set out. The witnesses writ
ten on the back Of the original indict-
ment here were: Smith, Thorpe, Col
lins and Wylie. To this number may
now be added Motion A. Goodman. Joe
Wylie, formerly a member of the state
board of control, has already turned
states evidence and testified in two
cases here. The indictment charges
that the state board and whisky
agents conspired together to defraud
the state, and that the members Of the
board received for their individual
use and not for the benefit of the
state, rebates in addition to the COM
pensation allowed by law. The re
bate schedule" is made a part Of the
indictment. That schedule says that
on whisky selling for $1.47 a gallon,
the board got in rebates $3.50 per
barrel, and so on up the line. Three
dollar whisky netted the board s25 a
barrel in rebates says the indictment.
Case goods had their figures, too. Be-
tween March and March %, 1906,
the board is said to have Cleaned up"
$4,000, and from March 90 to the
end Of the year, s10S,000, making
$133,000 in all. Jodie NJ. Rawlinson
and John Black, members of the old
state board of control, are the ones
mentioned for trial at Chester, as is
Lee Solomons, formerly a whisky
agent. John T. Early has testified
as has Joe Wylie, and Motion Good
man furnished certain evidence in
cCnnecrion with the Hub" Evans
case. John Black was placed on trial
here, but a copy Of a newspaper found
in the room Of jurors halted the trial,
which Judge Memminger declared to
be a mistrial. Tomorrow, or early
next week, 1t is expected that Attor-
ney General Lyon will make state
ment as to his plans for the trial Of
the cases Other than that the cases
will be pressed there has been no def