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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1911-06-28
Dixie Lodge No. So, I.O.O.F.

Will assemble in special session on
Thursday evening next the 29th, at
$3.50 o'clock and will be addressed by
Hon. George Bell Zimmerman. All
members are urged to att end.
By order OF
W. L. KEEL, N. G..
M. D. HARMAN, Secty.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1911-06-28
Dies of Injuries.

Gus Bouknight, young farmer Of
the Chapin section, died on Sunday
night as the result ofinjuries sustained
by being thrown from mule on last
Friday. Mr.. John Boukright, father
of Mr.. Gus Bouknight, was injured in
a runaway last fall, the same mule
which threw Gus Bouknlght being
hitched to the wagon. The father
died after lingering few days.
Gus Bouknight was about 30 years
of age and leaves wife and one child,
besides his aged mother and several
brothers and sisters.
His remains we're laid to rest in the
Methodists church cemetery at Chapir
on Monday afternoon at o'clock in
the pre- erce of large congregation
of relatives and friends.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1911-06-28
Mrs. Walter Hendrix.

Mrs. Minnie r. Hendrix, wife Of
Mr.. Walter Hendrix, died suddenly at
her home, near Lexington, OH Sunday
night. Mrs. Hendrix had just finished
milking COW and had started to tie
house when she fell unconscious to the
ground. She never rallied, passing
away at 11:30 o'clock.
Mrs. Hel dirk was about forty years
OF age, and leaves husband and six
children, four boys and two girls, the
youngest of whom is all infant of five
months She is also survived by Eer
mother, two brothe s. George R. and
James H. Fields, and one sister, Mrs.
Victoria Harman.
Her remains were laid TO rest in the
cemetery at Providence church on
Monday afternoon at 5 o'clock, the
Rev. T. S. Brown, pastor Of St. Ste
phen's church, officiating.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1911-06-28
Hopkins Big Sale.

We sh to direct attel tion to the
attractive display advertisement OF
J. L. Hopkins on the front page OF
this issue. Read the exceedingly low
prices, note the high quality of the
goods offered, and you cannot but
recognize the fact that ~ attending
this sale you can save money,
Mr.. Hopkins is a gentleman with
whom it is always pleasure to deal,
and Lexington folk shoull MT fail to
give him a call when in the city.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1911-06-28

A man by the name Of Stebbins ar
rived in town last Wednesday from
Tucson for the purpose Of shooting US
and was very much disappointed to
find that we we're over in Grass VAL
lev to see about advertising. Had he
given Us previous notice we should
have been at home and prepared to
welcome him. but we can't remain In
the Office all the time on the chance
Of some shootist calling. Send Us
word next time, Mr.. Stebbins.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1911-06-28
Carried to Penitentiary.

Sheriff P. II. Corley returned Mon
day night from Abbeville, where he
had gone on Sunday for J. G. Bristow,
the Brookland white man, who was
arrested in Abbeville on Sunday at
the instigation of the officers from this
county. On account of the feeling
which is said to exist against the &C.
cused in Brookland, Sheriff Corley
deemed 1t best to place Bristow in the
penitentiary for safe-keeping.
Bristow is charged with having COM
mitted criminal assault upon his little
!, 11-year-oll niece while she was yis-
itor in his home, the alleged crime be-
ing committed on or about the 14th
day of June. The little girls parents
reside at Williamson, and Maglstra ate
Henry E. Buff, Of Brookland, has
gone to Williamson to consult with
the victims relatives.
The arrest of Bristow. was brought
about through the efforts of Sheriff
Cooley and Deputy Sheriff Mil'er. both
of whom went to work on the case as
soon as they had been notified of the
t,ouble. Neither of them, however.
were apprised of what had happened
until after Bristow had held the town
authorities of Brookland off with a
Winchester rifle, which he still had in
his possession at the time of his ar
rest.
When Policeman Minis, of Brook
land, went to the home of Bristow and
told him the purpose of his visit, Bris-
tow asked the officer to wait until he
could get his coat and hat and he
would accompany him. Instead, how
ever, Bristow appeared on the scene
with a Winchester and pistol and
.defied arrest. He left the house few
minutes afterwards, it is said, followed
by a posse, and at one time the mayor
of Brookland came upon the fleeing
man in the middle of the road and
asked him to give up. Bristow refused,
telling the mayor that be would shoot
the first maa taat approached. 1t
vas not until after this had happened
that the sheriff was called into action.
When he arrived Bristow had made
his escape. On Thursday Deputy
Sheriff Miller joine Sheriff Corley at
Brookland, and it was soon learned
that Bristow had boarded O., N. &
L. train in ollmtia. and both officers
went in pursuit, going first to Spar
tanbury, then to Greenville. Green
wood and Laurens. At all of these
noiots tho officers were notified to be
on the lookout and at 2:S0 Sunday
morning the message came that Bris
tow ad been captured at Abbeville.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1911-06-28

In an incidental sort of way we re-
mark that the circulation Of the Kick
er is now twice as large as the COM
bined circulation of every newspaper
on the face Of the earth. We do hate
to lie about such things, but we are
determined not to let any New York
publisher crow over US.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1911-06-28
Tenuity.

TenuIty.
The convivial boarder as he sat
down explained that If anybody pres
ent noticed an odor of cloves 1t was
due to his having been trying to relieve
a toothache.
Among the permissible synonyms
for 'thin.'" observed the taciturD
boarder, breaking the long silence that
followed, ARE 'gauzy.' 'diaphanous''
'exiguous' and 'anguilliform.' Mrs.
Irons, where are the pickles es?"-Chi-
cago Tribune.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1911-06-28
A Ioka That Failed.

Once when Henrik Ibsen was en-
gagged in writing play he by chance
dropped a scrap Of paper on which
were the words, "the doctor says"
Mrs. lbsen determined to have q
Joke and one day casually remarked:
"Who Is that doctor II your new play?
I suppose he'll say some interesting
things?"
Ibsen at first was silent With aston.
ishment Then he broke out into a at
of rage, full of reproaches for her spy
ing.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1911-06-28
Convict Kills Convict

7. W. Messeryey, white convict
serving a tw eaty year sentence in the
nenitentiary for mur6e-, killed an
AGE ] negro convict in the penitentiary
on Monday, the deadly instrument
used being spa3e. Tue white man
claims that the negro was coming
:, ,on ! i'm with a knife. There were
No eve Win ss> 90 to the tragedy.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1911-06-28
The Marriage License Law
Takes Effect on July 1sf. After that
Date Marriage is Illegal Without
The License.

p On and after July 1st it will be ne
cessary to secure license from Judge
of Probate Drafts before you can be
legally married. Judge Draftsh as
secured the necessary blanks. books of
record, etc., and will be ready to issue
licenses on demand. He will issue
these licenses during regular hours at
the Court House. The cost will be 81,
TWENTY-FIVE cents of which goes to the
Judge of Probate and seventy-ive
cents into the county treasury.
The law seems to be defective In
several points, one Of the principal
ones being as to whether or not it is
necessary to require both the man and
the woman to make affidavit that they
are legally qualified to contract the
marriage. Some of the probate judges
will require only the man to take the
oath. Judge Drafts states that ne will
REQUIRE both the man and woman to
appear before him personally and
make the oath that they are 1egalIy
qualified.
There is a fine and imprisonment to
the party performing a ceremony
without the license. After the cere'
: nony the license must be properly I'LL
ed in and returned to Judge Of Probate
Drafts, who will record it in book
provided for that purpose. There is
no penalty for failure to return the
license to the Judge of Probate within
!. the time prescribed by law, which Is
fifteen days. This is another point on
which The law il defective, it is said,
and there will likely be several amend
ments to the law at the next session of
the Legislature.
It would be well for those who per-
form marriages to call cn Judge of
Probate Drafts and get full informa-
ton concerning the law as it might
save trouble ia the future.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1911-06-28
Postmaster kHeece
ReappOinted.

J.Frank Kneece has been reappoint-
ed postmaster at Batesburg by Presi-
dent Taft. MIR. Kneece has made one
of the best postmasters the progress
i've little city of Batesburg has ever
KnoTn, and the. announcement of his
reappointment will be glad news to
his host of admiring friends.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1911-06-28
COTTON BOIL.

Mr.. Morgan Harsey, Of WILDWOOD,
Fla, has sent The Dispatch a grown
cotton boil from his farm. MIR. Hay-
sey is an old Lexington boy.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1911-06-28
Different ivories.

1VOTTOos
Lets go down and have a game OF
billiards."
Excuse me, but I'm greenhorn at
billiards."
"Greenhorn? I am surprised, sir.
Why. you told me you were at home
with the ivories"
$50 l am. sir. I am a dentist"-Mil-
Waukee Sentinel
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1911-06-28
Garden and Field Seeds

Valentine, Kentucky Wonder and
Cornfeld running beans, early turpips,
ruta baga, late cabbage, all kinds
standard garden seeds, Millet and
Amber cane SEED, Onion sets, all new
crop and true to name, bulk and pack
ages, Kaufmann Drug 20.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1911-06-28
Index to New Adyerttseme IS.

Special Sale-F.tzmaur;ce.
Bargains this week-P. H. Stallings.
Summer Sale-J. L. Hopkins.
Life fer the Liver-Murray Drug Co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-03
SORTING MONEY ORDERS lNro STATES At RoUuD TABLEs

SO that they may be compared with the
records of the postmasters who issued
them.
In this way every paid order eventually
finds itself side by side with the register
of it's birth. Although each order is
handled nine times, this labor is consid-
cred more than justitiable, for otherwise
postmaster might safely report to the
auditor that he had issued money order
for 81 when he had really issued it for
500 and received that sum with 80 cents
for fee from the individual buying the
order. 1t is in the auditing of the paid
money orders that Auditor kram hopes to
reduce a great amount of routine labor,
for he is gradually Introducing mechani-
cal devices which will record on cards
the data shown on the paid money or
ders These machines, which seem al
most to be endowed with human under
standing automatically sort the cards
and obtain the added results of the va
rous amounts shown on the cards. As
they are run by electricity, one man may
manage several of the iron clerks. With
the installation of these machines many
of the employees may be spared from this
part of the work, but no one will be
separated from the service by the change.
The auditors report for the last fiscal
year shows that nearly S6,Coo,ooo money
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-03

and a well known lawyer one million for
drawing the papers-mortgaged the iu-
ture. They bet seven hundred mliiol
dollars that the combination would make
good and then sold the bets TO the com
mon people and called it common stock
And such has been the wonderful man
agement of the combination, and such
the lack of competition. and such the
ability of the steel ma gnates to maintain
high prices (alleged TO have been fixed
around Mr.. Gary's luncheon table,, that
in ten years over half of this seven hun
bred millions of water has been filled
in by actual property values. Conse-
quently the United States Steel Corpora
ton now owns over billion dollars
worth of real and personal property, and
has outstanding nearly billion and
half of capital stock At the same time
the average rate of profit for several
years on their actual Investment has
been II per cent a year-twice as much
as the legal rate of interest.
1t is the people who have shoveled in
the filling in this "watered'' stock and
who have made possible an income to the
steel trust of II per cent a year. Easy
enough to see how the people pay the
fiddler No need to buy an ounce of iron
or steel themselves. If. for instance, the
railroads have to pay more for steel rails
the people pay the bill at the ticket Office
windows.
If it costs a contractor more to put up
that steen-Story office building than for
merly the Office tenants pay more rent
and the persons dealing with those ten
ants pay that rent increase. The dentist,
for example. with an office in that new
stee! building charges 81 for that gold
filing tina: he formerly put in for four.
1t IS not always the ones with the re-
ceipts who have paid out the money.
Men whose opinions are worth listening
to are saying that the House of Repre-
:antatives could now very we'll stop the
committee investigation of the steel trust
ard retreat with the full honors of war.
The House leaders might say, for in
stance: I'VE have done all we can now.
We could not dissolve the steel corpora
ton nor punish it's officials. All we could
do was to force the government to act
We have done that and we are satisfied.
Speaker Clark is reported. however, as
being in favor of having the committee
complete its work In case the House
should agree with that view and should
vote to instruct the Stanley committee to
force the testimony before it of men
whom MIR I.indabury advises to sstay
away then Mr. Lindabury Will fight, he
says, and the fight would be like this:
The particular witness whose testimony
was wanted and who had refused would
be arrested and brought before the bar
of the House. The House would then take
IA vote, and if the majority voted that the
witness must answer the inquiries of the
Stanley committee he would on continued
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-03
The Nice Count.

@OL. ALEXANDER S. BACON, presi-
~ dent Of the Mems Equal Suffrage
League of Brooklyn. said the other day
to a reporter:
Eyes, it's true that you won't find
many American peeresses enrolled under
the suffrage banner. The girl who lets
a foreigner marry her for her money Is.
anyway, a rather poor specimen"
Col Bacon frowned.
There's a New York man. he said,
whose daughter during winter in
Nice, became engaged to a certain count.
The New York man was rich at that
time but few weeks before the date
set for the wedding he went to smash.
My dear count. he groaned that
night. I'm very sorry for you. You are
to marry my daughter-you were to have
had $4,000 a year-but the crash has
come. I'm ruined now. How sorry l
am, count.
But the count gave the New York
man reassuring slap on the back.
'''Oh. don't you worry about me. sir.
he said. with an easy laugh. With a
title like nine, you know. l can find an
other heiress tomorrow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-03

boy who frequents picture shows
where lifeike representations OF train
rObberieS are given would be in
tereSted most of ali in this eXpendi-
ture. The youthful fancy of the young
observer weaveS fantastic romance
about the nero who discovers the
crime and around those who bring
fueitives to justice. Uncle Sam, with
less sentiment than the boy. supplies
the rewards for those who aid in the
capture and conviction Of the Offend
ers. Last year S1J.OJD was the amount
set aside for use as rewards during the
year. Little of this. however. has been
paid out, train robberies ard post Of
flee burglaries are becoming rarities I'M
der present conditions.
Less than two years ago four men
robbed western train of. seven
pouches of registered mail by holding
up the train and covering" the crew
with revolvers. Inside OF week sew
@ral boys who attended school at
Brown Park. South Omaha. three or four
miles from the hold-up. found an old hat
u gun and some cartridges in the school
yard. This was the beginning Of the cap
ture of the culprits. for. from that clue
others We're found until in few days
three of the train robbers were caught.
and after a trial were given life imprison-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-03
CHAs. A KRAN AUDI tor
FOR TIE Post OFFICE
DE FAR TIL ENT

sites. But one item of peculiar interest
is the yearly sum allowed for cat meat.
Surely, one might ask, that does not
mean that the government feeds the post
master pet cat and provides silken
cushion fer it?'
Ion, no. smiles Uncle Sam he
strokes his long beard, kitty is welcome
to all we give her. for the eats are our
cheapest laborers."
:.
One rav.nouS little family of mice
might add more expense to the govern
ment in q single night than would be
paid to feed several kindly faced old
tabbies in a year. If the postmasters
had the privilege of expanding such funds
as their own judgments dictated serious
might arise. Not one
penny of the governments money may
be expended in the postal service without
the consent of the Postmaster General.
Every penny. too, has TO be reported.
checked and rechecked before being au-
dited by the Urea Sury Department.
Rewards. not for services ably and
faithfully performed by employees day
by day. but rewards for those who de-
tect crime against the postal depart
ment. given annually. The small
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-03

that they were entitled to have their time
and devote their energies to meeting one
case at a time. and that since they could
not refuse to answer the government S
suit. it seemed to me that to insist on
their attendance at the committee near
ingS would be unfair. l also reminded
the committee members how hurtful 1t
was to any case to treat a witness I'M
fairly.
And then l put the law up to them
continued Mr. Lindabury. Il made the
point that the committee no longer had
jurisdiction. no longer had the right to
question officials OF, the steel corporation
on matters covered by the government
suit. I called attention to the language of
the resolution of Congress directing the
investigations namely. that the committee
should find out whether there have oc-
Cured violations by the steel corporation
of the Sherman antitrust act. which vio-
lations have not been prosecuted by the
executive officers OF the government. T.
"One of the members made the point.
Mr. I.indabury went on. that at the time
the resolution was passed there were no
prosecutions | answered that that was
lust it: that the question was as to the
meaning of that clause that the clause
referred to prosecutions existing either
at the time the resolution was passed or
at the time of the investigation.
II then maintained that the House could
not have meant the time of the passage
of the resolution because at that time it
was we'll known to the House that there
had not been any prosecution by the gov
crnment of the steel corporation; that.
therefore the House must have contem-
plated government prosecution that
might be started before the investigation
was completed. and that the minute
prosecution was started the committees
duties ceased
..rhere was some acquiescence in what
| said" Mr.. Lindabury continued, "espe-
cially on the point of unfairness in in
sisting on a continuance pending court
action Tie members present decided.
however to refer my objection to the full
committee, if possible and in the mean
while to refrain from calling an official of
the steel corporation whip might be an
actual defendant in the government suit.
and Also meantime. to refrain from in
auiring into alleged violations of the
Sherman law by the steel corporation
One of the members of the committee,
who despite adverse comment impugnins
even his motives. agrees with MIR. Linda
bury that the steel inquiry by the House
should now stop in view of the govern
rnent suit. is Martin w. L.ttieton the
democratic representative from Port
Washington, l.. /. Mr.. Littleton feels so
strongly about the matter that he has
even threatened to resign from the Stan
ley committee should the House vote to
direct q continuation Of the investisa-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-03

with the House committee Uncle Sam has
petitioned the courts 10 decree the dis
solution of the United States Steel Cor
poration, as was done with the oil and
tobacco trusts. OR, as the Wall Street
Journal puts it. two are out, the steel
trust is at the bat and the Department
OF Justice is pitching The steel trust
naturally doesn't want 20 be struck out
too. II. therefore. refuses tostake its eye
off the pitcher to talk to any one else.
In other words. the steel trust officials
decline to continue their round-table talks
with Chairman Stanley and the other
congressional investigators.
X
This Stanley Investigating committee
got start in this fashion: In May. 1911.
about a month after Congress convened
in extra session. special committee of
nine members OF the House Of Repre-
sentatives was elected 10 investigate III,
steel industry and to report its findings
and recommendations to the House Rep
resentative Stanley, the chairman. IL
fortyfour years old and began service
in the House In 1870; The tasks set FOR
the committee were hard, but the men,
bers claim that study Of the printed
reports OF the hearings will disclose a
wealth OF information about the steel
trust impossible TO duplicate
good deal of the information about
the steel trust in possession of the gov
eminent has come to light because of the
Willingness OF the steel trust to lay bare
It's official boSomS to Uncle Sans experts
in asking questions. Considerably more
than a superficial knowledge of law eco
nomics and accounting is necessary to get
at the facts. and the steel trust officials
could have made il mighty hard sled
ding even Tor u special investigator at
"fn month and an expert accountant at
$50 a day. such as Chairman Stanley says
he has on his committee.
This frankness of the steel trust officials
can doubtless be partly accounted for by
their desire to avoid civil and criminal
prosecution by the government and also
to stand well with the country. The trust
had stepped up on rather high plane in
its claim of being a Joshua for thu
United States in taking over the Tennes-
see Coal and Iron Company in 1907. and il
was case of ''noblesse oblige'' with
them
And we have kept in the straight ard
narrow path say the steel trust officials
The more we Are invest gated the better
We show up. See how two-thirds of the
pres II III" cOun ry sneak vel. OF u an;
at the same time denounce the recent
government suit. Ask our neighbors how
they feel toward as. There isn't one of
them who wouldn't go on the witness
stand and tell Uncle Sam how fair we
have been: indeed, some of them have
offered to do So.
by 'neighbors do you mean the peo-
pie" interrupts Uncle Sam; '.or don't you
mean your competitors in business who
are just as much interested as you are III
getting good prices for iron and steel? BY
the way. are you fellows selling to the